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Ken Wilber (Interview Archive)

10/22/2015

 
​And finally stage four which Gilligan calls integrated, the woman integrates both masculine and feminine modes in her own awareness. The integral framework calls this integral. So why is that developmental sequence important? Well, it takes something that's common to hear nowadays. Namely, that what Western culture needs, because an overblown patriarchy is an infusion of feminine values, it's very common to hear this. Yes? But that's a flat land conclusion, a conclusion that leaves out evolution and developmental depth, and leaves out important models like Carol Gilligan's. Because the one thing that Western culture does not need is more of stage one or stage two feminine values. We do not need more narcissist and racist, sexist values. But those are exactly the first two and largest stages of feminine values. Stage one, egocentric and stafe two, ethnocentric. And according to even feminists, those types of values are killing us.
 
What the West needs is more stage three and stage four feminine values as well, we might add more masculine stage three and stage four values. Masculine stage one and stage two values contribute to patriarchy. Masculine stage three and stage four values contribute to partnership and collaborative societies. You can't just say feminine is good and masculine is bad. Development has to be taken into account. So you can see that leaving out these developmental maps in any territory simply cripples our understanding, does not give us a full, complete, adequate picture of the real world but rather saddles us with the partial fragmented broken and devastated view. And it's the abundance of these partial broken views that land us with so many unsolvable global wicked problems. If you take broken approaches to global problems all you get are broken solutions. And if psychology is going to help with these issues, it's clearly going to have to be an integral psychology. [Inaudible 01:00:32] what's called the integral psychograph. Up the vertical axis on the left are the six to eight major levels of human growing up each level given a color. Plus the three to four even higher levels of development called third-tier which although very important today affect much less than 1% of the overall population.
 
All the actions still in the major six to eight developmental levels. Those up to and including turquoise in this diagram. And as for those rainbow colors because these general levels of development apply to all the lines of development, it's very hard coming up with names that are adequate for these levels. Because any name tends to favor a particular line or a multiple intelligence. So instead, they are often given colors or just numbered. We do both. But a few series of names work relatively well. As long as we remember the limitations of any terms. One such theory is a variation on that of pioneering developmentalist, Jean Gebser. The names, as you can see in the Gebser world view column in this diagram, are archaic, magic, mythic, rational, pluralistic, and integral with higher super-integral, or third-tier levels possible for more people in the future as evolution continues. On the horizontal axis, you see some of the major developmental lines, or multiple intelligences, as their versions of the major developmental levels or stages were first discovered by various pioneering developmentalists.

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