English translation of the presentation on Ken Wilber’s Integral framework I created and gave in April 2009 for the top-management of one large Moscow company (upon a friendly request from its owners).
9. 5 basic factors
Tracking them allows you to:
• Take into account what’s needed
• Fully realize
– your own potential
– the potential of your activities
11. Quadrants
Basic perspectives on
• a human being
• any issue
Main pronouns:
1st person — “I”
2nd person — “You” (“Thou”) *
3rd person singular — “It”
3rd person plural — “Its”
* In the dialogue of “I” + “Thou” the miracle
of “We” emerges that is based on mutual
understanding
28. Upper-Left Quadrant
• I, the cognizing subject
• My direct experiences,
feelings, thoughts
• Meaning or depth that I find in
my activities
CONSCIOUSNESS
Validity claim:
• subjective truthfulness (honesty,
sincerity)
Example of a methodology:
• introspection
29. Upper-Right Quadrant
• It, the cognized object
• Objective organism
• Objectively measurable:
• behavior
• neural activation
• hormones
MATERIAL OBJECT
Validity claim:
• objective truth
Example of a methodology:
• biology, physiology
30. Lower-Left Quadrant
• We, cultural context
• Interpersonal communication
• Worldview shared in the
group
• Group values
• Corporate ethics
CULTURE
Validity claim:
• intersubjective justness
Example of methodology:
• hermeneutics
31. Lower-Right Quadrant
• Its, interobjective connections
• Techno-economic mode of
production
• Environment, ecosystems
SOCIAL SYSTEM
Validity claims:
• functional fit
Example of methodology:
• systems theory
33. Evolution
• Evolution manifests in all quadrants.
• Each new level of development transcends but includes the previous one: from
matter to life to mind to soul to Spirit; from physics to psychology to theology to
mysticism.
34. Upper-Left (“I”)
• Evolution of individual consciousness.
• Development of cognitive capacities:
• preoperational cognition
• concrete operational cognition
• formal operational cognition
• postformal cognition (vision logic)
35. Upper-Right (“It”)
• Evolution of objective organism.
• Evolutionary stages of the brain*:
• reptile brain: brain stem
• instinctual behavior
• basic survival programs
• mammalian brain: limbic system
• affective reactions
• emotional responses
• “language of feelings”
• human brain: neocortex
• thinking
• rationality
• verbal language
* The Triune Brain theory (McLean)
36. Lower-Left (“We”)
• Cultural evolution.
• Progress of worldviews:
• egocentrism
• narcissism (the world as extension of
me)
• early childhood
• ethnocentrism
• nationalism (perspective of only my
group of people)
• fascism
• fundamentalism
• worldcentrism
• cosmopolitism (perspectives of all
groups of people in the world)
• global ecological consciousness
37. Lower-Right (“Its”)
• Evolution of social systems
and technologies.
• Techno-economic mode of
production:
• foraging
• horticultural
• agrarian
• industrial
• informational
39. Upper-Left (“I”)
• Theory of multiple intelligences
(H. Gardner)
• Lines of development of:
• cognition (J. Piaget)
• psychosexual (S. Freud)
• emotional intelligence (D. Goleman)
• hierarchy of needs (A. Maslow)
• values (C. Graves, Spiral Dynamics)
• self or ego development (S. Cook-
Greuter)
• moral development (L. Kohlberg)
• and so on
40. Lower-Right (“Its”)
• Lines of development:
• techno-economic mode of
production
• geopolitical structures
• evolution of social systems
/ ecosystems
41. Upper-Right (“It”)
• Lines of development:
• biological growth
• neurophysiological development
• evolution of behavior
42. Lower-Left (“We”)
• Lines of development:
• cultural worldviews
• shared values
• mutual understanding
• group identity