I have explored Ken's work for over 10 years now, amidst many other adventures. I find the integral approach to be something that has been already with me, along with a vision I had in 1995 of sitting at tables with the cutting edge folks of every field of human focus, in dialogue, heart contact, debate, etc. to really embrace on another's passions and perspectives, as well as sculpt off what is fat in the collective body so to speak in how to be oneself/ones Self/with others/Other.
I began making lists. I began studying different forms of sharing informations. I began exploring different spiritual traditions. I began diving into the psycho-emotional healing modalities to see how I could heal/cleanse/rewhole my lens to be a better man and vessel to live seemlessly with all the is, having fun, raising a family, and the like.
So after years of many different hats, professions, travels inside and out, I am finding myself at a crossroads, or new chapter.
One of my perceptions, and I am not yet sure if this is a false one, is that the addressing of one's shadow is higly underdeveloped in I-I. I find the 3-2-1 process is a good beginning for some exploration, but a bit simplistic. I have not yet found more depth there in true transformative psycho-emotional practice here. I find a lot of highly functional people, highly intelligent, awake, etc. But as far as emotionally mature, I think our current criteria for what that is and entails is still new frontier. And as spiral dynamics speaks to, underdevelopment in any given area affects the lens through which a stabalized state is accessed and expressed through. What are your thoughts/experiences with this?
My other question I am sitting with at the moment, is around leadership and the Gen X and Y folks, which I am a part of; How does an integral leader, lead individuals and groups that are not of integral ilk yet, but that have more financial power and prowess, respecting their perspectives without arrogantly pushing their more evolved space and consciousness choices onto the underdeveloped life choices/desires?
Simply, how does an integralist lead and live with those of non-integral perceptions and desires? Live by example yes, respond from this place of experience and knowing, deeply feel and see the 'other'. But how does the Integralist and the KKK member meet? If I am understanding this right, 2/3 tier sees the value of each and how they each support and need one another, and leads/lives from that place.
How does the more essential hierarchy, that an integralist experiences, get integrated into a system where the majority of those involved do not sense and live with the reality of that hierachy? This speaks to how God Evolves in Itself, and the challenges of that especially through us.
If you are 35 and under... do you have a thriving community of integral/zaadz-like Stuart's and Vid's with their accompany feminine goddesses to share and reflect with one another?
Where is talk of the integral Family? What does integral in the home feel like for you?
The other piece I am sitting with is the pressing requirement, imo, of leaders of all kinds having a new bar to meet in being integrous/responsible (and needing to somehow pass tests that they have proved to be responsible for) of their shadow, and still not seeing adaquate means/criteria there. Without a new developed criteria for what emotional health is, feels like, looks like, etc, besides the maslowian structures, ego developmental lists, and functionality as the bar, I feel we will continue to run into the subtle and gross levels of walls that Transcendentalized, Awakened, and Hedonists alike have internally. And these walls will continue to perpetuate a myth of the Ego and its shadow as the bain to Evolution, rather than its saving grace.
warmly interested in your theelings (thoughts and feelings),
Eric
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PS. If none of this makes sense, forgive me, its early in the am.