The Integral Philosopher Ken Wilber is not talking much about ETs but he’s talking about AI, a pseudo conscious intelligent presence challenging human exclusivity in many areas of intelligence. According to Wilber, if about 10% of the population reaches Integral ways of thinking and being they would structure a system capable of accommodating the challenges to human exclusivity both from ET and AI.
However, if assimilating the ET presence also relates with a more fundamental “parting of the veils” (ontological perception veils accompanying the human condition regardless of the levels of development recognized in Integral Theory), or of some sort of multidimensional genetic activation or something like that entailing an “upgrade” of sorts, then we could be in for an unprecedented surprise.
Nonetheless, an integral evolutionary shift, not just depending on cultural and individual psychological and worldview shifts would likely involve a constitutional upgrade in physical and subtle bodies. It would be more than a temporary revelation or state of perception (that would likely be interpreted according to our “developmental altitudes” and associated worldviews).
The metanoia required to remember who we are and to re-integrate with a cosmic community we have temporarily forgotten could be the result of an often-mentioned shift in vibrations in the area of the universe where our planet is located, or it could be a self- induced genetic activation based on the sentiment and practice of agape universal love, or it could be the result of becoming a hybrid species by means of extraterrestrial genetic interventions (hopefully with our consent at least in some deep soul level).
On the other hand, modern, rational, individualistic people and postmodern, pluralistic people will tend to have their own ways of assimilating the ET presence. This is a developmentally realistic proposal that can be surmised by Wilber’s meta theoretical model.
The modern rational segment of society would probably think in terms of human and individual benefits with greater technology (including ideas about trade and other useful exchanges) while the pluralists would tend to welcome more sentient beings unless they are tactically presented (by authoritarians in power) as authoritarian abusers.
It sounds very elitist, especially for individuals making meaning for themselves via a pluralist and a pre-modern, mythic level of development but, in theory, only Integral stage persons would be able to appreciate in a comprehensive and reconciling way the goodness of the complexity implicit in the ET presence as well as apply the positive side of all previous stages to understanding that challenge. All other interpretive or meaning-making stages think that their truths are absolute to the exclusion of others and naturally want to impose those truths onto others.
Can pre-modern, selfish stage warriors leading a multitude of criminal mafias in the world begin caring for the common good? Can pre-modern mythic sensibilities (not even willing to consider universal values outside of their ethnic bubbles) update themselves? Can Modern-rational folk seek more than rational self-interest and an inferior insentient nature ready to be exploited? Can green pluralists not devolve into atomizing, relativizing, truth constructivists?
However, (if I understood Wilber well), incipient stage (Teal) Integral, while being a good development in itself (one in which perhaps 5% of the population in the developed Western civilization is situated), would not be as good as a deeper (Turquoise) Integral level of development in which paradoxes can be reconciled and in which perhaps 0.5% of that population would currently be.
In the UFO- pro-disclosure communities it is becoming fashionable to consider a list of multiple possibilities regarding the origin of ET-NHI, often in a mutually exclusive or limited ways, partly because our meaning-making processes cannot find an integrating pattern unifying those possibilities as expressions of one underlying basis. I think that we actually need an integral model (like an expanded Integral Theory) besides integral cognition, integral sensibilities, and integral multidimensional subtle-physical perception to make sense and participate in a multi-layered cosmos.
But polities now for the most part developmentally located in pre-Integral stages would only be able to incompletely interpret their personal relationships with ET-NHI unless (as basically mentioned earlier) something extraordinary takes place akin to a "revelation," a "lifting of the veils," a self-induced and/or naturally induced genetic activation, or perhaps an externally/artificially generated genetic modification and/or a reality shift providing us with an expanded awareness and understanding. In fact, it seems to be a possibility indicated by many experiencers and channelers and, since contact with the “greater reality” is quite relational and personal, it would be best to listen to these “experiencer” statements. The question behind this shift would be how soon and how much?
Then again, given most people’s quotidian human experience filled with too much disconnection, crime, competition, corruption, fanaticism, and insufficient humane, love-based, voluntary cooperation, this sounds like an implausible and unrealistic regression to a magic-stage of belief. Nonetheless, besides worldview changes and the possibility of local and international re-thinking and arriving at new socially cohesive agreements (likely prompted by very serious global crises), from an Integral perspective we cannot discard those seemingly "magical" extraordinary possibilities that includes listening to coinciding testimonies. In fact, from an Integral perspective, every stage of development brings important truths and, if we consider that the magical stage was mostly squelched - and for too long - under the mythic religious and modern rational stages, we could think of their return not as a regression as much as a necessary “come back” that society needs to have to align itself with reality more completely.
However, the speed of change would still be a matter of dispute. Shouldn’t it be sooner rather than later in order to save this beautiful planet and take care of its life forms and each other before we lose much of our humanity? Could it be an a-la "quantum jump" quick “ascension” or taking place over centuries after an initial revelation and then by learning to build together a more humane, interconnected world after much crisis, toil, and forced reassessment?
In case that dimensional and/or vibrational, energetic shifts and similar predictions were to occur soon and 8 billion of us cannot adapt in spite of an extraordinary moment of global “revelation” perceived worldwide, would we have to accept as necessary the genetic modification conducted by certain extraterrestrials (which may or may not be a good thing according to different perspectives)?
Just a comment: Perhaps a variety of negative, neutral and benign ET varieties are involved in this "plan B" that for the most part would include pre-natal agreemeent according to experiencer testimonies a plan that is proceeding in case that we as a species do not rise to the challenge.
* In the video conversation Ken Wilber provides a very brief review of his Integral Theory, its relation with the AI challenge, levels of mening-making, and more. He also recommends his books "Radical Wholeness" and "Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52r7J3_Vh3E
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