The Spiral Dynamics Model Of Ken Wilber

The Generativity vs. stagnation stage ranges from ages thirty-five to sixty-five and is when we ask ourselves if we produced anything of value in our lives, and if not then we find some way to fulfill that desire (Erikson, 1994). Lastly, the Ego integrity vs. despair stage ranges from sixty-five years old until death, and is when we look back on our lives and decide if we made an impact or made a difference while we were on this earth (Schultz, 2008).

Although I would like to believe I have led a fairly normal life, perfectly meeting each and every milestone or challenge without hitting any speed bumps. Deep down I know, that I there are various aspects of my life that have caused struggles in my development.

A strange loop, Hofstadter claims, comes about when a sufficiently powerful cognitive system is able to twist its perception back on itself so that it can observe itself in the way that it observes things in its environment. The result of this strange loop is that the cognitive system perceives what Hofstadter terms “downward causality”, and this in turn reinforces the concept of I-ness, self-awareness, or consciousness.

As we go through periods of stability that are life chapters, and periods of instability that bring about the transitions, we must recognize where we are in the Life Launch. The continuous flow of the four phases is how we grow and develop through our adult years. It is very important to know how to engage and move through the Renewal Cycle of Change. The magic formula that I have begun applying is, Hold On to everything that is important, valuable, and beneficial in my life. The things I like about myself are my spirituality, my family, and my friends. Let go of what’s not working, get rid of dysfunctions, leave bad attitudes behind, and unlearn bad behaviors. Move on is the action I’m taking and will make happen over the next chapter of my life, while I hold on, let go and take on. These actions are making me set precedence in my life and take the necessary steps to start a change for my future. For success to happen in the new chapter of my life, I must learn how to go with the flow of change and embrace the change. By not allowing myself to remain stuck during a transitional period, I take notice and move forward during the challenge. It’s perfectly okay to go through the Renewal Cycle because it goes on and on. It’s life if you allow changes to help you to continue to grow, as you evaluate where you are on your travels through your Life

The human life cycle can be broken down into 5 basic stages (Bingham et al. 2009);

each stage, and how you developed at each stage (e.g., What happened to you? How did you change?)

through the ups and down of what made me want to start this voyage in my life.

In this approach we see the theories of psychology that see the human mind function based upon the interaction of forces and drives within the mind, normally this means unconscious thoughts, but it also includes looking at the different structures of the personality.

In his essay “65,” Mark Jacobson references one specific diagram, “The Stages of Man’s Life from the Cradle to the Grave,” which leads him to a small epiphany (113). Basically, according to the analogy, the stages of life are stairs, each stair representing roughly ten years. At the beginning of said stair, a person faces new experiences they aren’t yet qualified to approach. Once the person has learned to master these experiences (after about ten years or so), he/she advances a step. This person is again rendered a beginner to new territory. The same pattern, step after step, repeats for a lifetime.

Octavia Butler wrote of an advanced alien race far superior than the primitive human. The Oankali had the ability to communicate through a linked neural network of all living things on their ship and share information in a “collective consciousness”. I will show that Butler’s Dawn, described a narrative where a more evolved consciousness like the Oankali’s, is the key to saving the human race from destroying ourselves and our planet in the nuclear age. We will see how this idea of a higher or combined consciousness has played a role in other literature, like the cyber network in Neuromancer, and the controlled consciousness of The Matrix 1999 movie.

The life that I live today is dynamic because of the various dilemmas and realizations that I have arrived at. After struggling to learn English in my early years, I discovered the true realities of life. I learned about the death of my two beloved uncles due to a corrupt government and shortly after found out about my family's extreme struggle to keep my sister and I educated. Following these occurrences, I became motivate to strive for success.

In 1983 Jerry Fodor opened the introduction to his new research of “Modularity of mind” with the phrase; “Behavior is organized, but the organization of behavior is merely derivative”. This meaning that behaviors are simply imitations, never original nor created. Fodor created a theory of how the mind was structured and how would perform. He studied the architecture of mind in modules; a term that will describe that the mind had different specific structures that had precise purposes. Jesse J. Prinz just like Fodor was a philosopher who was in opposition of the “Modularity of the mind” theory. This essay will have as a purpose to create an argument on the explanation and disagreement that Prinz wrote cluster by cluster against the theory “Modularity of mind” in an article called “Is the mind really modular?”

I guarantee you, that today, you are not the same person you were ten years ago, and ten years from now you will not be the person you are today. We are always in a state of “Becoming” which, by definition, is the process of coming to be something. Our trials and tribulations is the process. The question is who are we? Think

There are seven stages a human moves through during his or her life span. These stages include infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle adulthood and old age.

Over the course of my life I have had many life experiences which have made me who I am today. When I was in my middle childhood, most of my life revolved around playing and having fun. I did not have to put forth effort in hardly any area of my life or work hard in order to achieve specific goals. As time went on however, my own life experiences began to have an effect on me, and shape the person I am today. My life started to change the most during middle childhood when I was around the age of seven years old. At this point in my life, I had to adjust to several big changes.