Buğra Çelik

Here are some questions you can contemplate while listening to this discussion. We suggest you take some time to use these as journaling prompts.

• How do I respond when a system feels broken — do I disengage, polarize, or seek reform? When institutions disappoint me, do I retreat into cynicism? double down on identity politics? Or work to restore in

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Likewise with the other intelligences. Emotional development to stage 1 means that you have developed the capacity for emotions centering on “me,” especially the emotions and drives of hunger, survival, and self-protection. If you continue to grow emotionally from stage 1 to stage 2—or from egocentric to ethnocentric—you will expand from “me” to “u... See more

You cannot, however, be introduced to all the qualities of higher stages without actual growth and practice. You can have a peak experience of higher states, because many of them are ever-present. But you cannot have a peak experience of a higher stage, because stages unfold sequentially. Stages build upon their predecessors in very concrete ways, ... See more