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The Great Updraft

Ross Edwards

The Great Updraft means sweeping upward growth. The name is a metaphor for the journey towards our greatest expression. My goal is to help you live a full life.

I’ll help you become satisfied on all levels: psychological, social, financial, spiritual, professional, and more, integrating the many threads into a sublime whole.

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Yesterday · 4 min
The Boundless Body: November Readings #5
"Your life is in your loving hands, right now. You are at the wheel, right now. How will you live it?"The fifth episode of my Boundless Body Readings series for November 2026.A practical and profound meditation manual, my upcoming The Boundless Body...
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Wednesday · 6 min
The Boundless Body: November Readings #4
"All you ever experience is the ongoing flow of experience, which is your life, and this ongoing flow includes all conceptions of anything outside of it"The fourth episode of my Boundless Body Readings series for November 2026.A practical and profound...
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Tuesday · 5 min
The Boundless Body: November Readings #3
"I want to invite you to do something you may have never done before: to step into your present direct experience and see through the foundational assumptions that underlie our ordinary way of experiencing ourselves and our world."The third episode of...
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Monday · 5 min
The Boundless Body: Readings #2
"Your body is the entirety of all your felt experience in all directions, all at once."The second episode of my Boundless Body Readings series for November 2026.A practical and profound meditation manual, my latest work The Boundless Body enables you...
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Sunday · 6 min
The Boundless Body: Readings #1
"This timeless, spaceless, everpresent state is your own true condition. You are already this endless fullness that you seek."The first episode of my Boundless Body Readings series for November 2026.A practical and profound meditation manual, my...
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October 28 · 40 min
Unitive Stage of Ego Development (#168)
We have reached the last of the nine stages in Ego Development Theory, called the Unitive stage.This is where we consciously realise God, see through the temporary, limited and conceptual, let go of identification with our limited, finite self sense,...
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October 25 · 3 min
The Great Developmental Arc
Human ego development has an overall trajectory to it, and once you reach Ego-aware you have almost reached its end.This is a snippet from my 21/10 episode, The Ego-aware Stage of Ego Development (#167)
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October 23 · 6 min
Bitesize Summary of the Ego-Aware Stage
The defining features of the Ego-Aware stage of ego development, which we cover in great detail in my Wednesday 21/10 episode, The Ego-Aware Stage of Ego Development (#167)
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#167
October 21 · 1 hr 6 min
The Ego-Aware Stage of Ego Development (#167)
We discuss the Ego-Aware stage of ego development, AKA the Magician, which signifies another huge paradigm shift.This is the first postautonomous or post-postconventional stage in Cook-Greuter's model, and the eighth stage overall. It constitutes at...
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October 20 · 7 min
Your Field Guide for Identifying Strategists
Here are some key Strategist personality traits that will help you spot people operating from this stage. This is a snippet from my 14/10 episode Strategist Stage of Ego Development (#166)
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October 18 · 6 min
Why The Strategist Stage Gets Its Name
The Strategist stage of ego development gets its name primarily from the Strategist's complex, long-term, systemic thinking process, its sense of mission, and its ability to integrate multiple perspectives.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 14/10...
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October 15 · 2 min
How the Strategist & Pluralist Differ
The Strategist and Pluralist levels, though both Postconventional, are rather different levels of development, with distinct senses of self, worldviews, motivations and complexity of mind.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 14/10 episode, Strategist...
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October 14 · 55 min
Strategist Stage of Ego Development (#166)
In this episode, we're exploring the seventh stage of ego development: the Strategist, also known as the Autonomous stage. This is where we begin to see the bigger picture: not just our own development, but of humanity too. Strategists think in...
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October 13 · 2 min
Opening Pandora's Box of Truth
At the Pluralist level, we become open to many more truth systems than before.Until this level, truth is rather simple. We tend to adopt one truth system and reject all others.Now we can no longer do this. This is both a huge expansion and potentially...
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October 11 · 5 min
Beyond the Norm: Postconventional Ego Development
What does it mean to move beyond conventional development? In this snippet, I explain how postconventional development involves seeing through your cultural conditioning, questioning the assumptions that shape your worldview, and recognising the...
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October 8 · 4 min
The Great Postconventional Watershed
The Pluralist stage marks both a stage shift and the Conventional-Postconventional shift AND the move into the second half of the developmental arc.This is a huge watershed in your development and life trajectory.This is a snippet from my Wednesday...
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October 7 · 1 hr
Individualist Stage of Ego Development (#165)
In this episode, I explore the Pluralist/Individualist stage of development, the first truly post-conventional stage. We look at what happens when you begin questioning the beliefs, values and assumptions you inherited, seeing reality from multiple...
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October 4 · 5 min
The Great Awakening to Self-Help
The Achiever level is when we usually get involved - or obsessed - with self-help for the first time. This fits very well with the typical Achiever traits.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 30/9 episode, The Achiever: Stage 4 of Ego Development (#164)
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October 1 · 1 min
The Achiever Level in a Nutshell
You could sum up the Achiever level in the two points that I make here. This is the heart of this level's psyche and behaviour.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 30/9 episode, The Achiever: Stage 4 of Ego Development (#164)
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September 30 · 1 hr 5 min
The Achiever: Stage 4 of Ego Development (#164)
The Achiever level of ego development is where our identity becomes fully differentiated from others and our environment.At this level, we derive meaning from achieving goals, getting things done, improving themselves. We find our truth from science...
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