Integral Psychology: How To Unlock Your True Potential With Ken Wilber - Inner Work Library 164/500

Integral Psychology is Ken Wilber's gift to the world, and this introduction video serves as a practical summary of integral theory and Ken Wilber books to accelerate your self actualisation and help you understand more about integral psychology practices both this year and beyond.

With roots in transpersonal psychology and self actualisation theory, this integral theory introduction is intended for both beginners and intermediate students. Make sure to pick up your copy of Integral Psychology by Ken Wilber as you continue to heal trauma and unlock your true potential on a limited budget via the power of focused self study.

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00:00 Ken Wilber = King Wilber
02:09 Introduction To Integral Theory
09:17 Self Actualisation Psychology
15:03 New Levels = New Problems
22:08 Therapy At Every Level (Full-Spectrum Shadow Integration)

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[jordanthornton]

*Postscript: Did you notice how this feels different to my recent YouTube videos?*

I love teaching on YouTube, but I feel much greater pleasure when exploring intermediate and advanced concepts with structured lesson plans which prioritise educational quality rather than entertainment appeal. I want you studying and evolving, not scrolling for another forgettable edu-tainment distraction.

This video feels different because it isn't a YouTube video, it's a proper lesson from module eight in The Shadow Work Library curriculum - one of the 110+ lessons, guided exercises and video bibliography reviews in my post-graduate style online course.

If you join me inside the library, you'll find this transpersonal psychology lesson embedded between several meticulous exercises which will help you to systematically structure your multiple intelligences and multiple intuitions in both their conscious and unconscious aspects at each of your major lines and levels of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual development.

If you read the previous sentence and felt excitement rather than confusion, then click the link below to dramatically accelerate your self integration progress over the next six months.

This is an advanced course, and you won't regret putting £750 into your inner world rather than yet another weekend trip or material purchase in the outer world.

[MatthewGillespiedj]

Not two days ago I found this book for $3 at my local Goodwill. Thrifting is alive and well for books.

[Ivy-op]

Thank you. I love the idea of an "approximate self." It reminds me that at every level of consciousness, there’s always more to explore, something further to grasp. This concept allows us to stay grounded in the physical world and preserve the progress we’ve made while still reaching for more. It offers the peace of not needing to know everything.

I also appreciate that you’re one of the few teachers who advocate for having a solid and healthy ego. It’s a refreshing contrast to other teachings. I find it unsettling when spiritual communities criticize others' egos because, in reality, we need them to stay grounded here.

Very advanced and great job.

[beckymagnolia]

Wow!! What a fun ride that was to watch. Thank you I start graduate school to get my master's in counseling in two weeks! Wilber sounds like an important one to have under my belt as I explore the different modalities. I have no idea what full time school (at age 52! ❤) is going to look like, but I have a feeling I will keep following you as I go. Hopefully my teachers will encourage me to go down some fun Wilber-esque rabbit holes on my own. Thank you as always.

[CaesarReb]

Yes - when I read Integral Psychology over a decade ago - it was phenomenal. Later, I've also read Washburn, which is great - because he sees things more as a spiral, so including Ken's developmental work, but also looking a bit more Jungian as well. Also I think what's helpful is a daily practice and/or joining a community.

[wendi]

I knew a little about him for a long time. Grace & Grit about 3 years ago brought him back into my awareness. I just ordered Integral Psychology about 3 wks ago. I've been waiting for your teaching on this. Yey!

[illiJomusic]

I enjoyed his audio synopsis, or perhaps conversation with the founder of Sounds True "Kosmic Consciousness". Listen to it every year or two to pull me out of my own story.

[amnakhan]

Always love to listen you Jordan Thnk you

[wheenishere]

I remember coming across your channel a few months ago trying to work out a philosophical muse of mine and you set me on Wilbers work, which I promptly set out to devour. Finished the religion of tomorrow a few days ago and I'm about half way through sex, ecology, spirituality. Point being, I was trying to literally work through a lot of these ideas mentally and your recommendation fast tracked my learning process. Really helped narrow down the (still vast) body of literature I'll need to digest, and I'd like to express gratitude. Thank you Jordan.

[gailaltschwager]

Thank you so much, Jordan! I haven't read any of Ken Wilbur and now I shall.

[salustianoberrios]

I wrote a novel called Growing Children. A sci-fi thriller about a father struggling to come to terms with his autistic son. It was cathartic, crucial to my shadow work. It's a book with something to say. Just wanted to share that with you!

[edwardmadden]

Thanks for the insight into your style for course teaching. Really loved the bit at the end of how integral theory helps to map out the healing arch and put it all together in synchronicity. A brief history of everything is waiting on my bookshelf when I’ve gone through more of the therapy oriented books and I will look to add Integral Psychology at the appropriate time ✌️

[jehijyi]

Hey, Jordan. Can you make a video for the beginners, who are just starting their healing journey and their is so much stuff on the internet so many courses, like Inner child work, Somatic healing, Breathworks, Bioenergetics, Letting go techniques, Shadow work, etc. And its all so confusing and i am stuck don't even know where to start and which each of these process do. Like which healing processes help us to be more expressive, open and charismatic, which process are for raising general happiness levels. Which processes are for acute trauma and which are more for behavioural and developmental trauma. And which tools does what type of work like for example, shadow work and inner child work helps us to connect with the traumatic past, breathwork and bioenergetics helps us to release trauma, Hypnosis and re- parenting helps us to get what we needed in the past idk. I have seen so many videos but they are so advanced and confusing, and i feel like there is no entry point for a beginner. And not everyone is capable enough for going so much deep into every aspect of it like Intergral psychology, Transgenerational psychology, etc. It will be very helpful if you make a video explaining a beginner approch to it and explaining each tool, benefits of these tools, and at which step of trauma healing these tools can be applicable.

[zarvan]

Listening to you makes me feel smarter, always love ur vids Jordan 🙏

[lionsheartwisdom]

Love Wilber and Religion of Tomorrow, currently reading it, min-blowing! Thanks for sharing!

[AaronLance]

I'm hoping more people, once they learn integral theory, learn to apply their broader awareness to macro-level actualization. Daniel Schmachtenberger as a good example who has mentioned Ken Wilber as an influence.

[arpita.patnaik]

Hello, Jordan. Thank you for discussing various therapies at the end of the video. I have a question about a particular type of therapy that I have come across recently. It's called Decolonising Therapy, and the only person I could think of asking this question to was you because you tend to have a neutral response. And I feel like a student attending Jordon Thornton's Inner Work YouTube Academy. I tried to find other resources but couldn't. Maybe I wasn't searching properly. Anyway, I'll do the search again.

Adding a little context, every child in India and other countries learns about their colonisation in the developmental years of the psyche. We learn about the pain and trauma of that period. Even though a generation or two have not experienced the trauma directly, it does affect our emotional state. The feeling of "lesser" begins. The generational trauma in the Indian context differs. In a country where oppression has and continues to defend deep-rooted social, cultural, and economic polarities, concepts like "boundaries" and "red flags" do little to resolve long-standing generational trauma because the Indian context is highly relational. In today's time, oppressors are not from outside the country anymore. It's the same cycle but with different faces and a modern touch to it.

The younger generations (including myself) are just reacting to what has gone unresolved or left unaddressed in the family line. For many years, I have been thinking that families must seek help collectively; otherwise, it's all going to be "divide and rule until no one is happy and everyone is distant and stressed." Many can't leave their families with generational trauma for various reasons, even if the trauma is major & they continue to live in that poor environment. Those children who do, the parents suffer greatly. When you said that a word is part of the library and described the segments so beautiful because one makes the other and hence is a part of it. Similarly, country-level trauma is part of individual-level trauma, a top-down sort of. While the feeling of less begins, there's also enough information that adds to the ego, resulting in two extreme emotional states in a person.

What do you think about Decolonsing Therapy? Is shadow work enough to heal extreme emotional states? Is somatic work enough to heal generational rage? Is ancestral healing enough to forgive them for not knowing enough? Is spiritual work enough to truly know that we are all one? Where does one start?

I can't speak for the collective but this is what I have been thinking about for weeks now. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

[rinishan]

I would be sooo curious about the 588 subcategories of human development, if you ever have the urge to make a complete explanation 😁

[trinrity]

The Battle for Consciousness Theory: A Response to Ken Wilber's Hijacking of Sri Aurobindo and Other Indian Thought on the right.

[butterflymagicwithhottea]

Gardner later landed on 9 intelligences.