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METAMODERN SCENE: "Why Everything You Think about Integral is Wrong" w/ Dr. Mark Forman

The Integral Stage

CHAPTER

I'm Not an Egghead, but a Human Being in a Community of Integral People

Egghead is a great word. It's got a kind of 1950s Archie Comics field to it. The intellectual thing, that's very intriguing. People are triggered by the witchcraft of abstractions. Most integral folks are specifically doing their abstract thinking in ways that try to keep thought moving back to feelings and relationship and bodies and practicalities. Does it always succeed? Of course not. But who knows those risks better than the people who are actually encountering and actually thinking about it and explicitly valuing balance?"

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