Auteur : [[Ken Wilber]] MOC : [[PHILOSOPHIE]] - [[SPIRITUALITÉ]] Source : [[Toward a Comprehensive Theory of Subtle Energies]] Date : 2023-02-01 *** ## L'évolution est permise par une involution préalable Voir plus dans cette note : [[Ken Wilber sur le génie le Deamon]] (on peut aussi prendre l'image du rubber band) ### Rappel - The traditional “Great Chain of Being” is usually given as something like: matter, body, mind, soul, and spirit. In the Vedanta, for example, these are, respectively, the 5 sheaths or levels of Spirit: annamayakosha (the sheath or level made of physical food), the pranamayakosha (the level made of élan vital), the manomayakosha (the level made of mind), the vijnanamayakosha (the level made of higher mind or soul), and anandamayakosha (the level made of transcendental bliss or causal spirit. Vedanta, of course, adds turiya, or the transcendental ever-present Self, and turiyatita, or the nondual, ever-present, unqualifiable Spirit-as-such, ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grdnsw4daacwkj0z2exf26z7)) ### Démonstration - according to the traditions, this entire process of evolution or “un- folding” could never occur without a prior process of involution or “in- folding.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grdpn84enm84r20wrt91a8gh)) - That is, the lower dimensions or levels are actually sediments or deposits of the higher dimensions, and they find their meaning because of the higher dimensions of which they are a stepped- down or diluted version. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grdpnf0m1042rakzb2qyf4nj)) - According to the traditions, before evolution or the unfolding of Spirit can occur, involution or the infolding of Spirit must occur: the higher successively steps down into the lower. Thus, the higher levels appear to emerge “out of” the lower levels during evolution—for example, life appears to emerge out of matter—because, and only because, they were first deposited there by involution. You cannot get the higher out of the lower unless the higher were already there, in potential—sleeping, as it were—waiting to emerge. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grdpnw30fmcm2as9bgnw4598)) - If we can represent the major emergent stages in evolution as (A), (A + B), (A + B + C), and so on—where the addition signs mean that something is emerging or being added to manifestation—then we could represent involution as the prior subtraction process: Spirit starts out full and complete, with all of manifestation contained as potential in itself, which we can represent in brackets: [A + B + C + D + E]. Spirit first steps down into manifestation—and begins to “lose” itself in manifestation—by shedding its pure spiritual nature and assuming a manifest, finite, limited form—namely, the soul [A + B + C + D]. The soul has now forgotten “E,” or its radical identity with and as Spirit, and, in the ensuing confusion and angst, the soul flees this terror by stepping down into mind [A + B + C], which has forgotten “D,” its soul radiance; and mind flees into life, forgetting “C,” or its intelligence; and finally life sheds even its vegetative vitality “B” and appears as inert, insentient, lifeless matter, “A”—at which point something like the Big Bang occurs, whereupon matter blows into concrete existence and it appears that in the entire manifest world, there exists nothing but insentient, dead, lifeless matter. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grdpvmvzt23attb4qavc8sjk))