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Matter evolved to the point at which life emerged...

Posted December 18th, 2009 by Diana Powell
In Reference to:
Introduction: The Integral Approach

Quotation from introduction to integral spirituality:

"Matter evolved to the point at which life emerged; life evolved to the point at which consciousness emerged."

I have a question. My understanding of kw's philosophy is that consciousness is the Ground of Being, not matter. As well, kw has placed "matter" outside of the great chain of being, due to inconsistencies in logic when matter was placed at the base of the chain.

Personally, I don't see how "dirt", as some have called it, could have evolved into consciousness. Would someone please respond to this query?

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where

Posted December 18th, 2009 by Michael West

 I am curious.  Where in the introduction the quote is to be found.  What is the name of that section?  I would be interested to look at it in context.

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Evolution

Posted December 18th, 2009 by Douglas Amey

--I think we are mixing apples and oranges here. In a purely relative finite sense, it took all of "that" to get "this". Which is different from the eternal ground of "all" being, which would still be the case even if earth and our particular consciousness did not exist. In this case Ken was merely referring to temporal consciousness, which has evolved from. And it would seem to me that even dirt would have a form of consciousness in that atoms have prehension. I am not one of the great Integral thinkers here, but wanted to take a stab at it anyway.


One without another, yet here for each other.