Part 1: I look at a front-page story in the New York Times about how psychedelic drugs, such as ecstasy and magic mushrooms, are poised to reshape psychiatry. I make the case that this is a significant move in the evolution of human consciousness. Part 2: I play excerpts from a fascinating conversation between John […]
Psychedelics go Mainstream + John McWhorter & Bill Maher on Race Read More »
The complicated motives that sometimes underlie giving.
When Doing for Others Is Really About Doing for Yourself Read More »
Physical processes, conscious experience, and the social construction of reality are three major philosophical perspectives on the nature of reality.
Three Perspectives on the Fundamental Nature of Reality Read More »
In this episode, I look deeper into the Integral project of ”worldview diversity,” where we seek to befriend, appreciate, and be influenced by people and cultures who inhabit different world-spaces (altitudes of development). Topics I hit on: Alexei Navalny’s heroic, near-death fight for modern values in Russia. “Our people are not perfect, but our culture
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Hello Friends, I will be a panel member at the upcoming online Integral European Conference along with many other great presenters, practice groups and discussions. Hope you will join! When: Sunday, May 23rd, 4:00 CEST / 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 1am AEST | Duration: 1 hour In this panel discussion Steve McIntosh, John
Science is mindblind. We can fix this by applying the Unified Theory of Knowledge to see animal-mental evolution, culture-person evolution, and idiographic subjectivity.
Why Science is “Mindblind,” and Why We Need to Fix It Read More »
This week I explore an essay published in Israel’s newspaper Haaretz that The New York Times said “shook the Israeli left like an ideological bunker-busting bomb.” In it, Nissim Mizrachi, former head of the department of sociology and anthropology at Tel Aviv University, describes what he calls the blind spot of liberals, who, he says,
Post-Progressive Diversity – Integral Consciousness Busts Ideological Bunkers Read More »
Four scientific worldviews are described that adopt different stances on reductionism, emergence, and the nature of consciousness.
Four Scientific Worldviews Read More »
For all its different forms, Green ideology seeks to create sustainability of some kind. Even if some proponents of more radical forms of ecologism like to point out that the aim can hardly be to “sustain” a destructive and ecocidal civilization, that they prefer “resilience” or even “regeneration”, this still means that ecologists want this
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Conservatism may be the most misunderstood of the modern ideologies—and its challenge to political metamodernism is perhaps the most serious one. The central conservative principle is a resolve to escape the traps of infatuations with utopian ideas and puritan ideals—and to settle for “the real world”. The insight that underlies this realization is one of
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