Health - balance, integration, wholeness, and oneness
(non-duality)
I consider health
the central theme of my website – health in the most
comprehensive sense including physical, emotional, mental,
and spiritual health. I emphasize spiritual
health and mental
health (especially
healing
thinking and
healthy
thinking) for two
reasons: 1. because I have more knowledge and experience
in this area, and 2. because they can have a great impact
on physical and emotional health.
Although at first sight “Ken Wilber, the AQAL Map, Health and
Laughter,” the title of my website, may appear like a
hodgepodge of topics, closer inspection reveals an intimate
relation. Laughter generates and
sustains all aspects of health. Ken Wilber’s AQAL
map implies much
healthy thinking. Alfred Korzybski's Science
and Sanity to which I
refer in Korzybski Quotes
and in my book
manuscript on Healing
Thinking and Being (Chapter 4) places great
emphasis on health and healing. Other Quotes also involve
health and related concepts.
Besides health,
balance constitutes
another unifying theme of my website. Balance is, of course,
closely related to health. It may be considered a crucial
aspect of health or even its definition according to Chinese
medicine. Ken Wilber’s AQAL map is balanced in many ways: it
aims “to cultivate body, mind, and spirit in self, culture,
and nature” (Ken Wilber. 2007. The Integral
Vision. Boston:
Shambhala, p. 217-218). The dynamic mandala that I
proposed in Wilber’s AQAL Map and
Beyond shows even
greater balance because it balances hierarchy (holarchy),
the most fundamental ordering principle in Ken Wilber’s
AQAL map, with other ordering principles such as Yin/Yang,
continuum and network views. Ken Wilber also recognizes
these other ordering principles, but not with regard to
most basic structure of the Kosmos, which to him is
hierarchical (holarchical). Therefore, in this respect his
thinking is not balanced.
Healthy thinking and healing thinking is balanced thinking.
And laughter also generates balance.
Since balance is not static but rather dynamic, dynamics,
flow, fluidity, change, impermanence and related concepts
play an important role throughout my website.
Integration and wholeness characterize not
only integral medicine, integrative medicine, and holistic
medicine but also the integral movement, including integral
philosophy, integral spirituality, and other domains of
integralism. The idea and experience of
oneness (non-duality)
reveal our most basic connection with the Kosmos – I refer to
them throughout my website.
See also my book
in progress on Materialism,
Holism, and Mysticism - A Mandala