A Matter of Heart and Soul: The Value of Positing a Personal Ontological Center for Developmental Psychology
Elizabeth Teklinski
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies September 1, 2018 DOI: 10.24972/ijts.2018.37.1.90 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that a whole-person understanding of postconventional development requires a "psychocentric" dimension with a unique facilitative role, complementing egocentric and cosmocentric domains. Proposes that Sri Aurobindo and the Mother's concept of the "psychic being" provides an alternative framework that may offer a new synthesis, rendering the psychic being the definitive reference point, basis, source, and cause of self-individuation in postconventional consciousness. |
Abstract
A whole person understanding of postconventional development needs to offer a facilitative agent, what is here called a psychocentric dimension, with a unique and necessary role in the transformation of individual consciousness, that complements and completes the egocentric and cosmocentric domains. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s writings and praxis concerning what they called the psychic being may elucidate an alternative frame to current theoretical speculations, in a way that may offer a new synthesis and a more theoretically satisfying interpretation. More specifically, it is hoped that an integral yoga psychology framework for postconventional development can meaningfully account for the transformation of individual consciousness by rendering the psychic being as the definitive reference point, facilitative agent, basis, source, originating point of the self and-or cause for the process of self-individuation of postconventional consciousness.