Integral Perspectives on Iran's Cultural Divide In Integral terms, the demonstrators can be distinguished from the regime’s supporters by cultural qualities relating to states, stages, and relationships to shadow. High states are part of the ethos both of the demonstrators …
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Iran 2009 — A New Kind of Revolution (2)
The uprising is fragmented. Its unity only concerns outrage against the clumsiness of the vote fraud. Ali Laranjani’s public statement questioning the vote tally was very mild, and buried in a series of denunciations of foreign powers for their public statements condemning the …
Iran 2009 — A New Kind of Revolution (1)
An Overview of the Transformative Events of June 2009 I think the events we have been seeing this month —June 2009 — represent a seismic shift, a great exclamation point in the punctuated evolution of the Islamic Republic. It is not just a political shift. This week of …
Integral In Iran – 2009
In spring 2007 I visited Iran as a member of a citizen’s diplomacy delegation. The day after we arrived in Tehran, our meetings with former President Khatami, Grand Ayatollah Saanei, peace activist Emmadin Baghi, and Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi were abruptly cancelled. Our …
The Three Faces of Spirit
Handout- 3 Faces (3pp).pdf The Three Faces of Spirit is one of the most important insights that Integral theory offers to the field of spirituality. All human approaches to spiritual practice and mystical realization can be seen to fall into three broad categories — …
What Is Integral Life Practice?
Handout- What is ILP Since I’ve recently co-authored a book titled Integral Life Practice, I am often asked, “What is ILP?” Integral Life Practice is best understood not as a new approach to personal growth, but as a clarifying, highly-efficient way of approaching (and …
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