INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT

From FRAGMENTATION to
WHOLENESS
INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT
The SPIRIT SHINING in All
Dimensions of LIFE
 MOST CRITICAL
MODERN WORLD PROBLEMS &
CHALLENGES OF OUR TIME
Ecological Crisis
Armed Conflicts and Wars
Worsening Poverty
Social Injustices &
Human Rights Violations
6. Exponential Growth of
Human Population
 MOST CRITICAL
MODERN WORLD PROBLEMS &
CHALLENGES OF OUR TIME
Ecological Crisis
Armed Conflicts and Wars
Worsening Poverty
Social Injustices &
Human Rights Violations
6. Exponential Growth of
Human Population
 MOST CRITICAL
MODERN WORLD PROBLEMS &
CHALLENGES OF OUR TIME
Ecological Crisis
Armed Conflicts and Wars
Worsening Poverty
Social Injustices &
Human Rights Violations
6. Exponential Growth of
Human Population
 MOST CRITICAL
MODERN WORLD PROBLEMS &
CHALLENGES OF OUR TIME
Ecological Crisis
Armed Conflicts and Wars
Worsening Poverty
Social Injustices &
Human Rights Violations
6. Exponential Growth of
Human Population
 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
 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

-Albert Einstein
INTEGRAL WORLVIEW

-Albert Einstein
INTEGRAL WORLVIEW

-Albert Einstein

Complex reality requires

complex thought
to
to
to

to
 GROWTH &
MATURATION
GROWTH AND MATURATION
GROWTH AND MATURATION
Cells (biology)
1.a MITOSIS –Cell Division
1.b MIEOSIS –Cell Union
& Differentiation
GROWTH AND MATURATION

Universe (cosmos)
2.a Evolution of our
Known Universe
Black Matter
 2.b Young Stars

grow around Old Stars

GROWTH AND MATURATION

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

A. FORAGING Archaic

AGRICULTURAL Magic

INDUSTRIAL Rational

KNOWLEDGE Existential
ENTROPY: The Reverse of Growth

Flourishing of Life
ENTROPY: The Reverse of Growth

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

-Albert Einstein

Complex reality requires

complex thought
INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT
From FRAGMENTATION to
WHOLENESS

The SPIRIT SHINING in All

Dimensions of LIFE