Boundaries

Boundaries: a sketch After much consideration, ´boundaries´ seem an appropriate format to convey what seems worth conveying. They indicate a basic dimension, which contains much potential in relieving suffering. For this is what to me is a basic question: does an endeavour intend and have good potential to reduce suffering? Pre-modern, modern, post-modern in all their splendour and misery are perspectives: true, but partial. Pretending to be conclusive, they give birth to the Frankenstein monster: humanity at all levels is in a Faustian situation. Happily as well as to its own detriment. Any perspective has narrower boundaries, than the most pressing questions allow. Beyond those boundaries perspectives fall quiet. To the extent one is connected to the less well of, an appropriate term for this stalemate would be ´aperspectival madness´. How now? By recognizing that all perspectives are true, but partial. Well studied, each perspective shows its reason d´existence. Honering each perspective in its situatedness in an emerging developmental trajectory, is a first step to fade out the monster, reduce evil, suffering, alienation. Each perspective ( in the domain of subjectivity, intersubjectivity, objectivity, interobjectivity ) has its boundaries in the form of pro- & opponents, brilliance and deviance, arguments, validations, versions, iterations, lines of development, state of the art, passed stations, unresolved conflicts, dead ends, potential and hopes. Not taking all into account feeds the monster. The monster in Buddhist parlance would be: ignorance, greed and anger. Those are the result of our sense of lack: we look desperately for spiritual unity, a sense of meaning; a struggle for a pat on the shoulder in any fashionable format; now: fundamentalism, as in shopping, commercialization, machiavellian moves, spinning, bombing, idolatry, fetishism. A theory embracing all perspectives, is ´Integral theory´, as expounded by Ken Wilber. Strikingly, this theory transcends & includes any perspective, including its own, by use of the concept ´Holon´. This is a part and at the same time a whole. In this perspective there are only Holons, holarchically ordered ( ex: letter, word, sentence, paragraph, chapter, book ). Which is fundamentally different from -the dominator version of- hierarchy. Since this holarchic perspective is principally scientific and acknowledges esoteric perspectives as holarchically higher, the potential of those perspectives for becoming stronger attractors, modificators of probability waves for contemporary phenomena, increases. This allows them ( ie us ) to develop to greater circles of compassion, as well as meaning, morality, ethics. In the body of this thesis, I will focus on what the ramifications of an Integral perspective would be on various issues: 1. how do the social ( interobjective ) and the cultural ( intersubjective ) enact 2. how do the social and the physical ( objective ) enact 3. how do the individual ( subjective ) and the physical enact 4. how do the individual and the cultural enact 5. how do the social, cultural, physical and the individual tetra-enact 6. 1-5 idem, when placed in developmental / emerging perspective 7. how do the various lines of development within social, cultural, physical and individual enact, evolve 8. what is the role of past, present & future of ignorance, greed and anger for 1-7 9. what could be effective strategies for facilitating / speeding up of walking the talk in personal, corporate, governing body domains 10. how to deal with pockets of chances for role modelling / probability wave forming 11. how to deal with pockets of threats to development of the greater audience