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Many historians, philosophers, and spiritual teachers now agree that collective history itself is going through an evolution of consciousness. We can readily observe stages of consciousness or stages of \u201cgrowing up\u201d in the world at large (e.g. today Christians do not believe that slavery is acceptable, but many at one time did). The individual person tends to mimic these stages, and they seem to be sequential and cumulative.<\/p>\n

You have to learn from each stage, and yet you can\u2019t completely throw out previous stages, as most people unfortunately do. In fact, a fully mature person appropriately draws upon all earlier stages. \u201cTranscend and include<\/a>\"\"\u201d is\u00a0Ken Wilber\u2019s clever aphorism here. Most people immensely overreact against their earlier stages of development, and earlier stages of history, instead of still honoring them and making use of them (e.g. liberal, educated Christians who would be humiliated to join in an enthusiastic \u201cJesus song\u201d with their Evangelical brothers and sisters even though they would intellectually claim to believe in Jesus, or adults who can no longer play, or rational people who completely dismiss the good of the non-rational).<\/em><\/p>\n

C. S. Lewis believed it was undemocratic to give too much power to the present generation or one\u2019s own times. He called this \u201cchronological snobbery<\/a>,\u201d\"\"\u00a0as\u00a0if your own age was the superior age and the final result of evolution. I would say the same about one\u2019s present level of consciousness. Our narcissism always tends to think our own present stage of consciousness is the ultimate stage! People normally cannot understand anybody at higher stages (they look heretical or dangerous) and they look upon all in the earlier stages as superstitious, stupid, or na\u00efve. We each think we are the proper reference point for all reality. G. K. Chesterton stated: \u201cTradition is [just] democracy extended through time<\/a>\"\".\u201d\u00a0And I would say that enlightenment is the ability to include, honor, and make use of every level of consciousness\u2014both in yourself and in others.\u00a0To be honest, such humility and patience is rather rare, yet it is at the heart of the mystery of forgiveness, inclusivity, and compassion.<\/em><\/p>\n

Richard Rohr<\/a><\/p>\n

Daily Meditation<\/a>, August 26, 2014<\/p>\n

Adapted from The Dean\u2019s Address,\u00a0Living School<\/a>\u00a0Symposium, August 2013<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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