good tour

This talk sounded and felt to me as a rich basic tour of growth and development, of perspectives, of AQAL specifically, and of meanings of 'consciousness' and 'experience'.

From this conversation about and from Combs' book, I like that there will be specific examples of statements by actual people of consciousness from different levels, as in the sensorimotor and preoperational stages. I was curious what literary references would be cited to convey these personal patterns, these schemas.

Combs' emphasis on 'adult children' who haven't succeeded sufficiently in formal operations capability helps me to describe to myself and others how it is that some people I work with seem to think concretely only. It seems that Allan and Ken acknowledge that development can be spotty and that 'lines of development', for example, can be the schematic organizing of clusters of 'drops of experience'. We really do rely, to varying degrees among us, on lived experience in order to integrate into substantially more inclusive perspectives.

I liked the early parts of this talk and the book where "pulses" and "drops" are given plenty of emphasis. Drops of experience and pulses of various dynamics do capture for me much of the subjective sense of living, experiencing and knowing. Often the drops have been quite circumscribed and seem far away from integration with other pulses, drops, clusters, and schemata within me, certainly, and I suppose within others.

The basic education of being able to articulate and communicate with others continues.