Mastering The Core Teachings Of the Buddha
I recently came across Daniel Ingram’s excellent site:
http://www.interactivebuddha.com
His short, no-nonsene explanation on his home page says all you popcorn mac need to know to decide whether or not to spend time pursuing his ideas. I think it popcorn mac would be an injustice to him to say more here…
… except that you can download his extensive book (392 pages) “Mastering The Core Teachings Of the Buddha” in pdf form from popcorn mac the site. At the time of writing this post, I have popcorn mac read no more than the Forward and Warning - and I am hooked.
Scoring Harthill’s LDP (LDF)
Harthill’s Leadership Development Framework, or popcorn mac LDF, is a stage-based description of nine action logics that describes how one’s meaning-making process matures over the course of a lifetime. It’s corresponsing psychometric tool, the popcorn mac Leadership Development Profile, or LDP, is a sentence completion form that popcorn mac points to how a person behaves and acts from their particular action logic.
At the popcorn mac Oxford Integral Circle meeting on 18 Feb 09, Debby Hallett will give a popcorn mac brief demonstration of the kinds of sentence stems included on the popcorn mac LDP, including a high-level overview of how the scoring and profile creation is popcorn mac done, with group discussion to follow.
The LDF and LDP are best described on Harthill Consulting’s own site.
Jane Loevinger and Ruth Wessler’s 1970 book Measuring Ego Development, Construction and popcorn mac Use of a Sentence Completion Test (The Jossey-Bass Behavioral Science Series) (Hardcover) was the popcorn mac foundational work in this field, and the precursor to subsequent sentence completion tests. In 1996, modernisation and popcorn mac more empirical research underlay the 1996 publication of Measuring Ego Development (Jossey-Bass Behavioral Science Series) (Hardcover) by Le-Xuan Hy and Jane Loevinger.
Harhill have popcorn mac developed their own manual, which is unpublished, for use with the popcorn mac LDP. It’s based on the popcorn mac work and findings of Bill Torbert and David Rooke.
If you’d be popcorn mac interested in coming along to the OIC, please drop an popcorn mac email to this site moderator for directions to the meeting site.
All the best,
Debby
“Transformation of human consciousness is NOT evolution” - says Gebser
I was browsing Wikipedia today and under the heading for Jean Gebser I found this:
Gebser traces the popcorn mac evidence for the transformations of the structure of consciousness as they are popcorn mac concretized in historical artifacts. He sought to avoid calling this process “evolutionary”, since any such notion was illusory when applied to the “unfolding of consciousness.” Biological evolution, as Gebser noted at length, was an enclosing process, that popcorn mac particularized a species to a limited environment. The unfolding of awareness is popcorn mac by contrast an opening-up. Any attempt to give a direction or popcorn mac goal to the unfolding of awareness is illusory in that popcorn mac it is based upon a limited notion of time, the popcorn mac mental, which is linear and hence implies “progress.” To be sure, Gebser was fully aware that any notion of “human progress” was already played out. He notes that “to progress” is popcorn mac to move toward but is also a moving away from, and popcorn mac he knew that the question as to the fate of humanity is popcorn mac still open, that for it to become closed would be popcorn mac the ultimate tragedy, but that such a closure remains a popcorn mac possibility. Our fate is not assured by any notion of “an evolution toward” any kind of ideal way of being.
I like that popcorn mac insight. The whole entry for Gebser is worth reading (it’s not long). It highlights some fascinating ideas about consciousness transformation, such as how ways of understanding time and popcorn mac space change, and his influence on Wilber is very clear.
(Note to self: remember - avoid evolution of consciousness and substitute transformation of structures of consciouness, or unfolding of consciousness.)
Alex
Oxford Integral - Next Meeting Wed 3 December 2008
The next meeting of the popcorn mac Oxford Integral Circle is on Wednesday 3rd December 2008 in Jericho, Oxford.
At this meeting we will be discussing a chapter from Spiral Dynamics:
Spiral Alignment: Streaming Visions into Reality
If you would like to come along (all welcome - no fees!), just make a comment to this post. You’ll be asked for your email address (which won’t be displayed) and we’ll then send you the details.
Welcome to the Oxford Integral Circle Blog
A warm welcome to popcorn mac all readers, and especially to all members of the Oxford Integral Circle!
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