Here are the five basic modules that are the foundation of an integral life -

Module 1 - Spiritual Practice

Module 2 - Health and Exercise

Module 3 - Interpersonal Relationships

Module 4 - Career and Money

Module 5 - Psychological Health, Stability, Motivation, Meaning

These 5 modules form the basis and foundation for an Integral Practitioner.

It's important to note that most authentic spiritual paths and communities, in some way, address all five. 

I'll be posting (or re-posting, in some cases) evaluations that exist online - and next steps offered from those evaluations - for each of these modules.

So make sure to stop by!

Saw this article on the Google process. 

It's a fascinating article, for a few reasons -

One, they hire the best of the best, and they make sure to get people who not only are smart, but who are also easy to work with, by insisting on like-minded cooperation, and not "personal".  A few examples:

a. No one can call an idea "stupid".
b. An emphasis on teamwork:  "Some brilliant prospects don't get hired, flaming out when background checks show they are difficult to work with. "It takes discipline not to hire some of these people, they are so smart," says engineering chief Alan Eustace. "But it also doesn't take much for a single person to subtract 10% from everyone else. Very quickly, that reduces your total output.""
c. "In some meetings people aren't allowed to say "I think … " but instead must say "The data suggest … "

So the social and interpersonal aspects of a person, are just as important as the intelligence of that person.  You can see that this minimizes the ego clashes, between otherwise brilliant people.  In integral language, good development lines in both social, cooperative, and of course technical skills.

For as long as it lasts, this truly is the "flatter" networked company of the future - much less hierarchy, projects developed and then abandoned if they don't work (no attachment!), tremendous productivity and flexibility.

One last point - the emphasis on data. 

After spending time on the Integral Spirituality draft last night, I got to thinking about what a tremendous proposal Integral Methodological Pluralism is.  To take any aspect of a situation, and INVESTIGATE this situation from one of the eight angles. 

The example uses is Kohlberg, and moral development. 

In this situation, Kohlberg gathered data over YEARS, and then collated this data into a hypothesis of the nature of moral growth and development. (The 3rd person perspective of 1st person values). 

Various integral claims, meditation claims, and practice claims, require similar data sets, in order to move a hypothesis to beyond a pleasing story. 

Otherwise, there simply remain disconnected claims, for various dimensions of life.

Perhaps in the future, there will be applications that allow people to act, in small groups, and submit data.  Here's a process proposal.

Meditation practice for 30 minutes, with a diary submittal. Have a group of 10-100, to however many more, doing this.

a. The person Mark beginning of practice - the person submits that he has practice started on cellphone.
b. Person submits that the practice session has ended.
c. At end of practice, record online diary of experience (or perhaps submit diary by voice to go to online repository).
c. That data can then be collated, analyzed, cross-referenced and compared (perhaps with pre-existing personality evaluations), so that theories such as Kohlberg's are more easily created - or more easily dismissed.

I think the connected internet phone - or some similar unobtrusive gadget - is the only way to get these type of real time, large, datasets recovered.

Any other thoughts on this?

Great diagram from How to Save the World, about how social networking works, and the tech tools that have developed to serve this need.