Integral Life Updates

Laughing, Learning, and Loving: Behind the Scenes of The Daily Show with Warren Farrell and Corey W. deVos In today’s cultural climate, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to talk about complex things in the mainstream media without being reduced to a caricature or a talking point. This is one of the things that makes The Daily […]

Right Bucks by Ken Wilber The Dharma is free. No one should charge money for teaching or transmitting Dharma. Dharma that touches money is no dharma at all. Selling the Dharma—there is a root of all evil. The Dharma offered freely and without charge to all who seek it: there is purity, nobility, an honorable […]

The State of the Integral Enterprise. Part 3: Key Ideas for a World at Risk with Roger Walsh and Ken Wilber We live in a time of unprecedented challenges and opportunities. Never before have we had the power to imperil our species and our planet. And never before have we had the power to heal […]

Gratefulness and the Spirit of Thanksgiving with Brother David Steindl-Rast and Rollie Stanich It’s that time of year again—the leaves have changed, the birds have made their mass exodus toward the equator, and we’ve begun arming ourselves to the teeth with rock salt and ice scrapers. As the curtain of another year begins to draw […]

Creativity as Unique Self Expression with Alex Grey, Marc Gafni, and Diane Musho Hamilton How do our unique perspectives of the world color our relationship with beauty, creativity, and transcendence? Alex Grey has become one of our most iconic and immediately-recognizable artists, and somewhat of a poster-boy for a genuinely integral approach to art, life, […]

Religulous: The Baby and the Bathwater Is Bill Maher too smart for God? Or not smart enough? Listen and find out! Duration: 1 hr 17 min Bill Maher, host of the HBO talk show Real Time With Bill Maher, often asks his guests: “How can someone as smart as yourself actually believe in this religious stuff?” It’s […]

The State of the Integral Enterprise. Part 2: Potential Traps Roger Walsh and Ken Wilber Written by Corey W. deVos At the 2009 Integral Theory conference, Roger Walsh led a presentation titled The State of the Integral Enterprise, offering a critical appraisal of the “Integral movement:” where it is, where it’s going, and what kinds […]

Practice for Two Realities Ken Wilber Here Ken discusses two very different approaches to spiritual practice, both of which need to be recognized and honored in order to bring ourselves into the fullest possible relationship with ourselves, each other, and the world around us. In the majority of the world’s mystical literature dealing with concepts […]

Health and Healing. Part 2: The Nightingale Initiative for Global Health with Barbara Dossey and Ken Wilber “It’s a very exciting time in nursing,” says Barbara Dossey at the beginning of Part 1 of this dialogue. She’s right, of course—many people are unaware of the internal pressures that have been building within the healthcare system […]

Esoteric Christianity. Part 1: Two Kinds of Religion with Father Thomas Keating, Rollie Stanich, and Ken Wilber written by Corey W. deVos It has often been said that there is a central paradox in the role of religion throughout history: on the one hand, religion has been the single greatest cause of war and suffering. […]

Film Review: For the Bible Tells Me So with Ken Wilber and David Riordan A provocative documentary, For the Bible Tells Me So attempts to reconcile homosexuality and biblical scripture while exploring whether Church-sanctioned anti-gay bias might be based entirely upon a misinterpretation of the Bible’s original text. Dan’s stated intention with this film is […]

The Life of an Artist: Fantasies, Realities, and a Thousand Views of God Bryce Widom and Stuart Davis Be sure to check out Bryce’s Widom’s exclusive interview with Stuart Davis in which you can find insight into his creative process and some of his own personal struggles eking out a living as an artist. Free […]