What follows is a selection from Jean Gebser’s Ever-Present Origin. It is a passage that I return to again and again as I try to understand how the intimations of a transformation of consciousness might be actualized. It is nothing short of radical.
The whole, integrity, transparency (diaphaneity), the spiritual (the diaphainon), the supersession of ego, the realization of timelessness, the realization of temporicity, the realization of the concept of time, the realization of time-freedom (the achronon), the disruption of the merely systematic, the incursion of dynamics, the recognition of energy, the mastery of movement, the fourth dimension, the supersession of patriarchy, the renunciation of dominance and power, the acquisition of intensity, clarity (instead of mere wakefulness), and the transformation of the creative inceptual basis” (Gebser, 361-362).