Jean Gebser and the Transparency of Time

Thomas Steininger in dialogue with Jeremy Johnson

One of the original integral thinkers was Jean Gebser. In the 1950s, he wrote about integral consciousness, particularly focusing on how such a consciousness would relate to time. He saw that our modernist relationship with reality mainly focused on space and the perspective of a separate, individual self. This modern worldview, with its linear understanding of time and progress, has led to many of the fundamental crises we are confronted with.

Jeremy Johnson believes that Gebser's understanding of a new relationship to time can help us to think about our global crises in a different and integral way. In his book on Gebser’s work (which is now also available in German translation), Johnson explores the implications of Gebser’s relationship to time, which makes it transparent to its origin and the ever-latent future.

In this week’s Radio evolve, Thomas Steininger talks with Jeremy Johnson about Jean Gebser and the transparency of time.