Michael Lamport Commons,
Sara Nora Ross, and
Jonas Gensaku Miller
The first Beyond Formal Operations Symposium was held at Harvard in 1981. The resulting text Beyond Formal Operations (Commons, Richards, & Armon, 1984) was published by Praeger. There have been many subsequent publications on the subject. Occasionally people suggest that the postformal stages posited by theorists and empirical [...]

By H.B. Augustine
A Proposed Solution and Expansion
To the Platonic Explanation
Of So-Called Universals
In this essay, I will consider the problem of universals and its major interpretations. I will proceed to see which interpretation is the case, and – because it is Plato’s theory – I will offer an alternative way of explaining his metaphysics and epistemology [...]

Kelly Sosan Bearer | June 21, 2008

Spirituality is a complex, confusing, and polarizing force in the world. With so many different definitions of the word, we can barely even begin to start the conversation. Some equate spirituality with mysticism as described by the great philosophers; but with the infiltration of New Age concepts of spirituality, [...]

This article is featured on: AQAL & SDi & Psychology
By Dr. John Rowan
In this previously unpublished paper, leading Integral/Transpersonal psychotherapist and counsellor Dr John Rowan (www.johnrowan.org.uk) outlines his approach to Integral psychotherapy.
He challenges therapists to reach up and include realms even beyond the ‘Subtle’ level, and also to include not just the left-hand quadrants, but [...]

Authored by Christoph Schaub
The pre/trans fallacy, simply put, is to confuse the innocence of a child with the self-realization of a saint. In other words, the pre/trans fallacy speaks to our attempts to understand the transrational reality of being with our rational thoughts, which causes us to arrive at irrational conclusions, such as our talk [...]

Authored by Dr. Don Beck
I think I’m beginning to see people as colors! Having just immersed myself for the past three months in Spiral Dynamics?an incisive and far?reaching theory of human development?I can say without exaggeration that Spiral Dynamics is, indeed, one of the major breakthroughs in mapping and managing complexity?that complexity being us. Our [...]

Authored by Lawrence Wollersheim
At this moment in time, a dynamic, new worldview appears to have burst upon the global stage. It is called the integral worldview. A worldview is a meta-paradigm of reality, a unifying cultural consciousness that both underlies and conditions an individual’s way of knowing, seeing and acting in the world.
A new worldview [...]

Authored by Steven E. Wallis

Clearly, we need a new way to understand this process of assembling the puzzle we call “integral theory.”

Forget, for a moment, the classic story of three blind men trying to describe an elephant; we are a community of the blind, attempting to collaboratively assemble a jigsaw puzzle. We can find, feel, [...]

Bruce Alderman @ Gaia

In presenting various holistic ideas and models to students, I find that many particularly resonate with the Native American medicine wheel — an ancient symbol that traces back 10,000 years in the Americas. Among the different tribes which have used it, the medicine wheel has served both as a map of [...]

Provided by Holons-News.com
According to Integral Theory, there are at least 4 primary dimensions or perspectives through which we can experience the world: subjective, intersubjective, objective, and interobjective.

These 4 perspectives, represented graphically, are the upper-left, lower-left, upper-right, and lower-right quadrants.
In the subjective, or upper-left quadrant, we find the world of our individual, interior experiences: our thoughts, [...]