The Big Picture Mind: What Every Elite is Missing I recently did a live event to provide what I hope will be one of the Biggest Picture views of what’s happening in 2025 available anywhere in the world. Why? Because Big Pictures liberate. By seeing what’s actually happening, you have more freedom, you understand more, […]
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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 158 Enough is enough. While there is much need for purposed action around the world to set our countries to right, we are rapidly realizing we’ve had enough radicalism. But radicalism, often in answer to radicalism, is still rapidly on the rise. These facts raise an important
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Why do so many high achievers feel like they’re never enough, no matter how much they accomplish? In this episode, Dr. Keith Witt and Corey deVos explore the hidden meta-motivation systems that drive us — sometimes to greatness, but often to exhaustion. This post was originally published on Integral Life.
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We’ve recently upgraded DepolarizingGPT—our political chatbot developed by data scientist David Rozado and myself—with the latest AI technology. Our depolarizing or “integrating” perspective now benefits from the power of the newest ChatGPT-4o model, bringing you an even more insightful, and nuanced perspective on today’s political issues. DepolarizingGPT provides three perspectives for every prompt: A responsible
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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 157 “We are the media now!” So we hear. Much of that media is social media, and social media is a psychological and political warfare battlespace. More than that, it’s incredibly fake. What we see there is mostly a well-crafted illusion meant to distort our perceptions of
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Brendan Graham Dempsey introduces the Cultural Complexity Index (CCI), a groundbreaking initiative that empirically measures cognitive complexity in historical texts, revealing patterns in human meaning-making across time. By analyzing symbolic representation rather than collective belief systems, the CCI provides fresh insights into cultural evolution while distinguishing individual cognitive development from broader social dynamics. This post
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Please join us for a presentation and discussion by developmental philosopher Steve McIntosh. At a surface level, post-postmodern (integral) culture broadly includes numerous spiritual paths. Yet, at the same time, this emerging subculture is attempting to transcend postmodern cultural relativism. So, what are post-postmodernism’s social norms regarding spiritual pluralism? Should we carry forward New Age
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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 156 How in the world did people become Nazis? How could it have happened? These are questions we grew up with and, maybe, always hoped against hope we wouldn’t be able to answer. There’s a comfort in them remaining mysterious, but in that comfort we’re vulnerable. How can we possibly
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It has been some extremely inspiring 8 months as we have researched for and prepared a pan-Nordic survey about bildung. The goal is to find out how educators across the Nordics, from kindergarten to university, and from formal to non-formal educaction experience and work with bildung. Thus we have had four goals with the pre-project:
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In this first episode of The Big Picture Mind, Robb Smith explores the rapid, self-reinforcing change that is driving a global metacrisis across governance, technology, culture, and meaning. To navigate this, he calls for the rise of Big Picture Minds—people who can think integratively, restore coherence, and actively shape the future rather than be overwhelmed
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