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I have to confess I'm only 1/3 of the way through McIntosh's INTEGRAL CONSCIOUSNES; I'm slowly absorbing it. I'm also re-reading Ken Wilber's afterward "Postmetaphysics" in INTEGRAL SPIRITUALITY, after having heard it bandied around in an audio discussion yesterday. So stay tuned for better, clearer post, I hope - anyway - voila -

Postmodernism paints much on the monovisioned orange and amber levels as "phony" - ego roles that are unaware of deeper subjectivity and of intersubjectivity hardly at all - in other words, ego-trips parading as authentic people. Peoplke in linear roles - asleep. This goes back to the somewhat retro-romantic "infected" beginnings of the post-modern in the late forties and fifties with the beats, the drop-outs, the avant-garde artists and new leftists= the hi community in the late 60s - fully contextual - large minority attaining integral and above consciousness for peak periods many lasting for years due to a temporary supportive countercuture. There was a lot of "beat zen" and Alan Watts influenced flow/flex going with the flow


read Ken Wilber, "Integral Spirituality," esp. the afterward - re Beyond Metaphysics" & Steve McIntosh, "Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution."