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The most influential modern pioneers in Integral Transformative Practice, Mike Murphy and George Leonard, continue their landmark discussion on the history, evolution, and pragmatic application of the most effective approach to human transformation known to date.
In this dialogue, Mike, George, and Ken discuss how ITP has evolved over the past forty years into a deeper expression of the integral impulse that has been its lifeblood from day one. The essential idea of ITP is that the more human capacities one exercises simultaneously, the more rapid is human transformation. Think of it as spiritual cross-training: the exercise of body, mind, soul, and spirit in self, culture, and nature.
Mike recalls how the sixties were a kind of "Cambrian explosion" of human growth technologies. At one point he and several others had catalogued over 200 different approaches to transformation, and within those approaches about 10,000 separate techniques. At no other time in history did humanity have access to so many perspectives on human growth. It was a pluralistic celebration like nothing we had ever seen before, and wonderfully so. But lest the human drown in too much information, we must place these technologies into a navigable framework.
One of the most crucial components of an integral framework is an understanding of the relationship between states and stages. A person at any stage of development (magic, mythic, mental, etc) can have profound spiritual state experiences (nature mysticism, deity mysticism, causal formlessness, or nondual One Taste), but the individual will interpret those experiences through the lense of their current developmental stage. Furthermore, research has shown that repeated state experiences help "grease" the spiral of development, and therefore help people move more quickly through stages. The higher your stage of development, the more those temporary states become permanent traits in your own heart and mind.
Important as they are, states and stages are only one part of an integral model, and one part of this discussion. For a more comprehensive understanding of ITP, feel free to check out Part 1 of this trialogue, and stay tuned to Integral Naked for complete coverage of this ongoing conversation.... |
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transmission time: 24 minutes |
Esalen, The Future of the Body, human potential movement, James Mark Baldwin, Fritz Perls, evolutionary nondualism, Aldous Huxley, Abraham Maslow, Alan Watts, Dick Price, Sri Aurobindo, the Ford Foundation, George Brown, complementary education, psychic karate, civil rights movement, "What Is Integral?," techno-economic mode (foraging, horticultural, agrarian, industrial, informational), Jean Gebser (archaic, magic, mythic, mental, integral-aperspectival), race relations, ecology, states and stages, Jane Loevinger, Susann Cook-Greuter, Roger Walsh, A Theory of Everything.
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most memorable moment: "There was a coming to view within a single framework this wide range of approaches: somatic, physical, interpersonal, psychodynamic, mental, spiritual, and then out of that came the impulse to find order, relationship, and comprehensive practices." |
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