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Title: Integral Philosophy


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Integral Philosophy
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AQAL
  • A-Q-A-L (pronounced ahqwul) means all quadrants,
    all levels, all lines, all states, all types.

3
Integral Philosophy
  • Integral Philosophy tries to include the insights
    of ancient and modern, east and west, masculine
    and feminine, rational and empirical, scientific
    and spiritual.

4
A Map of Reality
  • Integral Philosophy tries to include as much
    truth as possible, in as universal a way as seems
    practical, and organize it all so that we have as
    accurate and beautiful map of reality as we need
    and can use.

5
California Institute of Integral Studies
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Integral Life Practice
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Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950)
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Integral Yoga
  • Integral Yoga is complex, but simply put, it
    allows people to combine different yogas into
    their life in a way that promotes and accelerates
    growth as cross training.

9
Ken Wilber (1949-)
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An Integral Approach
  • Wilber tried to combine the experiential and the
    intellectual in a way that I find inspiring and
    illuminating.

11
Grace and Grit
  • These years with Treya were the years his heart
    opened

12
The Collected Works
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Global Knowledge
  • Integral Philosophy was not really possible
    before this generation.

14
Integral Territory
  • The Integral territory includes at least four
    areas and three features. We all experience
    subjective realities, collective realities, and
    objective realities. We also experience different
    states, levels, lines and types.

15
States of Consciousness
  • States of consciousness has to do with subjective
    realities. We experience them inside ourselves,
    inside our own experience.

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States and Stages
  • Wilber Where states of consciousness are
    temporary, stages of consciousness are permanent.
    Stages represent the actual milestones of growth
    and development. Once you are at a stage, it is
    an enduring acquisition.

17
States Training
  • States training facilitates and accelerates stage
    development.

18
Stages of Development
  • A stage or level of development means a new level
    of organization and complexity. We see stages in
    all sorts of things from nature to cultures.

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Spiral Dynamics
  • Wilber tends to use 8 to 10 stages. His favorite
    model is the one that uses colors to illustrate
    each stage, and is called Spiral Dynamics.

20
Moral Development
  • Moral development tends to move from me
    (egocentric) to us (ethnocentric) to all of
    us (worldcentric)--a good example of the
    unfolding stages of consciousness.

21
AQAL IOS
  • AQAL is also referred to as IOS, the Integral
    Operating System. Whenever you use IOS, you will
    automatically be prompted to check and see if you
    have included the important stage aspects of any
    situation, which will dramatically increase your
    likelihood of success

22
Contact Information
  • John Provost
  • 831-402-7374
  • jprovost40_at_comcast.net

23
Lines of Development
  • Why do we also call them developmental lines?
    Because those intelligences show growth and
    development. They unfold in progressive stages.
    What are those progressive stages? The stages we
    just outlined.

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Integral Psychograph
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Uneven Development
  • More than one leader, spiritual teacher, or
    politician has spectacularly crashed through lack
    of an understanding of these simple realities.

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Integrally Informed
  • Thus, to be integrally informed does not mean
    you have to master all lines of development, just
    be aware of them.

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States and Stages
  • In short, you cannot skip actual stages, but you
    can accelerate your growth through them by using
    various types of state-practices, such as
    meditation, and those transformative practices
    are an important part of the Integral Approach.

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Types Masculine and Feminine
  • Carol Gilligan strongly agreed that women, like
    men, develop through those 3 or 4 major
    hierarchical stages of growth. Gilligan herself
    correctly refers to these stages as hierarchical
    because each stage has a higher capacity for care
    and compassion.

29
Ethics
  • Gilligan says that boys will therefore hurt
    feelings in order to save the rules the girls
    will break the rules in order to save the
    feelings.

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Levels and Types
  • The important point here is that, according to
    the traditions, each of those 7 levels has a
    masculine and feminine aspect, type, or voice.
    Neither masculine nor feminine is higher or
    better they are two equivalent types at each of
    those levels of consciousness.

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Unhealthy Types
  • The unhealthy masculine principle does not
    transcend in freedom, but dominates in fear.

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Unhealthy Types
  • The unhealthy masculine principle does not
    transcend in freedom, but dominates in fear.
  • The unhealthy feminine principle does not find
    fullness in connection, but chaos in fusion.

33
States and Bodies
  • 3 Bodies? Perhaps not to be taken literally! For
    the wisdom traditions, a body simply means a
    mode of experience or energetic feeling.

34
Integrally Informed
  • The important point about the Integral Approach
    is that we want to touch bases with as many
    potentials as possible so as to miss nothing in
    terms of possible solutions, growth and
    transformation.

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Contact Information
  • John Provost
  • 831-402-7374
  • jprovost40_at_comcast.net

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Consciousness and Complexity
  • Every level of interior consciousness is
    accompanied by a level of exterior physical
    complexity. The greater the consciousness, the
    more complex the system housing it.

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Connections
  • Discovering the profound patterns that connect
    is a major accomplishment of the Integral
    Approach.

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Three Perspectives
  • The subjective, collective, and objective
    mentioned in the introduction is the beginning of
    understanding the quadrants.

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The True, the Good, and the Beautiful!
  • The third person (or it) refers to objective
    truth, which is best investigated by science. The
    2nd person (or You/we) refers to Goodness, or
    the ways that we--that you and I--treat each
    other, and whether we do so with decency,
    honesty, and respect.

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The True, the Good, and the Beautiful!
  • First person deals with the I, with self and
    self-expression, art and aesthetics, and the
    beauty that is in the eye (or the I) of the
    beholder.

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The Four Quadrants
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Different Views
  • They are different views of the same occasion,
    namely you. The problems start when you try to
    deny or dismiss either of those perspectives. All
    4 quadrants need to be included in any integral
    view.

43
The Four Quadrants
  • Again, the quadrants are simply the inside and
    the outside of the individual and the collective,
    and the point is that all 4 quadrants need to be
    included if we want to be as integral as
    possible.

44
Quadrants Grow and Develop
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An Evolutionary Model
  • Again, for this simple overview, details are not
    important as a general grasp of the unfolding or
    flowering nature of all 4 quadrants, which can
    include expanding spheres of consciousness, care,
    culture, and nature. In short, the I and the we
    and it can evolve. Self and culture and nature
    can all develop and evolve.

46
Complicated?
  • The complexity of humans and their relation to
    the universe can be simplified by touching bases
    with the quadrants (the fact that every event can
    be looked at as an I, we, or it) developmental
    lines (or multiple intelligences), all of which
    move through developmental levels with states
    and types at each of those levels.

47
AQAL
  • The Integral Approach involves the cultivation
    of body, mind, and spirit in self, culture, and
    nature. The simplest version of this is shown in
    figure 6, and if you have a general understanding
    of that diagram, the rest is fairly easy!

48
Integral Medicine
  • The integral model does not claim the
    Upper-Right quadrant is not important, only that
    it is, as it were, only one-fourth of the story.

49
Culture and Illness
  • How a culture (LL) views a particular
    illness--with care and compassion or derision and
    scorn--can have a profound impact on how an
    individual copes with that illness (UL), which
    can directly affect the course of the physical
    illness itself (UR).

50
AQAL Medicine
  • In short, a truly effective and comprehensive
    medical plan would be all-quadrant, all-level
    the idea is simply that each quadrant or
    dimension--I, we, and it--has physical,
    emotional, mental, and spiritual levels or waves,
    and a truly integral treatment would take all of
    these realities into account.

51
Integral Spirituality
  • The major implication of an AQAL approach to
    spirituality is that physical, emotional, mental,
    and spiritual levels of being should be
    simultaneously exercised in self, culture and
    nature.

52
Integral Ecology
  • Exterior environmental sustainability is clearly
    needed but without a growth and development in
    the interior domains to worldcentric levels of
    values and consciousness, the environment remains
    gravely at risk. Self, culture, and nature must
    be liberated together or not at all.

53
Integral Life Practice (ILP)
  • 3 levels in 4 quadrants actually gives you 12
    zones. Integral Life practice has created
    practical exercises for growth in all 12 zones, a
    radically unique and historically unprecedented
    approach to growth, development, and awakening.

54
An Integral Map
  • The Integral Map itself says this map is just a
    3rd-person map, so dont forget the other
    important realities, all of which should be
    included in any comprehensive approach.

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A Neutral Framework
  • IOS is a neutral framework it does not tell you
    what to think, or force any ideologies on you, or
    coerce your awareness in any fashion.

56
Integral Communication
  • Perhaps most important of all, because IOS can
    be used by any discipline--from medicine to art
    to business to spirituality to politics to
    ecology--then we can, for the first time in
    history, begin an extensive and fruitful dialogue
    between all of these disciplines.

57
The True, the Good, and the Beautiful
  • As your own capacity for Truth and Goodness and
    Beauty deepens and expands you will come to
    recognize that you have an ever-greater
    consciousness with an ever-wider embrace, which
    is realized in self, embodied in nature, and
    expressed in culture.

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Integral Life Practice
  • The goal of an ILP is to exercise, in my life,
    all the aspects of an Integral view, since those
    are, in fact, aspects or dimensions of my own
    being-in-the-world. How could I practice a full
    me?

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The Basic Rule
  • The basic rule is simple pick one practice from
    each module and exercise them concurrently. This
    transformational cross-training accelerates
    growth, increases the likelihood of healthy
    development, and vastly deepens ones capacity
    for transformational living.

60
Cognitive Work
  • Since the cognitive line is necessary but not
    sufficient for all of the other major lines, the
    more integral and inclusive your cognitive
    framework, the more complete and fulfilling your
    life can become.

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Spiritual Work
  • While spiritual can mean different things
    depending on context, for ILP this is primarily
    training in meditative states. You can pick and
    choose among many methods, including
    contemplative prayer for those involved formally
    in religious life of one kind or another.

62
Shadow Work
  • Working with ones shadow, or the repressed
    unconscious, is an absolutely essential component
    of any transformational life practice.

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Physical Work
  • It is important to include the body in three
    basic ways aerobic (i.e. walk), strength
    training (i.e. weights), and flexibility training
    (i.e. stretching).
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