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deliver treatment, you will die. That is not a separate issue; it is central to the
issue, because all occasions have four quadrants. The Lower-Right quadrant
includes factors such as economics, insurance, social delivery systems, and even
things as simple as how a hospital room is physically laid out (does it allow ease
of movement, access to visitors, etc.)—not to mention items like environmental
toxins.
The forgoing items refer to the “all-quadrant” aspect of the cause and
management of illness. The “all-level” part refers to the fact that individuals
have—at least—physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels in each of those
quadrants (see fig. 6). Some illnesses have largely physical causes and physical
cures (get hit by a bus, break your leg). But most illnesses have causes and
cures that include emotional, mental, and spiritual components. Literally hundreds
of researchers from around the world have added immeasurably to our
understanding of the “multi-level” nature of disease and cure (including invaluable
additions from the great wisdom traditions, shamanic to Tibetan). The point is
simply that by adding these levels to the quadrants, a much more
comprehensive—and effective—medical model begins to emerge.
In short, a truly effective and comprehensive medical plan would be allquadrant,
all-level: the idea is simply that each quadrant or dimension (fig. 3)—I,
we, and it—has physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels or waves (fig. 6),
and a truly integral treatment would take all of these realities into account. Not
only is this type of integral treatment more effective, it is for that reason more costefficient—which
is why even organizational medicine is looking at it more closely.
Integral Business
Applications of the Integral Model have recently exploded in business,
perhaps, again, because the applications are so immediate and obvious. The
quadrants give the four “environments” or dimensions in which a product must
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