“Ultimately to be a reflexive being you must be able to adopt the first-person standpoint for every being in creation, that is to say you must overcome every egocentricity, every binary oppositionality within and between yourself, your class, your caste, your occupation and the rest of the world, and you must overcome the binary opposition between god and yourself or the rest of the world. So the ideal of reflexivity is something to be striven for in practice and not just theory.”
Bhaskar, R 2012: pp 309/310 The Philosophy of MetaReality: Creativity, Love and Freedom Routledge
2. Connecting to the Pulse of Freedom: The
Work-ins of metaReality and Integral
Life Practice.
Creating a metaPractice of
Transformation and Emancipation.
Gary Hawke
Cri5cal Realism Reading Group
London 2015
13. “The universal star5ng point for ILP is the 4 Core Modules. That’s because they
relate to four primary dimensions of your individual being: body, mind, spirit, and
shadow. They don’t require anything or anyone else but you. So you can, if you
wish, work on them by yourself. If you consistently engage prac5ces in each of
these four areas, you’ll empower and turbocharge your overall development.”
Excerpt From: “Integral Life Prac5ce: A 21st-Century Blueprint for Physical Health, Emo5onal Balance, Mental Clarity, and Spiritual
Awakening.” p 61
22. Of course the mutual entailment of inner and outer implied by the theory of co-
presence means that whenever we are working on ourselves, we are not only
immediately working on the world (obviously insofar as we are part of the world)
but working on that aspect of being which is enfolded within all other like beings
too. In this perspec8ve from the theory of co-presence there is actually no such
thing as solitary or individual ac8on. We are always, even in our most private
moments, affec8ng (or poten8ally, that is tenden8onally) a momentous change in
the world. We are never alone when we are all one. When we are whole, that is
free, then we are at one with the cosmic totality. (Roy Bhaskar 2012 pp 152 n25)
Bhaskar, R 2012 The Philosophy of MetaReality: Crea5vity, Love and Freedom Routledge
Prac5ce1 is a process in
which we work on
ourselves, the world,
and all beings.
23. 1) Concentra8on, single-pointedness,
mindfulness and the power of
aIen8on.
2) Exercises in the mo8lity and
universality of consciousness.
Exercises in iden8ty consciousness,
transcendental iden8fica8on and co-
presence.
3) The crea8ve power of thought,
including visualisa8ons.
4) Koans and ways of subver8ng the
egoic mind.
5) Prac8cing watchfulness; just
observing.
6) Witnessing. (Bhaskar R 2012 pp 174)
And to support the
process of self realisa8on
the philosophy of
metaReality offers a set
of prac8ces that just as
we work out in the gym
we can work in the
realism of the non dual.
Bhaskar, R 2012 The Philosophy of MetaReality: Crea5vity, Love and Freedom Routledge
“…I see the whole process of
self-realiza=on and
emancipa=on as necessarily
coming from within.” Bhaskar, R and
Hartwig, M. 2012. Beyond East and West. In: Harwig,
M. and Morgan, J ed. Cri5cal Realism and Spirituality,
Routledage, pp. 221.
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29. Emancipa8on can be seen as a trialec8c of being, in which we
create a new perspec8ve, which leads to a new ac8on, which
leads to a new being.
Integral Life Prac8ce aims to develop and expand the legi8macy
and authen8city of the agent’s perspec8ve, through
developmental growth.
Cri8cal Realism exposes the importance of maintaining
noniden8ty and absence as an exposi8on of the unblocking of
oblivion, leading to the agent as an open totality expressing their
causal inten8onality as right ac8on on all aspects of 4 planar
social being.
And through Philosophy of metaReality’s Workins, the agent is
able to begin the process of re-enchantment of the world as
iden8ty over difference from the inside out, as their pulse of
freedom.
30. Where next
If it is embodied inten5onality which
earths social life, (Bhaskar 2008 p164)
then prac5ce is the process in which we
work towards the right ac5on of an
emancipatory inten5on for freedom at
of the 4 planar social being.
Bhaskar, R, 2008 Dialec5c: The Pulse of Freedom Routledge
31. Chris Smith 2010 pp 18
Conclusion
Humans are profoundly finite creatures, in both
body and mind. The tensions arising between
human capaci5es and human limits—between
the vastly capable and severely finite in human
life—give rise through emergence to crea5ve
paierns of lived prac5ce that oten solidify into
what we call social structures.
Smith C (2010) What is a Person, The University of Chicago Press