Previous blog posts have been bracketing ontological claims. This post considers faith traditions from the perspective of their dualities and moves in thought.

It appears that both growing up and waking up could converge, like an arch returning to ground, on a nondual, unitary, or unitive perspective. Relevant to both routes is language, with its dualities and polarities. This blog post considers language dualities from the perspective of growing up and waking up.

After considering the function of sacred literature, purification and humility, and constructive practices, what follows is to examine the function of the remaining awareness practices, attentional and deconstructive.

Hypotheses about the growing and waking of a spiritual seeker can enable systems thinking about awareness practices and states, using a causal loop diagram as a tool.

Waking up to nonordinary awareness, and growing up in wisdom, can be differentiated. Nevertheless there are similarities. Given their similarities and differences, what is the relationship between growing up and waking up?

How do we infer beliefs (and actions) from experience? What do we know? How do we know that we know? In this post I summarize the psychological research into epistemology–the study of the nature, origin, and scope of knowledge.

Waking up, and growing up in effectiveness, understanding, and wisdom, are different but related topics of discussion.

Nonordinary states of awareness are the 'waking up' topic of this blog.

How might developing consultants, decision-makers, researchers, and strategists that are Catalyst–or post-logical stages–and working on major problems–like climate change–help increase the probability of survival of intelligent life? How can individuals affect the course of civilization?

How researchers have named developmental stages provides a clue to their empirical characteristics.

How does development progress? To picture the process we can look at individuals rather than a population, using a longitudinal rather than cross-sectional approach.

How can we grow deeper in wisdom and understanding? Experience with an Agile consultant team might suggest some ways.

The pressures we exert on the planet have become so great that scientists are considering whether the Earth has entered an entirely new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, or the age of humans. Perhaps the biggest problem facing humanity is climate change. How many people are able to take on the challenge of thinking about this?

According to Gregory Bateson, the major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think. How can we think in better ways?

What is it I wonder about 'growing up'?

This weekend at the request of an American science fiction author I read a 2020 scientific paper on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. This 8-minute read is my response.