excerpt from the report of the second Integral Theory Conference 2010 in San Francisco. The full report is published in the online journal "integrally informed" , Issue 25, available from www.integralesforum.org.
Jordan Luftig, "building a movement by meta-narrative: A ideological approach to the staging of an integral Future "
-Dennis Wittrock, August 2010
Jordan Luftig working to JFKU and research for the Integral Research Center. For the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice (JITP) he had written a same article he presented now in slightly modified form. Originally he had in the context of Jim Garrison's Global Leadership Campaign ("State of the World Forum") research is being done, how to inspire people for integral ideas in dealing with the climate crisis. The result of his research but has also implications for the communication of ideas in an integral Public in general.
as I share myself to a large extent similar goals and follow up with friends and colleagues in German-speaking, I was particularly interested in this presentation. "How can we produce an integral age?" This question also drives to Jordan Luftig. Using the two standard answers, integral development theory and development integral applications in practice, he said that he as very important, but consider inadequate. In his view, it needs a social movement that is powered from an integral ideology. We must embrace to advance the politicization of the integral theory.
What? Politicization of the integral theory and integral ideology? "By ideology we associate generally a negative thing, an emotionally charged, padded with myths belief system. Karl Mannheim in 1936 between two forms of different ideologies: ideologies and total particulate. The former definition refers to the specific views of a party or interest group, such as communism. While with the latter refers to the typical mindset of a whole class or a historical period - examples are medieval thinking or modernism.
to lofty words: "If you translated it in integral terms, it has a particulate Ideology of the "us-versus-them" mentality that characterizes the thinking within the world views of the first rank. A total ideology expands the concept of ideology to the point that they thought about a world point of view, no matter whether first place (eg, amber-mythical, orange-rational) or second rank (eg petrol and turquoise-integral) or higher. In this latter sense, the AQAL Integral community is driven by an ideology - fundamentalism - and talk all the time about ideologies, "What do
ideologies? They distil the key aspects of a belief or theory, break down into understandable units and motivate people to concrete Acts in the world. If you thought about her bad reputation across states adhering to them because of their particulate variants, they are very powerful and moving a lot in the world. Jordan's conviction is that the integrals is a worthy candidate to much for an ideology to be, than any other system of thought. Ideologies are the basis for collective identity and collective action.
He characterized the injunctions of his ideological approach as follows: first
Leave you in the spirit and the morphic field of ideology sink
second Use ideology as a conceptual lens and heuristic device
third Grave in the Integral - the theory and community - help for ideas to the integral movement to grow and to transform society.
Next, he introduced the concept of meta-narrative. This is not the same meta-theory, as one might think. Also, it did not mean to get people where they stand. This is the most integral communication strategy as early as flesh and blood walked. The disadvantage is that we as integrals while invisible with our position and will sacrifice our own unique voice. Another way in which we reveal our voice is when we only speak with the voice of the neutral model, the "voice of the optional awareness.
to Wilber says several places that AQAL is basically a hollow shell of content that we ourselves can fill with content. Jordan contrasted this with Wilber's other voice, by proposing to him too often, such as in Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, where he passionately against the prevailing party plain-taking view of the world. This is the other voice, the narrative voice, or the "Voice of Choice". Both voices are important, but if we neglect the narrative voice, what happens in Jordan, according to the current integral movement, we will never be able to achieve and make a broader mass of people and.
A man who has done that in the recent past, Barack Obama was . Accordingly, Jordan has taken his strategy more closely. He found that people who supported his nomination, were taught at "Camp Obama" to tell three different stories: first The history of "self"
second The story of "us"
third The story of the "now"
This narrative approach of the public goes back to full Marshall, who described him as a leadership art. Integralists is not difficult to see the Big Three (I, We, It) again. It is an integral way of story-telling. But
what about in the integral community itself? In Jordan's words: "Based on my experiences are integral leader ready at hand to tell the story of now, about the state of the world, accompanied by the story about how we must come together to solve planetary problems [.. .]. May it be so and may we be. What is you and me "me"? The story of the self is often neglected or are not told "
Why is always the so -. This is also my experience. With a quote from Marshall, he made very clear why the omission undermines the credibility of our history of self: "In personal terms, this means that most players in both stories about the pain of the world and the hope of the world. And if we have not learned before, to speak about our stories of pain, it may take a while to learn to deal with it. But if others do try to understand why we do what we do - and we leave this piece -. Will make our report miss authenticity, raising questions about the rest of the story "
The art of leadership is so closely linked to the ability connected to touch other people by example and thereby radiate credibility - to be human, with which one can identify. That's the power of the story of the self and one of the key messages that I personally take it from the ITC to take home. I have my / we need to express our own voice and integral. This is not the neutral voice of the optional awareness that disappears into the public discourse like a chameleon, but the passionate voice of choice. I literally can not afford it, myself constantly behind the great thinkers, comprehensive theories and grand world-centric ideals and the "higher we" hide, but must learn mitzukommunizieren what drives me personally to do all these things - the evolutionary Responsibility to take upon myself to make the often thankless pioneering work to make career decisions against the grain of society to put my relationship on the line, to irritate my family to sit between two stools. Otherwise, people can not feel me and do not trust me.
What is what I find most integrals so infinitely precious, and why? What is it that Ken Wilber and others for which I am so grateful? What I nourish delicate hopes in my heart? By which I suffer when I perceive something as less than integral? What I see as the bright promise and desirable goal of integral consciousness? How can I have my own shaking the degree of care and compassion of the integral consciousness at least make a noticeable aftershocks? How can I make my burning desire, the higher truth, beauty and goodness of the integral vision to share with other people to communicate without it sounds corny or pathetic? How can I give my gratitude expressed to share this knowledge can be and how can I be the associated responsibilities?
These are questions that have occupied me personally and perhaps a good entry point into a continuous practice to learn to tell the story of the self. Who are you? Why do you read those reports? What has with you to do your pain and your hope? Step forward and show you - we and the world need you!
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