I’ve been doing alot of reading over the past two weeks. I “devoured” “Integral Spirituality” by Ken Wilber and am in the process of reading the current issue of “What Is Enlightenment” cover to cover. As well, I have had the opportunity of engaging in a co-creative conversation with two of my wise women friends.
In the magazine, “What Is Englightenment”, Ken Wilber and Andrew Cohen, self-described as the pandit and guru respectively, discuss “consciousness and spirituality”(my words). You can read the magazine, or a dictionary for that matter for the definitions of guru and pandit and I will define “blob” for you right now. According to websters, a blob is “a small lump or drop of thick consistency”; I am claiming the term “blob” for myself in this blog posting (that is rather poetic, don’t you think, a blob blogging?) and add the following; I am a blob within the thick consistency of humanity on the planet. In my personal uniqueness as a blob of middle aged womanhood, I am currently hanging out in the UL quadrant, flipping back and forth between zone #1 and #2.  I have spent the past couple of weeks reading, digesting, ruminating and ultimately having a ton of questions and wonderings about what I have read. Don’t worry if some of the terminology, abbreviations are new to you, I am only including these for my personal pleasure, the essence of my writing will still come through (I hope).
Let me explain my choice of the word blob, in addition to suggesting something thick and perhaps  fluid, it is a “charge neutral” if not “charge slightly negative” term. To me, in my zone #1 (green, tending to turquoise, tending to indigo???), the words, pandit and guru, especially coming out of the mouths of white, anglo men, feel like “power over” words. While I feel the both the recent issue of WIE and the AQAL framework begs for a feminist analysis, I will not attempt this basically because I do not feel qualified to but will simply outline my thoughts, feelings, observations of same and questions.
Noticing the time, and the quantity and intensity of writing still to add, I will end here for now and pick this up later…….
Until then, suffice it to say, there will be a riff, a rant and a rave!
namaste,
Zoey
coach . catalyst . shakti sage
life & business coach for women