Our self is a co-constructed cultural & individual phenomenon. We interpret our experience through previously known symbols & chains of meanings. Each stage assures radical shift of meaning-making structure which incorporates previous stages’ experience. Interstage transition is not subject to awareness and, as many other mental processes, is guided by the unconscious and shadow. Meditation enacts potentials of what is not yet known. It liberates us from our tendency to be our habitual form, including both our stage and personality with its habits of energy regulation (via, e.g., defenses). Thus, combining psychotherapy with meditation training can enact more mature ways of coping with psychological material (including shadow integration). It also cleans up awareness for grounding our zone of proximal development. Our inability to work with states of consciousness hinders our reconfiguration at more mature stages. Among other things, we’ll work on developing this ability.