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The latter is a prepersonal pre-rational state of consciousness, occurring before the child is able to differentiate himself from his environment or during certain types of psychopathological regression.
Marco J. de Vries - An Existential–Spiritual View of the Nature of Man William Harryman 2009
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Regarding religion, Ken Wilber, founder of Integral Psychology, sees it as reflecting prepersonal stages of personal and cultural development that are based on faith.
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Wilbur argues that traditional psychology has tended to see transpersonal experience as a regression to prepersonal, primitive states of consciousness.
Jung, Washburn, Wilber and Assaglioli Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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The blob-types tend to be those who can't tolerate the rigors of of mature functioning (like having a job), and therefore take refuge in a detached, prepersonal cloud of "spirit," while the narcissistic types always require "disciples," which keeps alive the dialectic of their fantasized superiority, which is simultaneously overwrought and brittle.
One Cosmos 2009
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