Unfortunately we live in a universe where equality is an even trickier and more complex goal than freedom. By its very nature, equality is ridden with yet greater inherent contradictions, with yet more intricate paradoxes. Negative rights (“freedom from”) are less complicated than positive rights and entitlements (“freedom to”). It is easier to draw consistent […]
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Introduction: A History without Time Chapter theme song: Time, Hans Zimmerman. Q: What is history? HF: History is the past. But it can only be told in the present. Of an infinity of possible stories and interpretations of past events, we somehow conjure up specific histories. Our understanding of these past events propose meaningful
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Integral psychotherapist Dr. Keith Witt sparked this episode of our ongoing conversation, “The Shrink and the Pundit”, by writing to me about a dilemma that many evolutionaries share: In our personal relationships we are pretty good at harmonizing differences. But when it comes to politics and culture it is a much harder task. He writes:
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I’m about to get on a ferry to Corsica for a week or two as a beach zombie. Before I head offline though I wanted to send out some hot links for your reading and listening pleasure. (If you’re in the southern hemisphere and in the thick of winter… sorry to brag about the summer
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In today’s episode I recount my own evolution through the spiral of development and share how the integral vision has illuminated my world(s). I was approached for this interview by two dear friends: Nomali Perera, with whom I’ve worked on many integral projects since 2004, and Lee Mason, whom I’ve come to know more recently.
One of the most powerful projects to come out of the integral movement is the practice of “authentic relating” with its core 2nd-person technology of “circling.” The Boulder Integral Center was a laboratory for its development, and Jason Digges was in the thick of it, first by being personally transformed, then by teaching it to
We are in a cultural moment regarding race where we can literally see and feel the movements of history. It’s making for many great conversations among integralists, and in this episode I share one I enjoyed recently with two evolutionary thinkers, Greg Thomas and Phil Anderson. Our topics include differentiating the often-conflated concepts of race,
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Will Peoples’ Response to the Emergencies of the Coming Decades be Warm? Or Cold? Will Peoples’ Response to the Emergencies of the Coming Decades Be Warm? Or Cold? Find a Way. Photo: Nora Bateson 13 min read Nora Bateson & Mamphela Ramphele The crises of the moment do not need further description here. Suffice to
“The prevailing production system will shift away from a model, of centralized extraction and the breakdown of scarce resources that requires vast physical scale and reach, to a model of localized creation from limitless, ubiquitous building blocks – a world built not on coal, oil, steel, livestock and concrete but on photons, electrons, DNA, molecules
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In Part 1 we discussed why Covid-19 has impacted industrial livestock farming. Here we discuss the rise of the new protein industry in a post-Covid-19 world. Covid-19 is accelerating the collapse of the old system and the growth of a new one. Will Covid-19 speed up the replacement of livestock with a new system
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