Major philosophical notions that supported the move to both/and...
Freedom from / freedom to
Freedom from / freedom to
Ken Wilber's notion of "Transcend and Include"
"As always, development is a process of transcend and include.
Transcending ego doesn't mean “less than personal,” it means “more than personal.” Not personal minus, but personal plus—all the normal personal qualities, plus some transpersonal ones.
It doesn’t mean destroy the ego, it means plug it into something bigger … The small ego does not evaporate; it remains as the functional center of activity in the conventional realm. As I said, to lose that ego is to become a psychotic, not a sage.
It means that one is no longer exclusively identified with that self.
“Transcending the ego” actually means to transcend but include the ego in a deeper and higher embrace.
And that means that we do not “get rid” of the small ego, but rather, we inhabit it fully, live it with verve, use it as the necessary vehicle through which higher truths are communicated. Soul and Spirit include body, emotions, and mind, they do not erase them."
The ego is not an obstruction to Spirit, but a radiant manifestation of Spirit. It is not necessary to get rid of the ego, but simply to live it with a certain exuberance.
Narcissists are simply people whose egos are not yet big enough to embrace the entire Kosmos, and so they try to be central to the Kosmos instead.
Source: Introducing Ken Wilber: Concepts for an Evolving World, by Howard Lew
Transcending ego doesn't mean “less than personal,” it means “more than personal.” Not personal minus, but personal plus—all the normal personal qualities, plus some transpersonal ones.
It doesn’t mean destroy the ego, it means plug it into something bigger … The small ego does not evaporate; it remains as the functional center of activity in the conventional realm. As I said, to lose that ego is to become a psychotic, not a sage.
It means that one is no longer exclusively identified with that self.
“Transcending the ego” actually means to transcend but include the ego in a deeper and higher embrace.
And that means that we do not “get rid” of the small ego, but rather, we inhabit it fully, live it with verve, use it as the necessary vehicle through which higher truths are communicated. Soul and Spirit include body, emotions, and mind, they do not erase them."
The ego is not an obstruction to Spirit, but a radiant manifestation of Spirit. It is not necessary to get rid of the ego, but simply to live it with a certain exuberance.
Narcissists are simply people whose egos are not yet big enough to embrace the entire Kosmos, and so they try to be central to the Kosmos instead.
Source: Introducing Ken Wilber: Concepts for an Evolving World, by Howard Lew
Holons & the the holonic nature of reality
“Arthur Koestler coined the term ‘holon’ to refer to an entity that is itself a whole and simultaneously a part of some other whole."
"If you start to look closely at the things and processes that actually exist, it soon becomes obvious that they are not merely wholes, they are also parts of something else. They are whole/parts, they are holons.”
"... holons - wholes that are parts of other wholes, indefinitely. Whole atoms are parts of molecules; whole molecules are parts of cells; whole cells are parts of organisms, and so on. Each whole is simultaneously a part, a whole/part, a holon. And reality is composed, not of things nor processes nor wholes nor parts, but of whole/parts, of holons."
Source: Howard, Lew. Introducing Ken Wilber: Concepts for an Evolving World