## [[2024-10-18]] [PDF](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6362e6b4b79ec030f466fba7/t/638a6eea03b7e46ac1313f77/1670016747235/Exploring_Jean_Gebser_Cynthia_Bourgeault.pdf) 5 non-hierarchical aspects or structures: archaic, magic, mythic, mental, & integral via [[Jonathan Rowson]] ([substack](https://jonathanrowson.substack.com/p/put-the-mind-in-the-heart)) via [[Tom Morgan]] ([[Founder Satsang]] and [[Wise Innovation]]) weighing in on [[Jean Gebser]] via [[Jeremy Johnson]] (whom I met at the [[Emerge Gathering]] while traveling with [[Vienna Looi]] along with, memorably, [[Brandon Dempsey]]), contra [[Ken Wilber]]: > what Wilber has given us is actually a MERCATOR PROJECTION of Gebser: a two-dimensional version of a three-dimensional teaching. In this flattening, significant distortion has entered, and this undetected distortion has itself contributed significantly to some of the anguish and polarization we now find ourselves caught in Not stages, but structures, in cooperation, dialogue, tension: not evolving, but unfolding. > The muting or repression of any of these structures leads to an impoverishment of the whole; this is true both individually and across the broad sweep of cultural history. While these structures may emerge into manifestation at certain points along a historical timeline, they are not created by that timeline nor determined by events preceding them in the sequence. Their point of reference is the Origin, which is outside of linear time altogether and intersects with the linear timeline by a completely different set of ordering principles. They are, one might say, timeless fractals of the whole, each bearing the living water of that original fontal outpouring in their own unique pail. They are everpresent and ever-available “at the depths,” even those that have not yet emerged into full conscious articulation on the linear timeline. #todo keep reading this!