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
A Culture Warrior Who Says Not to Acknowledge Truth if a Conservative Says It My friend Emilio (not his real name) says he’s having a love affair with the writing of Nathan J. Robinson, and — being the jealous author sort of guy that I am (not really) — I’ve decided to throw some cold … Read more
Integral Theorists, Green is Not a Disease to be Cured by Teal Ed. Note: This article uses the terms “green” and “teal” in a way that is familiar to Integral thinkers. If you need a primer, see IntegralLife.com. Green may have its weaknesses, but Green isn’t a disease to be cured by Teal. Postmodern philosophers … Read more
Andrew Sullivan Smacks Down Ross Douthat (Photo: T.J. Kirkpatrick / Getty) Andrew Sullivan, the pundit with a “conservative soul”, convincingly zen-slaps Ross Douthat, the New York Times columnist who thinks Pope Francis is an existential threat to Roman Catholicism because he wants to consider flexibility on the question of whether divorced Catholics ought to be … Read more
Who Wins the Smackdown Between These Metamodernist Thinkers? At Metamoderna, Hanzi Freinacht goes head-to-head-to-head with Camille Paglia and Jordan Peterson. He concludes: The core failure of the intellectual projects of Peterson and Paglia comes from a lack of understanding of developmental sociology. They have both failed to see the simple and fundamental progression: from traditional, to … Read more
Must Sophisticated Spirituality Shed Metaphysics? There’s a stack of philosophy and spirituality books in my office that offer a thousand different perspectives on the way to live a good life and make peace with the universe and fix the world’s problems, but I would be lying to you if I said that very many of … Read more
Do You Keep Your Enlightenment Secret? I don’t know you, but I suspect that you probably have a very busy life, full of activity and every sort of human dignity, just like me. We are quite possibly a lot alike, and I bet our differences are interesting as well. Are you at all like me? … Read more
How Integralists Can Participate in Conversations with Believers and Doubters I saw an article by Carol Kuruvilla, the HuffPo religion reporter, come across my feed today that educates Christians about how they should avoid talking to doubters in various insensitive ways. The best thing about the article: Its advice that doubters ought to encourage Christians to … Read more
Integralists Must Find Ways to Give the World Something to Say “Yes” To Stephen Colbert once said, “Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because … Read more