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I think it's it good to say that brain damage or something could cause the appearance of ignorance, as you say, because such trauma could wipe out a person's structural attainment: The person could lose Clear Light, Ultraviolet ... all the way down to Magenta. If they lose Archaic, I think it's lights out, right?
But they might not lose their moksha if they really have attained moksha.
Another thing I think that might be coloring our thinking on this is how people are born and raised today: in such a way, usually, to leave them with a pretty intense separate-self sense with lots of shadow. It might not always be this way.
In the future people may be born and raised in such a way that they aren't quite so contracted into the gross state as people tend to be these days. They might have many more moments in the deeper states and be raised in such a way that doesn't necessitate repression so much, which is the chief mechanism in creating a separate-self sense as far as I know.
I think we need to differentiate between the separate-self sense and the ability to individuate-by separate-self sense I mean contraction, the intense feeling of separation, alienation, isolation. One can individuate and act responsibility without that.
I think the way people are raised these days-by society, parents, hospitals-is still pretty barbaric in most cases. By the time children reach adolescence there is often a loss of wonder-in some ways, perhaps, more ignorance than there was when they were born, less in other ways (stage-wise less, of course).
(I understand Wilber's criticisms of childhood spirituality ideas where children are enlightened, but I think there is something to those ideas.)