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
Dropping into Another World with Words Question in an Integral public forum: How is an integrally intelligent being supposed to interact with lower spectrum cultures without becoming persecuted, and yet still communicating integral knowledge? My response: I like what’s already been said, especially Layman’s comment and Tom’s response which read: “We need to better articulate … Read more
How to Build an Authentic Pride Based on a Spiritual Foundation How do you reconcile diverse points of view about LGBT Pride found in psychology, religion, and spirituality? What about differences in point-of-view between traditional, modern, postmodern, and metamodern (a.k.a. Integral) philosophies? The following two reflections on Pride come from distinct periods in my own … Read more