Editor’s Word Michael Purdy

EDITOR’S WORD

We can all celebrate! Integrative Explorations Journal is now official with its own ISSN number, 1074–3618. Pass the word. Some scholars were concerned about publishing in a journal the did not have the Library of Congress approval. Now all can rest easy and send manuscripts for publication. Please take note of the Gebser Conference on “Creating: The Arts, Culture and Consciousness” scheduled for November. We will return to Windsor, Ontario with the gracious support of the University of Windsor and Rosanna Vitale. Mark your calendars now. The next issue of Integrative Explorations, following the lead of the annual conference, will focus on creativity, the arts, culture and consciousness. Other papers will also be considered. Send your manuscripts to the managing editor by December 31, 1994 to assured of being included in the next issue of the journal. We hope to have an historic introduction to Jean Gebser’s structures of consciousness by Dr. Algis Mickunas to open that issue. Dr. Mickunas gave a lecture on structures of consciousness at the University of Rhode Island in 1977 and that presentation is being edited for publication by the author. This issue presents an interconnected array of interesting essays on integral consciousness, the work that Jean Gebser made of his life and writing, Krisnamurti’s thought as examining the idea of an integral life, a Gebserian approach to Husserlian intuition, and modern physical perspective on the vibrational ground of communication and other phenomena. Mickunas’ piece on the integral clarifies Gebser’s notion of the integral and explains the manner in which various structure so consciousness may integrate other structures of consciousness. I illustrates the interactions and supporting roles of each structure of consciousness in the Ever–Present Origin. Purdy’s article probes Gebser’s intentions in writing his major work The Ever–Present Origin and explores what those origin intentions might mean in a contemporary post–modrn world. Miller’s review and speculations about the work of the mystical writings of Krisnamurti suggests that he was indeed writing and speaking about an integral life as described by Gebser. Kramer’s paper explores, from a Gebserian perspective, the spatializing sense of “partial” fulfillment in Husserlian phenomenological intuition. Cooper explores the world as a continuous wave field where as he says in an analogy of life with a TV program: “The fact that each television character appears separate is meaningless in the larger scheme of things where all broadcast television images are seen as the visible outcome of invisible waves.” Spread the word about Integrative Explorations. As a scholarly organization we are making every effort to keep the cost of sharing knowledge to a minimum. Tell your colleagues about the integrative approach of this publication, tell your library to obtain a subscription, and share your own integral thoughts for presentation in Integrative Explorations.