Originally posted by Herzog_Zwei:
AEN, you read up my article on SPD and yet you claim Ken Wilber's
book is being accurate. My article is based off DSM-IV-TR
diagnostic criteria which easily exposes Ken Wilber's book as being
illogical. If you should know, SPD is not some dark part of a
person's psyche or conciousness but a part of a person's normal
life. A SPD sufferer is not egocentric as described by Ken Wilbur
but dislikes company of people and the joys of life which can also
mean that this person is enlightened.
No, Ken Wilber did not say anything about schizoid being a
egocentric pathology. I added that part which I think is a
possibility, although it might be completely wrong. Also I am not
saying that a person with such pathologies are completely
egocentric but are influenced by it because certain parts of his
consciousness development gets into problems or some part of his
'self' gets stuck somewhere... and many forms of psychotic
disorders are linked to this.
Usually a pathology happens when a person starts to transcend a
previous stage of consciousness but during that process something
wrong happened with one of the steps and this causes a
pathology.
Egocentric does not necessarily have to mean a dark part of one's
psyche but more like a worldview and perspective of things, and a
part of an individual's development of consciousness which
progresses as they age. This usually isn't a problem until
something goes wrong in an individual's development and turns into
a pathology.
