Developmental Stages Needing Nourishment, Warmth and Control

Antonio Barbato

Some functions necessary to life itself, such as the nervous system activity, digestion and blood circulation, are active long before the personality may evolve. These functions are active during all developmental stages and remain essential even when we develop more complex qualities and refine our faculties.

Ken Wilber(1) and others have suggested that there is an unchanging hierarchy during the developm...

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