We-space: Felt Experiences
in 2nd and 3rd Tier WS
I don't know about you, but for me, conceptual exploration at some point has to give air time to the juicier first-person reports and descriptions. The descriptions here are supplementary to, but with some overlap, to the much longer and more detailed first-person experiences I put in my first blogpost on the subject of we-spaces, in June of 2012. http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2012/06/exploring-phenomenonexperience-of.html
For the sake of convenience, I've organized the following descriptions sorta within the Integral AQAL framework, using at least Q-quadrants and L-"levels" (which I now prefer always to call "stages"), but using the Spiral Dynamics stage labels which I much prefer to the ever-changing Integral labels for stages.
PLEASE note: I have also, along with other authors in various places, been exploring descriptions of stages of the we-spaces themselves (see many of the blogposts listed on the right of this page.) For the purposes of THIS post, I'm blurring those distinctions into some vague conglomeration of 2nd and 3rd Tier. It is unlikely of course, that some of the latter experiences described below, will be had in we-spaces which themselves are below those 2T-3T stages.)
PLEASE note: I have also, along with other authors in various places, been exploring descriptions of stages of the we-spaces themselves (see many of the blogposts listed on the right of this page.) For the purposes of THIS post, I'm blurring those distinctions into some vague conglomeration of 2nd and 3rd Tier. It is unlikely of course, that some of the latter experiences described below, will be had in we-spaces which themselves are below those 2T-3T stages.)
Quadrants
We-space occurs in
all four quadrants of individual experience:
UL - the subjective experiences in physical
body sensations, mental experiences, feelings/emotions, on concrete, subtle,
subtle-energetic, and causal levels of awareness and stages of awareness-growth;
UR - the behaviors of the practice we find
ourselves engaging in while in a we-space, and in carrying out the various "injunctions;"
LL - the cultural meanings and values we share with others
in such higher We-spaces, and especially the experience of the paradoxical new "dominant monad" which can speak as an "I";
As for others, the planetary-scale driving felt-experienced
passion for fostering an evolution for a humanity in crisis is for many of us not
primarily a results/benefits-driven interest, but is profoundly an expression
of the evolutionary impulse moving through/as us on the level of our own life-purpose,
identity, passion, and self-actualization through and as, practicing this
capacity.
The descriptions below are organized more by stages than by
quadrants, but I believe all quadrants are explicit or implicit there.
Developmental
state-stages and structure-stages
Our
felt experiences reflect and derive from all the developmental stages each of us has access
to, and also reflect stages and particular purposes of a WS itself. (Stages of WS have been explored in previous blogs (here for 1st Tier, here for 2nd Tier, and here for 3rd Tier. I have made what I consider some useful distinctions among purposes: Exploration, Experimentation, and Employment. )
Our
deeply felt irresistible and constant draw to participate often in a variety
of higher-conscious we-spaces is an evolutionary call. We know that not just from
our cognitive understanding of the role and potential of collective
consciousness in humanity's conscious evolution. We identify that the call as
evolutionary also because our full humanity is also irresistibly drawn: motivating
feelings/experiences are generated from every developmental stage of
consciousness we have access within us to, in their transmuted version as us
now.
Many
people report these same full-developmental-spectrum felt experiences as the texture, the fabric, perhaps even the
picture woven into the tapestry of Zone 1 and Zone 3 experience of higher
We-spaces. Here's a very partial list, and nothing here seems unique to me; I hear others reporting each of these, at various times in various places.
For
our Beige, there is the oft-reported
palpable "safety, trust, warmth, comfortableness" as well as a
naturalness of Oneness of inner and outer -- being "out there" beyond
space and time yet grounded in our body, having it become one of our sensors of
the larger We. My breathing slows and deepens; the experience is like group
meditation except we are speaking spontaneously. Along with extraordinary
aliveness and exhilaration, even ecstasy, is a paradoxical
