de religiao.9.9) Graves: 4 orders of existence with 7 levels each.161.9.10) General descriptions: They live more in the real world of nature than in the human made mass of concepts that most people confuse with the world. Increased spontaneity, problem centering, detachment, privacy, appreciation, playfulness, honesty, creativity, richness of emotion, personal independence., fear and compulsiveness in minimal levels, freeing energy and conceptual space for a new generativity, increasing self determination, self definition.162.9.11) Disappearance of fear of death (unnoticed by literature). The ego is at last secure...paradox of ego maturity, just as the person reaches the peak of self expression; he also becomes receptive to letting the self go. 162.9.12) Aware of the conflicting aspects of himself ( high self-teem with minimal ego defensiveness, enabling him to accept the unattractive sides of himself).9.13) Integration of aspects: Ego, id, superego; masculine and feminine; body and mind, the self and the other.163.9.14) Paradoxes. Individual and social: Acts are simultaneously selfish and unselfish.164.9.15) Personal growth is for all people the highest good, but he respects the choice of others who may resist the change. 164.9.16) Altruism is genuine because it is disinterested.9.17) Cognitively: Preference for ambiguity, uncertainty, flux and paradox. Thinking is insightful, playful and creative. Increased conceptual complexity: Holism and objectivity; General system thinking, and meta systematic conceptualization. Limitations of purely rational thought are acknowledged. Search for something more. Causality is cyclical. Logic is contextual. Relationships are interdependent. Boundaries are open.- He tries to get outside the usual framework that confines thought. Because they are not dependent on social approval, they perceive options that were not available at more environmentally bound stages. They can be radical innovators. 165.9.18) Whole brain thinking.Abstracions understood are not readily communicated thought present language systems. (I just know it, or It feels right).166.9.19) Temporality. Linear sense and at the same time the enduring sense of the compound an atemporal present. Gravesians disagree: For them, the orientation is geared to the future.- Belenky: People (at this stage) are aware of co-creating their own reality. What is done in the present is considered as shaping a desired future. 167.9.20) The person constantly adapts to changing cirscumtances. 167.9.21) Coordination of the two hemispheres consolidates dominance of the neocortex over lower brain centers. Permit the control of the sub consciousness ego defensive system represented by the lower small minds. He is able to see himself as other...he can treat them (the parts of the psyque) as manipulative concepts, while experiencing himself as a whole. He...is aware of incidents that trigger his limbic system, enable him to separate his emotions more easily from the content of an event and refrain from acting on them. 167.- Instead of rationalize (see conformist stage), Authentic subjects are more likely to change their behavior to conform to their beliefs, once they are aware of the inconsistency.9.22) People with integrated neocortical functioning sometimes have difficulty accessing their survival instincts in dangerous situations. 170.9.23) Transcendent events: Maslow s peak experiences. Descriptions: 170,171. They further refine the non-egoic psychological alignment already beginning to take place at this stage.- Self-actualizers who are peakers