"Transcend and include... this is the self-transcending drive of the Kosmos—to go beyond what went before and yet include what went before... to open into the very heart of Spirit-in-action." Ken Wilber, A Brief History of Everything
"Wouldn't it be wonderful if a group of people somewhere were for something and against nothing?" Ernest Holmes
Integral commentator Joe Perez
notes that an Integral presence at Occupy Wall Street will not be based in resentment but in love and full acknowledgment of our own shadows.
Integral politics
knows you can't just burn down the banks....Integral morality does not arise from resentment, feelings of jealousy,
or animosity of any kind. It asks us to look at our individual shadows
and acknowledge when our own antagonism towards the ultra-rich borders
on its own sort of greed and will to power. Integral politics is based
on love.
Beautiful Joe!
Because my
Integral Life Practices Meetup group in DC was just working with the book's shadow module last week, I wondered how such a shadow-aware protest might look. Just for fun, I've revamped an old sign:
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