I love the comment of Bernadette Roberts, that probably we think of as spiritually realm is simply physical maturation, the true maturation of the human being, becoming a fully mature human being. And there are even levels beyond that. I think of the incorporating of the three structures of the brain, what we call the ancient reptilian brain is incorporated into the mammalian brain and we’ve become mammalian simply in order to incorporate that into the human brain and we come fully human simply to incorporate that into what we project as the divine or the spiritual and so forth and we incorporate that in to, then into the true fully unknown of creation itself.

I think here we’re talking about the development that should unfolded at adolescence. And only now are we beginning to move beyond Piaget and all the rest of those schematics, which were quite accurate by in large by they all are essentially only for the first fifteen years or so. And what about the mature adult life and the new theories that have begun to really come up about the developmental stages beyond there? Now of course, Rudolph Steiner and some others had talked about these developmental stages that we’re all expecting at adolescence and very few of us ever are fortunate enough to experience them.

And these have been I think king of projected into the whole realm of a spiritual realm. It’s not a bad word, I’m not against the word, but here we’re talking about processes rather than products. We’re talking about the realm of the mind to move into pure abstraction, let’s say.  I recall that David Bohm didn’t like that term “abstraction” at all but the ability of the mind to move beyond any known boundaries into moving into kind of the infinite aspects that are also enfolded within the brain.

We do know that the neo-cortex is not being developed and we do know there’s parts of the neo-cortex that are developed, are in response to the whole physiological homeostatic processes of the body and the physical world. And so, what would all the rest of the brain be about for the developmental of the potentials of an inner world, first of all, which means just not that which is physical and material but on another level. In Quantum Mechanics we could certainly say that it would be moving from the particle perception into the wave perception which is all just metaphoric.  A far more powerful insight would be David Bohm’s moving from the explicit order of development and using that as our platform to stand on and move into a realization of the potentials of an implicate order of energy that gives rise to the external world. From there to move on, actually into the causal forces of the universe itself, which are again, are enfolded within the potentials of our brain structure and only awaiting what, the appropriate models and the appropriate nurturing environment. 

So that’s what I call post-operational thinking the others have, I’m picking up on that common term and that is the real realm of the human spirit and that’s the whole purpose. That’s evolution’s end. That’s what the whole summation of life is all about.

I love the comment of Bernadette Roberts, that probably we think of as spiritually realm is simply physical maturation, the true maturation of the human being, becoming a fully mature human being. And there are even levels beyond that. I think of the incorporating of the three structures of the brain, what we call the ancient reptilian brain is incorporated into the mammalian brain and we’ve become mammalian simply in order to incorporate that into the human brain and we come fully human simply to incorporate that into what we project as the divine or the spiritual and so forth and we incorporate that in to, then into the true fully unknown of creation itself. And so we have this magnificent kind of scenario available within the structures of our brain and simply not there. I mean they’re there but they’re not available and so our great challenge is how to access them and open to them. And it’s funny to say we start that in-utero and with that birth process.