Integral Philosophy

Over the last few days I have been reading articles in a magazine called "What is Enlightenment?"  The October - December 2007 issue was lent to me by a friend.

There are quite a few articles in this magazine that have introduced me to the concept of Integral Philosophy.  I have found the articles very interesting as they match my ideas on the world and on how societies are evolving around the world.  The basis of the subject is that individuals and societies evolve their consciousness levels along a path that becomes more and more open to the world at large, the universe as a whole.  Societies, at different speeds and moments, move away from primitive consciousness levels in which societies are focused on themselves (tribal, warrior) and slowly move up the scale towards thinking of all people (pan-national organizations) and then on to the final, yet unattained level, where the whole (everything - the universe) is considered really as one and integral to our lives.

The various levels are colour coded from Infrared (egocentric, survival) through green (worldcentric, human) to clear light (identifying with the whole, feeling responsibility for the whole).

I find it interesting how, over the last few days, my daughter has been learning about light and the various wave lengths of different colours, best exemplified by the prism that breaks up white light into its component colours (red through violet).  We worked on this together and it was a nice refresher for me.

Those waves are pretty powerful....as light or as the energy between the atoms that make up our bodies or everything else really.

Let me know what you think about what you have just read. Please and thanks!