From Corey deVos‘s bio on Integral Life
The man behind the curtain. I also built the curtain.
I am the Editor, Designer, Writer, and Producer of IntegralLife.com, as well as the Managing Editor of KenWilber.com. These are all Very Important Jobs, which is why I capitalized them.
I also built the new IntegralLife.com website, which I think was a pretty cool thing for me to do.
I am a freelance writer, integral consultant, and WordPress designer. Let me know if you’d like to work with me! And let me know if that exclamation point made me sound too eager.
Most importantly, I am a Dad who is madly in love with his family.
In a nutshell, my job is to curate and produce most of what you see, hear, and do on the IntegralLife.com website:
– I produce our ongoing content.
– I find all those just-right images that capture the essence of the practices, perspectives, and presentations we publish.
– I edit our audio interviews from their raw state into what you hear on the site, cutting out all those embarrassing stutters and lip smacks and annoying “ums”.
– I wrap some pretty-but-maybe-sometimes-too-lyrical words around the whole ordeal.
– I deliver the week’s offerings to your inbox, all in hopes that all of this has somehow made your day just a little bit brighter.
– I also built the new IntegralLife.com website, and manage the the site technology behind the scenes.
Now you know who to blame.
Roman Krznaric is a public philosopher who writes about the power of ideas to change society. His books, including Empathy, The Wonderbox and Carpe Diem Regained, have been published in more than 20 languages. His new book, The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short Term World, will be published in July 2020, and has been described by U2’s The Edge as ‘the book our children’s children will thank us for reading’.
After growing up in Sydney and Hong Kong, Roman studied at the universities of Oxford, London and Essex, where he gained his PhD in political sociology. He went on to found the world’s first Empathy Museum and the digital Empathy Library, and was also a founding faculty member of The School of Life. He is currently a Research Fellow of the Long Now Foundation.
Joe runs the study group Earth Regenerators
Derived from LinkedIn Profile:
Joe has a unique background in physics, math, philosophy, atmospheric science, complexity research, and cognitive linguistics. Awakened to the threat of human-induced climate disruption while pursuing a Ph.D. in atmospheric science, he switched fields and began to work with scholars in the behavioural and cognitive sciences with the hope of helping create large-scale behavior change at the level of global civilization.
He was an active member of the Center for Complex Systems Research at the University of Illinois studying pattern formation in physical and social systems before joining renowned linguist, George Lakoff, at the Rockridge Institute in Berkeley to analyze political discourse and reveal the structures of meaning in human language.
In 2008, Joe launched the research consultancy Cognitive Policy Works whose mission was to apply insights from cognitive science to social change efforts. It was here that he built up a global network of collaborators in the nonprofit, governmental, and social impact business domains.
He has spoken at many global conferences on the science of social change and the human dimensions of planetary sustainability. And has given workshops on three continents about the workings of the human mind and the strategic tools for designing and enacting positive change in the world.
Eric Ross Weinstein is the managing director of Thiel Capital, Peter Thiel’s investment firm, since 2015. He and his brother Bret Weinstein coined the term Intellectual Dark Web to refer to an informal group of pundits. In June 2019, Weinstein launched a podcast called The Portal.
Metamodern generalist | embodied non-dual awareness ~ enaction | bioregional regeneration
From LinkedIn Profile:
Professional and educational background in applied economics, geography, GIS, scenario modeling/simulation, food systems, and international development.
General research interest: The evolution of food systems and their relationship to socio-economic development
Current Research topics:
Structural transformation and food value chains in East Africa
Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vlhs0XQAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra
An understanding of who Hanzi is provides a taste of metamodernism itself. When complete, his proposed 6-volume magnum opus on metamodernism will be the first/only – and so, de facto definitive – published magnum opus on metamodernism. As described here, it will include politics (done), history, economics, ethics and law.
From Metamoderna.org:
As a writer, Hanzi combines in-depth knowledge of several sciences and disciplines and offers maps of our time and the human condition with his characteristically accessible, poetic and humorous writing style – challenging the reader’s perspective of herself and the world.
Hanzi Freinacht epitomizes much of the metamodern philosophy and can be considered a personification of this strand of thought. He has produced a wide array of original, relevant and useful ideas for people in all walks of life. These ideas help you gain an upper hand in the new political, economic and cultural landscape of digital, postindustrial society.
Derived from David’s LinkedIn Profile and Wikipedia page:
David is currently working on the application of natural sciences to social systems through the development of a range of methods and the SenseMaker® software suite. He is known for the development of the Cynefin framework and is the founder and chief scientific officer of Cognitive Edge, a management consulting firm specializing in complexity and sensemaking.
Specialities:
- Sensemaking
- Knowledge Management
- Complexity Science applied to organisations
- Narrative
Jeff is honored to have worked for three years with his hero, Ken Wilber, in developing the Integral Institute, and their historic seminars on integral application in business, psychology and spirituality.
He is on the Board of Steve McIntosh’s (his other integral hero) think tank, The Institute for Cultural Evolution.
He is co-founder of CareerTrack Training, an adult education company he and his partner built into an international organization producing 3000+ seminars annually, and employing 300+ people.
Jeff co-founded Boulder Integral (now The Integral Center, under the leadership of Robert McNaughton), a bricks and mortar center for integral study and practice, drawing people from all over the world.
A long-time practitioner in several spiritual traditions, Jeff has taught meditation and led many retreats. He has a Masters Degree in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism from Naropa University (2006).
From LinkedIn:
I co-host a podcast about technology, society, and consciousness. FutureThinkers.org. We talk about blockchain technologies, the technological singularity, artificial intelligence, meditation, future societies, and how we will be affected by the exponential curve of progress.
From Future Thinkers:
Mike Gilliland grew up in Western Canada and studied audio and video production at the Art Institute of Vancouver. He has a 10+ year background in the multimedia industry and is a jack of all trades when it comes to multimedia production and digital storytelling. He has been involved in online businesses for just as long and has started several companies. In his spare time, he enjoys listening to audiobooks, deep-diving into really obscure subjects, playing Minecraft, wearing neck pillows, and spilling coffee. He is an INTJ.
Helen is the editor of the online Areo Magazine
From the Areo website:
Helen Pluckrose is an exile from the humanities with research interests in late medieval/early modern religious writing by and about women. She is editor-in-chief of Areo. Helen took part in the “grievance studies” probe and her book with James Lindsay, Cynical Theories, looks at the evolution of postmodern thought in scholarship and activism.
Write to Helen at: https://letter.wiki/HELENPLUCKROSE/conversations
An understanding of who Hanzi is provides a taste of metamodernism itself. When complete, his proposed 6-volume magnum opus on metamodernism will be the first/only – and so, de facto definitive – published magnum opus on metamodernism. As described here, it will include politics (done), history, economics, ethics and law.