Applying Integral Foresight
// January 5th, 2011 // Comments Off // Foresight, Opinion
Late last year I remembered that I was a member of the Shaping Tomorrow Ning group – the largest collection of futures orientated thinkers and actors in the world – and was responsible for the Integral Foresight group… very little activity I’m afraid to report. So, in a very unsuccessful effort to prompt some discussion I wrote the following post. Thought that since most of my posts on this site are automated, a little original content wouldn’t go astray;)
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I was prompted by Richard Slaughter to remember that I have some responsibility for this group, being the one to start it… I’m sure many of you would have if I hadn’t;) That said, I note the lack of discussion and thought I’d throw a hat in the ring and see if anyone bites…
Reporting from the front lines…. Any recent stories about Integral Futures?
* Explicit
* Implicit
* Sore lack of
* Natural emergence of
* Personal journeys…
For myself, I was visiting with Saniel Bonder, founder of Waking Down in Mutuality (and teacher at the Integral Spiritual Experience series), last month when he read out a great quote that emergently clarified where I am at with ‘Integral Futures,’ or more precisely Ken Wilber’s brand of integral theory. It is by Robert Godwin PhD, in his book “One Cosmos Under God:”
His [Ken Wilber's] work is a tremendous influence on my earlier intellectual development, and to a large extent one leaves his imposing corpus asking the question, “What’s left to say?” In order to have any thoughts of my own, I had to make him sort of an “unfluence,” even though no human who deserves the name should be unfamiliar with his work. [emphasis added]
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