Conscious integration

Continuing from this post, this agrees with Wilber's use of Habermas' notion of the dissociation of the value spheres. We differentiated them, an advance, but then instead of fully integrating them they went into dissociation. Plus we carry this dissociation forward into more 'complex' so-called post-formal reasoning. This is an ongoing phenomenon and one in which even kennilingus (and the rest of us) unconsciously participates. But we can get over it. 

Bringing it back to the liberal professional class, per Lakoff so many liberals are stuck in 'false reason,' i.e., the dissociation inherent to the Enlightenment paradigm. Conservatives have a better handle on integrating the pre-rational moral values and use that in their framing accordingly. Yet its a mythic moral code. The liberals have the better moral code but via their abstract and dissociative framing aren't connecting to that higher moral code. A more conscious integration at the liberal level would inculcate 'real' reason and better framing.

See Lakoff's Thinking Points for a more thorough examination.

Which reminds me of one of my favorite citations, from Gidley, J. (2007). "The evolution of consciousness as a planetary imperative." Integral Review Issue 5.


"For Gebser, integral-aperspectival consciousness is not experienced through expanded consciousness, more systematic conceptualizations, or greater quantities of perspectives. In his view, such approaches largely represent over-extended, rational characteristics. Rather, it involves an actual re-experiencing, re-embodying, and conscious re-integration of the living
vitality of magic-interweaving, the imagination at the heart of mythic-feeling and the purposefulness of mental conceptual thinking, their presence raised to a higher resonance, in order for the integral transparency to shine through" (111).