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Integral NHNE

All quadrants, all levels, all lines, all states, all types.

This private network has been created for NHNEers who are passionately interested in all things integral.

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Integral Fundamentals


Who is Ken Wilber and what, exactly, is integral theory and practice? The following resources provide a quick introduction:

Brief Overviews:

What Is Integral?
The History Of Integral Transformative Practice (Michael Murphy, George Leonard, Ken Wilber)
The Integral Approach
Introduction To Integral Theory And Practice (pdf)
Integral Basics
Formless Mountain: An Integral Atelier
AQAL Integral Map
The Four Quadrants
Altitude
A Visit To Ken Wilber, January 1997

Overview Video Clips:

Integral Naked Videos

001 Learning AQAL In The Service Of Love
002 Quadrants Looking Through
003 Quadrivium Looking At
004 An Introduction To States
005 Deeper Into States
006 A Puzzle Called AQAL
007 States & Stages
008 An AQAL Sensibility

Overview Audio Clips:

Ken Wilber On The Origins Of Integral Perspective (mp3)
Ken Wilber Describes His Savant-Like Abilities (mp3)
73 audio files from 2003 Ken Wilber gathering (mp3)

Specific Practices:

Genpo Roshi's Big Mind Process (Includes online videos and a stirring endorsement by Ken Wilber)
From You To Infinity In 3 Pages By Ken Wilber
Shadow Work: Insights From The Pathwork Lectures

Quotes:

Quotes 1 (Integral NHNE)
Quotes 2 (Zaadz)
Quotes 3 (Integral World)

In Depth Summaries:

Archive Of Ken Wilber Writings
The More Significant Writings Of Ken Wilber

Recommended Books & Other Resources

Integral Vision by Ken Wilber
Integral Life Practice Starter Kit
A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber
Introducing Ken Wilber by Lew Howard
Grace & Grit by Ken Wilber
One Taste by Ken Wilber
Big Mind - Big Heart by Genpo Roshi
Soulfully Gay by Joe Perez

Guidelines For Integral NHNE


The guidelines for participating in this network are simple: listen to others, respect different points of view, tell the truth, do your best to become conscious of the universal tendency to project your unhealed issues on to others (projection usually announces itself by us feeling inappropriately angry or upset with someone else), and, or course, be genuinely committed to becoming the best, most well-rounded human you can be.

For additional tips, read Ken Wilber's "Guidelines For Integral Institute Forums" and Shadow Work: Insights From The Pathwork Lectures.

If we follow these rules, we should all get along swimmingly, even when we hit rough waters.

And with that, welcome! I sincerely hope this network helps everyone who shares a passionate interest in all things integral to go as far as we can -- individually and collectively -- along this exciting, newly emerging path.

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"I have one major rule: everybody is right. More specifically, everybody -- including me -- has some important pieces of the truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace."

-- Ken Wilber


 

NHNE Websites & Resources


Check out NHNE's Mother Ship (for mind-tweaking, soul-stirring, brain-cell building news and reports), NHNE's News Page (for a quick overview of current events), and NHNE's Online Community (for others of like mind).

What Is Integral?


In Sedona, we needed a simple, one page overview of what integral was that average folks could get their heads around. Here's what we came up with. You are welcome to use this for your own purposes.

What Is Integral?

Support Integral Institute (& Ourselves)


Since our work is greatly assisted by the fantastic materials and resources produced by Integral Institute, we encourage our members to support Integral Institute by becoming monthly contributors. Monthly contributions range from $10.00 a month to $500.00 a month, with each level of support providing an ever-expanding list of services to donors. A mere $10.00 a month provides full access to the growing collection of audio, video, and other materials offered by Integral Naked. Larger monthly donations, allows supporters to receive the IN Sampler CD/DVD set, the Holons Newsletter, AQAL Journal, Integral seminar discounts, invitations to special events, and more.

We can also support Integral Institute (and our own development) by purchasing integrally-oriented books and materials. Here is a quick list of the books and resources we recommend the most:

Integral Vision by Ken Wilber
Integral Life Practice Starter Kit
A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber
Introducing Ken Wilber by Lew Howard
Grace & Grit by Ken Wilber
One Taste by Ken Wilber
Big Mind - Big Heart by Genpo Roshi
Soulfully Gay by Joe Perez

Outstanding Integral Resources


Quote Worth Pondering:

"The AQAL Code is the result of what started as The Human Consciousness Project. Similar to the Human Genome Project, the Consciousness Project was created to map every state of consciousness, personality type, meme, neurotransmitter from dopamine to serotonin, every synapse, PET distribution scan, meditation state, altered state, peak experience, neuropeptide, stage of consciousness, neuronal display, twitch, twinge, and tingle of the human mind, or psyche, or bodymind, or brain-mind, or whatever you want to call our being. The idea was to get a complete map of the human brain-mind -- a composite map created by looking at every known culture and its psychological, spiritual, and scientific maps of the human psyche -- going back thousands of years, and then using all of those partial maps to create a composite map of the full potentials of the total known territory of the human psyche to date."

--- Excerpt from Ken Wilber's new novel, "The Many Faces Of Terrorism"

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AQAL Integral Map


View/Download AQAL Integral Map

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The Four Quadrants


According to Integral Theory, there are at least 4 primary dimensions or perspectives through which we can experience the world: subjective, intersubjective, objective, and interobjective. These 4 perspectives, represented graphically, are the upper-left, lower-left, upper-right, and lower-right quadrants.What’s the point of looking at the world through a 4-quadrant lens? Simple answer: Anything less is narrow, partial and fragmented! Integral Theory maintains that all 4 quadrants are real -- and all are important. So, for example, to the question of what is more real, the brain (with its neural pathways and structures) or the mind (with its thoughts and perceptions), Integral Theory answers: BOTH. Click here for more information.

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Altitude


The concept of Altitude is a radically new approach to development created by Ken Wilber and presented in his book Integral Spirituality. In Holons, we use Altitude as a measure of development in both culture and consciousness. A simple way to explain it is to say that Altitude indicates the degree of developmental unfolding of items such as complexity, consciousness, and the number of perspectives one can take. For example, in consciousness development as indicated below, one goes from the capacity to take only a 1st-person perspective, to also being able to take a 2nd-person perspective, to also being able to take a 3rd-person perspective, and so on. Thus, in this example, you can see that the capacity for love increases (from being able to love only me, to being able to love us, to being able to love all of us, to being able to love all sentient beings....). For convenience, Altitude follows the natural colors of the rainbow, so you'll often hear us refer to degree of development or degree of consciousness or degree of capacity to love, etc. by a particular color of the rainbow. Click here for more information.

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Integral Life Practice

From Ken Wilber's Website:

"Integral Life Practice (ILP) is no-nonsense, practical application of the Integral model that helps you to authentically exercise all aspects or dimensions of your own being-in-the-world. ILP teaches 4 core modules – body, mind, spirit and shadow – as well as 5 or so auxiliary modules – ethics, yoga of relationships, karma yoga, transforming emotions, and sexual yoga – and dozens of potential electives. Grounded in hundreds of transformative practices, East and West, ILP allows you to take anything you're already doing and place it within a comprehensive framework that finally makes sense of it.

"In addition, ILP is modular, scalable and customizable. Not only can you make it fit your schedule, you also choose the practices that are right for you in an effort to create a program that is flexible and effective. By cross-training practices in the core modules you accelerate growth in all areas, increase the your chance of healthy development and deepen your capacity for transformational living. In short, Integral Life Practice is the simplest practice you can do to wake up!"


The Integral Life Practice Matrix


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Download A .pdf Copy

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Genpo Roshi's "Big Mind Process"

Excerpted from Ken Wilber's Forward to Genpo Roshi's Book,

"Big Mind / Big Heart":

"Let me state this as strongly as I can: the Big Mind Process (founded by Dennis Genpo Merzel Roshi) is arguably the most important and original discovery in the last two centuries of Buddhism. It is an astonishingly original, profound, and effective path for waking up, or seeing one's True Nature. It is such a simple and universal practice it can be used in any spiritual path you wish, or even just alone, by itself, as a practice for realizing your True Nature -- which you can call God, Allah, Jahweh, Brahman, Tao, Ein Sof -- it doesn't really matter, because the core of the Big Mind Process is Emptiness itself, which, having no specific content at all, can and does embrace anything that arises, integrating it all. What Dennis Genpo Roshi has done is not only the most original discovery in Buddhism in the last two centuries, it is unbelievably simple, quick, and effective. In Zen, this realization of one's True Nature, or Ultimate Reality, is called kensho or satori ('seeing into one's True Nature,' or discovering Big Mind and Big Heart). It often takes five years or more of extremely difficult practice (I know, I've done it) in order for a profound satori to occur. With the Big Mind Process, a genuine kensho can occur in about an hour -- seriously. Once you get it, you can do it virtually any time you wish, and almost instantaneously. It is nothing less than the discovery of your True and Unique Self, Ultimately Reality, the Ground of All Being -- again, call it what you like, for 'they call it Many which is really One.' "

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