Will we get out of this mess or just do triage?

With the mess that the American political scene is now, the right devolving and/or become a total lapdog for the top 2%, and the left co-opted or scattered and dissipated, we need an Integral leadership in policy now, fairly urgently I'd say, but it must not only transcend but include (of course) the full healthy green meme, which is more communitarian and has been fought tenaciously for 30 years (really 40, since its major emergence).

Any integral political leader will have to understand that there are large numbers of blue and orange many of whom are not interested in growing/transforming (or even translating their good values horizontally to culture and society), the "free" market having produced its share of decadent greedy and un-civic minded hedonists (we saw them wreck the world economy in the casino-financial sector enables step-by-step through Rs & Ds since the 80s and the S&L crisis.) We have to manifest green planetary care and communitarian planet-wide embrace before we can get stably to 2nd tier planetary entrepreneurship. And I think there should be a new structure to replace the corporation that is more holistic and connected to the biosphere and the care-o-sphere and the noosphere.

Another half-baked offering for the folks

It surprised me when I read in a fairly recent dialogue between Ken Wilber and Andrew Cohen that Cohen was surprised and disappointed by the notion that THIS "something" (The Universe) (manifestation and Evolution) is Spirit's non-purposeful game of hide-and-seek with IT(SELF), a Kosmic Joke, but a "serious" one. It seemed to surprise him and, I felt, disappoint him (he even said so, or words to that effect, if I recall correctly). It's an ancient idea, though. I got it from Alan Watts who got it from Vedanta and/or Mahayana Buddhism et al, and I got it through my own experiences, although Watts didn't get into development/Evolution, which is a novel Integral idea/discovery (though Sri Aurobindo was pre-Watts, so ??)

Anyway, this doesn't mean we aren't to try to help the game along, but I, too, am guilty of getting into the collective ego that Cohen "despises" so much in individuals, or, I should say, demands it not be indulged a whit. I get into it with my anger at the way things are going. I accept my anger. But as Wilber puts it, are we not "to love until it hurts" (there is profundity and room for debate perhaps in this), and does not each higher, deeper, wider, bigger, more inclusive holon carry with it an imperative to care and help even more in compassionate service and Love?

Turn the circle into a Spiral, but don't forget the timeless already-perfection of the Empty Mirror. O to stop going in circles and rest at the Still Point of The Turning Universe.

From here to here in "3/5 of a mile in 10 seconds"

Pres. Obama's remarks inpraiseof teacher of the year and Dr. Height both were modern - emphasized individual goals for success in a pregiven culture/society. Postmodern values inderdependence/integral aware
postmodernism values interdependence with strong retention of unique individual creativity and innnovation. Integral coordinates them with love and care in the service of greater manifest love and light beyond categorization - the Blessed Brilliance of LoveLightLife!!

EARTH DAY

more jottings:

amber - central control "religionism" feudalism, statism (Communism, Fascism) -

orange - corporate homogenization and mergers countered by state power to regulate - glorification of the individual - rational planning valued but "liberty" valued more.

green - rational planning highly valued for the common good but not central control - decentralized networks with healthy neo-organic, interdependent - undervalued leadership and control agencies - ideally leadership and control agencies are near the Integral second tier teal.

green/teal can see the holons and understand the win-wins. and implement them through rational and trans-rational persuasion ?

observation of the day

These wacked-out far right paranoid militia groups saying socialist Obama is coming for their children (and their guns, of course) are at the warrior-ego-blood-ties-kin definitely ethnocentric-racist red level - wayyy down there - and then there are ambers and oranges expoiting their fears.

jottings

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."

subject object fuse transcend leave alone

Tripping or being high with someone whether through drugs (psychoactive, meaning thc or psychedelics) or just incorporating this new level or element into your space is intersubjective exchage. Objective reality (the objective half) still remains, but now one realizes that subjectivity is always a component. This is the postmodern advance. Becoming in thrall to subjectivity and denying objectivity (in the famous case of "The Secret" - "you create your reality" - is fallacious nd ultimately psychotic. But adding it and then snergyzing it with the objective while always being aware that there is but ONE reality is exilhirating and awakening, and you get a neo-objectivity, Big Mind which plays and displays both subjective and objective, as I said in a new Objective-PLUS, - that's Integral or approaching it. OR PERhaps just healthy postmodern.

More to come....