The document outlines an integral approach consisting of five basic components: quadrants, levels, lines, states, and types, which serve as a comprehensive guide to navigating human experience and development. It emphasizes the interconnectedness of individual and collective dimensions across four quadrants that represent various perspectives on human issues. Additionally, it discusses the evolution of consciousness and societal systems, highlighting the significance of understanding cultural contexts and developmental stages.

1. Integral approach:
5 basic components

2. Today we have access to…
…all cultures and knowledge in the world

3. How can we make sure not to get lost?

4. We need a road map

5. A bad map*
*will not work

6. A good map is better than a bad map.

7. Integral approach
— perhaps, the most
comprehensive, simple, and
accurate map

8. 5 basic factors
 Quadrants
 Levels
 Lines
 States
 Types

9. 5 basic factors
Tracking them allows you to:
• Take into account what’s needed
• Fully realize
– your own potential
– the potential of your activities

10. Quadrants

11. Quadrants
Basic perspectives on
• a human being
• any issue
Main pronouns:
1st person — “I”
2nd person — “You” (“Thou”) *
3rd person singular — “It”
3rd person plural — “Its”
* In the dialogue of “I” + “Thou” the miracle
of “We” emerges that is based on mutual
understanding

12. I + YOU = WE
I am telling you…
IYOU

13. …about my new bike*
* Bicycle — “it. ”

14. ITS
Interobjective connections
• ecosystems
• environment
• systems theory

15. 4 quadrants
— interior and exterior sides
of individual and collective
dimensions

16. Left-Hand
Quadrants
— the interiors

17. Right-Hand
Quadrants
— the exteriors

18. Upper Quadrants
— individual dimension

19. Lower Quadrants
— collective dimension

20. 4 quadrants
Each occasion or event can
always be looked at through
the perspective of each of
these quadrants.

21. 4 quadrants
Each occasion or event always
manifests simultaneously in
all 4 quadrants.

22. 4 quadrants
Therefore, an event that is
seen in one quadrant always
has correlates in the other
three quadrants.

23. A thought
just crossed
my mind!

24. This thought is accompanied by activation of neurons in the brain

25. My thinking is molded to a large degree by the culture that I inhabit

26. My organism exists within communicative webs of objective social
systems

27. Thus:

28. Upper-Left Quadrant
• I, the cognizing subject
• My direct experiences,
feelings, thoughts
• Meaning or depth that I find in
my activities
CONSCIOUSNESS
Validity claim:
• subjective truthfulness (honesty,
sincerity)
Example of a methodology:
• introspection

29. Upper-Right Quadrant
• It, the cognized object
• Objective organism
• Objectively measurable:
• behavior
• neural activation
• hormones
MATERIAL OBJECT
Validity claim:
• objective truth
Example of a methodology:
• biology, physiology

30. Lower-Left Quadrant
• We, cultural context
• Interpersonal communication
• Worldview shared in the
group
• Group values
• Corporate ethics
CULTURE
Validity claim:
• intersubjective justness
Example of methodology:
• hermeneutics

31. Lower-Right Quadrant
• Its, interobjective connections
• Techno-economic mode of
production
• Environment, ecosystems
SOCIAL SYSTEM
Validity claims:
• functional fit
Example of methodology:
• systems theory

32. Levels of
Development

33. Evolution
• Evolution manifests in all quadrants.
• Each new level of development transcends but includes the previous one: from
matter to life to mind to soul to Spirit; from physics to psychology to theology to
mysticism.

34. Upper-Left (“I”)
• Evolution of individual consciousness.
• Development of cognitive capacities:
• preoperational cognition
• concrete operational cognition
• formal operational cognition
• postformal cognition (vision logic)

35. Upper-Right (“It”)
• Evolution of objective organism.
• Evolutionary stages of the brain*:
• reptile brain: brain stem
• instinctual behavior
• basic survival programs
• mammalian brain: limbic system
• affective reactions
• emotional responses
• “language of feelings”
• human brain: neocortex
• thinking
• rationality
• verbal language
* The Triune Brain theory (McLean)

36. Lower-Left (“We”)
• Cultural evolution.
• Progress of worldviews:
• egocentrism
• narcissism (the world as extension of
me)
• early childhood
• ethnocentrism
• nationalism (perspective of only my
group of people)
• fascism
• fundamentalism
• worldcentrism
• cosmopolitism (perspectives of all
groups of people in the world)
• global ecological consciousness

37. Lower-Right (“Its”)
• Evolution of social systems
and technologies.
• Techno-economic mode of
production:
• foraging
• horticultural
• agrarian
• industrial
• informational

38. Lines of
Development

39. Upper-Left (“I”)
• Theory of multiple intelligences
(H. Gardner)
• Lines of development of:
• cognition (J. Piaget)
• psychosexual (S. Freud)
• emotional intelligence (D. Goleman)
• hierarchy of needs (A. Maslow)
• values (C. Graves, Spiral Dynamics)
• self or ego development (S. Cook-
Greuter)
• moral development (L. Kohlberg)
• and so on

40. Lower-Right (“Its”)
• Lines of development:
• techno-economic mode of
production
• geopolitical structures
• evolution of social systems
/ ecosystems

41. Upper-Right (“It”)
• Lines of development:
• biological growth
• neurophysiological development
• evolution of behavior

42. Lower-Left (“We”)
• Lines of development:
• cultural worldviews
• shared values
• mutual understanding
• group identity

43. States of
Consciousness

44. Waking
— gross state of consciousness

45. Dreaming
— subtle state of consciousness

46. Deep dreamless sleep
— causal state of consciousness

47. Types

48. Typologies
• Masculine and
feminine types
• C. G. Jung’s
psychological types
• Enneagram

49. So:

51. Thank you for your attention!