Total Embrace

Write about ending resistance to anything. The process of awareness, acceptance, tolerance, avoidance, embrace as love - seeing how everything serves the development of consciousness (ultimately, our higher-selves). We can trace things that we, through our self-serving perspective didn’t see as valuable or beneficial, being beneficial for others and/or our higher self/selves. It’s this conversion to seeing everything as God’s Will that goes beyond our self-centered ego reasoning into a more complex tapestry of interconnected consciousness-growing Love.

Total Embrace is the ultimate goal of the work at BioVibrational, and is what Cook-Greuter placed as the ultimate end of ego development work.

Taken from website to illustrate that Total Embrace is a development of values, inclusivity, meaning making, knowledge of the world, metaphysical understanding, and a concern for the whole of things: Our worldview may continue over time to become more inclusive and expansive. Stages can be split up conceptually in any number of ways, but however defined, as we evolve to more mature stages, who we are, what we value, how we make meaning, and therefore our choices and actions, are different: increasingly sophisticated, subtle, complex, and inclusive.

The work of Cook-Greuter, using a research method that is thought to be highly reliable, found, in the realm of self identity, the same sorts of developmental examples as Spiral Dynamics found in the arena of values. In the later stages, as exhibited in a small number of subjects, self identity shifted from a primary concern with one’s identity in the material world, gradually and clearly toward a self identity wherein the primary concern (and indeed, the primary sense of self), was oriented toward the whole of things—the whole of the human race, the whole of the planet, the whole of whatever is in existence.