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Integral -Whats That?
Albert
After 30 years dealing with integral approaches and after 28 years especially with the Aproach of Ken Wilber I paused the last 2 or 3 years with explicit statements. Nevertheless I started my Gaia Blog... More »
Large Scale Psychology
Albert
I received good news from the Sdi Constellation about an offering of American Psychological Association. Its about establishing the new branch of "Large Scale Psycholgy" . Here are some excerpts, communicated directly from Dr. Don... More »
Political Media Circus: McCainomics 101
~C4Chaos
(Crossposted from www.c4chaos.com ) Flip-flopping should not be a handicap as long as it's for the better and you take responsibility for it. But outright denial is so uncool, especially if you're caught in the... More »
The Both/And of Leadership in Living Systems Change
yeshe
This is another of those essays that slipped out of me unexpectedly while responding to a message on a list serve. In this case, the message was from Dr Don Beck, venerable guardian of the... More »
Community- Musings
T
Last year, when I was coming out as bigendered transexual, I had a vision for a community, the "Mudskippers". This was to be a small group- blending spirituality, art, and nature. The idea was to... More »
Culture Is Destiny: A Conversation With Lee Kuan Yew
Albert
This is a conversation Fareed Zakaria did with Singapore founder Lee Kuan Yew. Its from 1994, but as informative, great and eye opening as in 1994. It describes dynamics of developing countries. Not only for... More »
Integral Martial Arts as Integral Spirituality
Nathanael
Running head: INTEGRAL MARTIAL ARTS Integral Martial Arts as Integral Spirituality: A Startling New Role for Martial Arts in the Modern and Postmodern World ... More »
SDi Confab Dr. Don Beck A/CE Assimilation Contrast Effect
Kim
Integral Global
Albert
As the 9th Annual Confab of SDi is nearing, Don Beck communicated some very important points.And I see them all in realtion to what might be called Integral Global. Moving far beyond European and North... More »
An extraordinary talk
Uli
A couple of nights ago, Amory Lovins from the Rocky Mountain Institute ( http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid23.php ) gave a talk close by, in North Adams. It was entitled ‚Winning the Oil End-Game', as is a book... More »
Intelligent Practice always deals with just one thing: the fear at the base of human existence, the fear that I am not. And of course I am not, but the last thing I want to know is that. I am impermanence itself in a rapidly changing human form that appears solid. I fear to see what I am: an ever-changing energy field. I don't want to be that. So good practice is about fear. Fear takes the form of constantly thinking, speculating, analyzing, fantasizing. With all that activity we create a cloud to keep ourselves safe in make-believe practice. True practice is not safe; it's anything but safe. But we don't like that, so we obsess with our feverish efforts to achieve our version of the personal dream. Such obsessive practice is itself just another cloud between ourselves and reality. The only thing that matters is seeing with an impersonal spotlight: seeing things as they really are. When the personal barrier drops away, why do we have to call it anything? We just live our lives. And when we die, we just die. No problem anywhere.
No more prizes for predicting the rain, only prizes for building the arks
Cultures, as well as countries, are formed by the emergence of value systems (social stages) in the response to life conditions. Such complex adaptive intelligences form the glue that bonds a group together, defines who they are as a people, and reflects the place on the planet they inhabit. These cultural waves, much like the Russian dolls (a doll embedded within a doll embedded within a doll) have formed, over time, into unique mixtures and blends of instructional and survival codes, myths of origin, artistic forms, life styles, and senses of community. While they are all legitimate expressions of the human experience, they are not "equal" in their capacities to deal with complex problems in society.
Once a new social stage appears in a culture, it will spread its instructional codes and life-priority messages throughout that culture's surface-level expressions: religion, economic and political arrangements, psychological and anthro-pological theories, and views of human nature, our future destiny, globalization, and even architectural patterns and sports preferences. We all live in flow states; there is always new wine, always old wineskins. We, indeed, find ourselves pursuing a neverending quest.
It’s not that we need to form new organizations. It's simply that we have
to awaken to new ways of thinking. I believe it makes no sense to spend a
lot of time attacking the current realities. It is time to create the new models
that have in them the complexity that makes the older systems obsolete. And
to the extent that we can do that, and do that quickly, I think we can provide
whatwill be necessary for a major breakthrough for the future.
Dr. Don Beck
Integral social holon bottom up and Top down
In 2004 we started conscious Integral activity in Israel. In 2006 we Invited Dr. Don Beck to Israel to help us form Israeli activity to construct natural open memetic system in Israel. Our Vision is... More »
Spiral Dynamics
Open discussion board dedicated to exploring Dr. Don Beck's via Dr. Clare Grave's ideas/theories of Spiral Dynamics. This is a new(er) theory often read in Andrew Cohen's 'What Is Enlightenment' Magazine, among others. It has been compared... More »
center for human emergence mexico and latin america: develo
We are the Center for Human Emergence,(CHE) Mexico and Latinamerica, and we are starting to find leverage points in Mexican society to build a template for transformation of Latinamerica. Our leader is the great Dr... More »
