There are quadratic models that were created before Ken Wilber's important contributions. They are quite similar in what they represent and, at least one of them, may have originated in the Andes of South America in pre modern times.
All of them seem to share the Four dimensions of reality or how holons manifest. All of them seem to also have in commmon that complementary poles are treated in a dialectical way.
Archie J. Bahm's "Organicism" provides diagrams and other concepts that complement and enhance Interal Theory as we know it. Bahm came to the findings in a rational analytical way by analyzing the complementary poles that experience provides us through intuition.
E.F. Schumacker came up with four ways of perceiving that are essentially compatible with the AQAL quadrants.
The "Tawa Chakana" ("Tawa" means "four" and the workd is perhaps also connected with the Tiwanacu Culture and "Chakana" is like a bridge that blocks and also connects. It also is the Southern Cross Constellation)is an Andean Symbol that has a unique way of representing the Andean ideas of complementary pairs. It seems to include AQAL's quadratic dimensions in its own way, to "square the circle" approximately and to show the connections between three alleged ontological realms of being posited by many Andean cultures. It also SEEMS to be constructed following a repeating fractal geometry.
Then we have Carl Jung who, in collaboration with Nobel physicist Wolfang Pauli tried to model a relation between mental events and physical events. The Jung-Pauli QUATERNIO also shows similar (Interior-Exterior-Individual ...as undivided...- and Collective dimensions). Arthur Koestler who coined the term "HOLON" also mentioned Jung's model and some of his ideas in the book "Janus."
I think that by following a dialectical pattern under a conscious or uncosnciously promoted "both-and" logic, the quadratic model of Wilber's AQAL stage IV was approximated or pre even clearly established. Each of the different models seems more applicable to specific aspects. The Tawa Chakana seems to show that pre moderns could come up with 2nd Tier models, maybe because of their inclusive, participatory ethos in which neither other realms, nor nature were excluded.
All of these should be food for thought and further explorations.
There are quadratic models that were created before Ken Wilber's important contributions. They are quite similar in what they represent and, at least one of them, may have originated in the Andes of South America in pre modern times.
ReplyDeleteAll of them seem to share the Four dimensions of reality or how holons manifest. All of them seem to also have in commmon that complementary poles are treated in a dialectical way.
Archie J. Bahm's "Organicism" provides diagrams and other concepts that complement and enhance Interal Theory as we know it. Bahm came to the findings in a rational analytical way by analyzing the complementary poles that experience provides us through intuition.
E.F. Schumacker came up with four ways of perceiving that are essentially compatible with the AQAL quadrants.
The "Tawa Chakana" ("Tawa" means "four" and the workd is perhaps also connected with the Tiwanacu Culture and "Chakana" is like a bridge that blocks and also connects. It also is the Southern Cross Constellation)is an Andean Symbol that has a unique way of representing the Andean ideas of complementary pairs. It seems to include AQAL's quadratic dimensions in its own way, to "square the circle" approximately and to show the connections between three alleged ontological realms of being posited by many Andean cultures. It also SEEMS to be constructed following a repeating fractal geometry.
Then we have Carl Jung who, in collaboration with Nobel physicist Wolfang Pauli tried to model a relation between mental events and physical events. The Jung-Pauli QUATERNIO also shows similar (Interior-Exterior-Individual ...as undivided...- and Collective dimensions).
Arthur Koestler who coined the term "HOLON" also mentioned Jung's model and some of his ideas in the book "Janus."
I think that by following a dialectical pattern under a conscious or uncosnciously promoted "both-and" logic, the quadratic model of Wilber's AQAL stage IV was approximated or pre even clearly established. Each of the different models seems more applicable to specific aspects. The Tawa Chakana seems to show that pre moderns could come up with 2nd Tier models, maybe because of their inclusive, participatory ethos in which neither other realms, nor nature were excluded.
All of these should be food for thought and further explorations.