Is 'It' In Here or Out There?

Many integralists seem to accept as truth an 'interpretation' that Spirit is in the world so that one could perceive and exclaim, "Oh, Look at how beautifully it all unfolds! Look at how they dance across time, space, and knowing!"

Ken Wilber, Integral Theory founder, seems to advocate this interpretation as well, with his emphasis on 'evolution to/of Spirit' and he informs that by studying the evolutionary development of relative truths, that are illusion, we can then evolve to knowing the ultimate universal Truth (big 'T') which is 'real.'

This requires an interpretive "appreciation" of the relative truths that we "perceive." Yet, it is easy to SEE beauty in the world when we enfold our "perceptions" within that quality/concept, but then that points to the idea that the quality/concept of "beauty" is in the mind and essentially NOT in the world. Therefore, Truth must be a quality NOT available 'out there,' until we project it 'out there" or align our concepts/thoughts with the will to perceive it in the world. (oops, this sounds like Kant).

If Integral continues to take us 'out there,' does it not maintain our fixated obsession with qualities/concepts such as beauty, goodness and truth as inherent in the things themselves, rather than that which we infuse the things with? In fact, does seeking the good, beauty and truth in the thing-in-itself, merely idolize perception as the quintessential measure of knowledge?

Maybe there is NO Spirit 'out there,' only 'in here,' through which I choose to enfold 'out there' into. The problem is that, if I continue to believe Spirit is 'out there' it becomes easier to take myself out of the loop, so to speak. I (we) allow Spirit to dance in the world based on my (our) interpretation that it should be 'out there' and not that it really is, because nothing is 'out there' if it is all illusion.

We place it there, not Source/God. Spirit does not provide "gestures," we do. In fact, we control the presence of Spirit because Spirit is us and knowing this will allow us to provide ever deeper and greater "gestures" until soon it is all we SEE.

It is all of the mind and that includes belief in the perception of a "brain." This might be a superficial aspect to seeking Spirit, but I tend to think it may be an important distinction allowing for us to take greater responsibility for our current default thought processing and thus, self-imposed suffering.

Thus, if Spirit is 'in here,' and not 'out there,' then the more I correspond with my perceptions through Spirit "within," the more I enfold 'out there' into Spirit and essentially alter the illusional perception.