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Integral Theory as Self Distortion
Aug 1st
re. Ken Wilber’s Integral Life Theory: Wikipedia.
The development of civilized maturity is a mechanical-cultural process of our minds set up to be increasingly entangled in the darkness of the machine and to systematically fight the darkness of that entanglement as our own human weakness and human weakness in general.
This means that our archetypal mythological development throughout life opportunistically uses the seething anger of our abominable mental slavery worked back into our human self as guilt and fear to further enslave our minds. Chronically ridden by dark emotion we falsely emulate the mythological “goodness” of the machine as sublime and heroic human self. However when we expose our dark emotions and use the seething anger of a dismally twisted mythology of self as “positive” emotion in denial of its true human-destructive nature, it becomes part of the raging fire driving the machine and consuming us: we are not facing our denial as Wilber claims. We are postively validating, rationalizing and reseeding it into ourselves and our children.
Civilized Culture has evolved that way. Our minds are utterly seduced to it. Ken Wilber’s Integral Life Practice (ILP) is the culmination and epitomy of machine culture as sublime unity universe before which nearly all of humanity lay prostrate. All Quadrants All Levels (AQAL) can be investigated as a powerful analogy of the structure of this disgusting shaman error to which civilized minds are now dismally subject and mentally enslaved. This is what Wilber means when he says “Aspects of shadow work pervade ILP” and “Shadow Work is Forever.” Indeed. It is the heart of technology as our mental parasite.
Link to Wikipedia’s summary of Integral Theory directly: see “All Quadrants All Levels” (AQAL) at that link. I am now starting to more fundamentally investigate the shaman-twisted perception of self so ingrained we do not even question it anymore, as epitomized in Wilber’s Integral Theory. The very rough areas of error ultimately fatal to the human animal, are 1) in the upper left (UL) quadrant the “I” or self as having freewill and homunculus with imaginary sublime-psychological responsiblity historically derived from all manner of god-sublime shamanism 2) the pathological delusion of the collective quadrants first split as “we” as culture and “its” as civil/social and then in further theory integrated as “its” in which, for the sake of internal and external “developmental integration,” the collective assimilates the human collective element. … much more of this to follow in coming weeks. (we can already see Freudian psychology everywhere in here – although I think Freud was also a culmination of what is already in the common machine mind mythology.)
The Shadow as a Seductive Poison of Myth
Jul 30th
The Dark Shadow
Civilization, or what I call, “The Machine” is a very dense, dark shadow in all of us. Why are we not aware of it? It is because the central human-manipulating archetype in civilization’s shaman mythology known in Psychology as “The Shadow,” goes a long way to covering it up.
“The Shadow” as mythological archetype is a necessary civilizing fiction especially established in early development stages of human minds as machine mind. “The Shadow” is what Jungian Psychology and since Freud and Jung, mainstream Psychology erroneously defined as repressed weaknesses, shortcomings and instincts, (portrayed as base and human). The Shadow Myth in itself contributes to the darkness of the machine. In early development, the machine wants us to chronically repress and gradually start to project this darkness onto and into each other and into the machine, as a moving Dark dynamic to always have to be uncovered and overcome in later development, to be made conscious as an ever-present personal human animal shortcoming.
As members of “society” sic. we then have the “SOCIAL” RESPONSIBILITY to consciously acknowledge and address OUR Shadow throughout our lives as a matter of self-meditative practice. This fundamental self-deprecating mechanism is an institutional requirement for “maturity” of enslaved civilized minds in all civilization, not only the East. The very loose popular Freudian label for this “social” demand, is “overcoming the Ego.” More complete for me in the Freudian psychology: Id, Ego and Superego work as complementary pseudo-archetypal components of mythological fiction in our seduction.
The Golden Shadow
The story gets worse. Not only does the machine institute, repress an opportunistically revisit its own accusation of our weaknesses and guilt. In our elaborate characterizations of our self in early childhood development, it also institutes and represses the so-called ”good qualities.” As The Shadow, the mythological good and bad together form an organically self-organizing dynamic opportunistically manipulating the human mind as machine mind, in interplay of delusional tales of villainous guilt and heroic redemption.
The machine thus also defines our repressed good side in the maturity/enlightenment mythology as The Golden Shadow in us. This golden part of our archetype is the opportunity to ascribe to the human element gross exaggerations and lies about specific, functional kinds of human intelligence, beauty, freewill and agency in a civilizing process in which our human animal potential has been utterly compromised and we are actually near-complete robotic zombies.
