I would be surprised if anyone reading this post who doesn’t already know what integral theory happens to be would understand what it is after reading this post. It’s a bit confusing to me that your post speaks about meeting integral theory and then list a bunch of things as stepping stones that were created independently of the integral community like Non-Violent communication, Internal Family system and Circling.
I would be happy to read post from you that are more about specific concepts and insights.
As far as reading lists go, those google doc lists aren’t very helpful to an outsider as they are a bunch of book names without any sense of which books you read where helpful and which weren’t. Goodreads is much better. With it’s book ratings and the ability to watch the ratings of multiple rationalist at the same time is much superior to the google docs approach.
Agreed, I think this post would be much strengthened if it would include some kind of a summary of Integral Theory’s main claims and some brief discussion of why Elo thinks they’re correct.
I’m in the same boat. I agree with the title of this post (I wrote this whole post about Integral Spirituality) but didn’t find this post particularly useful since it’s a personal story without a lot of clear takeaways. In my mind this just isn’t frontpage worthy, but great for personal on LW.
I would be surprised if anyone reading this post who doesn’t already know what integral theory happens to be would understand what it is after reading this post. It’s a bit confusing to me that your post speaks about meeting integral theory and then list a bunch of things as stepping stones that were created independently of the integral community like Non-Violent communication, Internal Family system and Circling.
I would be happy to read post from you that are more about specific concepts and insights.
As far as reading lists go, those google doc lists aren’t very helpful to an outsider as they are a bunch of book names without any sense of which books you read where helpful and which weren’t. Goodreads is much better. With it’s book ratings and the ability to watch the ratings of multiple rationalist at the same time is much superior to the google docs approach.
Agreed, I think this post would be much strengthened if it would include some kind of a summary of Integral Theory’s main claims and some brief discussion of why Elo thinks they’re correct.
I’m in the same boat. I agree with the title of this post (I wrote this whole post about Integral Spirituality) but didn’t find this post particularly useful since it’s a personal story without a lot of clear takeaways. In my mind this just isn’t frontpage worthy, but great for personal on LW.