{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Fc3be5846-a414-42d0-ad40-01e5bd2a78dd","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Vertical Development's Many Gifts: How Continuous Adult Development Becomes Possible, the Potentials It Unlocks & How Understanding It Makes New Sense of Our World and Our Selves with Beena Sharma (Part 3)","description":"Ep. 43 (Part 3 of 3) | Beena Sharma, president of the Vertical Development Academy (VeDA), gives a beautifully cogent explanation of the 8-stage, full spectrum model of adult psychological development, Vertical Development, illuminating us not only to the characteristics of each stage of development, but the implications and ramifications of each stage, the process of human development as a whole, and how this model can help us face our current metacrisis. Beena describes how \u201ceach stage is a way of seeing the world and oneself, a constellation of our beliefs and assumptions,\u201d and we discover that our development takes form in patterns of evolving worldviews, a progression of capacities with which we make sense of the world.\n\nOn an individual level, Beena asks, \u201cWhere is your foot nailed to the floor? Where are parts of you still ahead of you? How can this framework help you make a shift?\u201d And collectively, \u201cWhat does it mean for the human being to evolve? What makes us think humans at this time are at the end of the evolutionary ladder?\u201d Vertical development focuses on the evolving ego, and interestingly, takes us to the stage where we realize the ego itself is only a construct\u2014and beyond. As well as a brilliant unpacking of the vertical development model, this is a profound, warm-hearted conversation, about human evolution and possibility, the dance of the dual and the nondual, the infinitude of the psyche, and what it means to come home to oneself. Recorded July 13, 2022.","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/5ecc6b41-0176-4d19-85cd-842ff14709e8/V45rniQzZQ0hc04ldMFiTxHO.jpg"}