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The 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 schedule

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October 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 the

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The 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

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The 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

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The 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 an

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Adapted 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 (subjective

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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

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Cultivating 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

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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:

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Integral 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

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Deleuze 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

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From 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

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From 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

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From 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

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I'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

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“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 her

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It 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

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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

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From 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

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Calling 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.

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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

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Culture, Cognition, and EvolutionBy Dan Sperber & Lawrence Hirschfeld Most work in the cognitive sciences focuses on the manner in which an individual device -- be it a mind, a brain, or a computer -- processes various kinds of information. Cognitive psychology in particular is primarily concerned with individual thought and behavior. Individuals however belong to populations. This is true in two

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Organicism  By Giorgio Piacenza Cabrera Abstract: This paper presents Archie J. Bahm’s “Organicism” as a Second Tier Metatheory based upon the analysis of intuited polarity . It shows that AQAL (or Integral Metatheory) can benefit from a more deductive (and Metaphysical) approach that relates with the logical-relational aspects inhering at the core of Integral concepts such as “hierarchy” “

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The “Crazy” Creative Ideas of an ONLINE Integral Theory Student at JFKU - Part 3 © By Giorgio Piacenza Cabrera Accompanying my undertaking of Integral Theory courses online through JFK University, I experienced insights, questions, and variations on the usual themes touched in those courses. If you already are conversant with Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory, you might find this collection of

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Reflections of an Integral Theory Student - Part 2 By Giorgio Piacenza Cabrera Accompanying my undertaking of Integral Theory courses online through JFK University, I experienced insights, questions, and variations on the usual themes touched in those courses. If you already are conversant with Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory, you might find this collection of reflections intellectually

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The “Crazy” Creative Ideas of an ONLINE Integral Theory Student at JFKU - Part 1 © By Giorgio Piacenza Cabrera Accompanying my undertaking of Integral Theory courses online through JFK University, I experienced insights, questions, and variations on the usual themes touched in those courses. If you already are conversant with Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory, you might find this collection of

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Charles Leadbeater went looking for radical new forms of education -- and found them in the slums of Rio and Kibera, where some of the world's poorest kids are finding transformative new ways to learn. And this informal, disruptive new kind of school, he says, is what all schools need to become. Charles Leadbeater is a leading authority on innovation and creativity. He has advised companies,

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Myth Busting & Metric Making: Refashioning the Discourse about Development in the Integral Community  By Zachary Stein Last month [2008] I presented a couple papers at the first Biannual Integral Theory Conference. They were well received. However, as much as I flapped my lips to whoever would listen, I felt that I returned to the Northeast with a great deal left unsaid. Human development is one

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From Metanexus Institute: "Neuroscientific Research on the Self: A Case for Panentheism?" by Anne L. C. Runehov In order to obtain an interdisciplinary understanding of the world that also includes theology, I believe panentheism, as a potential explanatory model of a God relationship to the world, needs to be revisited. Naturalistic explanations leave out the possible existence of God, and

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Blended Cultural Stages in Today’s World and Individual DevelopmentBy Giorgio PiacenzaKen Wilber usually states that every individual must go through stages of development one step at a time. I think that developmental psychologists have shown that this is generally true. Nonetheless, I also think that individuals are very much affected in the way they go through these stages by their cultures (

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The Solution to Bad Calls: The Quadrant ApproachBy John O'Brien In this World Cup, as with every other World Cup in history, wrong calls happen. Whether they are crucial and end a team’s hopes or whether they are inconsequential, the calls are frustrating at the least and infuriating at the most. Naturally we focus our anger on the man on the field wearing a different color shirt. Yes, the

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Beyond Beautiful and Ugly: Non-dual Thinking and Aesthetic Theory By Jeffery A. Bell “Not every end is the goal. The end of a melody is not its goal; and yet: as long as the melody has not reached its end, it also hasn’t reached its goal. A parable.” - Friedrich NietzscheThe self-conscious reference of this essay’s title to Nietzsche’s book, Beyond Good and Evil, might seem misplaced to some

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Awakening to Originby Jeremy Johnson Not too many people are familiar with Gebser, including the integral folks who only receive his philosophy through Ken Wilber's plotted maps and points. I'd like to take a few minutes to share with you a few poetic insights Gebser was able to share through his life's work. For anyone totally unfamiliar with him, Gebser was a prolific intellectual mystic. His

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Collaborative Knowledge Building and Integral Theory: On Perspectives, Uncertainty, and Mutual Regard By Tom Murray With the founding of the Integral Institute and its satellite organizations, integral theory moves further from "the world of Ken Wilber" and progressively toward a community knowledge building endeavor. The most recent version of Wilber's AQAL theory (phase "Wilber-V") emphasizes

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Integral People - Where?by Giorgio Piacenza So where are we really going, collectively speaking? I'm worried that Ken Wilber's expectation that an influential percentage of the population (at least in the U.S. and Europe) is becoming Integral Stage will not materialize in the world at large. After the green baby boomers mature (and some, expectedly, become first stage Integral) how will the

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A (Partial) Defense of AQAL Contingency by Chris Dierkes According to Wilber, when Western Europe entered into the rational-modern stage, what we term The Enlightenment (itself a contingent enterprise), The West (contingently) chose to deny Spirit as a truth procedure, thereby repressing Spirit and sending Spirit underground, only to have it re-surface in the truth procedure of Science, creating

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The Power of Balance: Transforming Self, Society and Scientific InquiryBy William R. TorbertSince the dawn of the modern age, each intellectual and cultural arena has established its own criterion of success and has sought to maximize attainment of that ideal without reference to the other arenas of life. In politics, the ideal is power; in economics, utility; in art, beauty; in science,

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Integral BusinessBy Mark Walsh Integral business is a “meta-model” as it positions other theories and practices that we use such as embodied training, NonViolent Communication, emotional intelligence, MBTI and psychometrics, systems theory and traditional business models. It is more than a theory for us as it informs and underpins how we do business in the most effective, enjoyable and ethical

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Integral Pluralism and PatternDynamics™By Tim Winton I’ve just had an initial read of Sean Esbjörn-Hargens’s (2010) most recent article, “An Ontology of Climate Change”, due out in the next (Spring 2010) edition of the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice. I say initial read because I’m going to have to go over this more than a few times to take it all in. My blog post here is largely the

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The Integral Research Group is an innovative and critically informed non-profit research and development venture. Our mission is to collect and conduct multi-methodological research on human development, social justice and planetary sustainability. On our blog you will find leading-edge research, theory, multimedia resources and various other integrally-informed content and information.The IRG

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On August 15th, 2009 integral theorist and organizational specialist Mark Edwards published his first major work outlining his own version of integral theory through Routledge Press : Description from Routledge: Organizational Transformation for Sustainability: An Integral MetatheoryBy Mark Edwards During the 21st century organizations will undergo a level of radical and global change that has

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Happy Earth Day everybody!!! Earth Day was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in held on April 22, 1970. It has fast become a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's environment. Earth Day is now observed on April 22 on virtually every country on Earth. Below is an interesting post from one of our favorite bloggers. We couldn’t have said

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Brian Swimme on the Task of the Future: --

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100 Incredible Lectures from the World’s Top Scientists By Sarah Russel Unless you’re enrolled at a top university or are an elite member of the science and engineering inner circle, you’re probably left out of most of the exciting research explored by the world’s greatest scientists. But thanks to the Internet, and our list of 100 incredible lectures, you’ve now got access to the cutting edge

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The Dark Side of the Sacredby Miriam GreenspanEmotions live in the body. It is not enough simply to talk about them, to be a talking head. We need to focus our attention on emotions where they live. This willingness to be present allows the emotion to begin to shift of its own accord. An alchemy starts to happen — a process of transmutation from something hard and leaden to something precious and

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Two Articles from SEED Magazine:Beyond the Two Cultures?May 7th, 2009 marked the 50th anniversary of C.P. Snow’s Two Cultures lecture. Half a century ago the prominent novelist and speaker, who studied under Lord Rutherford, described a chasm between literary intellectuals and scientists, a gulf that impoverished both sides and impeded efforts to relieve suffering around the world. Science was

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How much does a human cost in today's global economy? About $10 U.S dollars. In this moving yet pragmatic talk, Kevin Bales explains the business of modern slavery, a multibillion-dollar economy that underpins some of the worst industries on earth. He shares stats and personal stories from his on-the-ground research -- and names the price of freeing every slave on earth right now: [Duration: 18:

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More Here: Alan Watts

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The Poetry of Reality is the fifth installment in the Symphony of Science music video series. Source: http://symphonyofscience.com

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Zero Point of Systemic CollapseBy Chris HedgesWe stand on the cusp of one of humanity’s most dangerous moments. Aleksandr Herzen, speaking a century ago to a group of anarchists about how to overthrow the czar, reminded his listeners that it was not their job to save a dying system but to replace it: “We think we are the doctors. We are the disease.” All resistance must recognize that the body

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The Extended MindBy Andy Clark & David ChalmersWhere does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin? The question invites two standard replies. Some accept the demarcations of skin and skull, and say that what is outside the body is outside the mind. Others are impressed by arguments suggesting that the meaning of our words "just ain't in the head", and hold that this externalism about

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Seeing Integral Leadership through Three Important Lenses: Developmental, Ecological and GovernanceBy Mark EdwardsThis article looks at the issue of leadership within three multilevel contexts. The first context relates to the developmental context of leadership as a process of ongoing growth through various stages. This context focuses on things such as values, cognitive capacities,

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Towards an Integral EpistemologyBy Clint FuhsThis paper traces the development of the philosophy of science from a positivist to postpositivist conception before making the case for an integral conception based on an Integral epistemology grounded in the Integral post-metaphysics of Integral Methodological Pluralism. It puts forth the enduring truths of each as essential features of an Integral

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Towards a more integrative approach to the analysis of collective development and the possibility of an Integral egalitarianism.By Mark EdwardsWhat I hope to show in the following [essay] is that the basic principles of Integral philosophy itself, when applied consistently to the issue of sociocultural evolution, raise some serious concerns regarding the assessment and ranking of cultures on

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Experience shows that efforts to build healthy communities will be more successful and more sustainable when capacity building is front and centre. In short, capacity building and community development go hand in hand.BC Healthy Communities (BCHC) has adopted an integral approach to capacity building, one that addresses the whole person within the whole community. An integral lens helps BCHC deal

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Daniel Gustav Anderson is a cultural critic and integral theorist currently teaching literature and cultural history in Washington D.C.Anderson has called for the development of a "critical Integral theory," which he conceives as a theory capable of doing Integral work while holding up to a rigorous ideological analysis. He has mapped this position in his essay, "Of Syntheses and Surprises:

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Cultural Psychology of the Self by William Harryman Way back in my years as an undergraduate psych student, we were required to take a class called social psychology. At the time (1989 or so), this was the only field that I knew about that attempted to look at how social and cultural factors impacted and shaped human consciousness. Although it was only one class, it left a lasting impact in that

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Consciousness and its Place in NatureBy David ChalmersConsciousness fits uneasily into our conception of the natural world. On the most common conception of nature, the natural world is the physical world. But on the most common conception of consciousness, it is not easy to see how it could be part of the physical world. So it seems that to find a place for consciousness within the natural order

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Epistemological Pluralism: Reorganizing Interdisciplinary Research By Thaddeus R. Miller, Timothy D. Baird, Caitlin M. Littlefield, Gary Kofinas, F. Stuart Chapin III, and Charles L. Redman Despite progress in interdisciplinary research, difficulties remain. In this paper, we argue that scholars, educators, and practitioners need to critically rethink the ways in which interdisciplinary

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Why Does Spirituality Need Integral?by Kelly Sosan BearerSpirituality is a complex, confusing, and polarizing force in the world. With so many different definitions of the word, we can barely even begin to start the conversation. Some equate spirituality with mysticism as described by the great philosophers; but with the infiltration of New Age concepts of spirituality, many are not sure what

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“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.You may have noticed that we have been blogging on climate change issues. Our intention is to remind the integral community that we are at a key moment in the emergence and evolution of our species. The Copenhagen

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The following videos are easy-to-follow descriptions of how climate scientists infer that man-made carbon gases are changing the climate, and how this view is contradicted by other climate scientists who are skeptics.This first video is a 10-minute summary of the prevailing scientific arguments and counter-arguments, not a PhD thesis. If you disagree with what real, professional climate

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From The Guardian: Copenhagen climate change conference: 'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generationToday [December 8, 2009] 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency.Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will ravage our planet, and with

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Climate deniers have been making a lot of noise about a set of stolen emails from one of the world's leading climate centers, The Universtiy of East Anglia.The spin they're putting out is that the emails reveal what they always suspected, an evil global conspiracy. In the short video below a climate scientist debunks the so-called debunkers. But i'm sure the denialists and conspiracy will

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Colin McGinn is a British philosopher currently working at the University of Miami. McGinn has also held major teaching positions at Oxford University and Rutgers University. Although McGinn has written dozens of articles in philosophical logic, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language, he is best known for his work in the philosophy of mind.Below is an interview with McGinn about competing

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Deleuze’s Encounter With WhiteheadBy Steven ShaviroIn a short chapter of The Fold (1993) that constitutes his only extended discussion of Alfred North Whitehead, Gilles Deleuze praises Whitehead for asking the question, “What Is an Event?” (76). Whitehead’s Process and Reality (1929/1978) marks only the third time – after the Stoics and Leibniz – that events move to the center of philosophical

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Tunnel Vision: A Review of Pinker’s Blank SlateBy Thomas Hylland EriksenThe gap between sociocultural anthropology and biological/physical anthropology is deep, but fairly recent. In the 1870s, Tylor enjoyed a fruitful relationship with the Darwinists; he was inspired by, and in turn inspired, Darwin himself. Later generations also engaged in respectful dialogue until, roughly, the end of the

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The Central Role of Culture in Cognitive Evolution: A Reflection on the Myth of the "Isolated Mind"By Merlin DonaldHuman symbolic culture constitutes a distinctive, species-universal trait, usually thought to be the result of our having evolved special cognitive capacities, such as language. Seen from this vantage point, the flow of influence runs from cognition to culture, in that order, and

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Where did we come from? What makes us human? An explosion of recent discoveries sheds light on these questions, and NOVA's three-part T.V special, Becoming Human, examines what the latest scientific research reveals about our hominid relatives.Becoming Human Part 1First Steps: 6 million years ago, what set our ancestors on the path from ape to human? Tuesday, November 3 at 8 pm (Check local

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From the United Nations: Impacts of Climate Change Coming Faster and Sooner: New Science Report Underlines Urgency for Governments to Seal the Deal in CopenhagenSeptember 24, 2009 -The pace and scale of climate change may now be outstripping even the most sobering predictions of the last report of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC).An analysis of the very latest, peer-reviewed

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God, ApproximatelyBy Brian Cantwell SmithConsider the rise of the religious right: Muslim and Hindu fundamentalism, right-wing Zionism, the Christian moral majority. These movements are responding to—and exploiting—a widespread social hunger: a sense that reigning secular, scientific, and capitalist world views don’t supply what matters: ways to tell right from wrong, guidance to anchor

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Cognitive Levels of Evolution: From Pre-rational to Meta-rationalBy Francis HeylighenThe principle of natural selection is taken as a starting point for an analysis of evolutionary levels. Knowledge and values are conceived as vicarious selectors of actions from a repertoire. The concept of metasystem transition is derived from the law of requisite variety and the principle of hierarchy. It is

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Daniel Gustav Anderson is a cultural critic and integral theorist currently teaching literature and cultural history in Washington D.C.Anderson has called for the development of a "critical Integral theory," which he conceives as a theory capable of doing Integral work while holding up to a rigorous ideological analysis. He has mapped this position in his essay, "Of Syntheses and Surprises:

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Integral Evolution: An Interview with David LoyeBy Russ VolckmannDavid Loye is one of those people that the longer you get to know them the more you begin to discover a bit of their depth and breadth of perspective and creativity in the world. His publications speak for themselves. His network with leading scientists and thinkers around the world is equally impressive.Actually, my first contact

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From WorldChanging Team: Crackdown against 'environmental criminals' follows Greenpeace reportSlaughtering the Amazon from Greenpeace UK on Vimeo. Some of the world's top footwear brands, including Clarks, Adidas, Nike and Timberland, have demanded an immediate moratorium on destruction of the Amazon rainforest from their leather suppliers in Brazil.The move is the first major development since

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The Ways We Are in This Together: Intersubjectivity and Interobjectivity in the Holonic Kosmosby Ken WilberIn "An Integral Age at the Leading Edge", we summarized the evidence suggesting that a cultural elite, representing less that 2% of the adult population, was entering psychosocial waves of development that could best be described as integral, and that this 2% might very well be the harbinger

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Toward an Integral Media Criticismby Rebecca BailinWhen did I walk away from away from that doctoral program? 1981? I was three courses and a dissertation away from a UCLA PhD in Theory, History and Criticism of film and TV. A doctoral dissertation away, however, can not be considered close. A friend likened writing a dissertation to having a low grade fever for several years. You’re never

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Humanity, Forest Ecology, and the Future in a British Columbia Valley: A Case Studyby Stephan Martineau.“One of the most important and challenging issues facing humanity in the 21st century is the increasingly complex human-ecology interface”, says Stephan Martineau.In this article, Stephan suggests the potential that integral mediation and integral ecology hold in addressing this interface.

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From New Scientist: Evolution's Third Replicator: Genes, Memes, and Now What?by Susan BlackmoreWE HUMANS have let loose something extraordinary on our planet - a third replicator - the consequences of which are unpredictable and possibly dangerous.What do I mean by "third replicator"? The first replicator was the gene - the basis of biological evolution. The second was memes - the basis of

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Below information designer Tom Wujec talks for just over six minutes about three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections. Wujec asks: How can we best engage our brains to help us better understand big ideas?

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God, Strings, Emergence, and the Future of the WorldBy Nicola Hoggard CreeganThis paper is a part of a larger project in which I argue that a reconnection with nature, and a reconceptualization of nature, are necessary accompaniments to a well developed sensus divinitatis. Schleiermacher talks about faith being neither a knowing nor a doing but a kind of feeling, a sense of absolute dependence,

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From Pacific Integral: Collective Individualism: Experiments in Second Tier Communityby Terri O'Fallon, Venita Ramirez, Jesse McKay and Kari MaysThis paper describes an ongoing experiment in fostering development through an integrally informed educational program, called Generating Transformative Change in Human Systems (GTC). This program forms the structure for second-tier communities whose aim

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From Integral Life: var so1 = new SWFObject('/sites/all/modules/s3_asset/lib/Player.swf', 'swf_Player_1', '750', '442', '7', '#FFFFFF'); so1.addParam('type', 'movie'); so1.addParam('quality', 'high'); so1.addParam('allowfullscreen', 'true'); so1.addParam('allowscriptaccess', 'always'); so1.addVariable('class', 'flash'); so1.addVariable('file', 'http://integrallife.com/media/48535/47929/

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Introducing The AQAL Cube Perspectives: Transcending and including the AQAL SquareBy Lexi Neale“Introducing The AQAL Cube” addresses persisting “flat-land” and reductionism issues with Ken Wilber’s AQAL Square, where “two dimensional” interpretations of “three dimensional” processes have left us with many anomalies that may possibly be corrected by the AQAL Cube. First, the AQAL Cube

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Introducing the Integral Visionby Corey deVosWe have the intuition that everyone is at least partially right, that no human being is capable of being 100% wrong. But how do you tell just how right everyone is? Some are more right than others—how do you tell the difference? Integral theory is an attempt to answer that question.The familiar Chinese proverb, “May you live in interesting times,” is

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We're at a unique moment in history, says UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the TED Talk below. Brown believes that we can use today's interconnectedness to develop our shared global ethic -- and work together to confront the challenges of poverty, security, climate change and the economy.

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Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Beliefby Jordan B. PetersonWe think we live in the "objective" world, but we do not. The objective world is something that has been conjured up for us recently - absurdly recently, from the perspective of evolutionary biology - by the processes of science operating over a span of five centuries (or, perhaps, to give the Greeks their due, over the last thirty

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From Metanexus:An Evolutionary MindBy Alice Andrews"Close your Deleuze; open your Darwin."—Robert Storey, Mimesis and the Human AnimalNot that long ago, for about a year, I dated a cute, left-wing economist off-and-on (though mostly off). We found each other attractive and exotic and perhaps even fascinating, but we didn’t get along or get each other one bit. It was a frustrating and futile

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From Google: Ray Kurzweil visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "The Web Within Us: When Minds and Machines Become One." This event took place on July 1, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series:At the onset of the 21st century, it will be an era in which the very nature of what is means to be human will be both enriched and challenged, as our species breaks the

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The Wilber-Combs Lattice Revisitedby Jan BrouwerWilber V is definitely an improvement on earlier stages. In Wilber III-IV there always lurked in the background of his theory some slight uneasiness. For it remained somehow a puzzle how psychological development stages (structures) are to be matched with (higher) states of consciousness. The relative simple answer to this question at the time was:

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Integral SpiritualityBy Terri O'FallonIntegral spirituality is the experience of a Sacred, embodied, evolutionary “now”, speaking through us in multiple voices. It incarnates all facets of our lives, inviting past and future into one moment. Integral spiritual practice, then, seems to be a consummate, persistent inquiry of many shades and shadows extending throughout life. Though our assumptions

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From Integral Life: Integral Life is launching our brand new coaching service in July. One of the questions we are being asked is why Integral Coaching is different from all the other coaching programs out there. This week we are pleased to let you listen in to a conversation between Joanne Hunt, co-founder of Integral Coaching Canada and her client Huy Lam. If you are interested in what the

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From the Origins Symposium at Arizona State University: A conversation between Roger Bingham and Richard Dawkins, AC Grayling, Brian Greene, Lawrence Krauss and Steven Pinker on science, consciousness the the future of humankind.April 5, 2009 Run Time: 58 minutes

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From the World Science Festival 2008: Prominent clashes - both historical and contemporary - have led to the widely held conclusion that science and religion are fundamentally incompatible. Yet, many scientists practice a traditional faith, having found a way to accommodate both scientific inquiry and religious teaching in their belief system. Other scientists are bringing science to bear on the

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Two Papers by Chris Stewart: Towards Integral Scenarios: Creative suggestions for translating AQAL integral theory into scenario methodologiesby Chris C Stewart This paper outlines a range of methodological suggestions for approaching the design of scenarios from an integral theory perspective. The integral theory used is based primarily on the work of Ken Wilber, and his AQAL meta-theory. As an

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Below is part 1 of 5 of 'What it Means To Be Human' - an interdisciplinary exploration of how discoveries in areas like fundamental physics, anthropology, and genomics are challenging our understanding of human nature.This event happened on May 31, 2008, at the 2008 World Science Festival - and was moderated by Charlie Rose. Participants include philosopher Daniel Dennett, artist Jonathan Harris,

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Life is Semiosis: The Biosemiotic View of Natureby Marcello BarbieriThe idea that life is based on signs and codes, i.e., that “Life is semiosis”, has been strongly suggested by the discovery of the genetic code, but so far it has made little impact, and is largely regarded as philosophy rather than science. The main reason for this is that thereare at least three basic concepts in modern biology

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