[P2P-F] Fwd: Fw: The Most Important New Book on Integral Thinking and Decision-Making since the Integral/Evolutionary Movement Began and maybe --- since the Enlightenment.

Thu Jul 28 15:32:56 CEST 2011

Dear Sam,

just in case you have some time to explore ...

this may be the update to clare graves we have been waiting for?

Michel

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      The Most Important New Book on Integral Thinking and Decision-Making
since the Integral/Evolutionary Movement Began and maybe --- since the
Enlightenment.

The above headline is one that should naturally stimulate healthy doubt. In
the 1600s the Enlightenment there was a major breakthrough in thinking;
rational, logical thought and its accompanying scientific methodology came
into being. This allowed for a new way of conceptualizing and managing the
world. Even now, 400 years later, we continue to reap the bountiful benefits
of that great breakthrough in a new of thinking.

Today we are also on the brink of what might be considered an even greater
second Enlightenment. With the existing knowledge of the integral and
evolutionary movements and the integral new complex system dialectical
thinking tools in Otto Laske's new book Measuring Hidden Dimensions of Human
Systems, we just might get there, sooner rather than later. Within its pages
readers will find an effective, near-complete overview of the newest
"Integral/Evolutionary" dialectical thinking processes that may be applied
to today's problems and to the interaction of the complex systems of our
world.

While the rational logical thinking of the first Enlightenment was
two-dimensional and linear, the new dialectical complex systems thinking
elucidated in Laske's book is four-dimensional thinking in that allows one
to deal with unpredictable spontaneities, nonlinear and unknown feedback
loops and a host of other issues that arise with multiple and single
interacting complex systems. The information in Measuring Hidden Dimensions
also shows a person how to step outside of their own thoughts, problems or
issues in order to consider them objectively by using twenty-eight different
thought forms for redirecting attention thus creating what I call the new
four dimensional dialectical thinking. (Three dimensions plus time.) The
ability to think this whole systems way is clearly a huge advantage in all
areas of life, and is far more effective in dealing with today's problems
--- than the two-dimensional linear thinking of the first Enlightenment.

It's no exaggeration to say that Measuring Hidden Dimensions of Human
Systems may be the best book yet written about the development of human
thinking in general and integral post-postmodernist thinking systems for the
twenty-first century. Laske is a rare genius who has explained the
development of thought through the seamless integration of multiple
perspectives and frameworks, including psychology, science and indirectly
even through the mystical core of theology. Powerful life and world
rearranging cognitions and epiphanies by the bucketful await the conscious
reader of this 4D revolution in integral dialectical thinking.

In addition to providing the most complete integral four-quadrant complex
dialectical thinking system to date, Laske's book guides the
Integral/Evolutionary movements toward an important new focus for future
development. Many of today's Integral and Evolutionary leaders focus almost
exclusively on consciousness-training or on how to be a spiritual
evolutionary.  Yes, consciousness creates a thought space, and in many ways
consciousness-creation runs parallel to the concept of communion in the
Integral agency/communion pairing. But integral/evolutionary
consciousness-development without the tool of well thought-out action lacks
the needed agency balance.

This new dialectical thinking is definitely action! Laske's complex systems
dialectical thinking process provides a well thought out "thinking" agency
that is needed for any optimized decision-making process that results in
wise action, thus creating the better future we all seek.

This book has personally allowed me to move with effort and attention from
mostly two-dimensional thinking to much more of the new four dimensional
thinking. It has also helped me to integrate a vast amount of observations
about my life and work in less time than I ever imagined possible. It even
helped me to evaluate complex personal situations in my life in a whole new
way, either saving me untold trouble and cost or more quickly motivating me
to take wise risks and seize new opportunities that hold real dialectically
evaluated benefit.

Adoption of this new dialectical thinking system would work wonders for the
Integral/Evolutionary movements as well. A well-defined and complete
integral/evolutionary dialectical thinking system has been until now a main
elements that has been lacking to effectively resolve the challenges of
complex systems interacting in our world today.  Laske's new book provides
exactly that missing element. There is little doubt that this work is going
to spread within our movement and within other progressive social and
activist movements as well.

It is my sincere hope that the Integral/Evolutionary Movement quickly picks
up Laske's complex-systems dialectical thinking processes and couples them
with the consciousness-teaching processes found in our movement. This would
finally establish another and much-needed agency/communion balance that
could more readily build the better future we all are seeking.

Laske's book is nothing less than a true gift to humanity! In time, he will
be eventually recognized as the man who did much to help bring about the
second Enlightenment. That being said, as amazing as it is, however, this
book also poses a few challenges to its readers.

Although Laske says that anyone can be taught complex systems dialectical
thinking, I think that this book is a difficult read for many individuals.
Laske's writing style is concept-dense and demands that you pay careful
attention to each initial definition that he uses. In one paragraph alone he
may take you through a dozen or more interrelated or sequential new thinking
conceptual spaces. In addition to the implied cognitive capacity
requirements there are social and emotional development requirements that
also play a part in one's ability to understand and "get" this amazing new
dialectical thinking training manual and tool.

Measuring Hidden Dimensions of Human Systems is written more as an aid to
human resources staff and as a training manual for coaches who will use this
new kind of thinking to help their clients see the world much differently.
That said, anyone with a little extra observational effort will find it
useful as a manual for learning the new dialectical thinking processes.

Individuals with a strong background in developmental psychology will be in
heaven and probably find the book considerably easier to understand.
"Getting" Laske's new book on integral dialectical thinking will quickly
separate the Integral/Evolutionary beginners and aficionados from the
experts, qualified teachers and dedicated practitioners...

Whether you're an integral, spiritual, or eco-evolutionary, or you are a
corporate, government or non-profit sector leader, I wholeheartedly
recommend that you get this book fast. I already envision that savvy
Integral/Evolutionary entrepreneurs will be quickly and discretely
scampering to make teaching deals with Laske.

Most of the staff at our organization have already ordered it or are reading
it now.  The news is spreading via word-of-mouth that: this book is a
must-read for those that optimized thinking is the best way to create
success in most any area. Don't be surprised if you find it out of stock at
Amazon.com <http://amazon.com/> or other online booksellers.

*The above review was written by Lawrence Wollersheim, Executive Director of
two Integral/Evolutionary organizations in San Francisco: Universe Spirit
and the Universe Institute. Lawrence has also published several books on
health, visualization, decision-making and goal-setting. His newest book,
which is soon to be released, deals with another critical element currently
missing from today's integral and evolutionary movements: the lack of a
universal set of ethical and moral principles which are based solely on the
science-derived principles of the progressive evolution of the universe.  *

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*What 3 Others In the Movement Are Saying about this New Book*

"I highly recommend Dr. Laske's work for integral theorists and
practitioners. His research represents a truly integrative approach to a
number of key aspects of human development and transformation. He has a
great grounding in Kegan's subject-object theory as well as the powerful
European tradition of dialectics. This book is dense but it is worth the
effort." Sean Esbjorn-Hargens PhD. Executive Editor of the Journal of
Integral Theory and Practice.

At the bottom of this page I've included links to two other independent
reviews of Measuring Hidden Dimensions of Human Systems so that you might
see from other perspectives how important this book is to the future of the
Integral/Evolutionary movements. The first is a brief review by John Stewart
that has just been completed and has not been published previously. The
review begins by identifying the reasons why Laske's work is highly
significant. It then focuses on how Laske's approach can be greatly enhanced
by integrating it with some of the methods for developing consciousness that
can be found in the world's spiritual and religious traditions. John is one
of the founders of the Progressive Evolution Movement and he is the author
of Evolution's Arrow and the Evolutionary Manifesto- both of which are
essential reading for the more informed members of the Integral/Evolutionary
Movements.

The second review linked below John's is written by Sara Nora Ross, Ph.D,
president of ARINA, publisher of The Integral Process for Working on Complex
Issues and of the journal Integral Review: A Transdisciplinary and
Transcultural Journal for New Thought, Research, and Praxis.

*THE NEW JOHN STEWART REVIEW OF OTTO LASKE'S BOOK*

Otto Laske's work is a very significant contribution to the emergence of a
new and higher level of cognition amongst humans.  This dialectical/systemic
cognition will give humanity a much-needed capacity to better understand and
manage complex systems and processes.

Laske's book Measuring Hidden Dimensions of Human Systems promotes our
cognitive development by assisting us to see the limitations of our current
levels of thinking.  In particular, it helps us to 'stand outside' our
analytical/rational thinking and to see it as an object.  This enables us to
see the limitations of this form of cognition.  It assists us to see why
analytical/rational thinking fails to adequately represent and understand
complex systems and processes. Laske's book then goes on to identify the new
forms of thought that are needed to represent and understand those aspects
of reality that cannot be adequately represented by analytical/rational
thinking.

Analytical/rational thinking is the cognition that spread with the European
Enlightenment and now dominates in Western societies.  However it can
represent mentally only those limited aspects of reality that are relatively
mechanistic.  It is incapable of representing complex patterns and
processes, non-linearities, transforming systems, emergence and complex
relationships.  Cognition that is unable to represent or model something is
incapable of understanding or managing it, or even of 'seeing' it.

Dialectical/systemic cognition continues to use analytical/rational
cognition for understanding mechanistic aspects of reality.  But it also
models and represents those many aspects of reality that are more complex
and fluid.  It represents and models complex patterns, transforming systems,
non-linear processes etc.  The use of these representations is experienced
as intuitions and insights.

The spread of systemic cognition is of critical importance because:

·    Systemic cognition is essential if an individual is to be able to fully
understand the large-scale evolutionary processes that have shaped humanity
and other life on this planet and that will determine our future.  It is
therefore a pre-condition for fully 'getting' the evolutionary worldview and
for experiencing the transformative epiphanies that accompany this;

·    The global crises and challenges that are confronting humanity cannot
be understood and cannot be solved without a cognitive capacity that enables
the management of complex systems and processes.  Analytical/rational
cognition cannot do this;

·    True systemic cognition is currently almost non-existent. Most 'systems
thinking' is done with mental/rational representations and cognition.
Post-modern cognition ('green' in Spiral Dynamics terms) is incapable of
rigorously understanding complex phenomenon, and people at this level are
commonly anti-cognitive.

·    It seems unlikely that systemic cognition will develop quickly enough
to meet global challenges unless it is spread intentionally and consciously.

What is needed is a New Enlightenment. It will be similar to the first
Enlightenment in that it will be driven by a shift to higher cognition.  But
this time the shift will be from the analytical/rational thought of the
first enlightenment to systemic cognition. And the shift will be developed
and spread intentionally and consciously.

Currently there are no widely-accepted approaches to training and developing
higher mind and systemic cognition. The Integral Movement and spiritual
progressives tend to focus on the development of consciousness, not the
development of higher cognition.  Since these movements are almost
universally 'green', cognition tends to be part of their shadow.

Most members of these movements do not have the cognitive development to see
that effective responses to global challenges require a higher level of
cognition, not just higher consciousness.  The failure of the Integral
Movement and spiritual progressives to make any significant contribution to
resolving major crises such as global warming is due to their cognitive
limitations.  The 'missing piece' that is limiting these movements is
systemic cognition.

 As outlined in his book, Otto Laske has developed courses and supporting
materials aimed at training and developing systemic cognition. The book
includes an extraordinarily valuable Manual of Dialectical Thought Forms
that builds on the work of Michael Basseches and others.

The Manual identifies the classes of things that we have to represent in our
thinking if we are to adequately represent and understand complex phenomena
and processes.  It shows us the things that analytical/rational thought is
unable to represent and understand effectively.  It identifies the sorts of
processes to which we must direct our attention if we are to build adequate
mental models of complex systems.

Although Laske's work shows us where we have to direct our attention to
think dialectically and systemically, it does not include practices that
train the ability to freely move attention to where it is required.  It is
here that the 'consciousness movement' can contribute significantly to
programs that aim to train and transmit dialectical/systemic cognition.

More specifically, the development of higher mind can be greatly accelerated
by the use of the kinds of practices promoted by the world's spiritual and
contemplative traditions that develop consciousness.  These practices train
the capacity to dis-embed from lower forms of cognition, freeing attention
and consciousness to access and build higher cognitive structures.

Together with Victoria Wilding of Symplicitus ( http://symplicitus.com
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cognition that synthesizes Laske's approach with practices appropriated from
the spiritual traditions.  These 'spiritual' practices train the ability to:

·    Dis-embed from analytical/rational thinking;

·    See analytical/rational thought 'from the outside' as an object that
can be contemplated and evaluated

.    Eventually this enables systemic cognition itself to be seen as an
object that can be contemplated, evaluated and improved;

·    Gain conscious and intentional control over attention so that it can be
moved freely around the aspects of complex phenomena that are not
represented effectively by analytical/rational thinking; and

·    Access and develop non thought-based cognitive resources, including
pattern recognition capacities and intuition.

These capacities enable the individual to identify the critical aspects of
complex phenomenon that are not represented adequately by
analytical/rational thought. It also enables them to build new cognitive
representations that include what is left out by analytical thinking.  This
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thought-based and that can adequately represent complex systems and
phenomenon as they evolve and transform through time.

John Stewart, July 2011

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