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Conscious Evolution

In response to Joshua at mythoself-tm@yahoogroup.com

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Re: Warrior-Magician-Lover-King and the Neurobiological Development of Becoming Fully Human ...
[Considerations of Magical Models, The Neurobiology of the Magical Child and Joseph Campbell’s “Hero’s Journey”]

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Too bad you missed the most recent module of the Mytho2/8 program in the UK I think you would have found it fascinating. I developed an idea posed by Joseph Chilton Pearce in this book the “Magical Child” regarding neurobiological development in regard to the MythoSelf® Process model. This idea is based on quite substantial research into brain development in utero as well as afterwards up to about the age of twenty years or so. Then I mapped this over to the somatic/semantic (cognitive) forms that we use to promote this development and integration, what I’ve called “conscious evolution” for many, many years now.

In essence what you’ve laid out here as a “magical model” of the “Warrior-Magician-Lover-King” follows directly along with the neurobiological development that Dr. Pearce lays out that I refer to above. The human fetus’ brain develops forward from the brain stem or medulla oblongata along with the “hind brain” (CNS and peripheral nervous system) towards the “fore brain” or cerebellum/cerebral cortex (including the prefrontal cortex). The brain is pretty well developed at birth with the exception of the prefrontal lobes which develop significantly much later on (beginning at about fifteen to twenty years of age and continuing to develop at least through the age of thirty on average). What Dr. Pearce strongly references is that the brain must develop fully from the previous developmental stages to become fully developed at adulthood. If an early stage is not completed or fully developed the following development will suffer for it.

Now let’s do a little mapping shall we?

• Warrior – Brain Stem - Medulla Oblongata/Limbic System – reflex, instinctive, primal response ... sensory/motor skills integration ... i.e.: an impetus to action
  

• Magician – Right Hemisphere/Left Hemisphere – new learning, whole-form thinking, synthesis ... analysis, independent, deconstruction/reconstruction ... highly cross integrated through the corpus callosum ... capable of both isolated and systemic thinking in regard to outcome
  

• Lover – Cerebellum – relationship, judgment, interaction ... emotional response ... interpersonal considerations, contextual response
  

• King – Prefrontal Lobes – abstract/imaginative thinking ... future planning, outcome oriented ... can override the system and create “feed-forward” loops
  

This follows exactly along the path outlined by Dr. Pearce based on his neurological research. The Brain Stem – Medulla Oblongata developing rapidly and near completely by age one to two and continuing to integrate and develop incrementally through age seven at least. The Limbic System’s development kicks in strongly at age one and continues developing significantly through at least age eleven, it is well developed at age three (especially some of the sub-modules of the limbic system like amygdala response, i.e.: threat/anger/violence response). The Right Hemisphere development kicks in strongly at age four and continues rapidly developing and connecting with other brain modules through age fifteen - part of the key development of the right hemisphere is its interconnectivity with all other parts of the brain system. Then the Left Hemisphere’s major development begins around age seven (this is often regarded as the beginning of the end of “magical thinking”), significant leaps in independent, abstract thinking occur as the left hemisphere develops – including the ability to think in terms of manifesting in the world. The Cerebellum begins a rapid growth and developmental period at age eleven (around puberty) and leads to significant increases in the ability to make sense of both relationships and one’s place in the world in regard to others, in addition there is major growth in the ability to “read” people. At age fifteen the prefrontal lobes begin to develop and open fully, with this development future planning and the sense of destiny begin to develop as well, the individual becomes increasing capable of considering through-time implications and consequences in and on the system.

Beyond the “labels” Warrior-Magician-Lover-King, the system develops along a continuum for humans coming of age. What’s interesting about this from within the MythoSelf® Process model includes the idea that the organizing paradigm at each developmental stage is the individual or personal mythology. Then there’s the realization that people don’t necessarily complete the development of each stage either fully or with complete integration before the next phase of development has begun. This often becomes the work of a MythoSelf® Facilitator – to assist in the completion and integration of the developmental process of the individual, and then the individual in relation to their contextual surroundings. Additionally, the major theme of the MythoSelf® Process model is how this material is expressed and integrated in the body-mind system with the primary experience held somatically and triggered semantically. Updating the system and moving it forward towards the prefrontal lobes development becomes a theme of advanced MythoSelf® training. The allows the individual to both integrate their personal resources and themselves within the system that they occupy. From there they can begin to organize themselves and their actions in the world to generate the outcomes for themselves and others they are associated with (both near and far within the system as they choose) against the “match and fit” paradigm of the mythology they organized for themselves. This mythology, when free of the impositions and limitations of the inhibitory learning of their past, is the sense of “being” in relation to who they are endlessly “becoming.” In order to fulfill this mythology they must not only be present to the way they organize themselves in regard to the system, but also the way they organize the system in regard to themselves.

This last bit is the chasm even advanced MythoSelfers face as they develop along the evolutionary continuum offered in this model. What’s required is both the surrender to the experience of their lives and also the building of the capacity to hold the form intended regardless of the onslaught of evidence to the contrary. I’d suggest to you that this is a Mytho8 level consideration for most folks, and not for a “proper” discussion here and now. However, what’s interesting is how Joseph Campbell also seems to point to exactly the same developmental continuum without the neurobiological references, using mythological/symbolic references instead to pave the path.

What we’re doing here (in the MythoSelf® Process model) is to organize a “how-to” form to evolve along this continuum that integrates the somatic and semantic development in a particularly effective methodology that can be applied regardless of the evolutionary stage of development the individual is experiencing. The ability to go beyond the theory and research about “how come” with regards to neurobiological development and evolution to “how-to” is a significant factor of attention, focus and action in this model. Understanding for instance the specific ways to lead the system away from the inhibitory form to the excitatory form and the impact that has on learning and updating in the system is one example of the model’s form. Generating the updating in regard to systemic referencing rather than cognitive referencing so the default response becomes systemic is another. To bring the neurobiological form forward with this kind of exactitude requires a massive and deep learning that is itself integrated into the learning of MythoSelf® Facilitators.

I’d love to know if this matches and fits to your experience as well now that I’ve laid it out explicitly for you.

Best regards,

Joseph Riggio, Ph.D.
Architect and Developer of the MythoSelf® Process

PS – Program information and descriptions of the Mytho2 – MythoSelf® Facilitator’s Training program are available at http://www.mythoself.com ... open programs are running in both California and England now, get the full details at http://www.mythoself.com/Programs/Mytho2_-_MythoSelf__Facilitator_Training_Program_Description.asp

Primal Response ...

http://www.jsriggio.com/files/MythoSelfAudioCast25oct2005.mp3


Joseph's audio/podcast for 25 October 2005


Today Joseph continues the explanation he's begun regarding neurobiological development and the workings of the human brain/neural/motor system interactions. What Joseph suggests is that there is no seperation between you and the world ... literally that there is no boundary between your senses, the world and your response in it.


You'll enjoy Joseph's easy overview into this complex topic of neurobiology as you begin to take a peek into what makes human thinking so human. Joseph continues to offer the unique insights he applies to the Mythogenic Self(tm) Process regarding the evolution of consciousness.


NOTICE: Joseph's next free teleseminar - Beyond Belief ...(tm): A Journey into the Mythogenic Self(tm) Process, is happening on October 27 2005. He'll be presenting this teleseminar twice that day at both 2:00 PM (14:00) and again at 7:00 (19:00) EST - NY, USA. For more information go to http://www.beyondnlp.com/mythoexperience, while the teleseminar is absolutely free the spaces are limited so please register early - Joseph's teleseminars virtually always oversubscribe and when all the lines are registered for there will be no more spaces available beyond those.


Also, please remember that Joseph continues to aks that you to send a note to three or four people that you know with the links to this audio/podcast http://mythoself.blogspot.com and just as importantly to his written blog at http://blognostra.blogspot.com as well. Joseph suggests that you sign-up for the direct email feeds for these blogs directly on the website page for each of them with FeedBlitz an email forwarding service for delivering his blogs directly to your email. This is only a forwarding service so all you'll be receiving are his blogs and nothing else. Doing this will give Joseph the ability to better manage his blogs and you the ability to make sure you get notice of when he's posted effortlessly and efficiently.

Weaving Creation ...

http://www.jsriggio.comfiles/MythoSelfAudioCast19oct2005.mp3

Joseph's audio/podcast for 19 October 2005

Today Joseph opens up a new idea the neurobiological foundations of thinking,
perception and the relationship to the Mythogenic Self(tm) Process. He begins to
lay the groundwork for going into the physical properties of the brain
resonsible for creating reality as we know it. You'll enjoy Joseph's easy
overview into this complex topic of neurobiology as you begin to take a peek
into what makes human thinking so human. In additional Joseph hints at how this
neurobiological process generates human creativity and gives us access to our
fundamental ways of being in the world. Please remember that Joseph continues to
aks that you to send a note to three or four people that you know with the links
to this audio/podcast http://mythoself.blogspot.com and just as importantly to
his written blog at http://blognostra.blogspot.com as well. Joseph suggests that
you sign-up for the direct email feeds for these blogs directly on the website
page for each of them with FeedBlitz an email forwarding service for delivering
his blogs directly to your email. This is only a forwarding service so all
you'll be receiving are his blogs and nothing else. Doing this will give Joseph
the ability to better manage his blogs and you the ability to make sure you get
notice of when he's posted effortlessly and efficiently.

NOTICE: Joseph's next free teleseminar - Beyond Belief ...(tm): A Journey
into the Mythogenic Self(tm) Process, has been resceduled to October 27 2005.
He'll be presenting this teleseminar twice that day at both 2:00 PM (14:00) and
again at 7:00 (19:00) EST - NY, USA. For more information go to http://www.beyondnlp.com/mythoexperience,
while the teleseminar is absolutely free the spaces are limited so please
register early - Joseph's teleseminars virtually always oversubscribe and when
all the lines are registered for there will be no more spaces available beyond
those.

Spreading the Evolution ...

http://www.jsriggio.com/files/MythoSelfAudioCast18oct2005.mp3


Joseph's audio/podcast for 18 October 2005

Joseph's used today's audio/podcast to do something different, he's asking all his listeners to do him a favor ... to help him spread the word about these blogs he's posting. He wants you to send a note to three or four people that you know the links to this audio/podcast and more importantly to his written blog at http://blognostra.blogspot.com.

Joseph also asks that you sign-up for the direct email feeds for these blogs directly on the website page for each of them with FeedBlitz an email forwarding service for delivering his blogs directly to your email. This is only a forwarding service so all you'll be receiving are his blogs and nothing else. This will give Joseph the ability to better manage his blogs and you the ability to make sure you get notice of when he's posted effortlessly and efficiently.

NOTICE: Joseph will be presenting another free teleseminar - Beyond Belief ...(tm): A Journey into the Mythogenic Self(tm) Process, and he's moved the date to October 20 2005 - so stay tuned for more information and how to be a part of this live event with Joseph.

The Ground of Being ...

http://www.jsriggio.com/files/MythoSelfAudioCast13oct2005.mp3


Joseph's audio/podcast for 13 October 2005

Today Joseph extends his discussion of pre-conscious/pre-verbal experience. Beyond pointing out how to begin accessing direct sensory/somatic experience Joseph introduces the idea of reforming the "somatic groud of your being" to begin gaining some degree of control over who it is ithat you're becoming.

As you listen today you'll here Joseph delve into some of the sources of his somatic work with the Mythogenic Self(tm) Process model. We think you'll find today's audio/podcast especially exciting and interesting if you've ever wondered how the body-mind acts in generating the experience of your experience.

NOTICE: Joseph will be presenting another free teleseminar - Beyond Belief ...(tm): A Journey into the Mythogenic Self(tm) Process, on 18 October 2005 - stay tuned for more information and how to be a part of this live event with Joseph.