Integral in the World

The Sounds and Visions of the Integral Movement

Integral Art

Alex and Ken explore why it is necessary to go beyond the faded postmodern milieu of today's art world, how psychedelics can play a role in discovering and manifesting one's deeper realms of being, and the two kinds of "higher" that impact artists and their work.

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Alex Grey

Alex Grey, a renowned visionary and spiritual artist and author of The Mission of Art. In the foreword to The Mission of Art, Ken Wilber stated: "Alex Grey might be the most significant artist alive." Grey's paintings have been featured in venues as diverse as the album art of TOOL, the Beastie Boys and Nirvana; Newsweek magazine; the Discovery Channel; rave flyers; and sheets of blotter acid. Alex lives in New York City with his wife, the painter, Allyson Grey and their daughter, the actress, Zena Grey.

Introducing Niggy Tardust

Saul Williams offers an in-depth look at his album The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust, sharing his creative process while recording and his experience of live performance. He and Ken Wilber also discuss the complex issue of race, racism, and cultural identity in the 21st century.

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Saul Williams

Saul Williams is a gifted poet, lyricist and hip-hop artist whose work represents an evolution of thought, artistry and spiritual consciousness. Saul’s work has been driven through various modalities from published compilations of poetry, to movies, to albums produced by such musical geniuses as Trent Reznor and Rick Rubin. Saul’s poetry represents an evolution of thought, artistry and spiritual consciousness delivered with the lyrical fervor of hip-hop and the grace and linguistic mastery of Shakespeare.

Beyond Genre

Rick Rubin, MTV's "most important white boy in hip-hop, discusses why truly great music almost always transcends our concepts of genre, then waxes philosophic about rock, romance, and the potential perils of paternity....

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Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin is the music industry juggernaut responsible for grafting rap and rock into the hybrid phenomenon that paved the way for contemporary hip-hop. He has produced such artists as LL Cool J, Beastie Boys, Rage Against The Machine, System Of a Down, Neil Diamond, and Johnny Cash. Rubin was listed among Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People.

Dollars, Dharma, and Development

The Future of Business Is Integral

John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, needs no convincing about the merit of an Integral Approach to business: "I'm certain that Integral Business is a higher synthesis... that it is going to grow at an extremely rapid rate... and that it will out-compete anything else out there."

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John Mackey

John Mackey is Chairman and CEO of Whole Foods Market, a $4 billion Fortune 500 company, the largest natural foods retail chain in the world, and a “Fortune 100 Best Companies To Work For” for 8 years running. John was named the "Ernst and Young Entrepreneur Of The Year" in 2003. He is a strong believer in FLOW principles, including free market principles and empowerment management, and serves on the board of Integral Life, Inc.

The Higher Reaches of Success

So what happens when the most successful leadership coach in the world talks with the most comprehensive integral thinker? First of all, our expectations quickly dissolve. If Tony is supposed to be the "success guy" and Ken is the "intellectual guy," we find in them a warmth, humor, and caring that makes for a truly heartfelt dialogue....

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Tony Robbins

For more than a quarter of a century, Anthony Robbins has served as an advisor to leaders around the world. A recognized authority on the psychology of leadership, negotiations, organizational turnaround, and peak performance, he has been honored for his strategic intellect and humanitarian endeavors. The Anthony Robbins Foundation provides assistance to the homeless, elderly and inner-city youth, and feeds more than one million people in nine countries every year. Robbins has directly impacted the lives of nearly 50 million people with his best-selling books and audiotapes, public speaking engagements, and live appearances.

Crafting an Integral Business

Much of her success has been facilitated by her ever-changing notion of "multiple bottom lines," which begins with a handful of simple but powerful questions: How can our products reflect our processes? How can spirituality be translated into organizational life? How can we form a workplace where employees can live balanced lives, and continue to evolve as human beings...?

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Tami Simon

Tami Simon started Sounds True, now a multi-media publisher, in 1985 with a dream, a tape recorder, and a $50,000 inheritance she received upon the death of her father. Though she had no business experience and only a vague idea of what she wanted the company to be, Tami had her guiding principle strongly in place: to “disseminate spiritual wisdom.” Over their 22 year history, Sounds True has produced over 600 titles, been nominated twice for the Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing companies, and is now North America's leading publisher of spoken-word spiritual teachings.

Truth is Not Enough

The Nature of Change in the Real World

In this far-ranging and vivid dialogue, Hunter Lovins describes the reception to her most recent book, Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (coauthored with Amory Lovins and Paul Hawken). Although a major critical success, the book shared the fate of so many important reform initiatives: profound ideas, poor conversion into action.

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Hunter Lovins

L. Hunter Lovins is President and founder of the Natural Capitalism Solutions. NCS educates senior decision-makers in business, government and civil society to restore and enhance the natural and human capital while increasing prosperity and quality of life. In partnership with leading thinkers and implementers, NCS creates innovative, practical tools and strategies to enable companies, communities and countries to become more sustainable.

Environmental Crisis?

Are we really headed for environmental apocalypse in the near future? Michael Crichton, famed author of many best-selling techno-thrillers, is not persuaded by the evidence often touted by those in the environmental movement. The problem is that the debate over the environment is now highly politicized along clear party lines, and is no longer based off of sound science. And, it’s further complicated by the unwillingness to realistically look at the often risky and speculative nature of predicting the future....

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Michael Crichton

After graduating from the Harvard Medical School, Michael Crichton embarked on a career as a writer and filmmaker. Called "the father of the techno-thriller," his novels include The Andromeda Strain, Congo, Jurassic Park, Timeline, Prey, and State of Fear. He has also written four books of non-fiction, including Five Patients, Travels, and Jasper Johns. He is also the creator of the television series ER. He is the only person to have had, at the same time, the number one book, the number one movie, and the number one TV show in the United States. Michael Crichton passed away in late 2008 at the age of 66.

Integral Ecology

Sean Esbjorn-Hargens and Ken Wilber take an in-depth look at the book Integral Ecology: Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World (recently published by Integral Books) which identifies and situates over 200 different schools of ecology.

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Sean Esbjörn-Hargens

Sean Esbjörn-Hargens Ph.D. is an associate professor and founding Chair of the Integral Theory Program at John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill, California. He is founding Director of the Integral Research Center, which supports graduate and post-graduate mixed methods research. In addition, he is the founding Executive Editor of the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice. Recently, he co-founded and co-organized the biennial Integral Theory Conference.

Meditate and Eat Your Veggies

Integral Recovery

John Dupuy is a pioneer in the field of Integral Recovery, a new model for the treatment of chemical dependency and alcoholism that explicitly uses Integral theory and the AQAL map (i.e. all quadrants, all levels, all lines, all states, all types) as its foundation. In this video series, John describes the Integral Recovery process with considerable detail, offering a theoretical explanation of how and why an Integral approach is so essential to the field.

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John Dupuy

John Dupuy has been doing pioneering work on Integral recovery, a new model for the treatment of chemical dependency and alcoholism, using integral theory and the AQAL map. John began working in the field of recovery in 1984 and has worked with some of the premier wilderness therapy programs in the country. In 2000, John founded Passages to Recovery, an adult wilderness program integrating recovery treatment with wilderness rites of passage.

An Integral Perspective on Healing

In this clip, Marilyn Schlitz gives us a brief tour about what an Integral perspective can offer to health and healing. According to Marilyn, true health and healing can happen when we understand all of the relationships that affect our lives; and an Integral Map does just that....

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Marilyn Schlitz

Marilyn Schlitz, Ph.D., is Director of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and senior scientist at the Geraldine Brush Cancer Research Institute at the California Pacific Medical Center.

Integral Nursing: Past, Present, and Future

Having lectured, studied, and written extensively on the vital importance of attending to body, mind, and spirit in the practice of healing, Barbara was gracious enough to speak with us about how an integral perspective has informed her work. In this dialogue, Dr. Dossey explains how modern nurses find themselves in a unique situation: on the one hand, they are freer to work with a wider range of healing techniques than ever before; on the other, they have lost a sense of their roots and, with them, a framework for understanding how to engage those techniques in a meaningful way.

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Barbara Dossey

As an educator, consultant, researcher, and author, Barbara Dossey profoundly alters perceptions about holistic nursing. An inspired teacher, she effectively integrates non-traditional viewpoints with a high degree of scientific awareness in her lectures worldwide. Spanning the full range of current nursing and health information, her presentations provide challenging, practical, and innovative ways to combine holistic health care with high-level wellness. From nursing association gatherings to corporate meetings—all audiences respond enthusiastically to Barbara Dossey's penetrating insights and abiding compassion.

Helping You Become a Freer and Fuller YOU

Understanding Meetings: Your Native Perspective

In this video presentation, Joanne Hunt offers a fascinating overview of "Native Perspectives," a powerful diagnostic tool used by Integral Coaching that integrates two different components of the Integral model: quadrants and typologies. Identifying the four fundamental ways we relate to ourselves, each other, and the world around us, Joanne uses the example of a typical business meeting to show how these perspectives play themselves out in our everyday lives.

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Joanne Hunt

Joanne is the Vice President of Integral Coaching and Development for Integral Life and the Co-Founder of Integral Coaching Canada. She is a lead instructor for Integral Coaching Canada's advanced programs, and students describe her as an expert coach, a playful human being and a passionate, skilled teacher. Rooted in her own commitment to living with personal integrity and authenticity, Joanne brings this dedication to how she teaches, how she guides faculty and how she coaches clients.

Integral Coaching

Joanne Hunt, Laura Divine, and Ken Wilber discuss the advent of Integral Coaching, whose services will be made available to the Integral community in the coming months. They share some of the unique contributions the Integral approach offers to coaches and clients alike, providing the most comprehensive map of growth and human development available today.

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Laura Divine

Laura is the Co-Founder of Integral Coaching Canada and has been practicing in the field of coaching for over twenty years. She brings extensive leadership and business management experience to her ability to directly apply Integral Coaching® in complex settings.

From Responsible to Response-Able

Fred Kofman discusses the fallacy of thinking we can be completely responsible for the consequences of our actions, especially in light of the "fiction of self"—it's like telling a dream character to be responsible for his choices, but how responsible can the dream character actually be? Fred explains, is not to feign responsibility for consequences that are well beyond our control—but to instead be “response-able” in the face of whatever arises in your actions, by simply asking ourselves "What is my dharma in this situation?"

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Fred Kofman

Fred Kofman is the co-founder and president of Axialent, an international consulting company specializing in leadership development and teamwork. Fred has created and taught programs in leadership, personal mastery, team learning, organizational effectiveness, and coaching for more than 15,000 participants. His clients include industry leaders such as Microsoft, Shell, Yahoo! and General Motors. Business leaders seek out Fred because of his extraordinary ability to inspire people to act with greater responsibility, integrity and courage. His ideas combine philosophical depth with practical applicability.

New Visions for Global Governance

Spiral Dynamics and the Palestine/Israel Conflict

Don offers an intimate glimpse into his own life and career. He discusses the current phase of his work: traveling the world and applying Spiral Dynamics to various geo-political "hotspots" all over the planet. He then goes into considerable depth around the specifics of the Palestine-Israel conflict, describing the needs and problems on both sides of the divide, his hands-on involvement with both nations, and the remarkable receptivity with which his work has been met.

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Don Beck

Don Edward Beck, Ph.D., is Co-founder of The National Values Center in Denton, Texas, and President and CEO of The Spiral Dynamics Group, Inc. Beck co-authored The Crucible: Forging South Africa's Future (with Graham Linscott, l991) and Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership & Change (with Christopher Cowan, l996). He also writes a "Sports Values" column for the Dallas Morning News and appears often in the media regarding issues related to values, sports, and racial divides.

Politics in the 21st Century

In this fascinating dialogue between Ken Wilber and chairman and president of the State of the World Forum Jim Garrison, the topics range from the increasingly dangerous crises happening around the globe to America’s transition from republic to empire to the ability for Integral consciousness to face the precarious challenges of the 21st century head on.

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Jim Garrison

Jim Garrison is the chairman and president of the State of the World Forum, which he cofounded with Mikhail Gorbachev in 1995. The State of the World Forum (SWF) is often thought of as a "shadow UN," in that it is the largest forum of world leaders outside of the United Nations. From Margaret Thatcher to Ted Turner, from the Queen of Jordan to Desmond Tutu, from Jimmy Carter to George Bush Sr., all have been part of the extraordinary dialogue that is the State of the World Forum.

The Integral-Political Imperative

In this three-part series, James Turner, a founding pioneer in Integral forms of law, politics, and federal regulation talks with Ken about his days with Ralph Nader, 18th-century American political history, the essential ingredients of an Integral approach to politics, and the meaning of “trans-partisan” politics.

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James S. Turner

James Turner is a principal in the Swankin & Turner law firm, a founding member of Integral Institute, and its Integral Politics and Integral Business centers. He is also the host of “Of Consuming Interest” on the Progressive Radio Network.

Healing the False Self

The Increasing Complexity of the Individual Ego

Susanne Cook-Greuter is an internationally recognized researcher in mature ego development and self-actualization. You may have noticed her name alongside Robert Kegan's, Clare Graves', and Jane Loevinger's in Ken's book, Integral Spirituality. Her sentence completion tests are sophisticated enough to tease out the subtle differences between the highest known levels of development. We hope you enjoy the following video series, in which she explains her research on the increasing complexity of the individual ego.

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Susanne Cook-Greuter

Susanne Cook-Greuter is internationally known as the leading expert in mature ego development and self-actualization. She does ongoing research and development on the Sentence Completion Test. She leads trainings in the Leadership Development Framework and introductions and certification training for SCT-scorers. She collaborates with other consultant in bringing the developmental perspective into corporations and executive teams. Her clients appreciate her for her dedication, creativity and joyful, subtle inquiry as well as for her profound knowledge of the adult development field.

The Evolving Self

For many, to have a developmental view is to be hierarchical—and to be hierarchical is to be oppressive, regressive, patriarchal, and a direct contributor to the suffering of untold millions. The fact the HGSE has decided to so clearly support Bob's work is a welcome sign that the winds may be shifting. Robert Kegan, the author of The Evolving Self and In Over Our Heads, explores the vital role of interior development in creating a more inclusive and integrated world, as well as the importance of the appropriate use of discriminating awareness....

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Robert Kegan

Dr. Robert Kegan is nothing short of the academic ambassador of human development. As a Harvard-trained developmental psychologist, Kegan is best known for championing the idea that there is life after adolescence; that adult mental development need not end at age twenty; that adults may, indeed must, continue to develop throughout adulthood. He single-handedly transformed epistemology, often considered a dry, academic exercise, into a dynamic event by helping us understand that it is not what we think, but rather how we think.

The Importance of Will

In order to live at your fullest potential, just like any other part of your being, you must exercise your will. In this clip, Michael Murphy explains how the exercise of will requires a comprehensive, long-term view of your life, regular dynamic steering on a yearly, monthly, daily and even moment to moment basis, and a healthy dose of true discipline in order to manifest your unique gifts.

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Michael Murphy

Michael Murphy is the co-founder and chairman of Esalen Institute, and co-creator of Integral Transformative Practice, writer of the highly regarded The Future of the Body, and author of four novels: Golf in the Kingdom, The Kingdom of Shivas Irons, Jacob Atabet, and An End to Ordinary History. During his long involvement in the human potential movement, Murphy and his work have been profiled in the New Yorker and featured in many magazines and journals worldwide.

Celebrating the Miracle of WE

On Relationships

In this clip, Diane offers a down-to-earth view of relationship. She says that as far as relationships go, we need to make peace with the fact that sometimes our relationships hurt: whether we are single, divorced, married, or dating, none of these options will ultimately be as we would like them to be all of the time, and perhaps not even most of the time. That's why she says, when it comes to relationships, "pick your poison." Whatever form of relationship you have, there is some pain, some poison that accompanies intimacy and communion. Her advice on how to deal with it? "Learn to love in spite of the pain." Listen in to this grounded, realistic view of love and relationships.

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Diane Musho Hamilton

Diane Musho Hamilton is a trainer for Integral Institute and a senior student of Zen meditation. She is also professional mediator, group facilitator, and trainer in conflict resolution. She was the first Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution for the Utah Judiciary from 1994 -1999, where she established the original mediation programs in the state court system. She has extensive experience in facilitating large meetings, including public policy issues. Diane has been a student of Zen for over 20 years. She has a Masters Degree in Contemplative Psychology from Naropa Institute, in Boulder, Colorado.

Does Feminism Discriminate Against Men?

In this engaging dialogue, Warren Farrell and Ken discuss the extraordinary progress feminism has allowed for women in America, while noting the surprising lack of comparable "masculist" movements among men, with a similar opportunity to redefine their identities. Are men as a whole still stuck in a condition homologous to what women were experiencing before the 1960's?

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Warren Farrell

Dr. Warren Farrell is the author of many books, including two award-winning international best-sellers, Why Men Are The Way They Are plus The Myth of Male Power. His most recent books are Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say, which is a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, and Father and Child Reunion, about how fathers can be successful at both work and home.

Exploring Conscious Sexuality

David Deida goes deep into the meaning of sexuality as art. David teaches sexuality as a radical expression of your deepest consciousness and bliss - as an art-form like the work of Picasso, combined with the spiritual realization demonstrated by beings such as Ramana Maharshi. To get to the place where you can freely flow with the light of sexual love requires a kind of yoga or practice of sexual love....

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David Deida

Acknowledged as one of the world's most insightful and provocative spiritual teachers of our time, best-selling author David Deida continues to revolutionize the way that men and women grow spiritually and sexually. His teachings and writings on a radically practical spirituality for our time have been hailed as among the most original and authentic contributions to personal and spiritual growth currently available.

From the Big Bang to Tomorrow's Possibilities

Exploring the Technium

Wired magazine’s own “Senior Maverick” talks about some of the ideas behind his blog The Technium, exploring the various ways humanity has defined and redefined itself through the interface of science, technology, culture, and consciousness. He then goes on to discuss the nature of evolutionary emergence—the mysterious process by which new wholes manifest in the universe, each greater than the sum of their parts. They speak about humanity’s role in this evolutionary process, especially in the creation of new types of intelligences: living, breathing, thinking machines.

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Kevin Kelly

Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He helped launch Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor until January 1999. He is currently editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website, which gets 1 million visitors per month. From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers' Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. He authored the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy and the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, Out of Control.

Integral Evolutionary Biology

The man behind the theory of morphic resonance shares his impulse to explore the evolutionary impulse behind the Kosmos itself. From physics, to chemistry, to biology, to psychology, to spirituality and more, these two pioneers share their understanding of how Spirit is manifesting moment-to-moment in and through the leading edge of consciousness awareness....

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Rupert Sheldrake

Rupert Sheldrake is a British biologist and author who has developed the theory of morphic resonance, incorporating the insights of early twentieth century morphogenetic fields, and extending the understanding of biological "fields" to entire species—not merely individual groups of embryonic cells—and where evolutionary habits of nature can explain far more than eternal laws of nature.

Brainwaves and God

The creator of Holosync recounts the beginnings of this brainwave technology, its role in contemporary spiritual growth, the ways in which brain-mind machines can help accelerate conscious transformation, and why an understanding of stages of development is crucial for skillful means.

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Bill Harris

Bill Harris is the President and Director of Centerpointe Research Institute and the creator of Holosync audio technology. For the past thirty-five years, Bill has been intimately involved in the field of personal growth, with a specific interest in the effects of neurotechnologies on human change, evolution, and growth. Since 1989, over 150,000 people have used Holosync’s binaural sound engineering.