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
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
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 5 Jun 20
Ken and Corey respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by suggesting a far more comprehensive approach to health and healing. Watch as we take a tour through all four quadrants of healthy living — a much-needed guide to integral anti-fragility in the 21st century. — When I approached Ken for this episode of The Ken Show, I tried to come up with questions that could help us better understand and cope with the coronavirus pandemic that is making such a deep impact upon our lives. The questions I submitted to Ken were an attempt to look at these transformative life conditions
Ken and Corey respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by suggesting a far more comprehensive approach to health and healing. Watch as we take a tour through all four quadrants of healthy living — a much-needed guide to integral anti-fragility in the 21st century. — When I approached Ken for this episode of The Ken Show, I tried to come up
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 5 Jun 20
Ken and Corey continue their fascinating discussion about integral historiography, taking a close look at three common historiographical fallacies through an integral lens: – The Historian’s Fallacy (Presentism) – Chronological Snobbery – Teleological Historiography Ken and Corey begin the discussion with an in-depth exploration of presentism, which describes the process of projecting present-day values, ideas, perspectives, and moral standards onto historical events. This not only produces inaccurate and distorted interpretations of historical events, but also opens the door to all sorts of cultural biases and blindspots that can cause the historian to “rewrite history” in ways that consciously or unconsciously
Ken and Corey continue their fascinating discussion about integral historiography, taking a close look at three common historiographical fallacies through an integral lens: – The Historian’s Fallacy (Presentism) – Chronological Snobbery – Teleological Historiography Ken and Corey begin the discussion with an in-depth exploration of presentism, which describes the process of projecting present-day values, ideas, perspectives, and moral standards onto
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 5 Jun 20
Why does America have such a deadly problem with gun violence? What can possibly be done to solve the issue? Why do there seem to be no easy answers? Ken and Corey take an in-depth look at America’s ongoing struggle with gun violence, using the four quadrants to track many of the most critical and commonly-blamed factors, conditions, and causes that seem to be contributing to this terribly wicked problem. From the foundation of the American union through the War of Independence, to its near dissolution during the Civil War, to the open frontiers of the Wild West and the
Why does America have such a deadly problem with gun violence? What can possibly be done to solve the issue? Why do there seem to be no easy answers? Ken and Corey take an in-depth look at America’s ongoing struggle with gun violence, using the four quadrants to track many of the most critical and commonly-blamed factors, conditions, and causes
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 5 Jun 20
A free eBook by Ken Wilber. “Who Ate Captain Cook?” is a fascinating sidebar to Ken Wilber’s book Boomeritis: A Novel That Will Set You Free, in which Ken offers a summary of integral historiography, revealing a far more comprehensive way to integrate multiple schools of historiography and to deepen our enactment of both the facts and most salient interpretations of the historical record.Who Ate Captain Cook? Integral Historiography in a Postmodern Age – Integral Lifeintegrallife.comIn this fascinating sidebar to Ken Wilber’s book Boomeritis: A Novel That Will Set You Free, Ken offers a summary of integral historiography, revealing a
A free eBook by Ken Wilber. “Who Ate Captain Cook?” is a fascinating sidebar to Ken Wilber’s book Boomeritis: A Novel That Will Set You Free, in which Ken offers a summary of integral historiography, revealing a far more comprehensive way to integrate multiple schools of historiography and to deepen our enactment of both the facts and most salient interpretations