“The Constant downside of developmental theories is that they highest stage is usually, by strange coincidence, evidenced by the proponent of the theory.”
“I am often asked, why even attempt an integration of the various worldviews? Isn’t it enought to simply celebrate the rich diversity of various views and not try to integrate them? Well, recognizing diversity is certainly a noble endeavor, and I heartily support that pluralism. But if we remain merely at the state of celebrating diversity, we ultimately are promoting fragmentation, alienation, separation and despair. You go your way, I go my way, we both fly apart — which is often what has happened under the reign of the pluralistic relativists, who have left us a postmodern Tower of Babel on too many fronts. It is not enough to recognize the many ways in which we are all different; we need to go further and start recognizing the many ways that we are also similar. Otherwise we simply contribute to heapism, not wholism. Building on the rich diversioty offered by pluralistic relativism, we need to take the next step and weave those many strands into a holonic spiral of unifying connectinos, an interwoven Kosmos of mutual intermeshing. We need, in short, to move from pluarlistic relativism to universal integralism–we need to keep trying to find the One-in-the-Many that is the form of the Kosmos itself.”
Tags: KenWilber, Developmental Theories
