Consciousness-in-Action: Toward an Integral Psychology of Liberation & Transformation

Consciousness-in-Action describes an approach to personal and social change in the context of oppression-society's major hindrance to well-being and development. Drawing from psychology, sociology, social and integral theories, and over thirty years of contemplative practice and community work, this book proposes an integral framework for human well-being and development, a psychosocial analysis of the impact of identity-based power, and a liberatory-transformative praxis for transcending internalized superiority and inferiority rooted in racism, sexism, Eurocentrism, classism, and other forms of institutional oppression. This book offers an alternative to prevailing fragmented approaches to change. In so doing, it emphasizes the impact of multiple, simultaneous oppressions on the integral development of persons, communities and societies, while it also asserts the vital role of social identity development and other psycho-spiritual developmental processes on the path to liberation and transformation.