Ellis/A Systemic History, 4. A History of Integrative Practices

The fourth section focuses on the history of the Middle Way as practice. Here we enter the ambiguous zone of human responsibility, no longer talking about feedback loops that occurred in cultures as a whole, but rather about the ways that some individuals or groups have to some extent recognized the drawbacks of reinforcing feedback loops, and tried to create the conditions for balancing ones instead. If my history in the third section is a rather depressing one of balancing processes constantly being appropriated by more absolutization, a focus on practice can offer more hope