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
A Critique of Bonnitta Roy’s Memorable Critique of Ken Wilber Insofar as both the so-called “green” and “teal” altitudes of consciousness are one with a station of life in which Evolution is becoming increasingly self-aware, rising up from the dawn of the Second Tier to an eventual identification with Eros (holistic creativity) itself, it makes … Read more
Loving Yourself and Others When the Labels Change I know I’m going to get asked this eventually, so let me address the topic explicitly. What’s a guy who wrote Soulfully Gay, the memoir of his integral spiritual development, doing talking about being bisexual or homoflexible? Gay is not bisexual. Isn’t that a contradiction in terms? … Read more