Stages of human development occur in a predictable sequence that cannot be skipped. The stages are archaic, magic, mythic, rational, pluralistic, and integral. Each stage builds upon the previous one by embracing and including it, just as molecules include atoms. Meditation does not alter the stages of development but remarkably accelerates the process, similar to putting oil on a spiral. It speeds up human evolution and the rediscovery of our spiritual nature.

1. Spiral dynamics integral Stages of Human Actualization Nino Roso

2. Stages of Consciousness Structures of Consciousness develop in stages, they are these stages that actually humanity have gone through and stages that individuals go through, even to this day. Everybody born today goes through these stages and they are archaic, magic, mythic, rational, pluralistic and integral. Actualization Stages are the way nature grows. An atom, to a molecule, to a cell, to an organism. Those are four good stages. Those are actualization stages and each one builds upon the previous one. Each one, in a sense, transcends and includes its predecessor, so molecules transcend and include atoms. They actually embrace them, they actually love them if you want and the same with cells. Cells transcend and include molecules. They actually embrace them, they physically envelop them and that’s what happens with true stages. In the archaic to magic to mythic to rational, those stages, each higher one, embraces the previous one, but stages can’t be skipped. You cannot go from atoms to cells and skip molecules and that’s because they’re ingredients of each stage. So these stages are, indeed, something that are the way that we grow, they’re the way that we actualize, they’re the way that we increase our perspectives and they can’t be skipped. They are an invariable sequence of actualization.

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6. Royal road to Spiritual Transformation: Meditation “We now have abundant evidence that meditation does not alter or change the basic stages of the development of consciousness, but it does remarkably accelerate that development.” ~ It’s like putting Oil on a Spiral  Meditation speeds up evolution. It accelerates the remembering and the re-discovery of the Spirit that you eternally are. Meditation quickens the rate that acorns grow into oaks, that humans grow into God.” (One Taste, page 263)