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Growing up with Ken Wilber
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Growing up with Ken Wilber
Growing up is all about existential angst. Yes, that’s where
to start. Not with the spitting up, crawling, and preverbal babbling. The real
issues of growing up are: What’s it all about? To be or not to be? What do you
want to be when you grow up? What is the meaning of life, the universe, and
everything? As a crusty old man looking back, I can see that I repeatedly died
to myself and was reborn in progressive and incremental stages. [Below, I will
assign colors to these stages for later reference.]
I grew up as “young brother perfect” in an unconventional
Christian fundamentalist faith. The angels were watching and God knew
everything I did. I wanted a pony in the Kingdom. If I wasn’t good, I couldn’t
live in the New World. [purple]
I was one of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Life was a constant
struggle with “worldly” people. I wouldn’t celebrate your pagan holidays, enter
one of your churches, and would not
