Crossposted from Integral Life "Scenius": A word coined by musician Brian Eno to describe "the intelligence and the intuition of a whole cultural scene. It is the communal form of the concept of genius." Research is teaching us that the most important creative new ideas …
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3 Ways to Practice With the Daily News
The news so far during 2011 has been particularly electrifying: Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, and the whole Middle East. Budget crises worldwide, and in the USA, bitter battles including dramatic moves to rewrite the social contract. Japan’s earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis. …
Evolutionary Activism — A Bodhidharma Strategy
At the Integral Theory Conference a couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of participating in a panel on Integral Politics. During the discussion, I found myself outlining a 3-part strategy for evolutionary activism—using the metaphor of Bodhidharma, the bushy-eyebrowed sage …
The Integral “Killer App” Challenge
Why the “Killer App”? What made computers indispensable? The first database programs, plus word processing and accounting software. What first made the Internet a necessity instead of a curiosity? Email, singlehandedly. Why did cell phones become nearly …
A rich discussion about spiritual teachers
For several years, something that's been "up" for me has been the evolution of practice: the actual emergence of new dynamics ("life conditions") and capacities relating to the process of growing to higher levels of consciousness. Lots of things are changing—especially the …
On Outrageous Teaching and Charges of Enabling Abuse
One of Andrew Cohen’s critics recently attacked me in a blog post. Detailing a few of the most inflammatory stories about Cohen, a group of teachers (including me, Ken Wilber and others) were accused of “enabling abuse” because we have dialoged and cooperated with Andrew, his …
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