tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1489523000319359972024-03-05T03:22:38.194-07:00LifeSmart Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09718138217801350798noreply@blogger.comBlogger416125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148952300031935997.post-57523018414699916702015-04-28T13:42:00.000-06:002015-04-28T14:00:02.881-06:00The Story of FruitWhat's up with fruit? Fruit is a healthy choice and loaded with vitamins and antioxidants, as well as fiber (key to weight loss because it is good for your metabolism, and a natural appetite suppressant. However, it still contains calories and carbohydrates, which is problematic if you are limiting carbohydrate intake generally to 100 grams per day (a common target), and the carbs you do eat Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09718138217801350798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148952300031935997.post-76659878386795624402015-03-19T15:42:00.000-06:002015-03-19T15:42:04.291-06:00New tools for understanding a turbulent world - Thomas Homer-Dixon Today's social sciences have difficulty providing conceptual, analytic and predictive tools that help policy-makers and the public address contemporary global problems such as financial crises, energy shocks, food price spikes and climate change. In his Big Thinking lecture at Congress 2012, Thomas Homer-Dixon provides some guideposts to understanding complexity science and its potential Michael-http://www.blogger.com/profile/17137291506357159071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148952300031935997.post-89318701785652559472015-03-19T15:20:00.002-06:002015-03-19T15:24:25.483-06:00Embodiment, Enaction and Social Understanding Research
[[[]]] H/T Bill Harryman at INTEGRAL OPTIONS CAFE [[[]]]
Full Citation: Di Paolo, EA, and De Jaegher, H. (2015, Mar 2). Toward an
embodied science of intersubjectivity: Widening the scope of social
understanding research. Frontiers in Psychology: Cognitive Science.
6:234. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00234
Toward
an embodied science of Michael-http://www.blogger.com/profile/17137291506357159071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148952300031935997.post-16091588006289272672011-06-03T12:52:00.001-06:002011-06-03T12:52:56.185-06:00Integral Ecology Reading GroupThe Integral Ecology Reading Group will unfold between several blogs and will include a number of people intimately familiar with both Ken Wilber’s theory and environmental studies more generally. Each week a participating blog will review that week’s readings and host discussions.
Intro/Chapter 1 summary has already been posted by Adam Robbert and discussions have started: here
The Michael-http://www.blogger.com/profile/17137291506357159071noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148952300031935997.post-61025697476433787352011-02-22T08:00:00.000-07:002011-02-22T14:55:36.261-07:00From the Population Bomb to the Dominant AnimalOctober 10, 2008 lecture by Paul Ehrlich during the 2008 Reunion at Stanford University. Professor Ehrlich discusses the changes in the environmental situation forty years ago and today, telling how humanity took over the planet, and how it is now using its dominance to destroy its own life-support systems. He emphasizes the critical issues facing the world that got relatively no attention in theUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148952300031935997.post-54759627755999058222011-01-25T09:57:00.000-07:002011-01-25T10:16:14.634-07:00Dialectical Thinking as an Approach to IntegrationThe Development of Dialectical Thinking as an Approach to Integration
By Michael Basseches
This article offers a description of dialectical thinking as a psychological phenomenon that reflects adult intellectual development. While relating this psychological phenomenon to the various dialectical philosophical perspectives from which the description is derived, the article conceptualizes Michael-http://www.blogger.com/profile/17137291506357159071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148952300031935997.post-75810236879135028422011-01-10T13:33:00.001-07:002011-01-11T09:33:00.247-07:00New Evolutionary LandscapesThe Mountain Path, or New Evolutionary Landscapes
by Jeremy Johnson
Excerpt: We've fragmented our consciousness. But in a more multi-dimensional vision of human evolution, perhaps to fragment is also to venture towards a new whole.
Evolutionary cycles tend to go through relatively stable periods, followed by chaotic extinctions, from which life bounces back in new complex wholes.
It may be that Michael-http://www.blogger.com/profile/17137291506357159071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148952300031935997.post-31300116370118245622010-12-24T00:12:00.000-07:002010-12-24T00:12:00.397-07:00The Psychology of SpiritualityThe Psychology of Spiritualityby Dr. Stephen Diamond
Christmas is once more upon us, celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. Chanukkah too has started, celebrating a miraculous event occurring centuries before Christ (who, as a Jew, presumably celebrated Chanukkah) was born. Both--despite their commercialism--are prominent religious holidays in the Judeo-Christian tradition. So perhaps this is anMichael-http://www.blogger.com/profile/17137291506357159071noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148952300031935997.post-61000990716663627102010-11-16T15:08:00.005-07:002010-11-16T15:08:00.110-07:00A Closer Look at Integral TheoryAdapted from the Drishti Centre for Integral Action website:
A Closer Look at Integral Theory
By Gail Hochachka
Integral is the farthest reach of inter-disciplinary to date. It links "divergent" disciplines (such as the natural sciences, economics, politics, culture, psychology, and spirituality), including both the exterior (objective) aspects of life with the interior invisible (Michael-http://www.blogger.com/profile/17137291506357159071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148952300031935997.post-80936370526694749802010-11-12T15:00:00.003-07:002010-11-12T15:22:24.115-07:00Visser on Wilber’s Views of Evolution From Integral World:
The 'Spirit of Evolution' Reconsidered: Relating Ken Wilber's view of spiritual evolution to the current evolution debates
by Frank Visser
“In the case of any person whose judgment is really deserving of confidence, how has it become so? Because he has kept his mind open to criticism of his opinions and conduct. Because it has been his practice to listen to all that could Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148952300031935997.post-7063919767048738412010-11-08T15:22:00.000-07:002010-11-08T15:22:00.289-07:00Cultivating Postformal Adult DevelopmentCultivating Postformal Adult Development: Higher Stages and Contrasting InterventionsBy William R. TorbertAs this chapter will discuss, the practice of action inquiry and the Vedic/TM method are the only two educational interventions that have empirically been shown to facilitate adult developmental transformation beyond formal operations. The primary concern of this chapter is to present Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148952300031935997.post-88985392869845648992010-11-05T15:08:00.004-06:002010-11-05T15:24:15.870-06:00Vitan and the New Age Vitvan and the School of the Natural Order: New Age Culture with a Do It Yourself Ethicby Daniel Gustav AndersonAuthor's Note: This is a paper I presented at the 2010 Western Literature Association conference in Prescott, Arizona, USA. I think it offers some ways to advance the conversation in integral studies by considering some paths not yet taken, rather than strictly “new” developments: Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148952300031935997.post-13148177315014152652010-11-05T15:01:00.000-06:002010-11-05T15:01:38.551-06:00Integral Methodological Pluralism in PracticeIntegral Research as a Practical Mixed-Methods Framework: Clarifying The Role of Integral Methodological Pluralism
By Jeffery A. Martin
The mixed methods community could represent a significant opportunity to place Integral Theory at the very heart of the academy. Methodological communities often define what is and is not acceptable within academic research. Soon, the mixed methods community Michael-http://www.blogger.com/profile/17137291506357159071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148952300031935997.post-15440239327564318062010-10-28T10:38:00.000-06:002010-10-28T11:53:02.301-06:00DeLanda on DeleuzeDeleuze and the Open-ended Becoming of the World
by Manuel DeLanda
With the final mathematization of classical physics in the nineteenth century, a certain picture of the world emerged dominant, one in which clockwork determinism reigned supreme and time played no creative role, so that the future was effectively closed, completely given in the past. Although the set of equations with which Michael-http://www.blogger.com/profile/17137291506357159071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148952300031935997.post-84977453761514527072010-10-15T12:26:00.001-06:002010-10-15T12:30:27.389-06:00Water Blogged: Blog Action DayFrom Archive Fire: Our deepest fears are not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure.Today is Blog Action Day 2010. This year's theme is WATER. Throughout the day I will be providing links to some of the best posts appearing online participating in Blog Action Day 2010. I’ll update this post often with new entries. Many of these posts are beautifully written, passionately Michael-http://www.blogger.com/profile/17137291506357159071noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148952300031935997.post-57448585574422818502010-09-22T10:58:00.000-06:002010-09-22T10:58:17.913-06:00The Limit of ExplanationFrom Anthropoetics:
The Limit of Explanation: Following the "Why" to its Epistemological Terminus
By Marina Ludwigs
In this essay I will examine the theory and praxis of explanation and demonstrate the unsustainable character of its claims and underlying presuppositions. My involvement in this project stemmed originally from my interest in contributing to a development of a formal methodology Michael-http://www.blogger.com/profile/17137291506357159071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148952300031935997.post-66842120468864333852010-09-13T14:30:00.005-06:002010-09-13T14:56:45.324-06:00Quantifying SelfFrom WorldChanging: Media Tracking and the Quantified Self By Ethan ZuckermanGary Wolf and Kevin Kelly have been documenting an emerging phenomenon they call “the quantified self“. The term refers to a set experiments that people are conducting – primarily on themselves – to understand their own bodies and behavior. In an article for The New York Times Magazine, Wolf details a range of these Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148952300031935997.post-25432851934846621672010-09-10T11:16:00.006-06:002010-09-10T11:23:09.181-06:00Integral Pluralisms and Cultural PragmaticsI'm not sure if Dallmayr knows of Ken Wilber's work, but there seems to be no mention of the bald bastion of the Trans anywhere... It's truly hard to imagine he wouldn't have at least come accross mention of 'Integral Methodological Pluralism' somehwhere. Very suspicious indeed.
Integral Pluralism: Beyond Culture Warsby Fred Dallmayr, Integral Pluralism: Beyond Culture Wars, University of Michael-http://www.blogger.com/profile/17137291506357159071noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148952300031935997.post-59220034458765375182010-08-28T17:20:00.002-06:002010-08-28T17:31:59.682-06:00Let Freedom ReignMichael-http://www.blogger.com/profile/17137291506357159071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148952300031935997.post-19730601631947921682010-07-30T16:09:00.000-06:002010-07-30T16:09:10.009-06:00In Defence of Difference“Scientists offer new insight into what to protect of the world's rapidly vanishing languages, cultures, and species.”
From SEED Magazine:
In Defense of Difference
by Maywa Montenegro & Terry Glavin
This past January, at the St. Innocent Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Anchorage, Alaska, friends and relatives gathered to bid their last farewell to Marie Smith Jones, a beloved matriarch of Michael-http://www.blogger.com/profile/17137291506357159071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148952300031935997.post-90865195112600055302010-07-30T00:21:00.001-06:002010-07-30T00:23:44.119-06:00Integral Theory Conference - Enacting an Integral FutureIt seems William Harryman of the outstanding Integral Options Café blog is the official blogger for the 2nd biannual Integral Theory Conference that began tonight July 29, 2010 in Pleasant Hill, California. The theme of the conference is ‘Enacting an Integral Future’ and it will continue until August 1, 2010.
Because Bill is, to our minds, one of the best bloggers out there, please visit his Michael-http://www.blogger.com/profile/17137291506357159071noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148952300031935997.post-22946082706975583672010-07-22T15:06:00.006-06:002010-07-22T15:14:56.621-06:00Chalmers on The Singularity The Singularity: A Philosophical AnalysisBy David J. ChalmersWhat happens when machines become more intelligent than humans? One view is that this event will be followed by an explosion to ever-greater levels of intelligence, as each generation of machines creates more intelligent machines in turn. This intelligence explosion is now often known as the “singularity”.The basic argument here was Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148952300031935997.post-15986902488794823612010-07-19T21:43:00.003-06:002010-07-19T21:55:27.561-06:00Infecting MindsFrom MicrobeWorld.Org:Infecting Minds with Science in the Age of New MediaOn May 25th, 2010 science writer Carl Zimmer gave a keynote address at the American Society for Microbiology's General Meeting in San Diego, California. The presentation entitled “Newspapers, Blogs, and Other Vectors: Infecting Minds with Science in the Age of New Media” was given at the President’s Forum, “Telling the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148952300031935997.post-310972238196312722010-07-19T16:31:00.000-06:002010-07-19T16:31:02.852-06:00Calling All Future-EatersCalling All Future-Eatersby Chris Hedges
The human species during its brief time on Earth has exhibited a remarkable capacity to kill itself off. The Cro-Magnons dispatched the gentler Neanderthals. The conquistadors, with the help of smallpox, decimated the native populations in the Americas. Modern industrial warfare in the 20th century took at least 100 million lives, most of them civilians. Michael-http://www.blogger.com/profile/17137291506357159071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148952300031935997.post-50323641304878624622010-07-15T14:02:00.001-06:002010-07-15T14:19:15.804-06:00Harryman is Warming to Slavoj Zizek…From Integral Options Café:Another festival of Slavoj Zizek articles appeared this weekend, all of it from Europe, where people actually read philosophy. Oh yeah, he's a Marxist, sort of - with a heavy dose of Lacanian psychoanalysis and Hegelian philosophy - so that explains why no one on this continent is paying any attention to him.
Apparently Zizek's 'the world's hippest philosopher,' as the Michael-http://www.blogger.com/profile/17137291506357159071noreply@blogger.com2