The developmental nature of consciousness transformation.

From: ReVision | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: Blatner, Adam | Copyright information

ReVision's subtitle is "a journal of consciousness and transformation." However, rather than considering consciousness and transformation as separate categories, I suggest the idea that consciousness does not just expand, but undergoes a qualitative change, a consciousness transformation. The thesis of this paper is that rather than viewing consciousness transformation as a single dramatic event, it is better to recognize it as a gradual process in which hundreds of smaller transfo...

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