Sociology of Integral Knowledge. The Incommensurable Life-worlds of Material and Integral Science.

Abstract

The author applies a non-structured phenomenological approach to observe two central currents of experiencing reality scientifically. Integral science and the conjoined integral experience refer to a modern tradition of combining science and universal spirituality. The author compares this integral experience with the predominate experience stimulated and supported by material science, describing both realities as they appear from within the experiencing subject.

Main objectives of the thesis are threefold: discussing epistemological issues of sociology, introducing the realm of integral experience, and investigating the split of material and integral experience and its relevance in modern history of knowledge.

Asiasanat:sociology, integral, experience, phenomenology, science studies, life-world, history of knowledge, paradigm, paradigm shift, metaparadigm, materialism, integral science, sociology of knowledge, scientific revolution, spirituality, metaphysics, scientia mensura, teodichea, coherence, Akashic Field, non-locality, universal, objectivity, epistemology, reality, reality-experience, Darwinism, evolution, medicine, religion, Christianity, sankhya, morality, science and spirituality, perennial philosophy, kriya yoga