Resources in Awakening  

a center for
personal and planetary
awakening

Mystic River Yoga
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Arlington, MA 02474

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Introduction

12 Principles of Awakening

Spiritual Foundation

Scientific Foundation

Embodying the Practice

Collective Awakening

               Collective Awakening

Ken Wilber's 20 (+ or -) tenets of evolution;

1. "turtles all the way up and down"

Reality as a whole is not composed of things or proceses but of holons. (part/wholes)

2. Holons display self preservation

3. Holons display self-adaptation

4. Holons display self transcendence (self transformation)

5. Holons display self-dissolution

6. Holons emerge

7. Holons emerge holarchically

8. Each emergent holon transcends but includes its predecessor

9. The lower sets the possibilies of the higher; the higher sets the probabilities of the lower.

10.  The number of levels which a holarchy comprises determines whether it is 'shallow' or 'deep'; the number of holons on any given level we call its 'span'.

11. Each sucessive level of evolution produces GREATER depth and LESS span.

12. Destroy any type of holon and you will destroy all of the holons above it and none of the holons below it.

13. Holarchies co-evolve.

14. The micro is in relational exchange with the macro at all levels of its depth.

15. Evolution has directionality.

16. Evolution moves toward increasing complexity

17. Evolution moves toward increasing differentiation/integration

18. Evolution moves toward increasing organization/structuration

19. Evolution moves toward increasing relative autonomy

20. Evolution moves toward increasing telos.

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