Theos-Talk Archives (May 2009 Message tt00249)

Dear Bill,

I think Gebser might be one of the many thinkers who can bridge western philosophy with eastern spirituality. I have not studied him in depth, but have read some papers by him and much about him. There are some prominent phenomenologists (Lingis & Mickunas) who are very positive about him and there is the idea that what Gebser did was to develop a phenomenology of consciousness based on cultural expressions. Last Monday at a class I conduct at the TS Wheaton we hosted the editor of the Gebser Journal and we had some dialogue about integrating Gebser's insights/ideas with the basic ones coming from Husserl and Heidegger like intentionality, time consciousness, being-in-the-world, etc. All pretty fascinating, but hard to reproduce here. I'm sure these ideas will ripen over time and find their clear expression. Same for the connection and overlap between Gebser's ideas and Theosophy with maybe the most important mutual fructification in the area of the transition from the rational structure into the integral (Gebser) and going from the mental into the intuitive (Theosophy).  

Being-in-truth sounds like a good Heideggerese 'formal indicator,' i.e. it's not a descriptive concept, but one that has to be lived understandingly in the event of becoming proper to the truth.  

Govert


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bill Meredith 
  To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 8:06 AM
  Subject: Theos-World THE PRIMORDIAL LEAP AND THE PRESENT: THE EVER-PRESENT ORIGIN - AN OVERVIEW OF THE WORK OF JEAN GEBSER





  Hi Govert,

  This is a follow-up to the communion in the source thread.

  I read the subject article at http://www.gaiamind.org/Gebser.html by Ed Mahood, jr.

  This explanation of Gebser is very interesting and brings us into the 21st century quite well, I think. As I read it, I began to sense that the Blavatsky era theosophical purpose is perhaps to lay the foundation for the opening of the thinking man into the integral structure of consciousness. 

  There are many questions that could arise from Gebser's theory. (Shall we call it a theory?) I suppose we would be giving our mental structure of consciousness some leeway there eh? It is often difficult to escape the well-worn grooves of the linear thought process, however it is possible to experience the past, present, and future as a timeless event on a spaceless horizon.

  I have experienced the felt-sense of harmonious integration when philosophy yields to being-in-truth. 

  Best,

  Bill
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