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Is integral an open source project?

[Re-post from my blog, thought it was appropriate. Just to be clear though, I'm talking about Integral Institute/Integral Life community specifically...] Terry Patten just posted this newsletter, “Exploring Big Questions in the Integral World.” I’m sort of glad that these are being brought up in the first place. Patten says integral themes are emerging naturally around the world, a “loosely-defined Integral movement seems to have appeare… Continue

Added by shaman sun on November 8, 2009 at 7:11pm — No Comments

College Essay Vs Personal Statement

Usually colleges have their own guidelines when it comes to college essay for admission or personal statements. It depends on what the actual college requires. You should consider that the colleges look at more than just college essays for admission statements; they look at your grades, GPA, class standing, extracurricular activities, and school service before they admit you. I would find out what the actual requirements are and… Continue

Added by Maria Pittman on September 25, 2009 at 11:49pm — No Comments

DeLanda on Becoming and Deluze

Deleuze and the Open-ended Becoming of the World by… Continue

Added by BrightAbyss~ on August 29, 2009 at 2:58am — 1 Comment

Critical Integrative Theory #1: Pathological Social Evolution

Ken Wilber has repeatedly said that most of the world is at the level of Nazis in their development, most notably in his recent book, Integral Spirituality. This statement has troubling prejudices within it, as it seems to not ask why this might be so. Even further, is it even really true? I will propose here that the under-used concept of "pathology" proposed in Wilber's Integral Psychology has the potential to re-shape and advance a critical understanding of social evolution. I… Continue

Added by Charley Earp on August 6, 2009 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

Teilhard de Chardin, an early pioneer of "integral," may provide key insights for the 21st century.

I recently picked up a book by this Jesuit priest and scientist, Teilhard de Chardin, "Man's Place in Nature." It was a quick read, though the language was heavily scientific (but not lacking in meaning). Two main things I've picked up from it: He truly formulated a synthesis of religion and spirituality, through an evolutionary "phenomenology." I've found myself a bit dumb founded as to the scope of his theories, to the point where, dare it be said, this could be more integral, and useful than… Continue

Added by shaman sun on June 15, 2009 at 12:28pm — 2 Comments

"OpenCore" Permaculture

http://gaiapermaculture.com/ OpenCore Site Do good, better. Fazer o Bem, da melhor maneira. OpenCore Site is a platform for social activism. O sítio “OpenCore” é uma plataforma para activismo social. You want to make a difference, we want to make it easy. OpenPlans is the simple way to bring groups together, promote your cause, make plans, manage projects, and get things done. Queres fazer a diferença, nós queremos facilitar. “OpenPlans” é uma maneir… Continue

Added by Joao Goncalves on June 1, 2009 at 2:41pm — No Comments

The Value of Theoretical Models & Conceptual Maps

Original Post at http://eric-blue.gaia.com/blog/200/5/the_value_of_theoretical_models_and_conceptual_maps What is the true benefit and practical application of uber theories like Integral and Spiral Dynamics? I've been thinking about this topic recently, and there were a fe… Continue

Added by Inspire on May 24, 2009 at 2:30pm — 2 Comments

Whatever gets you through

Whatever Gets You Through A Soap in One Prologue and 11 Lines Prologue To live sanely is to limit the awareness. It is to draw back from the incoherent cusp of each on-setting moment to organize snippets of conditioning into sheltering illusions and idealized blinkers. Enough of these patches can be cobbled together into a process that one can call their own perspective; a discreet, serialized narrative that is manipulated to function within others and around others—curren… Continue

Added by Steven Nickeson on March 24, 2009 at 1:50pm — 5 Comments

Conscious TV: Julian Carlyon

Interview with one of my favorite (and most Integrally orientated) teachers: Julian Carlyon, on Consciousness and Homeopathy @ http://www.conscious.tv/consciousness.html [Direct Link] "Julian has been on the path of awareness and healing since his late teens. He has practised as a classical homeopath for thirty years. In recent years he became a student again, this time of the Bombay Sch… Continue

Added by Steph on March 18, 2009 at 4:00am — No Comments

What do You think with?

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Added by Mike on February 28, 2009 at 6:05pm — 8 Comments

Poems that Help me Pause..... Collection

SOMETIMES Sometimes if you move carefully through the forest breathing like the ones in the old stories who could cross a shimmering bed of dry leaves without a sound, you come to a place whose only task is to trouble you with tiny but frightening request… Continue

Added by Mike on February 28, 2009 at 1:30pm — 9 Comments

Declaration of principles

I do not know the thing I am, and therefore do not know what I am doing, where I am, or how to look upon the world or on myself. Continue

Added by Juan Illan on February 28, 2009 at 3:17am — 1 Comment

THE CHANCES WE TAKE WHEN WE THINK THAT WE KNOW

Jack Gibson was an Irish surgeon who performed a few thousands painful surgical and non-surgical procedures (taking off a heavy coat from someone with a collarbone broken in a car accident can be as painful as cutting off a gangrenous leg), with no other anaesthetic than hypnosis, which he learnt to induce by watching stage hypnotists in South Africa. Mr Gibson would be better described as a busy practitioner than as a scholar. He, for instance, didn’t keep a record of his surgical procedures u… Continue

Added by Juan Illan on February 28, 2009 at 3:00am — 1 Comment

Genpo Roshi - First impressions.

Genpo Roshi's Big Mind process combines Zen wisdom with the Voice Dialogue method (and also Psychosynthesis). The method identifes significant "voices" which compete to be heard. The Big Mind process brings out each voice into full consciousness. Since the "I" is merelyimputed in any case, there is no difficulty in generating a conceptual generic image of each one… Continue

Added by Steph on February 13, 2009 at 9:13am — 2 Comments

Integral Vision Mind Maps

This might be preaching to the choir since everybody in the Open Source Integral community is either an Integral scholar or adoring fan. ;) However, I've created a mindmap book summary of the Integral Vision that might be of interest to some people. Original post at http://eric-blue.com/2008/12/18/integral-vision-mind-maps/ Overview Last year I picked up a copy of The Integral Vision by Ken Wilber. I recently deci… Continue

Added by Inspire on December 19, 2008 at 10:26pm — 5 Comments

Santa Rosa Integral Salon

The Santa Rosa Integral Salon (SRIS) is an organic, self-emergent, community-based "social-attractor" that began to come together somewhere one late afternoon in the Summer of 2002 when a random three of us were sitting around Aroma Roaster's Coffee House in Santa Rosa's Railroad Square, reading books that each of us envied. We began to talk and soon burst into a spontaneous dialog that was rich and delicious... each of us on the "integral" scent, finding precious "we-ness" together. There was a… Continue

Added by Bruce Kunkel on December 19, 2008 at 8:34pm — 2 Comments

Musings On A Thursday Afternoon

Hello is alright. Here's the thing. In many ways I am new to the world of Integrality. But I'm not. Because I invented it. Yep. Really. Well okay not exactly. But all on my own I came to a realization one fine day that surely no one practice, discipline, book, teacher etc could have the whole entirety of truth all to themselves. Surely the 'Verse must be much much grander than that. Then one day I found A Brief History Of Everything by Ken Wilber (and boy aren't you all going to hate it when I… Continue

Added by Toriach on October 23, 2008 at 12:33pm — No Comments

Election

New Zealand Election November 2008

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Added by Raven of Sincerity on October 14, 2008 at 8:33pm — No Comments

Full Conception

A child's conception in synchronicity with divine touch A new arrival with babies blue eyes, and the beautiful child is born crying Angels rejoice and celebrate as baby feeds in mothers arms. Heaven whispers, calm, the holly spirit reaches inside the young ones heart attached are chords of silver, joining soul and flesh in correlated life Revived, a spirits breathes once more upon its unfulfilled path A heart with eyes that know many ages, meditating its way through this reoccurring dance. This… Continue

Added by Raven of Sincerity on October 14, 2008 at 8:29pm — No Comments

tea time

today morning when i got up , the first question which knock down my mind was , will human clones have psychic being ??? well not a bad one , just sharing with you all... Continue

Added by aurosanjay on September 23, 2008 at 9:41pm — 1 Comment

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