*Postscript: Did you notice how this feels different to my recent RUclips videos?* I love teaching on RUclips, but I feel much greater pleasure when exploring intermediate and advanced concepts with structured lesson plans which prioritise educational quality rather than entertainment appeal. I want you studying and evolving, not scrolling for another forgettable edu-tainment distraction. This video feels different because it isn't a RUclips video, it's a proper lesson from module eight in The Shadow Work Library curriculum - one of the 110+ lessons, guided exercises and video bibliography reviews in my post-graduate style online course. If you join me inside the library, you'll find this transpersonal psychology lesson embedded between several meticulous exercises which will help you to systematically structure your multiple intelligences and multiple intuitions in both their conscious and unconscious aspects at each of your major lines and levels of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual development. If you read the previous sentence and felt excitement rather than confusion, then click the link below to dramatically accelerate your self integration progress over the next six months. This is an advanced course, and you won't regret putting £750 into your inner world rather than yet another weekend trip or material purchase in the outer world. Click here: courses.jordanthornton.com/shadow-work-library/
Thank you! What a gift to find somebody who can teach and translate such complex topics into a concise and practical video… without any editing either! 🙏 🤣
Thank you. I love the idea of an "approximate self." It reminds me that at every level of consciousness, there’s always more to explore, something further to grasp. This concept allows us to stay grounded in the physical world and preserve the progress we’ve made while still reaching for more. It offers the peace of not needing to know everything. I also appreciate that you’re one of the few teachers who advocate for having a solid and healthy ego. It’s a refreshing contrast to other teachings. I find it unsettling when spiritual communities criticize others' egos because, in reality, we need them to stay grounded here. Very advanced and great job.
Marvellous comment for me to read, and thank you for appreciating my appreciation of the healthy mature ego. It's not an original concept, but it's long forgotten in pop psychology... really wish we paid more attention to the beauty of robust identity.
Yes - when I read Integral Psychology over a decade ago - it was phenomenal. Later, I've also read Washburn, which is great - because he sees things more as a spiral, so including Ken's developmental work, but also looking a bit more Jungian as well. Also I think what's helpful is a daily practice and/or joining a community.
Wow!! What a fun ride that was to watch. Thank you I start graduate school to get my master's in counseling in two weeks! Wilber sounds like an important one to have under my belt as I explore the different modalities. I have no idea what full time school (at age 52! ❤) is going to look like, but I have a feeling I will keep following you as I go. Hopefully my teachers will encourage me to go down some fun Wilber-esque rabbit holes on my own. Thank you as always.
I knew a little about him for a long time. Grace & Grit about 3 years ago brought him back into my awareness. I just ordered Integral Psychology about 3 wks ago. I've been waiting for your teaching on this. Yey!
I enjoyed his audio synopsis, or perhaps conversation with the founder of Sounds True "Kosmic Consciousness". Listen to it every year or two to pull me out of my own story.
Thanks for the insight into your style for course teaching. Really loved the bit at the end of how integral theory helps to map out the healing arch and put it all together in synchronicity. A brief history of everything is waiting on my bookshelf when I’ve gone through more of the therapy oriented books and I will look to add Integral Psychology at the appropriate time ✌️
I remember coming across your channel a few months ago trying to work out a philosophical muse of mine and you set me on Wilbers work, which I promptly set out to devour. Finished the religion of tomorrow a few days ago and I'm about half way through sex,ecology, spirituality. Point being, I was trying to literally work through a lot of these ideas mentally and your recommendation fast tracked my learning process. Really helped narrow down the (still vast) body of literature I'll need to digest, and I'd like to express gratitude. Thank you Jordan.
Thank you for making the time over these last months to do the difficult thing of getting offline and doing real studies. Based on your study arc, I think you’ll enjoy ‘Integral Consciousness’ by Steve Macintosh, ‘Psychosynthesis’ by John Firman and Ann Gila and finally ‘Embodied Spirituality In A Sacred World’ by Michael Washburn - three books for your next few weeks or months after Wilber. Will expand your perception nicely ✌🏻
I wrote a novel called Growing Children. A sci-fi thriller about a father struggling to come to terms with his autistic son. It was cathartic, crucial to my shadow work. It's a book with something to say. Just wanted to share that with you!
@@gailaltschwager7377 You’ll enjoy the crossover between the trauma work and the consciousness studies works… takes some time, but it really clicks when it clicks ✌🏻
Hey, Jordan. Can you make a video for the beginners, who are just starting their healing journey and their is so much stuff on the internet so many courses, like Inner child work, Somatic healing, Breathworks, Bioenergetics, Letting go techniques, Shadow work, etc. And its all so confusing and i am stuck don't even know where to start and which each of these process do. Like which healing processes help us to be more expressive, open and charismatic, which process are for raising general happiness levels. Which processes are for acute trauma and which are more for behavioural and developmental trauma. And which tools does what type of work like for example, shadow work and inner child work helps us to connect with the traumatic past, breathwork and bioenergetics helps us to release trauma, Hypnosis and re- parenting helps us to get what we needed in the past idk. I have seen so many videos but they are so advanced and confusing, and i feel like there is no entry point for a beginner. And not everyone is capable enough for going so much deep into every aspect of it like Intergral psychology, Transgenerational psychology, etc. It will be very helpful if you make a video explaining a beginner approch to it and explaining each tool, benefits of these tools, and at which step of trauma healing these tools can be applicable.
Absolutely, I've made many videos like this. Check out the January 2024 (24 books) video for many beginner suggestions. You'll find some gold there. It's the thumbnail with me holding up a very large stack.
I'm hoping more people, once they learn integral theory, learn to apply their broader awareness to macro-level actualization. Daniel Schmachtenberger as a good example who has mentioned Ken Wilber as an influence.
Hello, Jordan. Thank you for discussing various therapies at the end of the video. I have a question about a particular type of therapy that I have come across recently. It's called Decolonising Therapy, and the only person I could think of asking this question to was you because you tend to have a neutral response. And I feel like a student attending Jordon Thornton's Inner Work RUclips Academy. I tried to find other resources but couldn't. Maybe I wasn't searching properly. Anyway, I'll do the search again. Adding a little context, every child in India and other countries learns about their colonisation in the developmental years of the psyche. We learn about the pain and trauma of that period. Even though a generation or two have not experienced the trauma directly, it does affect our emotional state. The feeling of "lesser" begins. The generational trauma in the Indian context differs. In a country where oppression has and continues to defend deep-rooted social, cultural, and economic polarities, concepts like "boundaries" and "red flags" do little to resolve long-standing generational trauma because the Indian context is highly relational. In today's time, oppressors are not from outside the country anymore. It's the same cycle but with different faces and a modern touch to it. The younger generations (including myself) are just reacting to what has gone unresolved or left unaddressed in the family line. For many years, I have been thinking that families must seek help collectively; otherwise, it's all going to be "divide and rule until no one is happy and everyone is distant and stressed." Many can't leave their families with generational trauma for various reasons, even if the trauma is major & they continue to live in that poor environment. Those children who do, the parents suffer greatly. When you said that a word is part of the library and described the segments so beautiful because one makes the other and hence is a part of it. Similarly, country-level trauma is part of individual-level trauma, a top-down sort of. While the feeling of less begins, there's also enough information that adds to the ego, resulting in two extreme emotional states in a person. What do you think about Decolonsing Therapy? Is shadow work enough to heal extreme emotional states? Is somatic work enough to heal generational rage? Is ancestral healing enough to forgive them for not knowing enough? Is spiritual work enough to truly know that we are all one? Where does one start? I can't speak for the collective but this is what I have been thinking about for weeks now. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
Great questions, and very insightful reflections on this particular type of therapeutic work. Decolonising Therapy seems to be a very new modality, and I truthfully know nothing about this. I've worked on issues of racism tangentially with certain clients, although the centre of my practice isn't in any way focused on these things. I apologise that I'm not the best person to ask these questions, but good luck in your ongoing search.
It sounds as if the culture is deliberately installing a victim consciousness programme into its citizens psyche. If the therapy is based around denigrating a racial group (white people) that is blaming. Transactional Analysis describes it as a drama triangle. Perpetrator (whites) Victim (non whites) Rescuer (the state/government)
I have confidence in your enthusiasm about psychology. But there’s one problem. 7 minutes in and I only learned 1 thing. You probably know what the problem underneath the problem is.
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*Postscript: Did you notice how this feels different to my recent RUclips videos?*
I love teaching on RUclips, but I feel much greater pleasure when exploring intermediate and advanced concepts with structured lesson plans which prioritise educational quality rather than entertainment appeal. I want you studying and evolving, not scrolling for another forgettable edu-tainment distraction.
This video feels different because it isn't a RUclips video, it's a proper lesson from module eight in The Shadow Work Library curriculum - one of the 110+ lessons, guided exercises and video bibliography reviews in my post-graduate style online course.
If you join me inside the library, you'll find this transpersonal psychology lesson embedded between several meticulous exercises which will help you to systematically structure your multiple intelligences and multiple intuitions in both their conscious and unconscious aspects at each of your major lines and levels of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual development.
If you read the previous sentence and felt excitement rather than confusion, then click the link below to dramatically accelerate your self integration progress over the next six months.
This is an advanced course, and you won't regret putting £750 into your inner world rather than yet another weekend trip or material purchase in the outer world.
Click here: courses.jordanthornton.com/shadow-work-library/
Thank you! What a gift to find somebody who can teach and translate such complex topics into a concise and practical video… without any editing either! 🙏 🤣
@@yinglan9606Wait until everybody finds out that I’m actually ai-generated 🤐
😂@@jordanthornton
Not two days ago I found this book for $3 at my local Goodwill. Thrifting is alive and well for books.
Basically stole the book for that price 🔥
Thank you. I love the idea of an "approximate self." It reminds me that at every level of consciousness, there’s always more to explore, something further to grasp. This concept allows us to stay grounded in the physical world and preserve the progress we’ve made while still reaching for more. It offers the peace of not needing to know everything.
I also appreciate that you’re one of the few teachers who advocate for having a solid and healthy ego. It’s a refreshing contrast to other teachings. I find it unsettling when spiritual communities criticize others' egos because, in reality, we need them to stay grounded here.
Very advanced and great job.
Marvellous comment for me to read, and thank you for appreciating my appreciation of the healthy mature ego. It's not an original concept, but it's long forgotten in pop psychology... really wish we paid more attention to the beauty of robust identity.
Great comment. Fully agree with you.
Yes - when I read Integral Psychology over a decade ago - it was phenomenal. Later, I've also read Washburn, which is great - because he sees things more as a spiral, so including Ken's developmental work, but also looking a bit more Jungian as well. Also I think what's helpful is a daily practice and/or joining a community.
Wow!! What a fun ride that was to watch. Thank you I start graduate school to get my master's in counseling in two weeks! Wilber sounds like an important one to have under my belt as I explore the different modalities. I have no idea what full time school (at age 52! ❤) is going to look like, but I have a feeling I will keep following you as I go. Hopefully my teachers will encourage me to go down some fun Wilber-esque rabbit holes on my own. Thank you as always.
Masters on the way, and a great path to be taking - suits you!
I knew a little about him for a long time. Grace & Grit about 3 years ago brought him back into my awareness. I just ordered Integral Psychology about 3 wks ago. I've been waiting for your teaching on this. Yey!
Perfect synchronicity, and a timely push to get started with your studies this weekend! 🌲
I enjoyed his audio synopsis, or perhaps conversation with the founder of Sounds True "Kosmic Consciousness". Listen to it every year or two to pull me out of my own story.
Thanks for the insight into your style for course teaching. Really loved the bit at the end of how integral theory helps to map out the healing arch and put it all together in synchronicity. A brief history of everything is waiting on my bookshelf when I’ve gone through more of the therapy oriented books and I will look to add Integral Psychology at the appropriate time ✌️
Always love to listen you Jordan Thnk you
I remember coming across your channel a few months ago trying to work out a philosophical muse of mine and you set me on Wilbers work, which I promptly set out to devour. Finished the religion of tomorrow a few days ago and I'm about half way through sex,ecology, spirituality. Point being, I was trying to literally work through a lot of these ideas mentally and your recommendation fast tracked my learning process. Really helped narrow down the (still vast) body of literature I'll need to digest, and I'd like to express gratitude. Thank you Jordan.
Thank you for making the time over these last months to do the difficult thing of getting offline and doing real studies. Based on your study arc, I think you’ll enjoy ‘Integral Consciousness’ by Steve Macintosh, ‘Psychosynthesis’ by John Firman and Ann Gila and finally ‘Embodied Spirituality In A Sacred World’ by Michael Washburn - three books for your next few weeks or months after Wilber. Will expand your perception nicely ✌🏻
@@jordanthorntonI've added them to my reading list. Your recommendations have been gold so far.
I wrote a novel called Growing Children. A sci-fi thriller about a father struggling to come to terms with his autistic son. It was cathartic, crucial to my shadow work. It's a book with something to say. Just wanted to share that with you!
Thank you so much, Jordan! I haven't read any of Ken Wilbur and now I shall.
@@gailaltschwager7377 unbelievable… get ready to go to new depths and heights! 🌲
@@jordanthornton Thank you so much, Jordan!
My studies are generally on the connections between trauma and health, so Gabor Maté.
@@gailaltschwager7377 You’ll enjoy the crossover between the trauma work and the consciousness studies works… takes some time, but it really clicks when it clicks ✌🏻
Hey, Jordan. Can you make a video for the beginners, who are just starting their healing journey and their is so much stuff on the internet so many courses, like Inner child work, Somatic healing, Breathworks, Bioenergetics, Letting go techniques, Shadow work, etc. And its all so confusing and i am stuck don't even know where to start and which each of these process do. Like which healing processes help us to be more expressive, open and charismatic, which process are for raising general happiness levels. Which processes are for acute trauma and which are more for behavioural and developmental trauma. And which tools does what type of work like for example, shadow work and inner child work helps us to connect with the traumatic past, breathwork and bioenergetics helps us to release trauma, Hypnosis and re- parenting helps us to get what we needed in the past idk. I have seen so many videos but they are so advanced and confusing, and i feel like there is no entry point for a beginner. And not everyone is capable enough for going so much deep into every aspect of it like Intergral psychology, Transgenerational psychology, etc. It will be very helpful if you make a video explaining a beginner approch to it and explaining each tool, benefits of these tools, and at which step of trauma healing these tools can be applicable.
Absolutely, I've made many videos like this. Check out the January 2024 (24 books) video for many beginner suggestions. You'll find some gold there. It's the thumbnail with me holding up a very large stack.
Listening to you makes me feel smarter, always love ur vids Jordan 🙏
One of my favourite types of comments, cheers! Keep going deep with your personal studies.
Love Wilber and Religion of Tomorrow, currently reading it, min-blowing! Thanks for sharing!
It’s a stacked book, wisdom in every chapter. I’ll need to return to it for a third read sometime next year.
@@jordanthornton totally agree. Right on!
I'm hoping more people, once they learn integral theory, learn to apply their broader awareness to macro-level actualization. Daniel Schmachtenberger as a good example who has mentioned Ken Wilber as an influence.
This is my wish too, brother.
Hello, Jordan. Thank you for discussing various therapies at the end of the video. I have a question about a particular type of therapy that I have come across recently. It's called Decolonising Therapy, and the only person I could think of asking this question to was you because you tend to have a neutral response. And I feel like a student attending Jordon Thornton's Inner Work RUclips Academy. I tried to find other resources but couldn't. Maybe I wasn't searching properly. Anyway, I'll do the search again.
Adding a little context, every child in India and other countries learns about their colonisation in the developmental years of the psyche. We learn about the pain and trauma of that period. Even though a generation or two have not experienced the trauma directly, it does affect our emotional state. The feeling of "lesser" begins. The generational trauma in the Indian context differs. In a country where oppression has and continues to defend deep-rooted social, cultural, and economic polarities, concepts like "boundaries" and "red flags" do little to resolve long-standing generational trauma because the Indian context is highly relational. In today's time, oppressors are not from outside the country anymore. It's the same cycle but with different faces and a modern touch to it.
The younger generations (including myself) are just reacting to what has gone unresolved or left unaddressed in the family line. For many years, I have been thinking that families must seek help collectively; otherwise, it's all going to be "divide and rule until no one is happy and everyone is distant and stressed." Many can't leave their families with generational trauma for various reasons, even if the trauma is major & they continue to live in that poor environment. Those children who do, the parents suffer greatly. When you said that a word is part of the library and described the segments so beautiful because one makes the other and hence is a part of it. Similarly, country-level trauma is part of individual-level trauma, a top-down sort of. While the feeling of less begins, there's also enough information that adds to the ego, resulting in two extreme emotional states in a person.
What do you think about Decolonsing Therapy? Is shadow work enough to heal extreme emotional states? Is somatic work enough to heal generational rage? Is ancestral healing enough to forgive them for not knowing enough? Is spiritual work enough to truly know that we are all one? Where does one start?
I can't speak for the collective but this is what I have been thinking about for weeks now. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
Great questions, and very insightful reflections on this particular type of therapeutic work. Decolonising Therapy seems to be a very new modality, and I truthfully know nothing about this. I've worked on issues of racism tangentially with certain clients, although the centre of my practice isn't in any way focused on these things. I apologise that I'm not the best person to ask these questions, but good luck in your ongoing search.
It sounds as if the culture is deliberately installing a victim consciousness programme into its citizens psyche. If the therapy is based around denigrating a racial group (white people) that is blaming. Transactional Analysis describes it as a drama triangle. Perpetrator (whites) Victim (non whites) Rescuer (the state/government)
@@jordanthornton Ah, alright. Thanks for your response.
Bought the book! 🤩
That's what I like to see! Has it arrived yet?
I would be sooo curious about the 588 subcategories of human development, if you ever have the urge to make a complete explanation 😁
That will never happen 😅
I have confidence in your enthusiasm about psychology.
But there’s one problem.
7 minutes in and I only learned 1 thing.
You probably know what the problem underneath the problem is.
Gardner later landed on 9 intelligences.
@@butterflymagicwithhottea9291 It’s fascinating how specific we can get ✌🏻
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🌲🫡
Too bad KW's such a terrible writer 😢
I agree that some of his books can be dense or unfocused at times, but this one is fantastic in my opinion.