Order of Consciousness

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Psychologist, Author and Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education

Robert Kegan

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Subject vs. Object

• Object– Aspects of experience which we have total control

• Subject– Aspects of experience which controls us

Example• For a child, the world around her are objects. Her

emotions are subjects since she can’t control them.

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1st Order – Impulsive Mind

Object : One’s reflexes.Subject : One’s impulses, perceptions, emotions

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2nd Order – Instrumental Mind

Object : One’s impulses, perceptions, emotions.Subject : One’s needs, interests, desires.

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Its all about me…

3rd Order – Socialized Mind

Object : One’s needs, interests, desires.Subject : Interpersonal relationships, mutuality.

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We’ve always done it this way!

4th Order – Self-Authoring Mind

Object : Interpersonal relationships, mutuality.Subject : Self-authorship, identity, ideology.

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I wonder what would happen if…

5th Order – Self-transforming Mind

Object : Self-authorship, identity, ideology.Subject : the dialectic between ideologies.

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“O Zen empty spot. There is no thing which you are and nothing you are not.”

There is no spoon.

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Impact on societies

• Traditionalist• Modernist• Post Modernist

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