Meditation and the Emergent Self: A Quote from "Integral Recovery" by John Dupuy

Wilber has said, in various talks, and this has certainly been confirmed in my work, that one encounters three things in deep meditative practice: (1) the submerged self, leftover trauma and business from the past, (2) our present developmental stage, and (3) our future or emergent self. And it is this contact with our future or emergent possibilities that often fuels our meditative practice with the inspiration to stick with it.