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An Integral Organizational Leadership Seminar
Q & A with Ken Wilber
Integral Leadership, non-Integral Leadership...does
it matter? In an ambitious, free-market economy— indeed, in all 1st tier
economies—where the size of your vision determines your attractiveness
as a leader, you bet it matters. In the cultural milieu of a workplace
that requires skillful means instead of coercion, yes absolutely. Within
an industrial\informational system that depends upon the profound depth
and span of human potential, it's quite likely you couldn't do any better....
So please enjoy a few catch-all, mindjazz Q & A clips with Ken
Wilber and friends from Integral Institute's first Integral
Organizational Leadership Seminar.
If a penniless man has a gravely ill wife, is it morally wrong for him to steal medicine and save her life? Your judgment will depend on both your moral and cognitive stages of development, with cognitive meaning "that which you are aware of." And the more cognitively developed you are, the more aware you are of Heaven—everpresent Spirit—as it informs every moral decision you make on Earth.
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Will it be Buddhism or Contemplative Christianity that transforms the West? Or perhaps another spiritual tradition? Either way, there are a few tests to pass first….
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If you hitch Buddha’s Enlightenment to quantum physics, and quantum physics becomes passé, what happens to Buddha’s Enlightenment? To your Enlightenment?
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Put simply, the AQAL model attracts men, lots of them––at first. However, much like the World Wide Web before it, whose first users were 95% male, only to become 54% female today, the tide is changing….
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Ever imagine what sexuality looks like at different levels of consciousness? Or the relationship between sexuality (life), bliss (light) and Awakening (Emptiness)? Here's a hint: Eros.
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As an integrally informed businessman, what does it mean to create a product, then advertise and market it for your target audience? Or for as many customers as possible? Here's your toolkit: AQAL Theory, Spiral Dynamics and intentional choice....
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What does education look like in today’s universities? Lots of “specialist” disciplines, which is fine, but not without consequences, as Ken notes: “We’ll always need specialists. The sad thing is that people getting a specialist education are taught that all the other disciplines are irrelevant. They’re asked to fracture their soul into a hundred pieces, eradicate 99 of those pieces, and congratulate themselves on getting a diploma. That’s education in today’s world.”
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Three civilizations, three levels of development, and one shared mindset: everyone else is wrong. Such is the tinder in the inferno of suffering that is the Middle East today…. |
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Both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. staged relatively successful nonviolent protests in British/American societies with orange centers of gravity—which, to use Spiral Dynamics, means societies with modern, worldcentric views. But if they had marched in racist, ethnocentric Nazi Germany, would the effects of their protests have been different?
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There are three strands of deep science—injunction, apprehension, and confirmation—that give us a reliable methodology for learning about both the world without and the world within. Want to know what the moons of Jupiter look like? Look through a telescope. Want to know what satori is? Sit down and count your breaths. While you’re at it, have a couple friends do the same thing, and then compare notes. After all, if your experience of satori involves becoming one with a jelly donut, you, um, might want to see if that happened to anyone else....
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The higher we grow, the more that can go wrong. Every time we fail to fully integrate a level of development, a little part of ourselves splits off and remains fixated at that level, rearing its head at the most inopportune moments. We may cognitively have the capacity to exist at higher levels, but we're not living up to that potential. So there are 2 kinds of health: vertical and horizontal. Vertically, we integrate all the levels within us. Horizontally, we integrate the perspectives (or quadrants) at any one level. To realize our greatest potential depends upon integrating this entire matrix of health....
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