Edward:
William Thompson is one of those mentioned in the wikipedia entry on integral thought. I did some preliminary research on him and came upon his essay “The Cultural Phenomenology of Literature” in Light Onwords / Light Onwards, LIVING LITERACIES TEXT OF THE NOVEMBER 14-16, 2002 CONFERENCE AT YORK UNIVERSITY, pp 89-105. He talks about Gebser’s integral culture emerging our of the previous perspectival worldview “where several cognitive domains cross and interpenetrate, as in the Dalai Lama’s Mind Life Conferences in which Tibetan meditation masters and neuroscientists come together to explore the nature of consciousness” (p. 99).
Thompson thought that with the emergence of the integral era and its electronic media expressions that a new mode of discourse was required. He sought “to turn non-fiction into a work of art on its own terms. Rather than trying to be a scholar or a journalist writing on the political and cultural news of the day, I worked to become a poetic reporter on the evolutionary news of the epoch” (p. 89). He was presponding to Ray’s notion that one must express an integral approach not just in content but in the very means of expressing it. Thompson did this in the way he approached teaching: “The traditional academic lecture also became for me an occasion to transform the genre, to present not an academic reading of a paper, but a form of Bardic performance–not stories of battles but of the new ideas that were emerging around the world….The course was meant to be a performance of the very reality it sought to describe” (pp. 89-90).
For more on this fascinating integral philosopher see the entire essay at http://www.nald.ca/fulltext/ltonword/complete.pdf
You can find more info on Thompson at http://www.williamirwinthompson.org/
(picture courtesy of williamirwinthompson.org)