By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 13 Jan 20
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By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 29 Dec 19
The Institute for Cultural Evolution’s character development exercise is the subject of Jeff Salzman’s latest Daily Evolver podcast. Here is Jeff’s description of the podcast: Integral philosopher Steve McIntosh helps us usher in the new year (and decade) with a fresh look at an ancient formula for living a happy, productive and meaningful life. In this episode he explains “the virtues”, a philosophical concept with living roots reaching back to antiquity, including Plato and Confucius, as well as modern validity in the findings of positive psychology and social science. Virtues practice is a powerful means of personal growth, and Steve
The Institute for Cultural Evolution’s character development exercise is the subject of Jeff Salzman’s latest Daily Evolver podcast. Here is Jeff’s description of the podcast: Integral philosopher Steve McIntosh helps us usher in the new year (and decade) with a fresh look at an ancient formula for living a happy, productive and meaningful life. In this episode he explains “the
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 18 Dec 19
In anticipation of the publication of my forthcoming book, Developmental Politics, I’ve posted 16 pages of excerpts from the book (close to 9,000 words) on this website. These excerpts include 7 pages from “Part I: Toward a Politics of Culture,” and 9 pages from “Part II: Toward a New Philosophy of Purpose and Progress.” Part I of the book is a relatively easy read. The first three chapters provide a narrative description of cultural evolution in America, which tells the story of how American culture became “stretched out” to the point of being nearly ungovernable. Then in chapter 4 I
In anticipation of the publication of my forthcoming book, Developmental Politics, I’ve posted 16 pages of excerpts from the book (close to 9,000 words) on this website. These excerpts include 7 pages from “Part I: Toward a Politics of Culture,” and 9 pages from “Part II: Toward a New Philosophy of Purpose and Progress.” Part I of the book is
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 14 Dec 19
2020 is going to be a very significant year in American politics. And with the March 1st publication of my book, Developmental Politics: How America Can Grow Into a Better Version of Itself, it’s going to be a very significant year for me as well. While I won’t be running for office, I will be conducting a “political campaign” of sorts, as I work to influence politics by speaking and writing to help promote my book in the marketplace if ideas. Developmental Politics attempts to advance a political perspective that is effectively “outside and above” America’s partisan divide. So it
2020 is going to be a very significant year in American politics. And with the March 1st publication of my book, Developmental Politics: How America Can Grow Into a Better Version of Itself, it’s going to be a very significant year for me as well. While I won’t be running for office, I will be conducting a “political campaign” of
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 28 Sep 19
Advancing Human Sovereignty Sovereignty relates to the capacity for and demonstration of good (omni-positive) choice-making. We define sovereignty more formally as the product of sentience, intelligence, and agency. Sentience relates to one’s ability to sense the world (including inner sensing of self and vicarious inner sensing of others). It includes qualities like awareness, empathy, mindfulness, … Advancing Human Sovereignty Read More »
Advancing Human Sovereignty Sovereignty relates to the capacity for and demonstration of good (omni-positive) choice-making. We define sovereignty more formally as the product of sentience, intelligence, and agency. Sentience relates to one’s ability to sense the world (including inner sensing of self and vicarious inner sensing of others). It includes qualities like awareness, empathy, mindfulness, … Advancing Human Sovereignty Read
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 2 Sep 19
The wisdom of the ancient ones Our story started way back. The first people of all continents inhabited their natural surroundings with the mixed emotions of gratitude for the nourishment and trepidation about the coming thunderstorm. Nature was a formidable friend and foe. When man-made or natural dangers threatened their habitat, the circle […]
The wisdom of the ancient ones Our story started way back. The first people of all continents inhabited their natural surroundings with the mixed emotions of gratitude for the nourishment and trepidation about the coming thunderstorm. Nature was a formidable friend and foe. When man-made or natural dangers threatened their habitat, the circle […]
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 2 Apr 19
Nora Bateson 2019 For years I have written about the systemic crises of our times in terms of tenderness, and rawness. I have exposed my inner world in its morphing potential. I have felt it important to offset the many graphs and articles that blaze facts of climate change, people trafficking, addiction, immigration crisis, racism and wealth gap as statistics baked and served in varying analysis. I wanted to feel it, and to share the language of that sensorial exploration. I have been on the outside of corporate trends of language. I have been eating sand; doing gritty work, reaching
Nora Bateson 2019 For years I have written about the systemic crises of our times in terms of tenderness, and rawness. I have exposed my inner world in its morphing potential. I have felt it important to offset the many graphs and articles that blaze facts of climate change, people trafficking, addiction, immigration crisis, racism and wealth gap as statistics
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 23 Feb 19
sense making sneaking in If place makes me Then maybe I don’t exist. And if the memory of redwood dust is enough to find outlines Then maybe I am still 9 Home. Is a long story, And I am the ink, the song, the characters. I am the shoes. the dusty windowsill, and the rain outside. I am the moment where you wonder if the threads will come together. January 2019, San Francisco.
sense making sneaking in If place makes me Then maybe I don’t exist. And if the memory of redwood dust is enough to find outlines Then maybe I am still 9 Home. Is a long story, And I am the ink, the song, the characters. I am the shoes. the dusty windowsill, and the rain outside. I am
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 14 Feb 19
(This is a chapter from my book Small Arcs of Larger Circles, published by Triarchy Press, 2016) I would love you as a bird loves flight, as meat loves salt, as a dog loves chase, as water finds its own level. Or I would not love you at all. —Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries In the Galleria Borghese in Rome I wandered into a room with a Bernini statue that rewrote me. Bernini’s ‘Daphne and Apollo’ is a heartbreakingly beautiful sculpture of an unflinching adoration. It is the depiction of an ancient but suddenly viable map back to the trees,
(This is a chapter from my book Small Arcs of Larger Circles, published by Triarchy Press, 2016) I would love you as a bird loves flight, as meat loves salt, as a dog loves chase, as water finds its own level. Or I would not love you at all. —Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries In the Galleria Borghese in Rome
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 5 Feb 19
Written Feb 1 2019 Is there space in the keyboard strokes for the pink of life? Assembling letters into words into images that reach into feelings, –inviting memories, things once known, regrets, and touching the purple bruises of this moment. Is there a chance now to say what we have known and previously tried not to voice? People will demand clarity, accessibility, direct-ness. They will tut-tut and brush off the brushstrokes that do not have the ring of sterility and know-how. I apologize. I do not mean to be incomprehensible. I am not itching for cleverness, or decorative prose. It
Written Feb 1 2019 Is there space in the keyboard strokes for the pink of life? Assembling letters into words into images that reach into feelings, –inviting memories, things once known, regrets, and touching the purple bruises of this moment. Is there a chance now to say what we have known and previously tried not to voice? People will demand