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AQAL: An Introduction to Ken Wilber's Integral Psychology

Posted on Dec 26th, 2007 by Eric : Bliss Eric

         Essential to the AQAL Framework (pronounced "aukwul," a shortened acronym for "All Quadrants, All Levels, All Lines, All States, All Types") of philosopher Ken Wilber is the concept of holarchy, a term borrowed from... More »

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Integral Homework

Posted on May 5th, 2007 by Eric : Bliss Eric

The following is the final I was issued for my PSY292 class. Originally classified in the Mesa Community College catalog as the "Psychology of Altered States of Consciousness," it was re-vamped by Professor Wesley Feuquay... More »

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Psychosocial Stages vs Vertical Stage Models: An AQAL Approach

Posted on Dec 21st, 2006 by Eric : Bliss Eric

I was recently looking at the graphs at the end of Integral Psychology (by Ken Wilber) and noticed something: Wilber places Erikson's stages in line with other vertical stage models. But Erikson's "stages" aren't so... More »

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The Information Age, Scientism & Developmental Fragmentation

Posted on Dec 19th, 2006 by Eric : Bliss Eric

After entering the blog on The Evolution of the Lower Right Quadrant & The Development of Psychological Pathologies (posted below this entry), I read Ken Wilber's Integral Spirituality for a third time and came across... More »

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Evolution of the Lower Right Quadrant & Psychological Disorders

Posted on Dec 12th, 2006 by Eric : Bliss Eric

In one of my recent psychology classes my professor stated that prior to the sixties the reported cases of multiple personality disorder per year were minimal, but exploded into the thousands after the movie adaptation of "Sybil,"... More »

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Applying more of the AQAL Model to education....

Posted on Oct 10th, 2006 by Eric : Bliss Eric

The following are exerpts from the experimental First-Year Compostion paper I submitted on Integral Education. While the final edited version is available just below this post, this particular post features the unedited applications of the entire AQAL model (except... More »

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Integral Education - An Introduction (for my ENG101 class)

Posted on Oct 8th, 2006 by Eric : Bliss Eric

  The following is an early application of Ken Wilber's Integral Framework to our current education model. My use of the word "paradigm" differs from Wilber's (and Kuhn's), as it was the best word I... More »

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