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February 2016

Accepted Discipleship: Impersonality & Love – Wisdom vs. Wilber

In this post I speak more about the main lessons that must be learned in Alice Bailey’s Accepted Discipleship stage, speaking mainly about Impersonality and Love. I then compare these aspects of the Accepted Discipleship stage with the Integral model by Ken Wilber, showing how these aspects mainly fit in with their Turquoise and Indigo levels.

In the Alice Bailey model as we shift into Accepted Discipleship we move increasingly into the Sacrifice petals, especially what is known as the Sacrifice/Love petals. Here we are no longer concerned with just knowledge, we are concerned with love. As we learn what love really is, and learn how to come from a real place of love, sacrifice is the natural result. Our sacrifices happen in a joyful way for the benefit of greater and greater wholes beyond ourselves.

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Accepted Discipleship: Dispelling Glamours, Wisdom vs. Wilber

Continuing to examine Stage Three: Accepted Discipleship from the Ageless Wisdom teachings, this post examines more closely the need to “dispel glamours” and how this might relate to certain things taught in the Integral approach by Ken Wilber.

As a reminder I a putting up the list again of the primary tasks I have identified in reading the books by Alice Bailey regarding what needs to be accomplished during her stage of Accepted Discipleship.  I am also reposting the chart I have been putting on these posts related to the Six Stages of Discipleship.  As this is a comparative series between Ageless Wisdom and Integral, I will follow the same process I have been doing in most of my other posts, listing the Ageless Wisdom view and then trying to show the parallels where they can be found in the Integral method first put forward by Ken Wilber.

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Accepted Discipleship, Intro – Wisdom vs. Wilber

Continuing in the series on the Six Stages of Discipleship from the Ageless Wisdom teachings, we now move into Stage Three: Accepted Discipleship. As we do so a comparison is drawn with how this stage parallels various levels in Integral.

The move from Stage Two: Chela in the Light to Stage Three: Accepted Discipleship is in many ways a shift from en-lighten-ment, to en-love-ment. Though the impulse for light in the way of both knowledge, wisdom and spiritual “experiences” is still present, increasingly this light, wisdom, and knowledge is being applied for the sake of loving and serving others.

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Chela in the Light – Wisdom vs. Wilber

We continue with an attempt to understand Stage Two: Chela in the Light, one of the Six Stages of Discipleship found in the Ageless Wisdom teachings and relate it to the Integral model as put forward by Ken Wilber.

Spinning off of the first stage, Little Chelaship (which usually has an intense interest in being a spiritual somebody), we move into the next stage of Chela in the Light that begins to reveal to the person their englamored, myopic, distorted, overly focused on “states” and finding ways to get high, way of being.  In short, they begin to enter the “light” of real spiritual love.  We will now begin to review what Alice Bailey has to say about this stage and how it relates to the stages proposed by Integral and Ken Wilber.  For starters let me once again put in the chart of Terms and then summarize this stage as presented by Alice Bailey.
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Little Chelaship – Wisdom vs. Wilber

In the Ageless Wisdom teachings there are said to be “Six Stages of Discipleship” that represent certain spiritual lessons to be learned along the path. This post attempts to explain the first stage of “Little Chelaship” and compares it to what the Integral teachings by Ken Wilber have to say about spiritual growth and development.

Stage One: Little Chelaship

To begin with “chela” is related to the Hindi word meaning “a disciple of a spiritual teacher.” (Though a search for the meaning of the word on Google brings up an association with “beer” in Spanish!  Well, as we read along there might be something to this lower use of spirits instead of Spirit, so all may fit together here!  Smile!)  Humor aside, let’s now look once again at the chart below.
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Six Stages of Discipleship – Wisdom vs. Wilber

This post introduces the reader to the idea of Six Stages of Discipleship as talked about in the Ageless Wisdom teachings and sets the foundation for posts to come giving greater detail on each stage and how Integral ideas relate to them.

In the Ageless Wisdom teachings by Alice A. Bailey there are said to be six stages of discipleship that represent six stages of spiritual growth. These stages are:

  1. Little Chelaship
  2. Chela in the Light
  3. Accepted Discipleship
  4. Chela on the Thread
  5. Chela Within the Aura
  6. Chela Within the Master’s Heart.

To help us understand these stages I am drawing correlations of them with both other terms used in the Alice Bailey teachings, as well as terms used in the Integral teachings promoted by primarily Ken Wilber.  Please see the chart below.

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The Darth Vader Move – A Wisdom vs Wilber View

Darth Vader, Voldemort… Is it possible to avoid the “Darth Vader Move” where you can slip into the “dark side of the force?”  And, is this move to the dark side possible at any stage of the spiritual path? What the Ageless Wisdom and Integral approaches both have to say including how they are alike and how they differ. 

Recently, I listened to an excellent audio by Ken Wilber on the “Darth Vadar” move.  For the small minority on the planet who may not be aware of Star Wars and Darth Vader (are there such people?), the “Darth Vader” move is when someone moves to the “dark side of the force” and the person on a very promising spiritual path goes “dark” and starts to use their powers for evil (live spelled backwards implying evil is anti the life impulse of the whole).  Going to the “dark side of the force” is not a new concept.  In the Ageless Wisdom teachings there has long been the tradition of “black magicians” — a phrase that is not very socially and politically correct now-a-days, and perhaps it would be better in our modern era to say evil magicians, or sociopathic magicians, or just plain selfish magicians. After all anyone regardless of race, sex, culture, etc. can fit into the “evil” category.  In truth be told, most of us are in the selfish mode already to some degree making us “gray” magicians in Ageless Wisdom terms, possessing some selfish and unselfish motives within us. Acknowledging this, in listening to Ken Wilber speak about this whole Darth Vader thing, there was one part of what he said that the Ageless Wisdom traditions unfortunately do not agree with.

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