5 Comments

Have you seen The Midnight Gospel on Netflix? It was made by a Vajrayana practitioner. There's an episode that is pretty much about this, episode 5, Annihilation of Joy.

Expand full comment

I have seen a few episodes but not that one. That's so cool! Thanks for pointing that out. Will add to my queue. I'm woefully behind on watching things...

Expand full comment

Highly recommended, it's just 8 episodes under 30 minutes each, so not a huge commitment.

Expand full comment

I like the circle/wheel model. The person who really comes to mind when I think about this question is Ken Wilber, but neither his earlier approach (where psychotherapeutic growth comes first and spiritual growth is stacked on top of it) nor his later approach (where they are different and separate developmental lines) really seemed adequate to me. Those models seem to have the idea in mind that there's an endpoint, an ultimate telos where we've fundamentally "got it" - whereas yours implies that there's always more to learn, which seems truer to the way things actually are.

Expand full comment

Another really pithy and bang on comment. Great visual and really good 'teaching' aid

'

Expand full comment