Thou art That
My old touchstones:
"Inside is Outside"
"Make it New"
"All is One; One is All"
"It's an Open Book"
"Everything is Everything"
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I'm watching Milos Forman's "Hair" (1979) on TCM
It's 3:43 AM June 2, 2008. I'll be 58 in 30 hours.
Ken Wilber has said that the 60's hippies emphasized "feeling" over "consciousness" - true, a lot of them (us) did, but the body had to be re-contacted and re-integrated from the trauma (pathology) of the European dissociation of mind/body that occurred during the 16th-18th century enlightenment (instead of the healthy differentiation that was necessary progressively, evolutionarily, transformationally. So, the mistake many made was regressing back to pre-rational body only, not a new synergy of recontacted body and higher mind, what Da Free John calls "feeling-attention". But some of us did understand, and did transform. I had a sexual block, a 2nd chakra block, with a lot of fear there from trauma at around 2 years old (that I can't remember [something about not being touched enough, so consequently not loving my body, plus my self-judgments about being gay that I picked up from the culture at an early age [around 6 yrs. old] from the culture). Nevertheless, I was in tune with Leary, Ram Dass, de Chardin, Joseph Chilton Pearce, McCluan (that's another mixed bag).
The Integral idealism of the late 60s higher culture as evidenced through those people and the Love-Ins in San Francisco was unfortunately replaced with the decadence of the 70s, postmodern and creative as it was (e.g. David Bowie).
The New Age Movement came into being, with its mixed bag - some right-on parts that did not confuse pre- and trans-ratonal, but were decidely trans-rational, and some that confused pre- and trans-rational in a mess.
The postmodern era of the 70s ushered in so many advances, the 2nd feminist movement, the gay rights movement, the environmental movement, Planetcentric consciousness, (Kosmocentric Consciousness had flowered in the late 60s and still survived in the healthy New Age movements of the time), and tthe indigineous peoples' movements (there were some pre-trans confustions there, but, nevertheless) this was multiculturalism and pluralism in contrast to monoculture, a great advance; the error was that it was a relative pluralism that denied hierarchy, more properly characterized as holarchy, which denies depth, levels, development, and loving judgment (not based on race, sex, sexual orientation, creed), but on he holorachal "chain'' of being and development, all in a matrix of unconditional LOVE.
Monday, June 2, 2008
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Andrew Cohen - Stumbling around but not upon articulateness
Sorry, but after listening to Andrew Cohen during the six hour "EnlightenNext" webcast on Sat. May 31 '08, including around an hour dialog with Ken, I have to say that he uses the words "stumble upon" very often, and I'd say, in my opinion very appropriately (and, I'd venture to say unconsciously self-referentially) for his thought processes. His loquacity and verbosity (talking on and on and on, going in circles, repeating the same ideas over and over without progressing the dialog), seem rather narcissistic and are certainly tiring to listen to. And I'm not hearing anything I haven't known for at least 25 years, or that is borrowed from Ken.
In contrast, when you listen to Ken, you almost always hear something fresh or at least a fresh reformulation of leading edge thinking about the transpersonal and Integral realms.
I hope someday to work at/for the Integral Institute. I know Andrew Cohen "gets it", and I'm not calling him inauthentic, insincere, false or unaware, but his verbal style is maddening to me.
I also happen to think that Ken Wilber is miles ahead of Cohen.
My opinion may not be popular with the folks at I-I, but I know there's room for disagreement and varied opinion there.
I consider Cohen to be a student to Wilber, from what I've heard. I certainly wouldn't put him in the category of guru or teacher.
Anyway, while acknowledging that I have a bit of jealousy (of Cohen) and resentment (that I've had Integral realizations for 20 years, and haven't achieved much important work in the field), I want to end this piece on a positive note, and say that I'm hoping to solve my health problems and financial poverty and get to work on areas of Integral AQAL studies that interest me now, specifically - what is/are the green SOCIAL "business", i.e. DISTRIBUTION OF RESOURCES/ECONOMIC STRUCTURE(s) - what is/are the teal SOCIAL "business", i.e. DISTRIBUTION OF RESOURCES/ECONOMIC STRUCTURE(s) -
Ken said it takes a spiritual community to realize an Integral realization for individuals - well, that was the "pie-in-the-sky" commune that I wanted to live in since the 70s. Dennis called it "pie-in-the-sky", but I agree with Ken. I needed it. I had issues with fear and major blockages and shadow/projection with my 2nd chakra.
"It's an open book", as I used to say.
"It can be very, very hard on people are moving at this leading Integral edge", says KW. Listen to the enlighten_053108_AC-KW" mp3 file.
I think what Cohen (one thing at least) he was trying to say is that it can be hard for people who have awakened to 2nd tier Integral consciousness to return and work and live in a 1st tier world which surrounds them - Ken replied that they need a spiritual community - but there aren't many.
link -
In contrast, when you listen to Ken, you almost always hear something fresh or at least a fresh reformulation of leading edge thinking about the transpersonal and Integral realms.
I hope someday to work at/for the Integral Institute. I know Andrew Cohen "gets it", and I'm not calling him inauthentic, insincere, false or unaware, but his verbal style is maddening to me.
I also happen to think that Ken Wilber is miles ahead of Cohen.
My opinion may not be popular with the folks at I-I, but I know there's room for disagreement and varied opinion there.
I consider Cohen to be a student to Wilber, from what I've heard. I certainly wouldn't put him in the category of guru or teacher.
Anyway, while acknowledging that I have a bit of jealousy (of Cohen) and resentment (that I've had Integral realizations for 20 years, and haven't achieved much important work in the field), I want to end this piece on a positive note, and say that I'm hoping to solve my health problems and financial poverty and get to work on areas of Integral AQAL studies that interest me now, specifically - what is/are the green SOCIAL "business", i.e. DISTRIBUTION OF RESOURCES/ECONOMIC STRUCTURE(s) - what is/are the teal SOCIAL "business", i.e. DISTRIBUTION OF RESOURCES/ECONOMIC STRUCTURE(s) -
Ken said it takes a spiritual community to realize an Integral realization for individuals - well, that was the "pie-in-the-sky" commune that I wanted to live in since the 70s. Dennis called it "pie-in-the-sky", but I agree with Ken. I needed it. I had issues with fear and major blockages and shadow/projection with my 2nd chakra.
"It's an open book", as I used to say.
"It can be very, very hard on people are moving at this leading Integral edge", says KW. Listen to the enlighten_053108_AC-KW" mp3 file.
I think what Cohen (one thing at least) he was trying to say is that it can be hard for people who have awakened to 2nd tier Integral consciousness to return and work and live in a 1st tier world which surrounds them - Ken replied that they need a spiritual community - but there aren't many.
link -
New green level lover right quadrant structures
In one or more of his books (and I'll insert title and page no., when I find it, or else an image of the chart, Ken Wilber has an AQAL (four quandrant) chart that shows the evolution in the LR quadrant that goes from corporate structure to intentional communities. I don't know if he's abandoned that scheme, but it makes sense to me, as I visoned it with the help of the INTEGRAL hippie/new age movement in the late 60s/70s. I still am searching for new structures (economic and transactionary, i.e. relating to the distribution of goods and services) to replace (transform from) corporate from amber to green.
What is "post-corporate" "Business" I would say trans-corporate business, but I happen to agree with the critique of corporations in the book and DVD, "The Corporation" - see the DVD and the book. Notice the word "pathological" in the title(s.) I suppose one could say that (see below) corporations became pathological - expressions of pathological orange, driven by greedy red pathological pursuits of profit and power", rather than rational orange organizations accepting and enjoying their responsibilities to their workers and their communities.
I used to have a vision of a world in which television (instant communications) (in the early 70s, I envisioned it as television and incipient video/computer connections) - now that has materialized as broadband A/V communication would connect Integral Intentional communities, each dedicated to different material, cultural, and/or social pursuits exchanging transformative information with each other on education, farming, the arts, finance, in a synergistic planetary web of care and concern all arising consciously in the infinite/eternal Ground (and Goal) of Being.
I never have seen the value of corporations. This is a postmodern area I feel stuck in, and have to do some research, as to what corporations advanced, and what their benefits to earlier systems were.
The mistake of giving corporations equal rights as individuals in the late 19th century has resulted in a corporate irresponsibility that has and continues to do untold damage to the planet and the non-elites of the planet.
What is "post-corporate" "Business" I would say trans-corporate business, but I happen to agree with the critique of corporations in the book and DVD, "The Corporation" - see the DVD and the book. Notice the word "pathological" in the title(s.) I suppose one could say that (see below) corporations became pathological - expressions of pathological orange, driven by greedy red pathological pursuits of profit and power", rather than rational orange organizations accepting and enjoying their responsibilities to their workers and their communities.
I used to have a vision of a world in which television (instant communications) (in the early 70s, I envisioned it as television and incipient video/computer connections) - now that has materialized as broadband A/V communication would connect Integral Intentional communities, each dedicated to different material, cultural, and/or social pursuits exchanging transformative information with each other on education, farming, the arts, finance, in a synergistic planetary web of care and concern all arising consciously in the infinite/eternal Ground (and Goal) of Being.
I never have seen the value of corporations. This is a postmodern area I feel stuck in, and have to do some research, as to what corporations advanced, and what their benefits to earlier systems were.
The mistake of giving corporations equal rights as individuals in the late 19th century has resulted in a corporate irresponsibility that has and continues to do untold damage to the planet and the non-elites of the planet.
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