tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621529782651296685.post3237557302920569116..comments2020-08-01T22:28:50.016-06:00Comments on Proactive Progressive Populism: Bill TorbertEdward Bergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13864657929019204993noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621529782651296685.post-18869826408719017032011-06-16T21:05:34.502-06:002011-06-16T21:05:34.502-06:00Also see Gidley's Appendix A* from her lengthy...Also see Gidley's Appendix A* from her lengthy paper "The evolution of consciousness as a planetary imperative" in Integral Review 5, 2007. Therein she discussed Geber's concretion of time. She said (p. 176):<br /><br />"Gebser’s nuanced concretion of time does not represent a linear developmental endpoint like that of the modernity project, nor is it endlessly recursive in non-directional cyclical space as in Eliade’s “myth of the eternal return” (Eliade, 1954/1989). Integral consciousness as understood by Gebser does not place mythic and modern constructions of time in opposition to each other, as both modern and traditional approaches tend to do. Alternatively, Gebser’s temporic concretion is an intensification of consciousness that enables re-integration of previous structures of consciousness—with their different time senses—honoring them all. It opens to new understanding through atemporal translucence whereby all times are present to the intensified consciousness in the same fully conscious moment."<br /><br />* http://integral-review.org/documents/Gidley,%20Evolution%20of%20Consciousness%20as%20Planetary%20Imperative%205,%202007.pdfEdward Bergehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13864657929019204993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621529782651296685.post-83792639201856920662011-06-16T21:03:47.518-06:002011-06-16T21:03:47.518-06:00Balder's Integral Life blog post* on the topic...Balder's Integral Life blog post* on the topic said that TSK's future infinitive is<br /><br />"not as something that will 'eventually arrive' or as a space into which we will eventually move, but rather as the unfoundedness and indeterminacy of being that is always with us.... This indeterminacy finds expression in our knowledge, as an active not-knowing that allows for the new. To engage the future infinitive is to embrace openness and the unknown in the midst of the familiar."<br /><br />I appreciate how Balder uses the infinity sign here (see graphic in the post) to represent this future infinitive which is present along each point in time, from past to the future right now. I also use this symbol to represent the relationship of states to stages in the WC lattice in a similar vein.<br /><br />As for Torbert's triple-loop-de-loop he says:<br /><br />"I believe [it] echoes the perspective explored in TSK as the future infinitive...and clearly defines a post-reflective, integral mode of time-consciousness that should not be confused with the present-centered and exquisitely sensitive, but nevertheless still narrow prereflective temporality of the Pirahã."<br /><br />All of which reminds me of "someone"** who said: <br /><br />"But such progress does not move in a line from pure origin to guaranteed New Jerusalem. Its aim remains as Derrida insists, messianically yet to come, a to come that does not unfold as a predictable future outcome of present history. Progressive theopolitics might then entail an alternative temporality, the time of event–relations, in which our becoming together, now, makes possible but does not determine that which is to come tomorrow: a helical, fractal or rhizomatic kind of nonlinear progress."<br /><br />* http://integrallife.com/member/balder/blog/three-nows-future-infinitive-and-triple-loop-awareness<br /><br />** http://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/forum/topics/religion-and-politicsEdward Bergehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13864657929019204993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621529782651296685.post-58708020338704785262011-06-16T15:25:20.813-06:002011-06-16T15:25:20.813-06:00In the inaugural issue of Integral Review (June 20...In the inaugural issue of Integral Review (June 2005) Torbert has an article called “Timely and Transforming Leadership Inquiry and Action: Toward Triple-loop Awareness.”* A few select excerpts:<br /><br />"He explains that triple-loop awareness re-presents a change in consciousness. It is the simultaneous awareness of all 4 territories of experience – of the outside world, one’s own behavior, one’s own feelings and thoughts, and at the same time, a kind of witnessing of all this. It can be called presencing (Senge et al, 2004). Triple loop awareness occurs in any moment when there’s an attention distinct from the mental thinking, from the physical sensing, and from the objects of perception, infusing them all with an immediacy that is at once passionate, dispassionate, and compassionate. You’re more likely to have these experiences when you put yourself in a position where you’re on the edge of your known reality – on the not-necessarily-comfortable threshold between the known and the unknown.<br /><br />"One-dimensional time awareness of sequential passing time permits us potentially to act, then identify a gap between act and intended outcome, then adjust one’s action, and achieve one’s goal (maybe), thus doing single-loop learning…. Double- and triple-loop awareness introduce us to the second and third dimensions of time, which are hidden within durational or passing time.<br /><br />"The second dimension of time can be imagined geometrically as orthogonal to linear durational time from the past to the future, passing through the present. From the point of view of our ordinary (zero or one-dimensional) temporal awareness, the present is a vanishingly small instant that can never be grasped because it is past by the time that its sensations, thoughts and feelings register within us. Is there a different quality of awareness that permits a timeless, conscious experiencing of the present – a quality of awareness that permits us to live nowhere but the present… inhabiting the eternal present in all of its unfolding fullness… experiencing a sense of our own presence and of other presences around us even while remembering something, or focusing on a particular task, or imagining a possible future?<br /><br />"A third dimension of time can again be imagined as orthogonal (the Z axis) to the plane defined by chronological time (X axis) and eternity (Y axis). The three-dimensional “volume” of time can be imagined as holding all possibilities, all the potentialities of the future and the still-hidden meanings of the past, some of which emerge into the present (become act-ualized) and then pass into linear, historical time, through a translation process that quantum physics now describes as a “quantum collapse”…. Is there really a different quality of awareness that goes beyond a deepened sense of presence in the present to sensing oneself as a creative subject actively participating in midwifing an emerging future?"<br /><br />*http://integral-review.org/documents/Toward%20Triple-Loop%20Awareness%201,%202005.pdfEdward Bergehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13864657929019204993noreply@blogger.com