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Thanks for your post, Elliott: Let me give a go at a response.
The direction I would like to consider is whether integral psychotherapy, in particular, may be able to have a greater impact on the broader world than the forms of psychotherapy that it, speaking ideally, transcends and includes. I am curious about what we might see emerge from the fact that AQAL is postdisciplinary, and therefore gives folks as diverse as politicians and psychotherapists a common language.
I recently enjoyed reading the third chapter of Integral Politics that Ken Wilber posted on his blog, in which KW specifies aspects such as the translation/transformation axis (with the accompanying two pairs of dynamics of Eros/Thanatos influencing transformation, and Agape/Phobos informing translation). So, if we see politicians (hopefully) becoming integrally-informed, we might imagine that it would then be easier for them to see the value of psychotherapy – they will already have been orienting to various psycho-dynamics, and so might not feel it to be so foreign to come to a psychotherapist.
This vision of convergence is part of what inspires me about AQAL and integral approaches more generally.
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