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Project Epignosis

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“What is the Integral Movement?”

Group Group EpignosisEpignosis

Saturday, July 7Saturday, July 7thth, 2012, 2012

Public Briefing Public Briefing and Receptionand Reception

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Introducing: Brian McConnell

• Project Epignosis Co-visionary (Soul Force).

• Author affiliated with the Integral Institute and Integral Without Borders as a Researcher/ Practitioner in the study of Integral Sustainable Development (SDv).

• Learning, leadership, and spiritual development command the central focus of Brian’s work.

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Introducing: Richard Cook

• Project Epignosis Co-visionary (Soul Force).

• Former U.S. Treasury Department analyst and author of We Hold These Truths.

• In addition to being a ‘leading spokesman for Economic Democracy’, Rick is also a recognized authority in Gnosticism and the Kabbalah.

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What is Project Epignosis?

Citizen-learners transforming communities

into vibrant eco-systems . . .

The project was initiated in response to a challenge issued by this year’s

(2012) TED Prize winner – The City 2.0

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. . . an idea worth spreading

• Our project helps city members learn

how to create integral economic

laboratories to transform

impoverished urban communities into vibrant social ecosystems.

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The ‘White Paper’

The Problem

“For too long the debilitating effects of material poverty have been divorced from the spiritual causes of poverty that begin with what we value, with

the way we think, and with the resulting economic systems and practices. In this book, we have

revealed that the greatest poverty is that of our economic thought,

encapsulated today in ‘Western’ neo-liberal economics.” from Lessem and

Schieffer’s, Integral Economics

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Wilber’s Integral Framework - AQAL

The Problem

“For too long the debilitating effects of material poverty have been

divorced from the spiritual causes of poverty that begin with what we value, with the way we think, and

with the resulting economic systems and practices. In this

book, we have revealed that the greatest poverty is that of our

economic thought, encapsulated today in ‘

Western’ neo-liberal economics.” from Lessem and Schieffer’s,

Integral Economics

What we value

The way I (we) think

Economic practices

Economicsystems

Economic thought

Neo-liberal economics

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Aspects of the Four Quadrants (AQAL)

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Aspects of the Four Quadrants (AQAL)

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Holarchic Quadrants

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The Great Chain of Being

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Inspiring Global Transformation

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Inspiring Global Transformation“These spiritual sciences

include the contemplative and meditative traditions of a

collective humanity, East and West, North and South, traditions that have been

carefully collecting ‘interior’ spiritual data for at least three thousand years, and traditions that, in deep structure analysis, show a surprising unanimity as to the basic architecture of the ‘higher’ or ‘spiritual’ stages of human development.” from

Wilber’s, The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science

and Religion

Lessem and Schieffer’s ‘Four World Model’

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‘Vital Forces’ – The Four World Model

Lessem and Schieffer’s ‘Four World Model’

Southern (Humanism) – ubuntu: ‘I am because your are’.

Eastern (Holism) – kyosei: ‘co-existence and co-evolution’.

Northern (Rationalism) – naringsliv: ‘economic and social network’.

Western (Pragmatism) – individuation: realizing our individual and collective selves.

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Tikkun olam – ‘repairing the world’

“Tikkun olam is a Hebrew phrase that means “repairing the world” (or “healing and restoring the world”) which suggests

humanity’s shared responsibility (with the Creator) “to heal, repair and

transform the world.” In Judaism, the concept of tikkun olam originated in the early rabbinic period. The concept was given new meanings in the kabbalah of

the medieval period and further connotation in modern Judaism.”

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An ‘Integral Economics Ecosystem’

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Group Epignosis

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Project Epignosis – Project Plan

“The Project Epignosis action plan entails initiating a suite of

interrelated components including a complementary

(e.g. ‘local’, ‘festival’) currency, a trade and barter exchange, and

community land trust to invigorate urban

(economic) well-being.” from The City 2.0 Award

Application

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Community Involvement

Project Epignosis will support and collaboratively interact with community groups

whose organizational objectives and subsequent projects are mutually consistent

with its own. These partnerships might typically include those already practicing sustainable enterprise and include, for

example, complementary currencies (e.g. ‘time banking’), alternative transportation (e.g.

bicycling), and food (e.g. urban gardening).

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Transforming to ‘the more beautiful world our hearts tell us is possible’ . . .

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