An Integral Vision

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An Integral Vision

• Make everything as simple as possible, but not
  simpler.

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Integral Transformation
CONDITIONS Organic Structure Brain
Power Cultural Background Boomeritis must be
addressed and remedied Technological
Advances Information Age Personal
Conditions Fulfillment, Dissonance, Insight,
Opening
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Integral Vision Practice
Not the only type of integral vision possible,
or even the best. But it is the best one that I
am aware of if I knew a better one, I would
present that.
What is egocentrism?
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Sex, Ecology Spirituality
Postmodernism Political Correctness Anti-hierarchy
All truth is culturally situated except their
own.
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Constructive Philosophy World Philosophy Integral
Philosophy Orientating Generalizations The world
is really one, undivided, whole and related to
itself in every way.
Linked by Barbasi
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Hierarchies Everyone Has One No Agreement Keep
holding the problem in mind, and it will
yield. G. Spencer Brown in Laws of Form
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Holons Wholes that are part of Wholes Common
ingredient Backbone of Holism Quadrants Four
major classes Individual Collective Interior
Exterior
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Full Spectrum Approach
Simple Overview of Model Familiarize with General
Ideas Build on the Spiral with Waves then
All-Quadrant, All-Level concept
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All-Quadrant
Individual Subjective consciousness does not
exist in a vacuum It is intermeshed with organic
structure, nature social systems, and cultural
settings world views.
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Upper Left
Interior Individual Levels/Waves Streams of
Development Multiple Independent Development Not
Linear but Fluid Interior Individual
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Upper Right
Individual viewed in an objective scientific
fashion Mind-Body Relation Exterior of the
Individuals Hard Sciences
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Lower Left
Patterns of consciousness that are shared who are
in a particular culture Have objective
correlates Interior of the Collective
Lower Right
Interobjective realities of the social
system Exterior of the Collective
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1,2,3 Approach
1st, 2nd, 3rd Person Art, Morals, Science Self,
Culture, Nature Body, Mind, Soul, Spirit
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A More Integral Map
Multiple Levels of Existence Numerous Different
Lines of Development Multiple States of
Consciousness Numerous Different Types of
Consciousness Multiple Organic Factors Numerous
Cultural Factors Influential Forces of Social
Systems Self as a Society of Selves
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To Change the Mapmaker
Integral Practice
The Prime Directive
Each level of consciousness is, in its healthy
form, an absolutely necessary and desirable
element of the overall spiral The health of the
spiral is the prime directive, not preferential
treatment for any level.
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A More Measured Greatness
Major problem is how we can arrange the health of
the overall spiral, not bring everyone up
The Integral Vision for the World at Large
The health of the rest of the spiral is the most
pressing issues 2nd Tier Integral Awareness
creatively helps with solutions to those pressing
problems