Integral [+] Facticity

Integral [+] Facticity

The Integral Facticity Substack is the research journal of the Metapattern Institute — an independent digital humanities research initiative based in Montreal, operating at the intersection of health informatics and integral human development.

This archive documents the ongoing development of Integral Awareness & Commitment Training (IACT), the Institute’s primary research program. The work uses auto-ethnographic field methods to test theoretical frameworks against lived experience, producing longitudinal data on how psychological flexibility, human development, and institutional systems interact under real-world conditions.

Erik Haines, Principal Investigator

Erik Haines is an independent researcher based in Montreal with over fifteen years of professional experience in IT systems, knowledge management, and financial services. He holds a B.A. from Concordia University in Applied Human Sciences and Religious Studies. His research bridges digital humanities, health informatics, and philosophical traditions spanning integral humanism, Canadian speculative philosophy, and contextual behavioral science.

From 2022–2023, Haines hosted the Integral Facticity Podcast (21 episodes), engaging scholars working across critical theory, integral philosophy, political theology, and Canadian intellectual history. The archive continues that work in written form.

CORE CONCEPTS

Integral Facticity: All human action occurs within irreducible factical conditions — biological, psychological, historical, social. The framework draws on integral humanism, the Canadian speculative tradition, communicative action theory, and contextual behavioral science.

Enactive Fallibilism: All knowledge claims are provisional and subject to revision through lived experience. The body serves as empirical probe testing whether systems are sustainable. When systems cause suffering, the systems are falsified — not the body.

Integral Epistemological Pluralism: Multiple irreducible ways of knowing — phenomenological, empirical, hermeneutic, systemic, contemplative — each possess their own validity conditions. Navigating across them is an embodied praxis, not a theoretical synthesis.

Prosocial: IACT extends individual psychological flexibility to group-level dynamics, integrating contextual behavioral science with core design principles for effective collective governance.

THE LARGER PROJECT

This archive is part of the Metapattern Institute.

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OPERATING PRINCIPLES

Zero Solicitation: No donations, subscriptions, or financial contributions are solicited or accepted.

Editorial Independence: The research operates independently of commercial platforms, academic institutions, and funding bodies.

Open Access: All content is freely available.