Well-known scholar of metamodernism and spirituality Brendan Graham Dempsey gave an exciting presentation entitled “Measuring Worldviews: Putting Integral Altitudes to the Test”.
Brendan presented research findings on updating and validating integral models, focusing on measuring worldviews using hierarchical complexity. He demonstrated that Fowler's stages of faith align well with the Lectica scale, while ego development stages show some correlation but with significant variability.
The research suggests that some integral models may need refinement in how they measure complexity, particularly for higher stages. Brendan also discussed ongoing work mapping cultural texts to hierarchical complexity and proposed using the Lectica scale to assess the structural complexity of worldview structures.
The subsequent discussion explored the tension between empirical precision and integral vision, including the need for rational standards and methodological pluralism in assessing these models.
