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  • The stage-skipping problem

    Suppose you knew you were going to be reborn after you died, and you could choose the time and place of your next birth—any time in human history up to the present day. Would you like to be born in the 21st century, or during some earlier period? Current societies ...

  • Why post formal stages of development are not formal, but postformal

    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 ...

  • Integral realism for the 1st-Teir reader

    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 ...

  • Why does Spirituality need Integral?

    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 ...

  • What is Integral Psychotherapy?

    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 John Rowan In this previously unpublished paper, leading Integral/Transpersonal psychotherapist and counsellor Dr John Rowan (www.johnrowan.org.uk) outlines his approach to Integral psychotherapy.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 ...

  • The pre/trans fallacy

    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 ...

  • The never-ending quest upward

    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 ...

  • The Integral worldview made simple

    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 ...

  • The Integral Puzzle

    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 ...

  • The Integral medicine wheel

    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 ...


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By Monica Sharma, M.D.Director, Leadership and Capacity Development, United Nations, OHRLLS Our World We are living in a time of whole system transition on a personal and planetary scale that affects every aspect of life as we know it. Patterns of possibility are emerging that have never before been available ...

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Cultural evolution

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Paul Ehrlich w/ Seed Magazine Does human culture evolve via natural selection, as our genes do? Biologists have a pretty good idea of both how flies become resistant to DDT and how humans and primates have diverged over time. That's because the mechanism underlying these processes is the same. Using ...

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By George Por Wisdom Society or Extinct Society Connecting our conversations is the best way to discover that the future is already here, but that the awareness of it is not evenly distributed. Why is this important? Because, the choice is between joining together to create a wisdom society or regressing ...

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You / ∞ = 0

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DeepSurface This equation plagues me with the simple way it gives the mind a window into a much larger perspective. Infinity is a concept, not a number, so it can only be “approached.” It is more accurate to say that you (or I) become infinitely small when compared to infinity. ...

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Science proves nothing

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Integral Options | May 31 2008 image source Science Proves Nothing. A statement like this can get me some serious hate mail. But it's not my statement, it's from Gregory Bateson, in Mind and Nature (1980), the first of his basic presuppositions about reality (another famous one, quoting Korzybski, ...

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Science & Spirituality

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This article is featured on: Science & Spirituality & Holistic Quantum Relativity Holistic Quantum Relativity (HQR) Google Group UK This work-in-progress may be of interest to the distinguished ATCA and IntentBlog members, given our joint concentration on opportunities and threats arising from climate chaos; radical poverty; geo-politics, organised crime ...

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Authored by Purify Mind "How do things appear to exist to us?" Thubten Chodron asks her audience while holding up a cracker. "Here is a cracker," she goes on, "It appears to us to be a real cracker. Anyone who walks in this room should be able to identify ...

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Authored by Laura Quantum Physics may seem complicated to understand. It is. The reason is not because of the math or science involved (even though that could be hard to grasp), it’s because of the unbelievable philosophical implications that arise out of understanding it. Niels Bohr, a renowned physicist ...

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Chaos Theory

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Authored by Laura Bear with us on the Chaos Theory article. It seems a bit technical upon first read, but it actually isn't as difficult to grasp as it may seem initially. Give it a go! Traditional Newtonian physics is often understood as deterministic, where physical matter operates within ...

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The Extended Mind

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Andy Clark & David J. Chalmers | December 6 2008Thanks to Integral Praxis for link Department of Philosophy Washington University St. Louis, MO 63130 Department of Philosophy University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 andy@twinearth.wustl.edu chalmers@arizona.edu *[[Authors are listed in order of degree of belief in the central thesis.]] [[Published in Analysis 58:10-23, 1998. Reprinted ...

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