Towards a World Spirituality built on Integral values
In January 2012, an Integral organization made history. It became the first Integral institution to my knowledge – and maybe first ever – to select one individual for a public rebuke of his statements about a hypothetical private, consensual, lawful, adult dating relationship he might choose someday. The possibility for the relationship in question to [...]
I’m a political blogger, but I’m not a political political blogger, if you know what I’m saying.Today I try to avoid analyzing politics from a conventional angle — who’s up, who’s down, whether a debate or speech will cause poll numbers to move up or down, etc. That’s because it’s not what I do best. [...]
Unlike traditional religions, spirituality can be as individual as you are. And when that spirituality is founded on Integral principles, it opens the door wide for expanding human potential for rich inner development, cultural progress, artistic creativity, and spiritual renewal. But how can you tell if your spirituality is really based on integral principles? If [...]
Fear may be the opposite of Love, arising on all levels of reality as a shadowy impulse towards annihilation or xenophobia, as the philosophy of some Integral Thinkers says, but it is also a feeling. And it may be a feeling that could be almost eradicted. A post on Big Think reports the results of [...]
On his eponymous blog, musician Michael Garfield opines that godhead is boring. Money quote: But even if we don’t end up as the Lactobacillus in Google’s intestinal tract, even if we become the genie we let out of this bottle, it’ll undoubtedly disappoint us. ”Turning into gods” may seem exciting now, but eventually every new plateau [...]
Jeff Carreira is excited about an upcoming gathering for The Evolutionary Collective in New York in early February. He writes: We often feel embarrassed for wanting it all – for wanting life to be deeply, supremely and magnificently meaningful and fulfilling. Who are we to imagine that such a life is possible? I have to [...]
The nuclear disaster of Fukishima is generating cultural shifts in Japan. The New York Times reports: “Since the accident, the government has tried to continue its business-as-usual approach of understating the severity of the accident and insisting that it knows best,” said Mitsuhiro Fukao, an economics professor at Keio University in Tokyo who has written [...]
In “The Heart of Addiction,” published in Psychology Today, Lance Dodes, M.D., argues that awareness and self-awareness are the keys to overcoming addictive behavior. In World Spirituality as I see it, attention is a form of Love, a way of embracing our nature at a causal level. Attention works, Dodes suggests, because paying attention to [...]
If Integral were a product, how would you sell it? Maybe, by not talking about what Integral is, but why someone ought to care. On the Personal Branding Blog, a corporate brand strategist discusses an idea advanced by Simon Sinek, author of Start With Why. The article by Wendy Brache uses the Wright Brothers to [...]
A lengthy article by Algis Valiunas in The New Atlantis describes psychologist Abraham Maslow’s life and influence. Valiunas concludes that Maslow would not have been pleased with his legacy: It is a rare American today whose most cherished desire is loftier or purer or bolder than simply and happily to be himself, and the peculiar [...]
Joe Perez's Awake, Alive & Aware is committed to practicing, exploring, and advocating integral ways of living as conscious beings in an evolving universe. It is grounded in World Spirituality based on Integral Theory. I … [MORE...]
Unlike traditional religions, spirituality can be as individual as you are. And when that spirituality is founded on Integral principles, it opens the … [MORE...]
In "The Heart of Addiction," published in Psychology Today, Lance Dodes, M.D., argues that awareness and self-awareness are the keys to overcoming … [MORE...]
A new statement by a group of German integralists carves out a position to the right of Ken Wilber with regard to sexual ethics in leadership … [MORE...]
Ever heard of an old soul? According to one theory making the rounds among physicists, virtually every electron in your body may be more than a … [MORE...]
Hugo Schwyzer, who I have long regarded as of the most interesting male voices in feminism, recently suffered a blogosphere explosion of major … [MORE...]
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