Primal Spirituality and the Onto/Phylo Fallacy: A Critique of the Claim That Primal Peoples Were/Are Less Spiritually and Socially Developed Than Modern Humans  

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Taylor, Steven

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The International Journal of Transpersonal Studies vol. 22 (2003), page 61-76.
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Many theorists—including Freud, Habermas and Wilber—have suggested that there are strong parallels between ontogeny and phylogeny, and that the development of the human species has followed the same basic pattern as the development of the individual from birth to adulthood. I discuss this view in relation to archaeological and anthropological knowledge of the world’s “primal peoples.” I look at the spiritual, moral, and social development of primal peoples and find that, in almost every instance, they are more advanced than these theorists suggest, possessing characteristics which only occur—ontogenetically—at the higher “fulcrums” of development. I argue that Wilber’s spectrum model cannot be applied to species development and suggest the basis of a new (non-ontogenetic) model of phylogeny.

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