Read Bruce’s White Paper Here: Polarization and the Algorithmic Undertow: Integral and Critical Realist Perspectives – Integral Life Bruce Alderman explores how our rapid transition into a globally networked information environment has created unprecedented challenges for human cognition, social cohesion, and collective meaning-making and sensemaking. In this foundational episode, Bruce Alderman joins Josh Leonard to

In this powerful and often provocative dialogue, psychotherapist and developmental theorist Kim Barta joins Keith Martin-Smith for a deep dive into the psychological and developmental dynamics surrounding one of the most polarizing figures of our time: Donald Trump. Drawing from decades of clinical experience and the STAGES developmental model, Kim outlines a rigorous three-part typology

Robb Smith explains how pain acts as a catalyst for transformation at both individual and civilizational levels. He describes how humanity often resists reorganization until the pain of not solving a problem exceeds the discomfort of change. This rising pressure from unresolved systemic crises—what he calls “steering crises”—eventually forces the emergence of new worldviews and

We are living through a civilizational turning point — a “Transformation Age” defined by meta-crises across geopolitics, technology, ecology, and meaning itself. In this second episode of Big Picture Mind, Robb Smith lays out a bold and actionable strategy for how integrative thinkers, leaders, and creators can rise to meet this moment. Drawing from his

In this deeply personal excerpt from Evolving Spirit, Zen teacher Santiago Jimenez shares a dramatic experience of profound ego dissolution, describing it as an intense “ego blow-up” that shattered his cohesive sense of self. Santiago vividly recounts how initial feelings of blissful emptiness, liberation, and freedom from suffering unexpectedly gave way to confusion, vulnerability, and