Radical Knowing: Bohmian Dialogue

The author, Christian is one of professors in JFKU and he teaches “Paradigm of Consciousness” class.  To tell you the truth, I bought this book last summer, but I didn’t read it.  I looked over this book and I found the power of dialogue.  Yes, the dialogue is Bohmian (Bohm) dialogue.  I’m belonging to the Bohm Dialogue group, so the chapter 13 “Consciousness and Cosmology” is so interesting for me.

The original meaning of “Leadership”

This morning, I walked around my house and I was thinking about the original meaning of “Leadership.”  I often hear this word all over the place, for example, in the field of business, politics, education…  However, what is the true or original meaning of “Leadership?”  I came up with the question. 

So, I divided the word into two words.  Leadership= leader + ship.  Leadership represents the person itself who provides leadership and the container which embraces concerned parties and leads them to the goal.  Leadership is like a “ship” which drives the crews and navigates the crews’ future.

The Integral Operating System IOS User’s Guide Ken Wilber

I watched this DVD and read the guidebook (70p).  I’d like to show the table of contents of DVD and guidebook.

DVD

1 A Map of Your Own Awareness

2 States at Every Stage

3 Stages of Developmental Lines

4 Just Because You’re Good at Some Things

5 States are Free, Stages are Earned

6 The Play of Masculine and Feminine

7 Every Mind Has a Body

8 Honoring the I, We, and It Dimensions

9 Integral Art and Consciousness

10 Integrating the World’s Transformative Techniques

11 The Essential Modules of Integral Practice

12 Signs of Transformation-More Tears, More Laughter

13 Ken’s Integral Practice

Book

Section1 Introduction to Integral Theory and Practice

1 Overview

2 States of Consciousness

3 Stages of Levels of Development

4 Lines of Development

5 What Type?

6 There’s Even Room for Many Bodies

7 And Now: How Do They All Fit Together?

8 IOS Apps

9 Summary and Conclusion

Section 2 Integral Practice

1 Running IOS in Your Everyday Life

2 The Four Essential Modules

3 Creating an Integral Practice

4 Glossary

The importance of weightlifting

The one of Wilber’s core modules in Integral Life Practice is weightlifting.  Today, I watched his DVD and I understood the importance of weightlifting again.  As Wilber says, the biggest impact of weightlifting on us is developing our cognitive ability.  We need good patience to write and think abstract things.  Also, we require strong body so that we can sit on a chair and think for a long time.  So, weightlifting (resistance training) is useful to not only our body but also our mind.

Please look at the attached picture.  He doesn't look over 60 years.  His body is amazing... He is like Thor.

Death and Rebirth: No Growth Without Death

Suddenly, I came up with the following idea.  My life for a few months was a process of death and rebirth.  My paradigm was replaced by a new paradigm.  I had to change my value system…  It was like my death.  I’m overcoming many hurdles little by little shifting my paradigm.  No growth without death.

Finished my first quarter at JFKU

Today, I finished my first quarter at JFKU.  In retrospect, I realized that I owed to my friends, teachers and my host father a lot.  I have to really appreciate them.

Of course, I was struggling with English every day, but I really enjoyed this quarter.  I’m looking forward to next quarter.  I will take “Enneagram Assessment”, “Developmental Psychology”, “Spirituality, Symbols, and Dreams” and “Shamanism and Dreams.”  I think I didn’t enough time of preparation for each class this quarter, so I’m going to read required text books before starting next quarter.

Integral Coaching: Correlations between the orienting quadrant and Enneagram types

What’s your Enneagram type?  What’s the perspective you use to see the world?  I read an article about Integral Coaching in Journal of Integral Theory and Practice and I found an interesting content about the correlations between the orienting quadrant and Enneagram types.  We usually see the phenomena around us from a specific perspective unconsciously.  I think I tend to take an Upper Right quadrant perspective because I often think about “What will I do next?  What do I want to do?  I have to do that.  I want to do this.  I will make an action plan”, etc.

Anyway, the following is the result of the correlations between the orienting quadrant and Enneagram types.  Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the process and evidence of this analysis.

Upper Left: Type 4 and 6

Upper Right: Type 3 and 8

Lower Left: Type 2 and 9

Lower Right: Type 1, 5, and 7

Umm, based on the above result, my orienting quadrant should be LR… but I think my orienting quadrant is UR…  Certainly, my type is 7 but as I posted yesterday, my subtype is 3 and 8.

The above correlations may not be perfect but it is useful partially.  I will use this assessment for my future clients in a careful manner.

Appendix: My Enneagram Type

Type1	Type2	Type3	Type4	Type5	Type6	Type7	Type8	Type9
13	19	21	12	12	4	30	21	12

Reference

“Journal of Integral Theory and Practice” Spring 2009 Vol4, 1