INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 630 Amsterdam, November 23th, 2016 TRANSCENDING TRUMP - (Yet Including His Voters' Concerns) - BRAD REYNOLDS As pointed out in my previous essay, “Hillary Clinton's Loss Is Our Loss,” everyone contains within them the ENTIRE spectrum of consciousness, so therefore, all structures and worldviews, or ways of seeing the world, are available to everyone, at least in potentia. This stretches from the archaic views of primordial hunter-gatherers to the magical-typhonic views of tribal peoples to the mythic-membership views of traditional societies and religions to modern democratic nation-states to pluralistic worldcentric visions (that transcend borders and boundaries), and, ultimately, to yogic and enlightened visions that see all beings and events as arising in Divine Light. One of the principle characteristics of this developmental unfolding is that each succeeding stage “transcends-yet-includes” the previous structures, thus giving us overall a progressive movement in the evolution of consciousness and collective worldviews (as articulated, for example, by Ken Wilber and Spiral Dynamics). This has been called “Integral Theory,”[1] since it tries to integrate ALL of these various perspectives, honoring their strengths yet also understanding the limitations of each (with Enlightenment or God-Realization transcending-yet-including them all). Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/reynolds9.html INTEGRAL POLITICS, POLITICS, AND SHARED SHADOWS - LEX NEALE The last time I was roused to comment in this area was when Zak Stein initiated the Facebook debate "Integral Anti-Capitalism". My comments resulted in an extensive thread that washed and aired a lot of dirty laundry, and my hopes are for the same here. My stance was that the concept "Integral Anti-Capitalism" is an oxymoron, and you have to first get Integral Capitalism together, if you want to get rid of Capitalism. It was the early days of electioneering, and I proposed to Zak the drafting of an Integral manifesto for Integral Capitalism and sending it to Bernie. Zak's response was "Send it to him yourself!" Such is not my thing - which is to expand the Integral Standard Model to be a more worthy player alongside Critical Realism (CR) and Spiral Dynamics Integral (SDi). So nothing happened in that regard, although it was a great opportunity to initiate Integral Politics in a meaningful way. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/neale8.html