Through awakening service, we go out into the world in order to go deeper into ourselves, more effectively out into the world, seeking to realize in each action the integral vision, in both ourselves and the world, & to thereby reduce suffering & evil.

The desired result is a motivational shift up the hierarchy of needs. This shift of motivation fosters transpersonal motives and development, reduces egocentric motivation and reinforcement, decathects one’s current self-sense, and undermines the Atman project.

The ever-wise Roger Walsh answers the question of how to understand and respond to suffering and evil (intentionally created, unnecessary suffering), one of the greatest human challenges. integrallife.com/responding-to-…

Karma yoga is one of the classic yogas of Hinduism. Its central goal is to transform all service and work—all actions—into spiritual practice. Its essential elements are threefold: offering the activity, impeccable action, and relinquishing attachment to the outcome.

In the face of these challenges…we can respond in one of two ways. One choice is to defend ourselves…[by using] innumerable psychological & cultural defenses:… inauthenticity (philosophy), unconsciousness & defensiveness (psychology), or ignorance, delusion, and sin (religion)

Beyond this, integral disciplines… aim to dissolve all perspectives into pure awareness, from which perspectives can then reemerge with their partial, perspectival nature recognized, their integral-aperspectival potentials realized, and their spiritual ground remembered.

To the extent that any perspective is not recognized as… partial, relative, and perspectival—it will produce a corresponding worldview that will be assumed to be complete and true… [resulting] in self-delusion, well- intended suffering, and self-justified evil.

Release and integrate these partial perspectives into more encompassing (contextually wider and developmentally deeper) perspectives, and eventually into integral-aperspectivalism.

Attempts to relieve suffering will be more effective when interior psychological, cultural, and spiritual causes are addressed as well as exterior causes.

More generally, the more quadrants and levels of causes that are addressed, the more effective and enduring may be the healing.