User talk:Goethean/Major events in integral thought

Criteria for selection

 * Influence on contemporary integral theorists
 * Murphy
 * Leonard
 * Thompson
 * Wilber
 * Tarnas
 * Ferrer
 * McDermott
 * Feuerstein
 * Non-reductive approach to science, religion, mysticism, other spheres
 * Evolutionary or developmental component should be central (calls into question Emerson, Heidegger, etc)

Suggestions
Thompson:
 * Goethe (height of Galilean dynamical mentality)
 * Melville (height of Galilean dynamical mentality)
 * Poincare -> chaos theory
 * Einstein (beg. of chaos dynamical mentality)
 * Joyce's Ulysses (end of Galilean dynamical mentality)
 * Joyce's Finnegans Wake (beg. of chaos dynamical mentality)
 * Woolf (beg. of chaos dynamical mentality)
 * Barfield
 * Fuller
 * Borges (height of chaos dynamical mentality)
 * Lovelock & Margulis
 * Ralph Abraham

Wilber:
 * Kant ("big three": good, true, beautiful)
 * Bertalanffy 1968, General System theory: Foundations, Development, Applications
 * Jantsch (who in turn was influenced by Prigogine)
 * Adi Da (itr can be argued that "Seven Stages of Life" --> Wilber-II; Da can also be considered an integral/integrative thinker in his own right, Basket of Tolerance as attempt to incorporate all spiritual teachings in a single framework (7 Stages of Life), rejected by the later Da? (when he claimed to be the only 7th stage realiser))
 * Habermas
 * Sheldrake (influenced KW-V)

Aurobindo:
 * Bhagavad Gita (three yogas, inspired Aurobindo's The Synthesis of Yoga)
 * Vivekananda (appeared to Aurobindo in Alipore jail)
 * Ramakrishna (integrated Tantra and Vedanta, influential on early Aurobindo)
 * Incorporated ideas from The Mother, some of which derive from Max Theon who in turn was inspired in part by Lurianic Kabbalah)

Other:
 * 1785, Jacobi, On the Doctrine of Spinoza in Letters to Herr Moses Mendelssohn
 * Goethe: "Only everyone can know the truth" (attributed); critique of Romanticism
 * 1901: Richard Bucke, Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind
 * Bergson -> Whitehead
 * Huxley
 * Jung
 * Bohm; probablistic physics (see also dialogue of Bohm and Sheldrake in ReVision)
 * Sen (orthodox Aurobindonian - Integral psychology)
 * Haskell's Council for Unified Research and Education (C.U.R.E., Inc.) in 1948
 * Laszlo
 * Pirsig
 * Rushkoff (open-source religion)
 * Bauwens p2p
 * Kripal (interdisciplinary Ramakrishna study, Esalen scholar, other religious studies)
 * Pagels
 * Sally Goerner
 * ReVision: A Journal of Consciousness and Transformation
 * openintegral.net (mostly post-Wilberian)
 * Zaadz community (strongly influenced by Wilberian and less so Cohenist affiliation, although also generic New Age, and a few Wilber critics)
 * Integrative Spirituality project (see website) - strongly influenced by Wilber and Beck spiral dynamics / integral theory, but also original speculations on Integral. Project no longer active? (spam on discussion forums)

Removed

 * 1841: Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Over-soul"
 * 1790: J. W. Goethe, Metamorphosis of Plants, morphological approach to biological evolution
 * 1819: Goethe, Westöstlicher Diwan, imitations of mystical Muslim poetry
 * 1902: William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature