Many theorists are already doing something like this. Sean Esbjorn-Hargens and Barrett Brown are fond of critical realism and include material from that school. Sean is also fond of Edgar Morin and has recently included him in various ways. The point is that the AQAL Framework makes room for all of this (as well as 4 quadrants, 8 zones, 8 methodologies, a dozen or more levels, a dozen or more major types of pathologies, a dozen or more types of therapies, two-dozen or so lines, 5 natural states as well as numerous trained state-stages, along with their pathologies, Enneagram types, Myers-Briggs, and other typologies, etc. When we find something in another theorist that is crucial but not included, we simply include it! It’s the expandability of the AQAL Framework that makes it so adaptable. Other theorists that have been incorporated include Habermas, Foucault, Heidegger, Derrida, Florence Nightingale, Husserl, the founder of chiropractic, bioenergetic researcher Wasaru Emoto, numerous feminist writers, Otto Scharmer on states work, Daniel P. Brown on state-stages, Father Thomas Keating, various architectural theorists and economic theorists, to name a very, very small handful. All of these have proven indispensable additions, and if not directly included in every presentation of AQAL, they are there in the wings waiting for whenever they might be needed. The reader is invited to add his or her favorites as the occasion merits—and please, try to do so without triumphantly claiming this new addition signals a fundamental lack in the AQAL Framework! The number of papers claiming “I’ve got the new Integral Paradigm!” is just exhausting! (Especially since they then use the Integral Framework to include the new theorist, but not the other way around….) - See more at: integrallife/integral-post/integral-semiotics?page=0,6#_ednref4
Posted on: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 14:33:58 +0000
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