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The German poet and philosopher Jean Gebser\'s major work, The Ever-Present Origin, is a monumental study of the evolution of consciousness from prehistory to posthistory. For Gebser, consciousness adopts different "structures" at different times and in different contexts, and each structure reveals certain facets of reality while potentially occluding others. An integral human being is one who can utilize all of the structures according to the moment or situation. As Gebserian scholar Jeremy Johnson explains in this episode, modern humans are currently experiencing the transition from the "perspectival" structure which formed in the late Middle Ages to the "aperspectival," a new way of seeing and being that first revealed itself in the art of the Modernists. Grokking what the aperspectival means, and what it might look like, is just one of the tasks Jeremy, Phil and JF set themselves in this engaging trialogue.

Jeremy D. Johnson is the author of the recently released Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness.

REFERENCES

Jeremy Johnson, Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and the Integral Consciousness
\\nJean Gebser, The Ever-Present Origin
\\nWilliam Irwin Thompson, Coming Into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness
\\nKen Wilber, integral theorist
\\nLionel Snell, \\u201cSpare Parts\\u201d
\\nNagarjuna, \\u201cVerses of the Middle Way\\u201d (Mulamadhyamakakarika)
\\nPeter Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life
\\nThomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
\\nObject-oriented ontology (OOO)
\\nDogen, Uji (\\u201cThe Time-Being\\u201d), from the Shobogenzo (Treasury of the True Dharma Eye)

Special Guest: Jeremy D. Johnson.