11.01.2004
Wilber on Government
This from Wilber’s chapter on Government:
Moreover, from this spacious vantage point (of an integral view of politics), the prime directive of a genuine integral politics would be, not to try to get everyone to a particular level of consciousness (integral, pluralistic, liberal or whatever) but to ensure the health of the entire spiral of development at all of its levels and waves. Thus the two steps toward an integral politics are: (1) including both interior and exterior and (2) understanding stages of the interior and thus arriving at the prime directive.
So what I was thinking was what if this applied to church? Is our job to move everyone along the path to our enlightened, higher, elevated level? Well, no. If we believe that each level has multiple dimensions and functions to help us all in some way, then no, we can’t be so arrogant as to think that not only is our way the best way but that everybody needs to imitate our way. This is the attitude that caused me to leave fundyism. Hopefully I’m not leaving one fundyism for another.
If we’re going to be truly integral than we should help moderns be the best moderns they can be and fundies to be the best fundies they can be. After all, they have worth and value before God, do they not? This seems a radical concept to me that I’m not here to change you into me but to make you the best you that God has called you to be.
It’s also the most liberating concept I’ve run into in some time.
Moreover, from this spacious vantage point (of an integral view of politics), the prime directive of a genuine integral politics would be, not to try to get everyone to a particular level of consciousness (integral, pluralistic, liberal or whatever) but to ensure the health of the entire spiral of development at all of its levels and waves. Thus the two steps toward an integral politics are: (1) including both interior and exterior and (2) understanding stages of the interior and thus arriving at the prime directive.
So what I was thinking was what if this applied to church? Is our job to move everyone along the path to our enlightened, higher, elevated level? Well, no. If we believe that each level has multiple dimensions and functions to help us all in some way, then no, we can’t be so arrogant as to think that not only is our way the best way but that everybody needs to imitate our way. This is the attitude that caused me to leave fundyism. Hopefully I’m not leaving one fundyism for another.
If we’re going to be truly integral than we should help moderns be the best moderns they can be and fundies to be the best fundies they can be. After all, they have worth and value before God, do they not? This seems a radical concept to me that I’m not here to change you into me but to make you the best you that God has called you to be.
It’s also the most liberating concept I’ve run into in some time.
