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Inquiry

What motivates you to engage with the Integral community?

How do you engage with others in this community? How does your engagement with the community benefit the different areas of your life? What struggles do you face in engaging in the community?

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Friendship

Posted September 12th, 2008 by Julius Ko

I know this sounds lame, but I just want some friends =).  It's lonely up here in Toronto, and hanging out with greens (HUBHUB), oranges (work) and blues (church + family) all the time.  Much love, there is still much love; yet I crave more understanding.

Cheers.

- Ju

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juliusko.hubhub.org

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What motivates me regarding the integral community

Posted September 24th, 2008 by Bill Kilburg

For me it is Ken himself and the contribution his beingness has made.

Plus , I really get value on how he writes what he writes. And as a man , at least in my experience , he has made the spiritual game fun and exciting.  Some of those new age writers from the 80s that I used to read left me with that saying Ken says,  "boy bad, girl good " 

And being a jock who likes to jog, and lift weights , Ken brought the awareness to me that those physical disciplines can be integrated in my spiritual growth.

Plus , the book Grace and Grit, it transcends anything I can say about it. So I just say thank you Ken for the courage and brilliance to have written it.

Bill Kilburg

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My reason for engaging....

Posted October 26th, 2008 by robert ray

It is with a hope to commune and interact with others that are able to hold and allow differing perspectives. It has always seemed to me that my world consisted of people who believed that they were their point of view and seemed threatened by mine. Being raised in a very devout conservative religious culture and then spending most of my college and adult life in a varying degrees of Green Meme cultures, I have since childhood felt a bit out of step with the prevalent values. Reading Ken's books and then meeting Integral folk at the August Conference in Pleasant Hill felt like finding family.

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Community

Posted December 31st, 2008 by Michael Ezell

--No matter how high up  the developmental lattice one goes, the necessity for community is an essential element for the health of a person on every level. In an age were cultural demands pull upon one's time constantly, communities such as this one are extremely important, particularly as it relates to developing and expanding a community of integrally informed people. 

Michael Ezell

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Re:What motivates you to engage with the Integral community?

Posted November 10th, 2009 by curt smith

I really like this community.I found here lot of good and interesting features and discussions.Someone puts an announcement on the dormitory bulletin board about the formation of an intramural dormitory basketball team. People attend the organizational meeting as strangers out of their individual needs (integration and fulfillment of needs).In these days I am in search of a MB2-631 student for study help.The team is bound by place of residence (membership boundaries are set) and spends time together in practice (the contact hypothesis). They play a game and win (successful shared valent event). While playing, members exert energy on behalf of the team (personal investment in the group).I always prefer to use internet during my exams specially when I was preparing for 000-076  papers.As the team continues to win, team members become recognized and congratulated (gaining honor and status for being members), Influencing new members to join and continue to do the same. Someone suggests that they all buy matching shirts and shoes (common symbols),646-363  and they do so (influence).

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hello

Posted June 9th, 2011 by David Michael

I really like engaging in this community, it helps to  clear my mind and spark and I know this might sound weird but when I'm here I can think clearly, and since I'm an essay writer that is a very important thing.