An Introduction to the Revolutionary Integral Approach to Life, God, the Universe, and Everything.
In these last Thirty years, we have witnessed a unique fact in the history of humanity: today we have access to all the cultures of the world. In the past, if you had been born, for example, in China, you would probably have had to spend your whole life in the same culture, often in the same province, sometimes in the same house, living, loving and dying on the same small plot of land. . But today, not only do people move around geographically, they can study, and indeed do study, virtually every known culture that exists on the planet. In the global village, cultures are exposed to each other.
Knowledge itself is now global. This means that, also for the first time, the sum total of human knowledge is at our disposal today – the knowledge, experience, wisdom and reflection of all the great human civilizations, pre-modern, modern and post-modern – to be studied by any interested person.
What would happen if we took integrally everything that different cultures have to say about human potential – about spiritual development, psychological development and social development – and put it on the table? What if we tried to find the really essential keys to human development, based on the sum total of human knowledge that we have at our disposal today? What if we tried, on the basis of extensive cross-cultural studies, to make use of all the great traditions of the world to create a complete and inclusive map, an all-encompassing or integral map, that would encompass the best elements of each one?
Sound complicated, complex, scary? And, in a sense, it is all of that. But on the other hand, the results are surprisingly simple and clear. In the last decades, there has indeed been a wide search for a map that is able to encompass human potentials. This map takes into account all known systems and models of human development – from the Shamans and Sages of old to today’s great discoveries in cognitive science – and breaks down their main components into five simple factors, which are essential or key elements. that unlock and drive human evolution.
Welcome to Integral Approach
Source: Ken Wilber – The Integral View