Integral Institute

The Integral Institute is a think tank founded by the American philosopher, psychologist and mystic Ken Wilber in 1998 with the goal of an interdisciplinary summary and integration of different points of view on the most important fields of knowledge to achieve and from this to develop viable concepts.

Structure

The Integral Institute belong to branches of integral psychology, integral management, integral politics, integral medicine, integral ecology, integral education, integral law, integral art and integral spirituality. The attempt to integrate the knowledge base of individual areas, Wilber was deemed necessary because in his opinion the existing in the field in different views only as an aspect of reality are often right.

The integral theory postulates these individual observations could be matched to a more complete picture of reality. The Integral Institute are (or were ), and others known and prominent members like Francisco Varela, Stuart Davis, Alex Grey, Deepak Chopra, Michael Murphy, Don Beck, Larry Dossey, David Deida, Jon Kabat -Zinn, Ed Kowalczyk (of the music group Live) at.