Integral Awareness

As some of you know, I do not read much, so in the following I solely refer to my own thoughts and experience.

Integral Awareness means training, when looking at people, objects, systems or situations and in all decision-making, of considering as many aspects, levels, perspectives, interactions and developments in the future as possible.
We cannot strive for perfection, but we can try with openness and passion.

By Integral Awareness
1. Our health is prevented from harm.
2. Our communication with others is easier and more productive.
3. Daily tasks are coped with in a broader perspective and in harmony with wider surroundings.
4. It becomes possible to solve more problems in science, organisation and in the emotional domain.

Some simple examples

1. Physical, mental and emotional health also depend on the presence of interior incompatibilities. That means that, if conscious or unconscious convictions do not match, one conviction blocks the other. The interior disturbance, more or less, damages health.
The desire to love everyone is blocked, at least partially, by the conviction that being Rich is better than being Poor. A healthy personal development is hampered.
Two seemingly incompatible opinions are "God is good" and "God creates the most terrible things". Integral Awareness in this case asks for an advanced insight: "Also terrible things are necessary phases in a good development". Until this insight is realised, there is a deep, mostly unconscious, dissatisfaction with creation. This works negatively on wellness and health.

2. In a discussion we very often think we know the background meaning of the opponent. We then react on our thinking and not on the thinking of the other. A short-sightedness with often catastrophic consequences mostly coming up a long time afterwards. Integral Awareness here consists of openness and modesty.
A farmer will also be able to perceive the desired rain as bad, if he is able to imagine the wishes of the tourist.
Contradictions can be caused by false assumptions and also by opinions that can solely be understood from a different perspective.

3. I want to buy a car... see a magnificent ragtop, draw my checkbook and make myself unhappy for several years. Integral Awareness would have been: "Oh, again there is my wish to possess a large beautiful car.", "It does not fit in my garage.", "Should I spend so much money that I have to skip my holidays?" etc.

4a. Science has to consider subjects beyond space/time in order to achieve an accurate insight in reality.

4b. Organising cooperation is not possible without the psychic component.

4c. Problems in the development of groups and nations can merely be solved by a mental and emotional identification with the persons concerned.

In all cases it is essential, to consider your own knowledge as incomplete, your own perspective as relative and subjective and to open yourself for areas that are, intentional or by ignorance, outside of our scope. It is not sufficient to integrate familiar domains of knowledge.

Adrian