Corey W. deVos
Corey W. deVos is the Writer, Content Producer, and Webmaster of Integral Life and Integral Naked, as well as Managing Editor of KenWilber.com. He has worked for Integral Institute since Spring of 2003, and has been a student of integral theory and practice for over a decade.
Corey W. deVos is the Writer, Content Producer, and Webmaster of Integral Life and Integral Naked, as well as Managing Editor of KenWilber.com. He has worked for Integral Institute since Spring of 2003, and has been a student of integral theory and practice for over a decade. Born in Pittsfield, MA, Corey initially went to Northeastern University in Boston to study small business management. Two years later, while sitting in his college apartment, a spontaneous spiritual awakening violently seized his entire being, and for the first time the living intelligence of the universe dramatically made itself known. In a single moment, everything he had ever thought he had known about his identity and about the world completely fell apart (in his words: "one night the Kosmic Etch-A-Sketch was violently shaken, and all the lines were wiped clean...") and was replaced with something profoundly more real, yet much more elusive—something which was undeniably always already present, but could not be directly seen—at least not at first. Needless to say, this experience radically altered the course of his entire life.
Fortunately, Corey stumbled across A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber just a few months after his initial taste of the divine, and before long he was voraciously consuming everything Ken had ever written. Almost immediately he had fallen in love with the integral world. Through Ken's work, he was able to slowly wrap words around those most ineffable parts of his soul, and to hold all the staggering complexity of his self and the world in a single simple vision. After a few years in Oregon, where he practiced intensive reading, writing, meditation, and contemplation, he decided to move to Boulder, CO with the singular intention of becoming directly involved with the integral movement—which by that point had become the only thing in the world that mattered to him.
After two years in Boulder, while following the same synchronistic path that consciously began that fateful night in his college apartment six years earlier, Corey miraculously found himself at ground zero of the integral movement. A new formation of Integral Institute had just begun, and he was blessed enough to be able witness its birth from its very beginning. He was a founding member of iNext, the now-defunct "integral treehouse" which brought together some of the most beautiful and inspiring souls he has ever known. After so many years of feeling like a lonely integral island, the opportunity to engage and commune with such wonderful hearts and minds was absolutely exhilarating. Within the integral community he had found his family, his career, and his purpose.
While in Boulder, a lifetime obsession with all forms of music culminated in the birth of Corey's alter-ego, dj rekluse, whose "trans-genre hip hop beats" can be heard pulsing in the background of the Rocky Mountain integral scene. dj rekluse is most known in the integral community for his remix of the song Belle by Stuart Davis.
Corey's written contributions include:
Introducing Niggy Tardust
featuring Saul Williams and Ken Wilber
Part 1: The Rise and Liberation
Part 2: Deconstructing Niggy
Pearl Jam: Restoring Idealism to Rock and Roll
featuring Stone Gossard and Ken Wilber
Part 1: From the Birth of Grunge to the Death of an Industry
Part 2: Innocence Lost, Integrity Gained
Integral "Third Way" Politics
featuring Ken Wilber
Politics in the 21st Century
featuring Jim Garrison and Ken Wilber
Part 1: Flirting with Disaster
Part 2: America as Empire
Part 3: In Hot Water
The Integral-Politcal Imperative
featuring James Turner and Ken Wilber
Part 2: Jefferson and Hamilton in the Modern World—And Why it Matters to You!
Part 3: Part 3: A Trans-Partisan Vision for America
Integral Christianity: Theory and Practice
featuring Br. David Steindl-Rast and Ken Wilber
Part 1: The Relationship of the One and the Many
Part 2: The Three Faces of God
Integral Zen
featuring Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei and Ken Wilber
Part 1: Standing in the Confluence
Integral Evolutionary Biology
featuring Rupert Sheldrake and Ken Wilber
Part 2: The Inner Life of Atoms and Molecules
Part 3: Matter, Consciousness, and Spirituality
Part 4: Christianity, the Holy Trinity, and Kosmic Creativity
Enlighened Business Practices
featuring Tami Simon and Ken Wilber
Part 1: The Birth of Sounds True
Part 2: The "Twenty Tenets" of Sounds True
How to Deal With Disappointment in Your Spiritual Teachers
featuring Tami Simon and Ken Wilber
Does Feminism Discriminate Against Men?
featuring Warren Farrell and Ken Wilber
Part 1: Redefining the Relationships Between Men and Women
Part 2: Beyond Feminism and Masculism
Sports and Spirituality
featuring David Meggyesy and Ken Wilber
Part 1: In the Zone
Part 2: From Competition to Divine Play
Part 3: The "Hidden Religion"
