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An argument can be legitimately sustained only if the participants are speaking about the same level.
The Spectrum of Consciousness (1993)
There is intersubjectivity woven into the very fabric of the Kosmos at all levels.
A Brief History of Everything (1996)
Human beings undergo psychological development. At each level or stage of development, they will see the world in a different way.
Which Level of God Do You Believe In? (2004)
An integral approach is based on one basic idea: no human mind can be 100% wrong. Or, we might say, nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.
Forward to Integral Medicine: A Noetic Reader (2003)
Attunement could occur through any of the great religions, but would be tied exclusively to none of them.
The real intent of my writing is not to say, you must think in this way. The real intent is: here are some of the many important facets of this extraordinary Kosmos; have you thought about including them in your own worldview?
The integral vision embodies an attempt to take the best of both worlds, ancient and modern. But that demands a critical stance willing to reject unflinchingly the worst of both as well.
The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad (1997)
The single greatest world transformation would simply be the embrace of global reasonableness and pluralistic tolerance—the global embrace of egoic-rationality (on the way to centauric vision-logic).
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality (1995)
An integral approach acknowledges that all views have a degree of truth, but some views are more true than others, more evolved, more developed, more adequate.
The Realization of the Nondual traditions is uncompromising: There is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all its radiant wonder.
The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad (1997)
Spirit slumbers in nature, awakens in mind, and finally recognizes itself as Spirit in the transpersonal domains.
A Brief History of Everything (1996)
The integral approach is committed to the full spectrum of consciousness as it manifests in all its extraordinary diversity.
The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad (1997)
My ankle hurts from dancing last night, so there is pain, but the pain doesn't hurt me, for there is no me.
One Taste (2000)
Are the mystics and sages insane? Because they all tell variations on the same story, don't they? The story of awakening one morning and discovering you are one with the All, in a timeless and eternal and infinite fashion.
A Brief History of Everything (1996)
But the integral approach emphatically does not make that suggestion.
Finally, integral spirituality—as the very name "integral" implies—transcends and includes science, it does not exclude, repress, or deny science.
There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other.
The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad (1997)
In other words, the real problem is not exterior. The real problem is interior.
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality (1995)
The color blue is no less beautiful because it exists along side the other colors of a rainbow, and "blueness" itself depends upon the existence of the other colors, for if there were no color but blue, we would never be able to see it.
The Spectrum of Consciousness (1993)
An integral approach even makes room for those who did the disowning to you.