Joe Perez

My Case for Rejecting President Donald J. Trump The Integral philosophy has enormous implications for politics, but not in a simplistic way of pointing to specific governmental structures, political parties, or politicians to support. Instead, it provides insights and methodologies useful for checking on the validity or completeness of other political philosophies. For this reason, … Read more

A Call for Awakening to Spirit To paraphrase something the Integral philosopher Steve McIntosh said some years ago: there’s no more important work for an Integralist than building the Integral worldview itself. But how do we do this when so many of us disagree amongst ourselves? There are staunch critics among us who hang out … Read more

Spirit is Everything, Nothing is Separate from God I imagine that most Integralists probably have roughly similar ideas about God, and a valued place in our lives for God or Goddess or Allah or Spirit, by whatever name. One might also say, if one has belief, that God gives us a valued place in God’s … Read more

Encountering All-That-Is in Emptiness Spirituality is how we relate to all things. It is how we find an Alpha and Omega in all things, being and becoming within a field of uncertainty and expectation. It is how we arrive at a good point-of-view that is useful for living our complex lives, address pain and suffering, … Read more

Here’s the Grossly Oversimplified Version, FWIW I have opinions. You have opinions. We all have opinions. And some of us have opinions about opinions. Some of our philosophical opinions therefore become philosophical opinions about other philosophical opinions. (We also have spiritual realizations about other spiritual realizations at a full spectrum of consciousness, but that’s a … Read more

Joran Slane Oppelt’s Integral Church: A Handbook for New Spiritual Communities is one of the most important books regarding spirituality yet written in the 21st-century. Co-authored with other members of an emergent spiritual community, it is one of the first books to suggest a new coherent social structure for harnessing the power of spiritual evolution. … Read more

Originally Published as “Does Involution Have a Telos?”, a Guest Blog on KenWilber.com The state of Integral philosophy concerned me in the mid-2000s. Although I was not a professional academic philosopher, I sought to explore its incongruities and incompleteness and contribute to the ongoing development of these fields. At the same time, I wanted to … Read more

or: The Integral Tradition Searches for a “Second Simplicity” At Integralists, Paul writes: If spirituality requires a Masters degree to understand it’s probably not true. People are complex so ethics, neuroscience and psychology are complex. But spirituality implies universal human accessibility. Buddhism is spiritual. Its basic tenants are accessible to both genius and moron without … Read more

or: Are the Flaws in the Integral Worldview Bugs or Features? Perhaps there’s a simple technological solution that could really improve the testy culture between Ken Wilber and his critics, and between all seekers after truth in the Integral world, if they would only borrow a method from the software development world. But first, why … Read more

Why Ken Wilber’s Most Ferocious Critic Isn’t Happy This article was originally posted on December 3, 2014, but not much has changed regarding Frank Visser’s criticisms of Integral philosophy. He’s still disappointed and beating a neo-Darwinist drum. I read Frank Visser’s “Reaching Out to the World” with appreciation and, at times, exasperation, particularly the conclusion … Read more