Joe Perez 
A Review of “After the Wrecking Ball” by Lynn Christine Fuentes As I write this eBook review, tens of thousands of human beings have died so far this year in armed conflicts around the world. Syria is in civil war. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to exact a toll in blood and treasure. The … Read more
Why I No Longer Support Dr. Gafni’s Leadership in the Integral Community
Adyashanti, Mariana Caplan, Jeff Foster, Ken Wilber, Shinzen Young, Hanzi Freinacht, Jordan B. Peterson, and More Today we will look at some of the ideas put forward on the topic of enlightenment by 12 thinkers and artists informed by Integral, metamodernism, Advaita nondualism, or other philosophical perspectives. (They are presented in alphabetical order.) Adyashanti, Teacher at … Read more
Responses to “Criticizing ‘Integral Abuse’: Be Scofield & The Culture of Adversarial Journalism” In reply to my article, Criticizing “Integral Abuse”: Be Scofield & The Culture of Adversarial Journalism at Integral World, David Christopher Lane said: After reading Joe Perez’s article here, I wanted to re-read Be Scofield’s essay on “Integral Abuse: Andrew Cohen & … Read more
Or: Mean Green* Scofield, There She Goes Again (Just Kidding!) Today I clicked on a Google Ad for Be Scofield’s article, “Integral Abuse: Andrew Cohen & The Culture of Evolutionary Enlightenment”, which she has published on Medium and Frank Visser’s website. According to her bio, Be is a queer/trans writer and digital strategist who founded … Read more
Q&A with Joe on the Topic of “What is Enlightenment?” A talk with Joe Perez on the topic of “Enlightenment” in a Question and Answer format. Q: What’s your definition of Enlightenment? Let me answer you literally just because I’m feeling ornery. Throw me a dictionary. Any definition will do that is in common use, … Read more
A Response to Aleta S. on Resilience in Communities of Trust I am one of those Integralists who longs for the arrival of a more substantial integral community, one based on Integral Spirituality and branching out into all aspects of our interconnected lives. I’m convinced that the green rejection of organized religion in favor of … Read more
Integral Spirituality is Not a Religion, But It is Something Like a Religion Yesterday, I wrote a blog post to critique the usage of the term “sweetness” for Integral Spirituality to describe the ultimate nondual station for love realization, and I got a response from an Integralist disagreeing with my point by saying essentially (a) … Read more
or: The Time Has Come for a Rectification of Language with Sacred Truths My teaching, if I may be so presumptuous as to call this conversation an exercise in education, is going to take time to unfold. Few are ready to hear; those who are ready don’t see the gestalt yet. I think I’ve got … Read more
The Debate Over Idealistic Piracy in Metamodernity Today I saw an excerpt from a book by a contemporary metamodernist philosopher who writes: I owe more to [Ken] Wilber than I perhaps give him credit for in this book. However, being a metamodern thinker who believes more in ideas under development than in individuals, I do … Read more