The experience of connectedness with source: how does one’s understanding of connectedness with source contribute to thinking about accountability in role?

This chapter describes a wonderful reflection of struggling with the concept of “connectedness with source”, one of the domains of the Grubb’s “framework for transforming experience into authentic action through role”. When Sartre speaks of the choices one makes to create one’s destiny, it leaves it open as to how one makes those choices; what might be guiding a person that might reveal something about a connectedness to a source? The understanding of connectedness as “within and without” seems to become synonymous with a cosmic oneness, not as the basic assumption oneness behaviour described by Turquet, but as a place of generative purpose and creativity that transcends a religious interpretation of source as objectified God. The other concept that helps to link consciousness development with the experience of connectedness with source is Kegan’s description of the stages of adult development, and the further development of his idea by Wilbur in his integral approach.