Topher Hunt

3-2-1 Shadow process: An example

How many of ye readers have / use Integral Life Practice ? I've found it (those parts which I've read so far) extremely helpful and digestible, sprinkled with insightful and pared-down exercises. My favorite so far is the 3-2-1 shadow reintegration process, presented in the Shadow... Read More

"George Ritzer developed the Quadrants as a sociological tool in 1981"... Wait, what?

Background The Sociology department is in an unfortunately Green-postmodern state at Middlebury. As such, it is burgeoning with promising ideas, but incapable of putting them together in any cohesive or digestible way. This became particularly clear to me in my Theory of Sociology class... Read More

Jumping on the bandwagon

Everyone wants to get involved with the Integral movement these days....

Integral life priorities

This diagram should speak for itself. The inspiration was a diagram of the first pie chart at a relative's home (without the title "Modern priorities" of course). As always, feedback and suggestions are appreciated!...  - Topher Hunt...

Involution and Evolution: a metaphor for the recaptured-goodness and growth-to-goodness models

Wilber talks of evolution - Human reaching up to Spirit - and involution: Spirit reaching down to pull us up. Both evolution and involution are processes of our growth. Evolution fits with the "growth-to-goodness" idea that we are reaching for Heaven; involution fits with the... Read More

Isolation and the need for community

Quadrants influence each other in dialectically. When the developmental progress of one quadrant is out of sync with the others, chaos ensues. Abstractable technological structures developed at Orange or higher are abused for Red or Blue interests. Superior techniques in the study of... Read More

Another angle on Sprial Dynamics

I'm intrigued by Spiral Dynamics, and the AQAL framework in general, because it hits that intellectual sweet spot for me where I don't understand nearly enough of it, yet that extra understanding feels very much within reach. And because my intuition strongly stands by SD whenever I... Read More