From: Integral World [newsletter@integralworld.net] Sent: maandag 13 oktober 2008 16:43 To: f.visser3@chello.nl Subject: [personal] Ken Wilber Reconsidered INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 255 Amsterdam, October 13th, 2008 THE FUNDAMENTAL KEN WILBER - What Ken Wilber Really Says About Human Growth - Integral Psychology edition - Hugh & Amalia Kaye Martin Is In this [essay], we venture into some very deep water. We suggest that many of Wilber’s foundational principles regarding human growth are due for serious reconsideration, and perhaps revision. Ken Wilber’s AQAL has been the source of much confusion. The AQAL acronym is not (nor was it intended to be) an adequate summary of Wilber’s model of human development. It is merely a convenient and catchy enumeration of five of its more prominent features – Quadrants, Levels, Lines, States, and Types. Wilber’s complete growth model – what we call his Integral Operating System (IOS) –adds over a dozen additional important parameters. Thus, to make a adequate evaluation of Wilber’s positions, we must consider not just AQAL, but his entire IOS. When we do so, we make a surprising discovery: Each parameter of Wilber’s model of human growth is actually a Dimension, a Participant, and Process, or an aspect of Together-ness. For instance, the five parameters of Wilber’s AQAL consist of four Dimensions (Quadrants, Levels, Lines, States) and one Participant (Types). The additional parameters of Wilber’s more comprehensive Integral Operating System fall likewise under the four Domains of ADAPT: Wilber’s Fulcrums, Realms, Evolution/Involution, and Pathologies are all Dimensions. Wilber’s Proximate/Distal Self, Functional Invariants, and Sub-personalities are all Participants. The Methodologies and Modules of Wilber’s ILP are all Processes. And Wilber’s Integration, Integral Institute, Full-Spectrum Therapist, and Witness are all aspects of Togetherness. In other words, Wilber’s IOS is actually a very comprehensive (though incomplete) version of ADAPT! At least implicitly, then, both Wilber and the authors agree that ADAPT represents the correct model of human development. Where we disagree, it is primarily on the interpretation of certain parameters of ADAPT. This study, then, is not a contest between two contrasting Models. It is a comparison of two somewhat contrasting interpretations of the same Model. Regarding those interpretations, Ken Wilber’s Integral Operating System is (in our view) highly impressive and extremely valuable – but not sufficiently inclusive, balanced, differentiated, clear, consistent, unambiguous, explicit, and correct for optimal usefulness in implementing a program for personal growth. We are no match for Wilber and his stellar array of colleagues – but we respectfully submit that Wilber’s venerable Model (and its ILP derivative) is showing signs of age and is due for a face-lift – maybe even some reconstructive surgery. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/martin06.html If you know other people interested in this Integral World 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/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UPDATE your email address or UNSUBSCRIBE, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/login.php