From: Integral World [newsletter@integralworld.net]
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Subject: [personal] Putting Integral into Perspective

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Newsletter Nr. 201
Amsterdam, July 1, 2007

WILBER WATCH BLOG: "Integral Politics"
http://wilberwatch.blogspot.com/


PUTTING INTEGRAL INTO PERSPECTIVE AND PEOPLE OUT OF INTEGRAL - Christoph Schaub

We relate to people according to the perspective we hold, which, in turn, informs us how 
we relate to them. In other words, we relate to others according to our own understanding 
and conception of self. Take, for instance, the integral map of consciousness, as articulated 
by Ken Wilber. Like all maps, his too is a tool for orientation; it is a construct that allows 
us to see the world in a so-called integral way...

With the exception of a very few, the integral map is used by most people to prop up their own 
self. It is used to assess others, as if we would actually consists of quadrants, levels, lines, 
stages and types, which are all concepts of the mind. They pertain to a virtual reality, which 
is not to be confused with the reality of “I & Thou;” the reality of relating, where meeting 
happens and life is disclosed in “what is.” 

Read more:
http://www.integralworld.net/schaub.html


06/29/07: The German translation by HaPe Lin of Jeff Meyerhoff's Introduction to Bald Ambition 
has been added to the German Section.


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