Van: "Integral World" Aan: Onderwerp: The Fuss About Cartoons Datum: donderdag 8 januari 2015 16:20 INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 543 Amsterdam, January 8th, 2015 FROM OUR ARCHIVE: ============= WHAT'S ALL THIS FUSS ABOUT CARTOONS? - RAY HARRIS (2006) A superficial integral analysis of the current crisis over cartoons of Mohammed would perhaps rely on Spiral Dynamics and talk about the clash of Red, Blue and Green vMemes. That's easy to do. But a deeper integral analysis has to juggle an accurate and truthful analysis of multiple perspectives. Yes, Wilber's quadrant system helps us to understand that there are objective, subjective, exterior and interior perspectives. Wilber has even gone further to talk about eight perspectives and first, second and third, etc. person perspectives, and so on. All of this is well and good but it is actually meaningless unless we are both truthful and accurate about each of those perspectives. Wilber has been criticized for misrepresenting the views of others and he has certainly been strident in saying that others have misrepresented his views. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/harris21.html ============= THE EMERGENCE OF INTEGRAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN EUROPE - A first person account of creating the 1st Integral European Conference, May 8-11, 2014 in Budapest - DENNIS WITTROCK So it's over now. We did it. What a blast, what a joy, what an amazing conference experience this has been! What a ride! Let's rewind the tape right back to the beginning. Where is the beginning anyway? It seems arbitrary for me to pick up the story at any point since this event felt so much like a culmination of my life's purpose—literally everything that I came here for—that leaving out any aspect of my story is a bit painful. It all seemed to have converged, conspired, condensed to prepare me to help give birth to this expression of Integral Consciousness on a European level. So actually I should start the story with my birth - or better even - with that eternal moment before I was born, divine silence, utter beingness, ultimately bursting into the joy of creation - for the sheer fun of it. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/wittrock3.html THE NON-POLARIZED MIND AND “SUPERHUMAN” - ELLIOT BENJAMIN I believe that it is exactly the kind of non-polarization which Schneider has poignantly described in his book that is needed to defuse the violent destruction that is overtaking the world today. And I also believe that this kind of non-polarization is part and parcel of the best that integral can offer. Simply put, minus the spiral dynamic “coloring set” [5], we can say integral is the ability to see another's perspective that is different from our own, without the consequential hatred and violence that is horrendously pervasive all over our current world. And I also must say that if “human” has always involved the polarity mindset of the multitudes, as Schneider has described in his book, then perhaps the term “superhuman” is not at all misplaced. Perhaps “superhuman” truly does reflect the ability of a human being to rise above his/her polarity mind conditioning to accept the different perspectives of others—whether it be political, social, religious, or otherwise. And perhaps—just perhaps—the kind of marketing and hype that Wilber and company is engaging in is what is needed to reach the masses in this way? Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin69.html To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UNSUBSCRIBE, update your account by logging in. For explanation, see: http://www.integralworld.net/nl_faq.html