Van: Integral World [newsletter@integralworld.net] Verzonden: maandag 6 december 2010 9:25 Aan: f.visser3@upcmail.nl Onderwerp: [personal] The Indigo Dollar INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 338 Amsterdam, December 6th, 2010 LOHAS AND THE INDIGO DOLLAR - Growing the Spiritual Economy - Joseph Gelfer It is well documented that alternative spiritualities can be commercialised and commodified. My aim in this paper is to extend this further by identifying how LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability), which describes a multi- billion dollar marketplace in the United States, seeks to consciously grow the spiritual economy to unprecedented levels. I then provide an example of how this consumer-focused logic is expressed by integral theorist Ken Wilber, resulting in what might be called the “indigo dollar.” Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/gelfer1.html HOW ADAPT IMPROVES ON WILBER - Hugh and Kaye Martin ADAPT sounds like a great new model. But, why do we need such a model at all? Why can’t we just use the Integral model Ken Wilber has already provided? Because, in our view, Wilber’s system is no longer adequate to the task. Ken Wilber’s model of Human Development is highly impressive and extremely valuable. However, even his expanded Integral Operating System is not sufficiently inclusive, organized, balanced, differentiated, clear, consistent, unambiguous, explicit, complete, and correct. If a model lacks any of these qualities, it is not adequate for the crucial, real-life applications of Integral Theory – for parenting, teaching, counseling, organizational consulting, academic research, or for orchestrating one’s own growth and self-improvement. To substantiate these bold contentions, we have made meticulous parameter-by-parameter comparisons between Wilber’s IOS and the ADAPT Model. Of the total 258 comparisons, there are at least 75 positions where Wilber’s interpretation is most in doubt – and therefore most in need of re-consideration and revision. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/martin19.html An ADDTHIS button has been placed at the top-left of the homepage, so you can send this site to your social neworks friends easily. 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