Integration

Integration is the process of returning awareness to reality — the movement through which perception, emotion, and experience realign with what cause and effect is actually doing. It is the gradual dissolving of distortion so that awareness can meet life without resistance.

Integration does not seek perfection, healing, or transcendence, but wholeness: the capacity to hold opposites without forcing them into agreement.
It allows pain and peace, logic and emotion, body and consciousness to coexist without hierarchy.

In the Stillhouse view, integration is not something the self does — it is what reveals itself when judgment loosens and awareness stops trying to control the experience it’s in.
The fragments of perception fall back into their natural order because nothing is being pushed away.

Integration is therefore not an act of fixing, but of allowing.
As awareness settles into coherence, truth shifts from something we think to something we live.

Integration is not perfection — it’s permission for opposites to coexist without conflict.

See Philosophy of Integration, The Ladder of Integration Relationships, Awareness and Truth - The Architecture of Perception, Power and Structural Injustice
See also Cause and Effect, Situated Determinism, Systemic Release, Systemic Obligation, Awareness, Truth