1. Integral Trans-Partisan Politics (Ken Wilber)

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    Here Ken Wilber describes some of the main ingredients required for an integral approach to politics, suggesting a political model capable of drawing from and situating every major political philosophy and ideology in history. By understanding just a handful of dynamics… - interiorist vs. exteriorist (e.g. the American Right vs. the Left) - individualist vs. collectivist (e.g. Libertarian vs. Socialist) - stages of development (e.g. traditional/fundamentalist,…

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  2. Here Ken discusses the dangers of "one person, one vote" approaches to democracy. If we consider the fact that people grow through three major stages of development—ego-centric, ethno-centric, and world-centric—and then try to get a sense of where the majority of the people current exists, we find that nearly 70% of the world's population remains at an ethno-centric stage or lower. Democracy is inherently a world-centric system of governance, and…

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  3. Eleanor Roosevelt once said that "poor minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, and great minds discuss ideas." Integral minds, we might add, discuss all three. In the Integral Profiles series, we sit down with some of today's most notable thinkers, teachers, and leaders, discussing the many ways they are catalyzing the Integral vision in their lives, in their hearts, and in their work. Don Edward Beck, Ph.D., is Co-founder of The National…

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  4. What does an integral protest look like? Ken says, first and foremost, that at Yellow (to use Spiral Dynamic terms, or "Teal" to use Ken's new altitude model) is somewhat chameleon like. Yellow acts in different ways depending on the circumstances and the people involved. So a Yellow or Integral protest would look different based on the situation, the political structures that be, the people involved and what their values are. In this case, if one…

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  5. Here Ken discusses the work that is being done by Integral Institute, Integral Life, and Jim Garrison's State of the World Forum to help move toward a genuine integral "World Federation" government—one capable of meeting the complex and tightly-interconnected nature of our 21st-century problems with the clarity, compassion, and decisiveness they require.

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"If ordinary people don’t perceive that our grand ideas are working in their lives, then they can’t develop the higher level of consciousness, if I can use a kind of touchy-feely word, that American philosopher Ken Wilber wrote a whole book about, called A Theory of Everything. He said, you know, the problem is the world needs to be more integrated but it requires a consciousness that’s way up here, and an ability to see beyond

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"If ordinary people don’t perceive that our grand ideas are working in their lives, then they can’t develop the higher level of consciousness, if I can use a kind of touchy-feely word, that American philosopher Ken Wilber wrote a whole book about, called A Theory of Everything. He said, you know, the problem is the world needs to be more integrated but it requires a consciousness that’s way up here, and an ability to see beyond the differences among us...."

-Bill Clinton

There are millions of people around the world who feel altogether alienated from the world of politics, unable to find their own unique combination of perspectives, values, and identities reflected in the representational options available to them. They have been taught through the political process to believe that they have to pick one side or the other, despite the fact that neither side fully represents their own values.

But the trans-partisan impulse is to move beyond such intensely polarized ideologies, recognizing that many of our own values and beliefs are naturally in conflict with each other—especially as individuals begin to approach an authentically integral value system, and capable for the first time of recognizing the inherent beauty and importance of everyone else's worldview.

It is an extraordinarily complex world, requiring equally complex perspectives in order to make sense of it all—and as no political party in history has had a monopoly on truth or justice, we must begin to look to all possible political parties, past and present, in order to find and synthesize a new set of tools for a new century.

Here we can see the immediate value the Integral model has to offer: a comprehensive framework through which we can begin to understand the different values, motivations, and perspectives that exist in the world, all of which may be appropriate in certain historical and geopolitical and circumstances. In order to begin moving toward a trans-partisan civic in America, we must have an accurate account of the two major political parties, including such aspects as:

- stages of development (e.g. traditional/fundamentalist worldviews, modern/scientific worldviews, postmodern/pluralistic worldviews, etc.)

- interior and exterior dimensions (e.g. the Left tends to attribute human suffering to unfair exterior social systems and circumstances, while the Right looks to interior motivations, family values, etc.)

- individualist and collectivist values (e.g. Libertarian vs. Socialist)

There are several other important dimensions tracked by the Integral model, but even just these three very general distinctions, we can see that the future of politics will no longer be as black and white as it may currently seem.

We must include values and perspectives from all over the political spectrum, while knowing the appropriate amount of weight to give any particular perspective in any given situation. Only this sort of comprehensive approach to politics and governance can offer the degree of clarity and sophistication the world so desperately needs—helping us all to make sense of the staggering complexity that surrounds us, to move beyond the front lines of the ever-degenerating culture wars, to understand our collective past while forging a new path into the future.

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