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Cultivating the Potentialities of the Universal Human To see this post in its proper relations please open the attached word document PDF file highlighted in green letters above. This is the mental map I described in the previous blog. I attempted to “copy and paste” the document into word press but the lines didn’t want to cooperate. In any case, there are a variety of ways in which modern people have attempted to envision the meaning and relation, metaphysical reality and epistemological authority of Spirit and Nature, as well as the Right Side and Left Sides of human experience, that is, the internal and external aspects of human perception and awareness. Mergers and Splitters, Artists and Scientists as “pure types” simply see the world through different lenses. Each is convinced of the primal and ultimate authority of its own lens. There are a variety of “spiritual” or metaphysical visions of the encompassing reality, just as there are a variety of “secular” and naturalistic visions of the encompassing reality. An integral pluralist approach is to at least be aware of the variety of ways that different human beings in different ages and cultures have perceived and interpreted their experience of themselves and the world in which they have lived. “Spirit” (Above) Synoptic Visions Within the Primal, Ancient & Medieval World Spirit, Nature, Human Being (Aboriginal Vision) Passive Yin, Active Yang, Integral Tao (Taoist Vision) Being, Consciousness, Bliss (Hindu Vision) Non-Attachment, Mindfulness, Compassion (Buddhist Vision) Justice, Mercy, Peace (Shalom) (Jewish Vision) Light, Life, Love; Faith, Hope, Love (Christian Vision) Beauty, Goodness, Truth (Classical Hellenic Vision) Solitude, Simplicity, Serenity (Medieval Monastic Vision) Arts, Humanities, Sciences (Renaissance Humanist Vision) Synoptic Visions within the Modern, Post-Modern & Contemporary World Reason, Law, Mechanism (Enlightenment Vision) Freedom, Creativity, Organicism (Romantic Vision) Private, Public, Social Sectors (Democratic Vision) Passion, Inwardness, Subjectivity (Existential Vision) Subjective, Objective, Relational (Pragmatic Vision) Unity, Diversity, Unification (Integral Pluralist Vision) |
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Dimension Identity & Intimacy “Mergers” Inward Orientation: Right Brain Hemisphere Introspection Insight First-Person Experience Feeling & Perceiving Participatory Interpersonal Culture: Internal Collective Dimension Symbols & Traditions “Artists” |
Intuition (Visions & Dreams) Conscience (Virtues &Ethics) Volition (Purposes & Plans) Reason (Logic & Analyses) Above: Mind & Spirit THE UNIVERSAL HUMAN Below: Body & Soul Imagination (Arts & Aesthetics) Emotions (Moods & Relations) Sensations (Pleasures & Desires) Body (Health & Wellness)
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Behaviors: External Individual Dimension Differentiation & Distance “Splitters” Outward Orientation: Left-Brain Hemisphere Observation Impact Third-Person Analysis Thinking & Judging Detached Impersonal Society: External Collective Dimension Systems & Institutions “Scientists” |
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“Nature” (Below) Mystery, Cosmos, Galaxies, Solar Systems, Planets, Earth, Existence, Life*, Complexity, Consciousness, Community, Civilization, Culture Vegetative, Animal and Human Forms of Life and Consciousness Other Forms of Life and Consciousness throughout the Galaxies |
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