Feature Articles / August-November 2013
Gerard Bruitzman
God became man so that man might become God.
– Saint Athanasius, Saint Augustine, Saint Cyril of
Alexandria, Meister Eckhart, Jacob Boehme, and many
others (W Perry, 2008, p. 23)You see yourself as the drop in the ocean, but you are also the ocean in the drop.
– Rumi (online)
I have lived for nearly sixty years now. I remember the Roman Catholic Church in my early childhood before the Second Vatican Council …
Feature Articles / August-November 2013
Brian McConnell
Abstract: Identified as a facet of psychosocial experience in something Ken Wilber has termed dissociation, this article looks at similarly related phenomenology as recounted by various others in apportioning its pathological effects across a broad swath of global consciousness. Advocating contemplative practice as a mode for translating theory to application, the article also shows how urban practitioners are initiating communities (CoP) to localize socioeconomic innovation.
Calling for an adoption of contemplative practice, …
Notes from the Field / August-November 2013
Eric Reynolds
Introduction
Integral Theory, as I understand it, is a developmental framework for integrating all kinds of knowledge. It is a transdisciplinary space, a sort of memetic scaffolding where the complex, emergent reality that IS can be mapped, navigated, and ultimately consciously co-created by interested parties coming from a multitude of different perspectives. In other words, Integral Theory as proposed by Ken Wilber is not just a theory, but also an integration of living perspectives, …
Feature Articles / August-November 2013
Giorgio Piacenza Cabrera
Introduction
Father Anthony de Mello SJ is considered one of the foremost mystical theologians of the late Twentieth Century. His simple and direct approach to life continues to untie all kinds of blockages preventing man’s acceptance of his spiritual nature, even decades after his unexpected death. De Mello’s radiated authenticity, love for all and his characteristic laughter tended to disarm any negative preconceived notions against his ideas. As far as my research goes, …
Column / August-November 2013
Lisa Norton
“Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.”
– Robert L. Peters in Berman
Design thinking methods and approaches are gaining credibility in mainstream corporate, nonprofit and educational contexts. But what exactly is design thinking and how can it serve integrally informed change work? As with any left quadrant form of expertise, design methods may appear idiosyncratic or ‘fuzzy’ until we find ways to translate efficacies into right-hand quadrant measures of real …
Feature Articles / August-November 2013
Marika Ronthy
We need a new understanding of what leadership is all about and the skills that must be developed to meet the requirements of a new world. We also need dynamic tools for development and transformation.
Why do we need a new understanding? Why do we need new methods and new tools? Why can leaders no longer do as they have always done? There are three simple answers: Firstly, we need a new understanding because …
Feature Articles / August-November 2013
Otto Laske
To memory of social critic Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979)
In this paper, I am taking a critical, socio-historical perspective on what is presented today as “factual” insight into the structure of the development of adults, both social-emotional and cognitive. I intend to show that the scientific construct of “adult development” is actually an affirmative codification of a historical situation that gradually came into existence through the demise of the uomo universale of the Renaissance. …