From: Integral World [frank.visser@eurorscg.nl] Sent: dinsdag 28 november 2006 0:11 To: Frank Visser Subject: [personal] The Integral/Holistic Paradigm INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 173 Amsterdam, November 28, 2006 WILBER WATCH BLOG: http://wilberwatch.blogspot.com/ "SIMPLY TOO MUCH..." THE INTEGRAL/HOLISTIC PARADIGM - Alan Kazlev Alan Kazlev continues his Integral Esotericism series, to set the integral movement in perspective: "In Towards a Larger Definition of the Integral 1-v the problem of defining "Integral" in the spiritual-philosophical sense of the word was mentioned. As readers of these essays would probably already be aware, currently in the general New Consciousness and New Age movement(s) there are a number of totally incompatible definitions of "Integral". For example there is Integral in the Ken Wilber and Don Beck definition of Integral Theory, which includes the AQAL paradigm, spiral dynamics, organisation, following, which constitutes the "Integral movement" and "Integral philosophy"in the Wilberian sense. There is also Integral in the context of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother's yoga and spiritual teaching, called Integral Yoga. There is Integral in the sense of historians of ideas like Jean Gebser and William Irwin Thompson. There are the diverse presentations at the California Institute of Integral Studies; for example people like Chaudhuri, McDermot, Tarnas, Ferrer, etc. There are also other less well known but still equally valid and authentic interpretations, as defined on many personal websites, for example. Then there are philosophers and teachers who don't use the word "integral" at all, but who still fit the broad guidelines of what defines "integral" - a synthesis of different theories, an inclusion of different perspectives, an evolutionary and spiritual transformation." Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/kazlev7.html FROM THE INTEGRAL WORLD ARCHIVES: ================================ This is an article I wrote in 1998. Hopefully, there's still much to enjoy: TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY AT A CROSSROADS - Frank Visser "Within the field of transpersonal psychology, two competing views on the nature and process of human development exist. The depth psychological view (Grof, Washburn) sees development as a dialectic, spiral-like, and (initially) regressive movement, in which, during the second half of life, we re-contact the unconscious ground we left while growing up. In the height psychological view (Assagioli, Wilber) human development is seen as an additive, ladder-like, progressive movement, in which in the second half of life we proceed on the road we have traveled so far. Contrasting and comparing the work of leading transpersonal authors will greatly help our understanding of the transpersonal dimension. Current controversies, between Wilber and Washburn, and between Wilber and Grof respectively, are discussed and evaluated. It is argued that transpersonal psychology is essentially height psychology, and that depth psychological approaches to the transpersonal are defective." Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/esseng2.html OTHER RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE INTEGRAL WORLD WEBSITE: 11/25/06: A German translation by Hape Lin of Ray Harris' essay "The Temenos-System" has been added to the German Section. If you know other people interested in this IW Newsletter, please forward this mail to them. Thanks. To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/index.html?newsletter.html To go to the Newsletter Archive, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/index.html?newsletter.html To UNSUBSCRIBE from this Integral World Newsletter, click here: http://frank.e-marketing.eurorscg.net/afmelden.php?a=aa&e=f.visser3@chello.nl&id=9132&m=33 ======================================== Frank Visser, Waterpoortweg 279, 1051 pv, Amsterdam Author of: Ken Wilber: Thought as Passion SUNY 2003 Read all about Ken Wilber : http://www.integralworld.net ========================================