Integral Consciousness vs. Integral Philosophy
This is a great essay by Steve McIntosh that explains the difference between Integral Philosophy and Integral Consciousness.
Integral Visioning – Steve Mcintosh: What Is Integral Consciousness?
Integral consciousness is a way of seeing things — a perspective that arises from a new understanding of how evolution really works. Not just biological evolution, but the evolution of human awareness and human history. Integral consciousness comes about as people use the insights of integral philosophy to recognize how values and worldviews have arisen in sequential stages throughout history, and how these stages of development are alive today within the mind of each person.
Integral philosophy brings together systems science, developmental psychology, academic philosophy, and spirituality to provide a new understanding of human culture and the consciousness of individuals. Integral philosophy emerged throughout the course of the 20th century. Read more
WHAT IS INTEGRAL?
What is Integral?
by Kelley Sosan Bearer
The Integral map is a comprehensive approach to human growth and development, developed by philosopher Ken Wilber (Greg’s note: Ken had help from many others – some of these folks don’t completely agree with all of Wilber’s assertions and interpretations), that lays out all that the various world cultures have to tell us about human potential- spiritual growth, psychological growth, social and cultural growth. The Integral map uses all the known systems and models of human growth and distills their major components into five simple factors that are essential elements or keys to unlocking and facilitating human evolution.
So, why learn this map? By learning the Integral map, we are not merely learning a set of theoretical concepts, but rather aspects available in our very own awareness right now. And by exercising these elements, we can accelerate our growth and development to higher, wider, and deeper ways of being and serving in the world. Read more
