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Integral Sedona

Posted October 23rd, 2010 by steve schliebs

 Just home from another lively and stimulating meeting of Integral Sedona.  (We meet every Saturday morning in the public library.  Today about 28 people showed up.)  As a practice exercise in our series on "Generative Dialogue" we took up the question, "what does it mean to be integral?"  Most people seemed to think being integral means something like being integrated, or being in integrity.  The idea that integral is a stage of adult development, and not quite the same as healthy, well-integrated translation at any stage, seems not to be the consensus view in our group.  To me, being integral means having the capacity to make my subjective experiences objects of my awareness, at least to some extent, some of the time.  Anyway, arriving at an answer to the question "what does it mean to be integral" was not the goal of the exercise.  We were attempting to reach a collective "we flow" state in two hours, and I think we did, to the delight and amazement of everyone present.        

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allowing all definitions to flow - yes

Posted October 23rd, 2010 by Ambo Suno

Hi, I find that a basic orientation of mine is from the common earlier meanings around the root - yes, integrated and yes, with integrity, but not just ethical. And I'm expanding my inner response and orientation to the word "integral" to include much that I have learned here. As stage, as AQAL, as transcend and include. Integral is a good word, and I don't think that there's anything intrinsically spot on about the word "integral" being adopted by Ken. Not random, not arbitrary, and yet not perfect either - one word. I'm guessing that some of it's choice as the single-word identifier comes in reaction to the limits and connotative trailings of other good past attempts, like wholistic/holistic. We seem to like to label things, have pithy truth evoking nomenclatures. It probably seemed and still seems like the best one for the moment and it does have some history.

Steve, that's where I go with it at this moment. Partly from, I suppose, a green and relative and post-modern slant. Yet possibly resonant with higher tier truth, goodness and beauty as well.

Your group sounds vibrantly interested in that which is greater, eh.

ambo