1. Jean Gebser was born Hans Karl Hermann Rudolph Jean Gebser in Posen in Imperial Germany.
22 Facts About Jean Gebser
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Jean Gebser's father was lawyer Frederich Gebser and mother was Margaretha Grundmann.
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Jean Gebser was a cousin of World War I-era chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg.
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Jean Gebser left Germany in 1929, living for a time in Italy and then in France.
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Jean Gebser then moved to Spain, mastered the Spanish language in a few months and entered the Spanish Civil Service where he rose to become a senior official in the Ministry of Education.
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Jean Gebser fled to Switzerland in 1939, escaping only hours before the border was closed.
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Jean Gebser spent the rest of his life near Bern, where he did most of his writing.
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Jean Gebser held that previous consciousness structures continue to operate parallel to the emergent structure.
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Jean Gebser modified this position in 1943 so as to include the changes which were occurring in the arts and sciences at that time.
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The deficient form of the mental structure Jean Gebser called the 'rational' structure.
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Jean Gebser saw that it is the very consciousness structure itself which has played out to its inherent end.
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Jean Gebser saw that its metaphysical presumptions necessarily led to this ethical dead end.
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Jean Gebser noticed that the integral structure of consciousness was largely witnessed as the irruption of time into the "fixed-reality" of the mental structure.
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For Jean Gebser, dualistically opposed and "static" categories of Being gave way to transparency.
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Jean Gebser introduced the notion of presentiation which means to make something present through transparency.
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Jean Gebser asks of us whether or not we have had our fill of those horrors yet.
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Jean Gebser calls upon us to realize that we are what we think.
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Jean Gebser cautioned against using terms like evolution, progression, or development to describe the changes in structures of consciousness that he described.
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Jean Gebser notes that "to progress" is to move toward something and is thus to move away from something else; therefore, progress is an inappropriate term to describe the structures of consciousness.
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Jean Gebser wrote that the question as to the fate of humanity is still open, that for it to become closed would be the ultimate tragedy, but that such a closure remains a possibility.
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Jean Gebser's work has formed the basis of a number of other studies and writers.
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Wilber found Jean Gebser's 'pioneering' work to align to his own model of consciousness, although Wilber finds evidence for additional later mystical stages beyond Jean Gebser's integral structure.