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This post from How to Save the World is titled Why We Hate Complexity.

It's a good post - I especially like his posits of why we hate complexity:

I think the reason is that the acknowledgement of complexity, of a system's being beyond our understanding and analysis

    * reduces our sense of power and control
    * increases our sense of helplessness and insecurity, and
    * reduces our confidence in the predictability of the future.

This also reminded me of a classic book by Alan Watts titled The Wisdom of Insecurity.

In a sense, Integral Practice, is an attempt to navigate the world in a way that a way that is true to our spiritual, emotional, social, and physical selves.  And this involves participation - hopefully participation that WORKS - for the most part. 

But in the end - the emptiness/fullness of phenomena, and the encounter with dissolution of the self - this will never be fully solved by any practice, any way, any belief system.

We build sand castles out of our lives, and invest these sand castles with our selves, our sense of ownership, our loves, our projects, our communions, and our creativity.

Because this is what humans do.  Scorpions sting.  Humans seek meaningful activity.  

The confrontation with dissolution, with death, beyond that meaningful activity, is almost an anti-integral practice.  But spiritually and existentially necessary, just the same.