Exploration of Forms of Mindfulness and Inner Development.xlsx

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1	Way of Knowing	Overall Description	Meta-Cognition	Inner Development Line	Ontology	Mindfulness	Authenticity	Embodiment	Relevance Realization	Branch of Philosophy	System and Type of Thinking	UTOK Mind-Plane Correlates	Neural Correlates and Biological Basis	Conflict to Overcome	Shadow	Subject Matter and Approach	Methodology	End Goals	Maturation	Inner Development Goals	Psycho- Technologies	Organizations	Influential Thinkers

2	The wisdom and enlightenment that integrates the 4 P's of knowing for this quadrant in a way that transcends and includes them all	In integrating all forms of subjective knowledge, one develops self-referrential vision-logic through which they can optimize self-sovereignty and emotional self-regulation. Transcending the self/non-self dichotomy, one is able to develop a nondual awareness and grasp the aperspectival.	Self-referrential vision-logic	Integrative ego/self	Meta-self	Through this, you can become mindful of self-referrential rational thought processes and logical reasoning and also how to recognize and avoid cognitive distortions. As this is not mere rationality but meta-rationality, you can become mindful of the relation this thinking has to more embodied forms of cognition and you can become cognizant of the limitations of purely rational thinking. You can become mindful of the illusions of the self and the inherent interconnections with any self-conception would have with the wider world.	The more you recognize misconceptions about yourself and the more you uncover and confront your shadow, you can be at peace with a more authentic self-conception. You will also recognize that self-conception itself is a construct that has fallibility but that it is nonetheless necessary for navigating the agent/arena relationship.	The pathology of a disembodied self-conception can be remedied. One can come back into the body through authenticly enacted agent/arena relationships and self-examination that is expressed through wisdom.	In considering the nature and purpose of the self and the relation to the world, this starts with initial relevance realization (Type 1) then you think things through and that's recursive relevance realization (Type 2) to understand and articulate states of affairs, causes and effects, and plans of action for individual well-being.	Integral phenomenology	All systems, all types	Mind4 - This is a product of Mind1a, 2a, & 3a.	Integration of left and right hemisphere functions as described in Iain McGilchrist's The Matter with Things. Also involves integration across cortical-subcortical systems, prefrontal cortex coordinating with limbic and brainstem structures, and the default mode network's capacity for self-referential integration. The development of neural complexity through the integration of multiple neural networks - including salience network, central executive network, and default mode network - working in concert. See also Dan Siegel's concept of neural integration in Mindsight, particularly chapters on integration and the development of the middle prefrontal cortex.	Cognitive dissonance stemming from self-deception and bullshitting oneself with regard to the enduring and unchanging self and also possibly with regard to outright self-denial.	Things that we try to pretend that we know based on a combination of intuition, embodied cognition, inner observation, and all of our reasoning capacities but where this is not actually given from our authentic experience. There is a line between integrative and esoteric knowledge and woo and it is easy to lean on the latter in order to come to convenient conclusions. Even integrative thinkers make these mistakes. This makes genuine self-development more difficult.	This is about being able to have clear knowledge in the form of statements about the self that one can think internally that take into account the self-referential participatory and perspectival knowing that is more fundamental. This is also about the limitations of purely logical thinking and the different aspects of sensemaking and how they relate to each other. Integrating these forms of knowing, one can develop their ego to a wider embrace of all things related, which ultimately includes the entire universe.	This involves integrating multiple methodologies and comparing perspectives. This includes circomspective and existential practices integrated with enlightenment practices and also honing self-referrential thoughts and speech. As one ponders the the nature of the self, the whole self, the true self, the embodied self, and the non-self, a universally encompassing nondual awareness can eventually emerge.	Sovereignty, emotional self-regulation, increasing embrace	Grow Up	All of the above	Zen, Vedanta, Vajrayana	Integral Life, other integral organizations	George Gurdjieff, Ken Wilber
3	Primarily involves Propositional knowing	Our world is profoundly shaped by language and a person's inner world - including their hopes, imaginations, desires, fears, and self-identity - is inherently wrapped up with their inner monologue and the narratives that hold together their sense of self. These narratives are expressed privately and sometimes publicly and tie together one's past, present, and future and provide coherence that is essential for lived conscious experience.	Reflective self-referential thought (this is propositional introspection)	Self-Identity	Me	This is one's self-conception and internal justification system. You become aware of the sub-vocal thoughts that you have about yourself. These thoughts might be true or false and you become mindful that you are having these thoughts and that there might or might not be validity to them.	This is connected to honesty and accuracy in one's self-identity.	One's self-conception that is modeled internally and can be expressed internally in the form of narrative and identity formulations (ego). Sometimes this self-model is authentically embodied but sometimes it is disassociated with the body.	Finding what is relevant in the semantics of questions such as "What am I?", "Who am I?", "What is my purpose?" and the like. This is the narrative we tell ourselves.	Analytic phenomenology	System 2, Types 1 and 2	Mind3a and JUST Private Self (ESP-A "Ego").	The construction and maintenance of self-narrative involves several interconnected neural systems. Language production networks, particularly Broca's area in the left inferior frontal cortex and Wernicke's area in the left superior temporal cortex, support the verbal articulation of self-identity. The autobiographical memory system, centered in the medial temporal lobe (hippocampus) and medial prefrontal cortex, enables the retrieval and integration of personal memories into coherent narratives. The default mode network, including posterior cingulate cortex, medial prefrontal cortex, and temporal parietal junction, is particularly active during self-referential thinking and constructing personal narratives about past and future. Working memory systems in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex maintain self-conceptions during internal monologue. See Mindsight by Daniel Siegel, chapter 1, which discusses how neural integration supports coherent self-narrative, and the scientific studies referenced therein on the neurobiology of self-representation and autobiographical memory consolidation.	The conflict of accurate or inaccurate self-conceptions and conflicting self-identities and bodily dismorphia	Lies that we explicitly tell ourselves in our inner monologue. This includes things we wish to deny about ourselves (dark shadow) and where we underestimate our own capcities (golden shadow).	This involves the refinement of one's self-model and internal narratives in relation to the world	This can be done through sub-vocal thoughts and also sometimes by saying things out loud that refer to aspects of one's self.	An internal cohesive narrative and internal justification system to be able to function and to give proper self-esteem	Think Up	Being - Relationship to Self • Inner compass	Mantras, self-affirmation, NLP	STAGES International	Suzanne Cook-Greuter, Teri O'Fallon
4	Primarily involves Procedural knowing	Procedural phenomenology involves developing the capacity to systematically examine one's own consciousness through established techniques and methods. This includes meta-cognitive procedures that allow one to reliably access, examine, and refine different states and structures of consciousness.	Systematic self-examination procedures, iterative introspective techniques	Meta-cognitive capability	Self-as-process	Mindfulness of the procedures themselves - becoming aware of how you become aware, the methods by which you examine consciousness	Authenticity through methodological rigor - distinguishing genuine phenomenological insight from self-deception, wishful thinking, or fabricated experiences.	Engaged embodiment - systematically exploring the body as lived experience through structured techniques	Following established procedures to systematically explore consciousness while remaining open to what emerges as relevant within that structured exploration.	Methodologies of phenomenology	System 1 and 2, Type 2	The procedural bridge between Mind1a, Mind2a, and Mind3a - the methods that enable systematic access to different planes.	Meta-cognitive monitoring networks, particularly dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex supporting procedural self-observation. Neuroplasticity associated with sustained contemplative practice - changes in cortical thickness, white matter integrity, and functional connectivity. Procedural memory systems (basal ganglia, cerebellum) supporting automatization of introspective techniques while maintaining monitoring capacity. See Altered Traits by Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson for neuroscience of meditation expertise, and The Embodied Mind by Varela, Thompson, and Rosch on neurophenomenology.	The conflict between genuine phenomenological insight and self-deception; between legitimate first-person methodology and mere navel-gazing	Pseudo-phenomenological practices that provide comforting narratives rather than genuine insight; methodological blind spots; using procedures mechanically without genuine engagement	The systematic examination of consciousness itself using established procedures; approaching inner experience with methodological rigor while remaining open to what presents itself	Following established phenomenological procedures (epoché, reduction, eidetic variation) or contemplative techniques systematically while tracking results; iterative refinement of techniques; combining multiple methods.	Reliable capacity for self-examination; methodological sophistication in exploring consciousness	Train Up	Being - Relationship to Self: • Self-awareness (through method) • Learning mindset	Structured meditation protocols, phenomenological procedures, systematic contemplative practices, Gendlin's Focusing	Aletheia Phenomenological Research, Upaya Institute	Edmund Husserl (methodology), Eugene Gendlin, Daniel P. Brown
5	Primarily involves Perspectival knowing	There is a spiritual component for the deliberate efforts to purify one’s perspectives through embodied awareness and to develop introspective and reflective transcendence. This involves the ability to transcend and to clear the mind and to either focus on certain specific things or perspectives or aspects of experience in relative isolation (something) or to let go of all attachment (nothing).	Introspection, Interoception, Still meditation	Intrapersonal Awareness	Transcendental Ego	Through this, you can become mindful of your own thoughts, feelings, perceptions, wills, and desires. You become aware of your own awareness, which can be called metaware. You become mindful of your own patterns of experience, so what was once subject becomes an object in your awareness.	Once you have transcended the natural state through meditation, this allows you more authentic thinking and you can start to get away from the self-deceptive thinking patterns in your mind. You can learn self-control against impulsive mental and emotional animation.	Presence felt and understood through meditative awareness. This can be done through a "body scan". This is examined emobidment.	Finding what is relevant within one's felt experience of their inner world. In the witness state, often one is found to have many competing values, desires, and possible ways of conceptualizing things. From this salience landscape, one can deliberately determine what is relevant for them.	Transcendental Phenomenology	System 1, Type 2	The Freudian Filter and Private Self (ESP-A "Ego") within Justification Systems Theory (JUST) provides an explanation for much of this. The Influence Matrix (IM) is important here, especially for Autonomy. In the Map of Mind, Mind2a is what is privately experienced.	Introspective awareness and witness consciousness involve several key neural systems. The anterior insula and anterior cingulate cortex form the core of interoceptive awareness, enabling conscious perception of internal bodily states and emotions. The prefrontal cortex, particularly the medial and dorsolateral regions, supports meta-awareness - awareness of awareness itself. Long-term meditation practice is associated with increased cortical thickness in these regions, as well as changes in the default mode network that support sustained self-observation without identification. The salience network, anchored by the anterior insula and anterior cingulate, determines what becomes an object of awareness. Experienced meditators show decreased activity in the posterior cingulate cortex during meditation, associated with reduced self-referential processing and the capacity to observe mental contents without attachment. Changes in gamma-band oscillations and alpha wave patterns are associated with different meditative states. See Mindsight by Daniel Siegel, chapter 5, which explores the neuroscience of mindfulness and the neural mechanisms of attention regulation, and the scientific studies referenced therein on neuroplasticity associated with contemplative practices and the neural correlates of different meditative states.	Inner turmoil stemming from holding firm to nonworkable, outdated, and pathological perspectives and conceptualizations	Things we wish not to perceive within ourselves and as a result we suppress, deny, or ignore and this, in turn, makes it difficult to achieve inner peace.	This involves efforts to understand the self, or the non-self, as it may be. In the witness state, one's thoughts, feelings, perceptions, needs, and desires become objects in one's stream of consciousness. Thus the subject becomes object and one has more control over thoughts and emotions.	There are both Eastern and Western traditions for this. In the Western, this begins with the mental reduction, which involves the bracketing of presuppositions. This then involves deliberate and rational introspection, reflection, and contemplation. Through epoche, direct apprehension of the structures of consciousness becomes possible. In the Eastern, one often begins by focusing on the breath or on some point or object or perhaps some concept and they attempt to calm the monkey mind by continuing to come back to this if one's mind starts to wander. Posture and setting are often important.	Enlightenment, metanoia, satori, kensho, higher average and heightened spiritual states	Wake Up	Being - Relationship to Self • Self-awareness • Presence	Still Yoga poses, breath work, RULER, CALM-MO	Academy of Inner Sciences, Mindful, Headspace	Edmund Husserl (early), Edith Stein, Sri Aurobindo, Francisco Varela
6	Primarily involves Participatory knowing	This is dependent upon creating internal harmony by confronting internal dissonance and working with it to realize a new internal aesthetic. As one insightfully integrates the habitus of their internal states, they develop existential depth. Through active engagement and circumspective management of thoughts and feelings, one can find and maintain internal flow states.	Circumspection (enacted introspection in context), Poprioception, Movement meditation	Existential Depth	Being-there / Dasein	Through this, you can become mindful of the base of pre-conscious and pre-rational existence and being-in-the-world. This involves the flowing integration of inner states and the releasing of conflict among the different aspects of onesself. One becomes mindful of their internal resonance and also their resonance within the world. Trial and error is important to this process. We have to consider how well things worked and accept mistakes as the way of improving one's life.	Through your practice and mindfulness of the mundane and evaluation of what works and doesn’t work for you throughout your whole body, you can achieve authentic behavior and authentic base embodied feeling rather than mindlessly and habitually behaving based on the same old patterns and you can avoid conflicts within your body.	Enactive within the agent/arena relationship.	Finding what is relevant in one's internal orientation and the aesthetic creation of meaning in the moment. This includes authentically choosing and working toward one's goals in the flow of life.	Existential Phenomenology	System 1, Type 1	Behavioral Investment Theory (BIT) provides an explanation for much of this. While JUST is mostly System 2, Experiencing Self and Attention Filter could be System 1. In the Map of Mind, Mind1a is what is going on behind the scenes at the neurological level, including very short-term sensory memory. This represents the bridge into Mind2a with flashes of momentary sensory-response consciousness.	Participatory engagement with one's internal states involves the integration of multiple neural systems operating largely below conscious awareness. The basal ganglia and cerebellum support habitual behavioral patterns and procedural learning, while also enabling smooth coordination of responses. Interoceptive networks, particularly the insula, monitor internal bodily states and emotional arousal in real-time. The limbic system, including the amygdala and hypothalamus, generates emotional responses and motivation. Flow states and optimal internal harmony are associated with transient hypofrontality - a temporary reduction in prefrontal activity that allows automatized processes to operate without excessive conscious monitoring. The autonomic nervous system, regulated by the brainstem and hypothalamus, maintains homeostatic balance and responds to internal conflicts with physiological arousal. Proprioceptive networks provide continuous feedback about bodily position and movement. The integration of these systems through what Dan Siegel calls 'vertical integration' - linking cortical, limbic, and brainstem structures - enables the fluid self-regulation characteristic of existential depth. See Recapture the Rapture by Jamie Wheal, chapter 6, which explores the neuroscience of flow states, embodied self-regulation, and the biological basis of optimal internal functioning, including studies on the neurochemistry of flow and the role of reduced prefrontal activity in accessing pre-reflective modes of being.	Somatic tension, including involuntary and pre-reflective impulses, often stemming from modal confusion	Things within ourselves that we suppress or ignore and don't readily bring along in the process of participating in the world, wich makes coping difficult.	This involves a more gradual and less deliberate process of searching within oneself that involves processes of engagement and reflection. From an existential perspective, one’s care, concern, and interest are given in each context and situation. One can cast aside ingrained patterns of behavior and can begin to live more authentic life that has a shared internal and external resonance.	This often starts by dealing with problems in life that you face in regular normal, mundane life, which often involves good and bad states, including angst and dread. This we might call the ready-at-hand. You then try to address the issues and problems and you do so not by withdrawing but through active engagement and contemplation of the meaning and purpose of this situation or of existence more generally. Often this is based on the relation between the world and your body, as demonstrated through your actions. This then becomes the present-at-hand.	Flow state, optimal grip, coping internally	Clean Up	Being - Relationship to Self • Integrity and Authenticity • Openness and Learning mindset	Movement Yoga, Pilates, Qigong	Somatic Movement Project, Embodied Wellbeing	Martin Heidegger, Jean Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Hannah Arendt, John Vervaeke
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