By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 26 Jun 20
Today’s free podcast: Leading-Edge Consciousness and Avant Garde Art Billy Corgan and Ken Wilber “If the commercial system demands that you constantly degrade your integrity in order to achieve success, then you’re basically buying into transitory fans who like you because you’re doing something stupid today.” -Billy Corgan As many people know, Billy Corgan and Smashing Pumpkins burst on the scene with their first album, Gish, in 1991, which shot to the top of the charts, which is where the Pumpkins remained for a decade, all the harder in that critics considered them “sophisticated,” “complex,” “with great depth,” words usually
Today’s free podcast: Leading-Edge Consciousness and Avant Garde Art Billy Corgan and Ken Wilber “If the commercial system demands that you constantly degrade your integrity in order to achieve success, then you’re basically buying into transitory fans who like you because you’re doing something stupid today.” -Billy Corgan As many people know, Billy Corgan and Smashing Pumpkins burst on the
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 18 Jun 20
This week’s free podcast: SEXUAL KINKS IN CONSCIOUSNESS (David Deida and Ken Wilber) Although there are many facets to this wonderful discussion, the central idea is that there are masculine and feminine expressions of Spirit, whose respective qualities are often referred to as consciousness and light, agency and communion, solar and lunar, Emptiness and Manifestation, Freedom and Fullness. Both the masculine and feminine types develop through three basic stages or levels. David refers to these three basic stages by many different names, including gross, subtle, and causal; preconventional, conventional, and postconventional; personal, interpersonal, and transpersonal; or simply body, mind, and
This week’s free podcast: SEXUAL KINKS IN CONSCIOUSNESS (David Deida and Ken Wilber) Although there are many facets to this wonderful discussion, the central idea is that there are masculine and feminine expressions of Spirit, whose respective qualities are often referred to as consciousness and light, agency and communion, solar and lunar, Emptiness and Manifestation, Freedom and Fullness. Both the
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 5 Jun 20
Have we as a society ever been so divided? From partisan polarization to the politicization of the Coronavirus, to rampant unemployment and the #BlackLivesMatter protests erupting all over America, it seems increasingly clear that we are arriving at some important inflection point in our culture. We are living in a time when many of our deeply-embedded intersubjective biases and blind spots are more and more becoming objects of awareness, and we seem to be witnessing an entire nation that is struggling to confront its own history so that it can take the next critical steps toward growing up, waking up,
Have we as a society ever been so divided? From partisan polarization to the politicization of the Coronavirus, to rampant unemployment and the #BlackLivesMatter protests erupting all over America, it seems increasingly clear that we are arriving at some important inflection point in our culture. We are living in a time when many of our deeply-embedded intersubjective biases and blind
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 5 Jun 20
Human development is uneven, which means that we are better at some things than we are at others. Some skills come more naturally to us, and others are more difficult to acquire. Watch as Ken and Corey explore each of these developmental capacities in detail, offering a powerful summary of human potentials, talents, and intelligences — a comprehensive map of the territory of “you” that will help guide your own ongoing growth and development. Watch the Full Episode: https://integrallife.com/the-many-ways-we-grow/#integrallife #kenwilber #development #personalgrowth Integral Life is a member-driven digital media community that supports the growth, education and application of Integral Philosophy
Human development is uneven, which means that we are better at some things than we are at others. Some skills come more naturally to us, and others are more difficult to acquire. Watch as Ken and Corey explore each of these developmental capacities in detail, offering a powerful summary of human potentials, talents, and intelligences — a comprehensive map of
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 5 Jun 20
In the latest episode of The Ken Show, Ken offers an in-depth tour through one of his most well-known contributions to integral philosophy: the Four Quadrants. Watch as Ken shares his personal story about the origins of the Four Quadrant model — the day everything came together — as he weaves 3rd-person theoretical descriptions of the model with his own 1st-person experience and creative process. We also take a close look at the nature of the quadrants themselves, and ponder how exactly these fundamental dimensions of existence — dimensions that are every bit as real as the four dimensions of
In the latest episode of The Ken Show, Ken offers an in-depth tour through one of his most well-known contributions to integral philosophy: the Four Quadrants. Watch as Ken shares his personal story about the origins of the Four Quadrant model — the day everything came together — as he weaves 3rd-person theoretical descriptions of the model with his own
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 5 Jun 20
A Note from Writer-Director Sebastian Siegel on the Making of Grace and Grit and Adapting the Book to FilmGrace and Grit Teaserwww.shambhala.comReleasing in 2020! Grace and Grit will star Mena Suvari and Stuart Townsend with Frances Fisher, Rebekah Graf, Nick Stahl, Lydia Hearst, and Mariel Hemingway. Written & directed by Sebastian…
A Note from Writer-Director Sebastian Siegel on the Making of Grace and Grit and Adapting the Book to FilmGrace and Grit Teaserwww.shambhala.comReleasing in 2020! Grace and Grit will star Mena Suvari and Stuart Townsend with Frances Fisher, Rebekah Graf, Nick Stahl, Lydia Hearst, and Mariel Hemingway. Written & directed by Sebastian…
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 5 Jun 20
Today’s free podcast: Beyond Genre (with Rick Rubin and Ken Wilber) Rick Rubin has produced some of the most influential and creative albums of the past two decades, from artists such as The Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, Slayer, Tom Petty, Johnny Cash, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down, Nine Inch Nails, Audio Slave, Jay-Z, Saul Williams—and the list just keeps on going. But what kind of producer works as easily with Johnny Cash as with Nine Inch Nails? And what kind of producer has Johnny covering a NIN song? Quite simply, a
Today’s free podcast: Beyond Genre (with Rick Rubin and Ken Wilber) Rick Rubin has produced some of the most influential and creative albums of the past two decades, from artists such as The Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, Slayer, Tom Petty, Johnny Cash, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down, Nine Inch Nails, Audio
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 5 Jun 20
Check out this cool 20-minute excerpt from Ken’s recent 8-hour discussion about gun violence in America, where he talks about the history of The Beatles in relation to healthy and unhealthy expressions of green values. Full discussion here: https://integrallife.com/wicked-problems-gun-violence/The Ken Show — The Beatles and Healthy Green Values (excerpt)vimeo.comExcerpted from Episode 13 of The Ken Show — Wicked Problems: Gun Violence https://integrallife.com/wicked-problems-gun-violence/
Check out this cool 20-minute excerpt from Ken’s recent 8-hour discussion about gun violence in America, where he talks about the history of The Beatles in relation to healthy and unhealthy expressions of green values. Full discussion here: https://integrallife.com/wicked-problems-gun-violence/The Ken Show — The Beatles and Healthy Green Values (excerpt)vimeo.comExcerpted from Episode 13 of The Ken Show — Wicked Problems: Gun
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 5 Jun 20
In this stunning 2.5 hour discussion, Ken Wilber offers his own views around healthy and unhealthy forms of social justice, praising the healthy and legitimate efforts to enact social justice over the generations while noting how much of today’s broken discourse around social justice is helping to perpetuate multiple forms of injustice. —– “I thought we could also just briefly check in on my own specific take on (social justice). And we’ve talked a lot about several of these pieces in previous shows, but we’ve never really sort of brought them together, so we can focus on essentially one topic
In this stunning 2.5 hour discussion, Ken Wilber offers his own views around healthy and unhealthy forms of social justice, praising the healthy and legitimate efforts to enact social justice over the generations while noting how much of today’s broken discourse around social justice is helping to perpetuate multiple forms of injustice. —– “I thought we could also just briefly
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 5 Jun 20
THE KEN SHOW: I DREAM OF GENEALOGY In his essay, “Who Ate Captain Cook? Integral Historiography in a Postmodern Age” (available to download here) Ken says the following: “But here’s the other thing, the incredibly important thing, that organic genealogy does: it gets us out of the dead-end of pluralism and extreme postmodernism. Genealogy rescues us from pluralistic relativism, from flatland egalitarianism, from the deconstructive postmodernism that is the epidemic of our age. Genealogy is the cure for the postmodern nightmare that has ruined not only academia but much of culture at large. In short, genealogy is the cure for
THE KEN SHOW: I DREAM OF GENEALOGY In his essay, “Who Ate Captain Cook? Integral Historiography in a Postmodern Age” (available to download here) Ken says the following: “But here’s the other thing, the incredibly important thing, that organic genealogy does: it gets us out of the dead-end of pluralism and extreme postmodernism. Genealogy rescues us from pluralistic relativism, from