Subject: Integral Institute and SD Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 16:05:53 +0100 From: Frank Visser To: f.visser3@chello.nl *************************************************************************** NOW ON CD! KEN WILBER: SPEAKING OF EVERYTHING, AVAILABLE FROM THIS WEBSITE. *************************************************************************** WILBER FRIENDS MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.worldofkenwilber.com Amsterdam, December 25th 2001 Hi Wilber Friend, INTEGRAL INITIATIVES ==================== Many of you have responded to my invitation to report "integral initiatives" so far. I have created a separate section now, INTEGRAL INITIATIVES (see left navbar), that lists mostly contact persons in countries outside of the US, who can forward you to integral/Wilber activities in a specific country. These persons are listed in alphabetical order. If you know of any relevant persons in your country, let me know! To makes this list not too long to become unpractical, i have to restrict myself to projects/persons that are directed to some concrete end, a book, a study group, an event, an organisation, etc. Just being "interested" in Wilber is not enough to make it to this list ;-) Let me emphasize that none of these activities are related to the Integral Institute, although they all are inspired in some way by the work of Ken Wilber. INTEGRAL INSTITUTE ================== To answer the many questions I receive about the status of the Integral Institute, I have also created a section INTEGRAL INSTITUTE (see left navbar), which covers the public statements about the II made by Wilber so far, the various Branches (with their coordinators) and the Core Teams within these Branches, which are working on specific projects, such as academic textbooks, at the moment. The Integral Institute has about 400 associates who actively participate in its current activities, and will accept members at some future time. GERMAN TRANSLATIONS =================== The German Section grows and grows, as more translations are added to this section (all by Hans-Peter Lin). Recently the following material has been added: - 12/22/01: Don Beck's "The Global Great Divide" - 12/25/01: Wilber's "Prologue to Boomeritis" - 12/25/01: Wilber's "Introduction To "The Deconstruction of the World Trade Center" - rest of Wilber's response to the WTC crisis to follow soon SPIRAL DYNAMICS AND WILBER ========================== To enable an easy comparison between Ken Wilber, Beck & Cowan's Spiral Dynamics and the original research done by Clare Graves, I have added a page in the SPIRAL DYNIMICS section, that lists the key concepts of these three schools of thought, taken from the basic source texts, resp. Integral Psychology (2001), Spiral Dynamics (1996) and Graves' seminal 1974 article "Human Nature Prepares for a Momentous Leap" (The Futurist, April). A smaller table about the way the SD concepts "First Tier" and "Second Tier" relate to Wilbers model of spiritual development (for which sometimes "Third Tier" and "Fourth Tier" are used) has been added to this page too. All recent additions to the World of Ken Wilber website can be found on the WHAT'S NEW page, which can be accessed through the button in the left navbar. Best wishes for Xmas and 2002 to you all! Frank -- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Frank Visser, Waterpoortweg 279, 1051 PV A'dam, Netherlands Pay a visit to my homepage: http://members.ams.chello.nl/f.visser3 Read all about Ken Wilber: http://www.worldofkenwilber.com xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx