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ARTICLES A list (still under construction)
of online articles on fundamental Integral topics Bauwens, Michel The
Peer To Peer Paradigm July 2002 A specter is haunting the world:
the specter of Peer To Peer. The existing economic system is trying to
co-opt it, but it isalso a harbinger of a new type of human relationship,
and may in the end be incompatible with informational capitalism. Beck, Don Sustainable
Culture, Sustainable Planet -- a values sytem perspective on constructive
dialogue and cooperative action, Leaps and Spirals; The Road to Sustainable
Development In a National and International Perspective, June 2001 Beck, Don Stages
of Social Development - The Cultural Dynamics that Spark Violence, Spread
Prosperity, and Shape Globalization -- The 12 postulates Beck, Don The
Global Great Divide -- An Integral Initiative. Beck, DonThe
Search for Cohesion in the Age of Fragmentation - From the New World
Order to the Next Global Mesh Includes this clue to building
a Third Way Integral Politics: THIRD WAY POLITICS. Traditional Republican
thought in the US is classic Blue (rule of law) and Orange (free- market
economy). The Democrat Party joins Purple-Red "victims" with Green "rescuers,"
setting up the bipolar, two party political impasse. A legitimate "third
way" policy would place the Spiral right in the middle of the left-right
wing political spectrum. One could then cobble elements from both wings
and apply them at different levels within the developing Spiral. This is
neither a centralist or compromise position, but an entirely new direction
in national politics. Both Bill Clinton's "vital center" champions and
George W. Bush's "compassionate conservatives" lean in that direction but
without an All Quadrants/All Levels perspective, they will not get there.
The political thinkers who grasp this concept will dominate for decades
to come. The focus shifts from horizontal position(s) on the Spiral --
they are called "whorls" -- to the "DNA" codes on the spine of the Spiral.
Herein lies the essence of this Global Mesh strategy, one that deals with
the the producer of worldviews, the dynamics that shape governance models,
and the generator of complex, adaptive intelligences. I was asked during
the South Africa's search for a new constitution whether that emerging
society should be a unitary state, a federal structure, or a confederation.
I said "yes." That country is the global microcosm. Cook-Greuter, Suzanne A
Detailed Description of the Development of Nine Action Logics.Adapted
from Ego Development Theory for the Leadership Development Framework, 2002-11-14 A Fascinating 33-page article
outlining Cook-Greuter’s model of human development, and comparing it to
Wilber’s and Torbert’s. Stages move from Impulsive to Opportunist/Self-defensive
to Diplomat/Conformist to Expert/technician/Self-conscious to Achiever/Conscientious
to Individualist to Strategist/Autonomous to Magician/Construct-aware to
Ironist/Unitive. Harris, Ray The
V-Memes at War: Part 1 What is the Integral Response : Part 2 Blue
Returns; Part 3 The Red Brotherhoods and the New World order Jordan, Thomas Is it Integral? A checklist for assessing political reasoning Nielsen, Joyce McCarl Feminist
Fusion or Fission? Ken Wilber meets Feminist Theory Roose, Kris Methodos, The Levels
of Functioning Model The Functioning Levels Model gives a general description of
the levels, transited by an intelligent system, as well individuals (humans,
higher mammals) as groups (societies, cultures, companies). Those systems
try to achieve some subjective goal in a not necessarily complying environment,
and evolve from non-adaptation towards the highest form of integration.
This model explains some hitherto more isolated models, including Freud's
developmental stages of personality and society, stages of bereavement,
psychiatric illnesses, and some recent models. Ross, Sara An
Integral Public Practice For Community Work on Complex Issues,
2002 Ross, Sara A Letter of Intervention
and Invitation to Ken, Don, and the Inetgral Community, 2003
This paper
attempts to disrupt certain assumptions that sustain, within the Integral
Community, a largely un-integral culture. It is a well-argued effort to
dislodge and confuse certain entrenched assumptions inherited from SD’s
presentation. It offers integral methodologies that can gradually transform
individuals along with the culture and practice. It closes with the invitation,
ways, and means for the community to launch itself into a new integral
age. Ross, Sara Learning
Issue Framing for Deliberation of Complex Questions in Public or Organizational
Settings, 2003 The Objective is to understand
and be able to apply the concepts of (1) Achieving tensions among and within
framed approaches, (2)Listening for and distinguishing the perspectives
or deep motivations underlying the things people hold valuable, (3) Listening
for and including “who isn’t in the room” and (4) Formulating “trade-offs” Ross, Sara and Fuhr, Reinhard Health
from an Integral Perspective Stambolovic, Vuk The
Case of Serbia/Yugoslavia: An Analysis through Spiral Dynamics, Medicine, Conflict and Survival, Vol 18, 59-70 (2002) Wilber, Ken Introduction
to Volume 7 of the Collected Works - The Integral Vision at the Millennium Great introduction to Wilber’s
work - pretty much the first part of his book A Thery of Everything. Read
the Intro. to Vol 8 for the second and final part. Wilber, Ken Introduction
to Volume 8 of the Collected Works This extract -- which looks pretty
much identical to the second part of A Theory of Everything -- includes
Wilber’s first outline of Integral Politics -- a must-read. Here’s how he begins it: Politics. I have been working with Drexel
Sprecher, Lawrence Chickering, Don Beck, Jim Garrison, Jack Crittenden,
and several others toward an all-level, all-quadrant political theory (in
addition to working with the writings of political theorists too numerous
to list). We have been involved with advisors to Bill Clinton, Al Gore,
Tony Blair, and George W. Bush, among others. There is a surprisingly strong
desire, around the world, to find a "Third Way" that unites the best of
liberal and conservative--President Clinton's Vital Center , George W.
Bush's Compassionate Conservatism , Germany's Neue Mitte , Tony Blair's
Third Way , and Thabo Mbeki's African Renaissance , to name a few--and
many theorists are finding an all-level, all-quadrant framework to be the
sturdiest foundation for such.
Here is what I consider to be my own
particular theoretical orientation, developed largely on my own, which
has then become a framework for discussions with these other theorists,
who bring their own original ideas for a cross-fertilization. I will first
indicate my own thoughts, and then the areas where these other theorists
have helped me enormously.
In the last chapter of Up from Eden
("Republicans, Democrats, and Mystics"), I made the observation that, when
it comes to the cause of human suffering, liberals tend to believe in objective
causation, whereas conservatives tend to believe in subjective causation. Wilber, Ken On
the Nature of a Post-Metaphysical Spirituality -- Response to Habermas
and Weiss Wilber responds here to the publication
by the great German philosopher/sociologist Jurgen Habermas’ of Post-Metaphysical
Thinking and to an article by Hans-Willi Weiss about Wilber’s work. He
explains how is view -- like Habermas’ -- is a reconstructive science,
looking at the patterns of development of individuals today into stages
beyond what is typical, in order to predict future development for all
of us. “This is NOT metaphysical speculation…” Wilber explains; it is not
the ‘Perennial Philosophy’ ? the details of which he mostly rejects. Wilber
also points to Habermas’ to one of Habermas’s limitations: failing to include
the higher, postrational states and stages of consciousness. Defending
Habermas’ use of moral development theorist Lawrence Kohlberg, Wilber
points to evidence that “no major exceptions” to Kohlberg’s stages have
been found. He also talks about the difficult future task of developing
an Integral critical theory, when currently all attempts at an Integral
theory are “very preliminary and sketchy”. Wilber, Ken Kosmos
Trilogy Volume II Excerpt A: An Integral Age at the Leading Edge An initial excerpt from the second
volume of Wilber’s three-volume masterwork, the Kosmos Trilogy (Vol 1 titled
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality - the Spirit of Evolution). Wilber begins
by describing how two percent of the population might be at Integral waves
now ? with the number likely to swell soon. He then moves into some dense
discussion of non-foundational, non-metaphysical spirituality, Whitehead,
Sheldrake, Graves etc. Also an interesting discussion of Marx and the nature
of revolutionary social transformation. Wilber’s ever-evolving understandings
continue to break new ground. Wilber, Ken On
Critics, Integral Institute, My Recent Writing, and Other Matters of Little
Consequence: A Shambhala Interview with Ken Wilber. Readable Q and A discussion of
-- amongst other things -- Wilber’s departure from the factionalised transpersonal
psychology movement; and the antagonism resulting from his first use of
critical comments about unhealthy Green/Mean Green Meme. Includes a brief
introduction to the value memes of Spiral Dynamics. Also some -- hard to
swallow, for Green meme -- comments hoping Bush’s election will see a rebuilding
of needed Blue infrastructure. Of course the real goal of a truly Integral
politics, a genuine Third Way, is still probably a long way off: “Ideally,
of course, we would have a green-to-yellow politician who also embraces
red to blue to orange, or the entire spiral… but I don’t see that anywhere
on the horizon.” Wilber, Ken Who
Ate Captain Cook? Integral Historiography in a Postmodern Age. Wilber, Ken Sidebar
C: Orange and Green: Levels or Cousins? An online footnote to Wilber’s
novel Boomeritis discusses some of the divergences between Wilber, Beck
and Wade on the exact nature of the stages of human development. Wilber
suggests that people can move through every one of the different levels/stages
of development with either and individualistic/agentic or communal leaning
-- in contrast to Spiral Dynamics which sees a pendulum between more individualistic
and more communal levels. For example, the individualistic achievement-focused
Orange value meme is followed by the communitarian-focused Green meme,
redressing some of the problems caused by Orange. Wilber here also explains
that his movement through the pluralistic Green meme was in an individualistic/agentic
manner. He adds: in fact, most of the second-tier people I know
went through the pluralistic stage in an agentic fashion (they went
through hot green), for the simple reason that if you go through the pluralistic
stage in a more typically communal fashion -- cool green -- then in this
day and age you almost always get caught in the herd mentality of politically
correct thinking, the mean green meme, and the epidemic of boomeritis,
and therefore you never make it to yellow, because cool green, accounting
for probably 60 per cent of green, dominates the cultural and academic
scene. Includes responses from Jenny Wade and Don Beck. Wilber, Ken The
Deconstruction of the World Trade Center -- A Date That Will Live in a
Sliding Chain of Signifiers Long article on how different
value memes responded to Sept 11. Includes, in part 2 especially, Wilber’s
longest outline of Integral Politics to date (much more depth than in A
Theory of Everything). A must read. Wilpert, Greg Dimensions
of Integral Politicsor on
Visser's site Wilpert, Greg Integral
Politics - A Spiritual Third Way In this time of ideological upheaval,
when the old ideologies of left and right, of socialism, liberalism, and
conservatism, no longer capture the political imagination the way they
once did, new political visions are required. Some have tried to formulate
a "Third Way" between social democracy and conservatism. Others, such as
Michael Lerner, have proposed a more spiritually-oriented approach to transcend
left and right. In what follows, I would like to present another vision,
that of Integral Politics, which is very compatible with the approach of
Michael Lerner but is based on the work of Ken Wilber. |
