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  • BLOG: Integral Cinema Studio: The Holonic Lens
    The Integral Cinema Studio series is a pioneering exploration of film and cinema through an integral lens, in which Mark Allan Kaplan shows how all the various elements of Integral theory have been expressed on the big screen through some of our greatest and most cherished pop-culture landmarks. For those not yet familiar with Integral Cinema Studio, we wanted to take a moment to re-introduce this extraordinary series to you all; so we are featuring the very first part below: The Holonic Lens.

    Integral Cinema Studio: The Holonic Lens




  • BLOG: The Daily Evolver: Body Politics - Contraception and the Separation of Church and State
    Eleanor Roosevelt once famously said that "poor minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, and great minds discuss ideas."

    Integral minds, we might add, discuss all three.

    In Integral Life's Daily Evolver series, host Jeff Salzman explores some of the greatest and most pressing news stories of our time, lending some much-needed perspective to the people, events, and ideas that shape the world around us. The Daily Evolver uses the Integral lens to help make sense of the complexity, anxiety, and turbulence that surrounds our lives, offering a regular touch point for one of the most important practices of all: the practice of staying informed.

    This week's Daily Evolver looks at the recent election year ruckus concerning the Obama's administration attempt to get religious-affiliated hospitals and university health centers to pay for contraception. Although the question of whether women should have access to...




  • BLOG: Integral Life Art Gallery: Iconographies of Dharma by Tashi Mannox
    In the Artist's Words: "Fundamental to me is the importance of a foundation in the discipline of a trained hand, which not only helps keep the scriptural traditions alive, but also gives the confidence to allow the creative freedom to emanate through the medium.

    The whole creative process is likened to meditation, where calmness is essential for clarity to manifest untainted.

    I like to think that my work provides windows, through which others can see the symbolic world, that may provoke to question and even to wake up, if not to be pleasantly inspired. All I wish, is for people to be happy. If I can simply cheer people up, then my intentions are rewarded." –Tashi Mannox

    Integral Life Art Gallery: Iconographies of Dharma




  • BLOG: Integral Post: The Integral Operating System by Ken Wilber
    What if we took everything that all the various cultures have to tell us about human potential—about spiritual growth, psychological growth, social growth—and put it all on the table? What if we attempted to find the critically essential keys to human growth, based on the sum total of human knowledge now open to us? What if we attempted, based on extensive cross-cultural study, to use all of the world's great traditions to create a composite map, a comprehensive map, an all-inclusive or integral map that included the best elements from all of them? In the following series of articles, Ken Wilber shares an overview of this map: The Integral Operating System (IOS).

    Integral Post: The Integral Operating System




  • BLOG: Integral Post: Trungpa - Crazy Wisdom, or Just Plain Crazy?
    We are very happy to feature the first of a series of excerpts from Keith Martin-Smith's new book, A Heart Blown Open: The Life and Practice of Zen Master Jun Po Kelly Roshi—a playful, occasionally depraved, yet utterly liberating chronicle of Jun Po's life, whose story has been described as part Hunter S. Thompson, part Timothy Leary, and part Eckhart Tolle. A Heart Blown Open is now available for sale on Amazon.com. Pick up your copy today!

    Integral Post: Trungpa - Crazy Wisdom, or Just Plain Crazy?




  • BLOG: Integral Post: The Evolution of Intimate Relationship by Robert Augustus Masters
    Robert Augustus Masters shares the introduction to his new book, Transformation Through Intimacy: The Journey Toward Awakened Monogamy.

    Intimate relationship has over the last four or five decades evolved so far from its long-established ways—mutating in diverse directions—that its very nature and structuring, once a largely unquestioned given, is clearly up for some deep questioning and reformulating.

    Reformulating, revisioning, restructuring, reinventing—how we tend to look at intimate relationship is changing almost as rapidly as intimate relationship itself.

    One result of this is that many of us do not have a particularly clear view of intimate relationship and its possibilities. Nonetheless, we have to admit that something is different about intimate relationship now. We look back just two generations, and it seems as if we’re looking back many hundreds of years. Things are shifting that fast.




  • BLOG: Sutras: a mix by dj rekluse
    by Corey deVos: Sutras is a recording of a very special set I played at this past Integral Spiritual Experience: Kosmic Creativity event, which accompanied a live painting presentation by Alex and Allyson Grey (see the videos below, including a really cool time-lapse recorded by our good friend Mathias Weitbrecht).

    Alex has been a tremendous inspiration and influence for me for over fifteen years, so the opportunity to share a stage with him—and making even a tiny imprint upon his creative flow and upon this extraordinary piece (which will most likely be titled "Cosmic Creativity")—was one of the greatest and most meaningful experiences I've ever had. I send deep gratitude to Alex and Allyson Grey, to the ISE design team for allowing me to offer this gift, and to everyone who was able to be there that night. I hope y'all had as much fun as I did.

    I am very happy to now be able to share the first part of the soundtrack to...




  • BLOG: Ken Wilber's Spiritual Practice
    For someone who likes to talk so much about spirituality, we don't get to hear about Ken Wilber's personal spiritual life very often. In this extraordinary clip, Ken offers an intimate recounting of his own subtle state experiences and spiritual practices, past and present, offering us a unique insight into Ken's ongoing spiritual life.

    Ken Wilber's Spiritual Practice




  • BLOG: Strength to Awaken (w/ Rob McNamara and Ken Wilber)
    This discussion of strength training goes way beyond the conventionally-stated benefits of slimmer waist lines, well-toned arms, or being able to bench press your own body weight. Your physical health and vitality are absolutely fundamental for a happy and well-lived life—your body truly is a temple, and you want your temple to be as strong and solid as possible. But a more contemplative approach to strength training (such as the one developed by Rob) not only helps you rebuild your temple from the ground up, but can also have as much of an impact upon the interiors of your temple as it does upon the exteriors....

    Strength to Awaken




  • BLOG: Apartheid, Battlestar Galactica, and Contemplation: The Journey of an Integral Artist (w/ Kandyse...
    Our very own Stuart Davis talks to his Sex, God, Rock n Roll co-host Kandyse McClure about her childhood experiences of South African Apartheid, her time playing Anastasia "Dee" Dualla on the extraordinary science fiction drama Battleship Galactica, and how contemplation and meditation have helped her relate to her acting career as "a journey of self exploration and self discovery."

    Apartheid, Battlestar Galactica, and Contemplation: The Journey of an Integral Artist




  • BLOG: Integral Life Art Gallery: Erotic Nature by Mark Henson
    What inspires you to create?

    "Magic. When you can take almost nothing, and make of it something beautiful that tells us who we are, that's magic. I am inspired by everything that happens to me! I think consciousness swirls around us like a breeze—all the ideas and concepts that ever were are floating around just waiting to be noticed and acted upon. I wish to take my favorites of these breezy things and manifest them as pictures—for unknown reasons it is mysteriously important to share the vision with everyone who cares to look. I think art has another magical property—it can communicate across time—sometimes hundreds and thousands of years, and still touch us both personal and universal levels."

    What is the message of your paintings, and also your own personal message to the world?

    "It's really all about love. Love of life, love of nature, love for the birds and the bees, love for all...




  • BLOG: Kermit the Frog and Stuart Davis Talk Sex, God, and Deep-Fried Flies
    In this free video, Stuart Davis sits down with a living legend of the amphibian world—the one and only Kermit the Frog. Have you ever wondered about Kermit's spiritual practice? Or where frogs come from in the first place? You won't believe what comes out of Kermit's mouth in this exclusive clip from Season 2 of Sex, God, Rock n' Roll, airing nationally on HDnet every Wednesday night!

    Kermit the Frog and Stuart Davis Talk Sex, God, and Deep-Fried Flies




  • BLOG: Integral Christianity: Answering the Call to Evolve (with Paul Smith and Ken Wilber)
    In this discussion, Paul Smith talks to Ken Wilber about his latest book, Integral Christianity: The Spirit's Call to Evolve, laying the groundwork for a truly integral approach to Christianity that identifies, honors, and includes the very best of all previous interpretations of the Gospel, while clearing the space for radically new understandings, expressions, and experiences of Christianity to emerge.

    Integral Christianity: Answering the Call to Evolve




  • BLOG: Integral Coaching: A Closer Look (with Joanne Hunt, Laura Divine, and Ken Wilber)
    In this new and intimate conversation between Ken Wilber, Laura Divine, and Joanne Hunt, you will be exposed to some of the in-depth nuances of Integral Coaching Canada's work. You will gain more intimate access to the Integral lenses that are illuminated, as well as how ICC's coaches uniquely use them, through embodied "Looking At" and subtle "Looking As" capacities. Not only is there "simplicity on the other side of complexity" in ICC's work, there is elegance, love, the alleviating of suffering, and a deep commitment to consciousness development—one human at a time.

    Although there are several other coaching approaches that call themselves "Integral", ICC's Coaching method is the very first coaching methodology we've ever seen that explicitly honors and includes the full spectrum of human development—which is to say that it is the very first coaching program that fully honors and includes...




  • BLOG: From Stardust to Supermind: Core Integral Q&A With Ken Wilber
    You've probably heard Ken mention in previous discussions some of the highest structures of cognitive development—Vision Logic, Illumined Mind, Intuitive Mind, Overmind, and Supermind—and you may have been left wondering what these structures actually look like from within. Listen as Ken offers a firsthand chronicle of each of these transpersonal stages, describing them as an ever-deepening relationship with wholeness—that is, thinking wholes, seeing wholes, feeling wholes, witnessing wholes, and being wholes. Ken also describes how these stages have informed and influenced his own map-making and personal creativity, and how the capacity for pattern recognition and perspective-taking have been instrumental in his ability to traverse these highest reaches of human potential....

    From Stardust to Supermind: Core Integral Q&A with Ken Wilber




  • BLOG: Empty Spaces: A Musical Meditation
    Empty Spaces: an 80-minute musical meditation by dj rekluse (Corey deVos). Featuring Alex Grey, Ken Wilber, Sally Kempton, and Alan Watts. A soundtrack for Dark Nights. Liberation upon hearing.

    Empty Spaces: A Musical Meditation




  • BLOG: Stages of Meditation: An Interview With Ken Wilber
    In this essay, originally included in The Collected Works of Ken Wilber: Volume IV, Ken offers an in-depth description of each of the major state-stages of meditative practice—ranging from psychic absorption, to subtle illumination, to causal transcendence, to the ultimate nondual embrace of Form and Emptiness.

    Stages of Meditation: An Interview With Ken Wilber




  • BLOG: Half of It: A Union of Opposites
    In this chapter from No Boundary (Kindle, iBooks), Ken Wilber explores the intrinsic dualism of the mind, offering a simple but cogent way to "transcend the pairs" and discover the nondual heart of the Always Already....

    Half of It: A Union of Opposites




  • BLOG: A Ticket to Athens: Looking Through the Lens of Contemplation
    In this essay, originally written in 1997 and included in One Taste: Daily Reflections on Integral Spirituality (Kindle, iBooks), Ken begins by explaining why an all-knowing, all powerful God would ever want to create a universe to begin with. He then describes an approach to spirituality anchored in direct experience rather than belief or dogma—experience that can be best cultivated through a genuinely integral approach to spiritual practice.

    A Ticket to Athens: Looking Through the Lens of Contemplation




  • BLOG: Integral Life News: December 2011
    Click here to view the Integral Life newsletter for December 2011 ....