Pat Carrington shares some information about an amazing society where “growing older” was very different from what most of us know today. “Wisdom” actually defined “age” for these people! Later (in the program itself) she leads you in tapping exercises that can radically change your entire experience of growing older…
Some people would argue that the fear people live with as they age comes largely from the fear of dying.
Here’s an interesting fact from integral scientists: not everyone is ready for an integral life. (Shocking, I know.)
The integral stage of consciousness is emerging as we speak, and developmental psychologists estimate that about 5% of adults are coming into the integral stage of development, which is the most advanced in the world today.… Read the rest
“The purpose of Conscious Aging, as a movement, is to join the growing chorus of elder voices proclaiming that the later stage of life has within it the unique potential for growth. It is a time for elders to make life as fulfilling as possible.… Read the rest
If you live long enough, it’s inevitable: you will, in one form or another, do some stock-taking of your life. A sizing up. An account balancing. Or a simple, “how’m I doing?”
There is no particular time or year of life when it comes along.
Beginning with Jesus’ four kinds of soil and receptivity (Matthew 13:4-9), to John of the Cross’ “dark nights” and Teresa of Ávila’s “interior mansions,” through the modern schemas of Jean Piaget, James Fowler, Lawrence Kohlberg, Eric Erikson, Abraham Maslow, Carol Gilligan, and others, each clarify that there is a clear direction and staging to maturity and therefore to human life.