Integral sniglets

Anybody out there remember sniglets? There was a show on HBO I watched growing up in the 80's called Not Necessarily the News and this comedian Rich Hall came up with the idea of a sniglet. A sniglet is defined as a "word that should be in the dictionary, but isn't." Hall had segments on the show where he would introduce a new sniglet and some were really funny. Hall even wrote a few books on them which I need to check out next time I'm in the bookstore.

For some reason sniglets came to mind the other day. I was thinking hmmm there should be some sniglets for the integral community. So I decided that in the spirit of holding all this integral theory more lightly I would come up with a few 'integral sniglets' if you will. Enjoy...

Ad misrepresentum – the common and frequent use of misinterpretation and misrepresentation to critique the work of Ken Wilber
Example: Too many to list

Boulderdash (props to Coolmel for this term) – the exodus of people relocating to the hub/ground zero of the integral movement – Boulder/Denver, CO.

Cohenoscopy – a technique similar to cranial-sacral therapy used to suppress and/or remove the haunting cackle of guru Andrew Cohen from patients’ brains

Deidafied – the feelings of inadequacy experienced when after reading David Deida’s The Way of the Superior Man you realize how mediocre of a man you are.

Greenophobe – those who upon learning the description of the Spiral Dynamics green meme become afraid of associating with anything or anyone considered too “green”

Homo sapiens integralis – a newly evolving form of the homo sapiens species (mostly male) that constantly bore their friends and significant other with endless babble about AQAL, levels and lines or states and stages; spends most of their free time reading integral books, papers or watching/listening to integral material rather than engaging, relating to and helping others.

Multiple Voice Disorder (MVD) – a temporary psychological condition brought on by Genpo Roshi’s Big Mind process that may cause your various selves/voices to start talking to one another in front of friends and family

Quadrantis syndrome – the inexplicable constant need to categorize any and all phenomenon into four quadrants (or the Big Three, or I, We and It).
Example: At dinner the other night I suddenly drew four boxes and did an integral indexing of the inside/outside of the individual/collective aspects of the Ruby Tuesday restaurant.

STD or Spiral Too Dynamicus – the condition developed after exposure to the Spiral Dynamics virus; symptoms include haphazardly using the SD colors to overgeneralize and label people, events, movies, organizations, religions and anything else imaginable.
Also includes using colors to inaccurately label morals, cognition, needs and other lines of development.

Stumoon – the unexpected and unpredictable appearance of the naked body and/or ass of Stuart Davis

Wilberease – the integral jargon/language gradually learned after reading just about every book written by Ken Wilber
Examples: transcend and include, “mean” memes, translation and transformation, 8 indigenous perspectives, Zones (1-4), , Boomeritis, first and second tier, “Darth Vader move,” Flatland, Witness, “everybody is right,” phases of Wilber (1-5), Big Three, morphogenetic field, Wilber-Combs matrix, “body, mind and spirit in self, culture and nature,” “integrally informed”, holon, Kosmos, vision-logic, “center of gravity”, pre/trans fallacy, postmetaphysical, Twenty Tenets, centaur, “true but partial”

Wilberium – a naturally occurring phenomenon that affects people (usually males) after reading books by Integral philosopher Ken Wilber and causes them to want to dress, look and talk like said Ken Wilber.
Example: Your friend that just read One Taste and saw Ken’s latest video on IN who proceeded to shave his head bald, buy a Q-Link pendent, drink Red Bull, wear sleeveless tees and shop at Armani. Also likes to say “fuck” and “everybody is right” a lot. (Purple shades are optional hehe)

Wilbreviation – popular abbreviations used for many common Wilberease terms
Examples: KW, UL, LL, UR, LR, ITP, IMP, BMI I-I, IU, IN, AQAL, T.O.E, BHOE, SDi, IOS, CW, SES, EOS, MGM, MOM, 4Q/8L, IOU, COG

Comments

[katuah]

"Example: At dinner the other night I suddenly drew four boxes and did an integral indexing of the inside/outside of the individual/collective aspects of the Ruby Tuesday restaurant."

dude, that is just wrong, but in such a right way. ;-)

[martin]

very, very funny! ;)

[Joe Perez]

Fuck! As KW said in T.O.E., "everybody's right," -- even you, I suppose, though I detect a bit of green here (sniglets on HBO? I smell ironic post-post-deconstructionism!), so I really ought to be going back to my own blog. Not that I'm greenophobic or anything, not that there would be anything wrong with that, being green or being a greenophobe or whatever. It's all good.

P.S.: So where can I get Stumooned and will it give me an STD?

[ebuddha]

Very very nice. Some might be a tiny bit mean, but still - pretty funny!

[duff]

Hilarious! I'm going to start using these sniglets in my integrally-informed vocabulary right away!

[coolmel]

hahaha. nice. man, you the integral geek! :) very fluffy.

ps. you forgot Wilberitis ;)