Authentic Development

-for CATHWOR
INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT
- From FRAGMENTATION to
WHOLENESS

- The SPIRIT SHINING in All

Dimensions of LIFE
 MOST CRITICAL
MODERN WORLD PROBLEMS &
CHALLENGES OF OUR TIME
1. Ecological Crisis
2. Armed Conflicts and Wars
3. Worsening Poverty
4. Social Injustices &
Human Rights Violations
6. Exponential Growth of
Human Population
 INTEGRAL WORLVIEW

No problem can be solved from the

same level of consciousness that
created them. We must learn to
see the world anew.
-Albert Einstein
Complex reality requires
complex thought
 Shift in
Paradigm/Worldview/Perspective:
– From Flat-land Thinking to
>> Multi- Dimensional Thinking
– From Web of Life &
General Systems theory to
>> Nested Beings and Holons
Shift in:
Paradigm
Worldview
Perspective
Authentic Development
-for CATHWOR
GROWTH &
MATURATION
GROWTH AND MATURATION
1. Cells (biology)
2. Universe (cosmos)
3. Social Development (society)
GROWTH AND MATURATION
• Cells (biology)
• Universe (cosmos)
• Social Development (society)
1.a MITOSIS –Cell Division
1.b MIEOSIS –Cell Union
& Differentiation
GROWTH AND MATURATION
• Cells (biology)
• Universe (cosmos)
• Social Development (society)
2.a Evolution of our
Known Universe
Black Matter
95% of Space
 2.b Young Stars
(red/blue light belt)
grow around Old Stars
(fading yellow light belt)
GROWTH AND MATURATION
• Cells (biology)
• Universe (cosmos)
• Social Development
(society)
…YOU are a
child of the
UNIVERSE
No less than
the skies and
the trees
You have a
right to be
here…
Desiderata
 Development as:
MATURATION
- GROWTH IN GREATER
COMPLEXITY

• Multiplication
• Differentiation
• Integration of parts and whole
• Interior and exterior growth
3. Stages of Social Development
STAGES WORLDVIEW

A. FORAGING Archaic
- Hunting and gathering society - Instinctual

B. AGRICULTURAL Magic
- Horticultural and Agrarian - Spirit-in-nature

C. INDUSTRIAL Rational
-Modern, Science, Technology, - Reason, logic

D. KNOWLEDGE Existential
- Information Age, Globalization - Experiential
ENTROPY: The Reverse of Growth
• There are limits to growth
• Entropy (death) is natural
• The reverse of Entropy is the Flourishing of Life
If development or growth leads to
exceedingly massive
ecological destruction and
extinction of species,
it serves the forces of entropy
rather than life.
 MOST CRITICAL
MODERN WORLD PROBLEMS &
CHALLENGES OF OUR TIME
1. Ecological Crisis
2. Armed Conflicts and Wars
3. Worsening Poverty
4. Social Injustices &
Human Rights Violations
6. Exponential Growth of
Human Population
 INTEGRAL WORLVIEW

No problem can be solved from the

same level of consciousness that
created them. We must learn to
see the world anew.
-Albert Einstein
Complex reality requires
complex thought
INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT
- From FRAGMENTATION to
WHOLENESS

- The SPIRIT SHINING in All

Dimensions of LIFE