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Newsletter Nr. 752
Amsterdam, January 15th, 2019


ARGUMENTUM AD WILBERIAM - How truthiness and overgeneralization threaten to turn integral theory into a new scholasticism - ELIJAH J. PETERSEN AND MARK E. JARUZEL II

While expansive cross-disciplinary inclusivity has created transformative and beautiful metamaps such as Ken Wilber’s AQAL theory, one of the main pitfalls in this process, and one which we both unfortunately believe that many components of Wilber’s integral theory fall into, is when limited data is utilized to reach spurious, or at least largely untested, truth claims. Such patterns of emphasizing and relying on small data sets are indicative of utilizing over-generalizations instead of orienting generalizations. We believe a careful review of the currently published research will cast doubt, for example, on the delineation of four distinct stages in Third Tier, many of the tenets of integral life practice, claims that meditation has been shown to induce structure-stage growth across the full range of adult development, and statements about the high percent of people developed to the integral stage of consciousness.

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