Special Valentines Offerings

Beauty and Feminism (Premium)
Vanessa Fisher and Ken Wilber
Audio

Vanessa Fisher, a long-time student of Integral theory and contributor to the Fall 2008 edition of AQAL Journal, speaks with Ken about the tenuous relationship that often exists between feminist thinkers and modern conceptions of beauty.

Beauty and Spirit
Ken Wilber
Video

Like three sides of a prism, the Good, the Beautiful, and the True refract the white light of consciousness into the entire spectrum of human experience: art, morals, and science; self, culture, and nature; I, We, and It. How odd, then, that many contemporary forms of spirituality seem to only extend Spirit to one or two of these dimensions. This has often been the case with Beauty throughout history, and is even true today. For example, many see it as "anti-spiritual" for a person to care about his or her physical appearance, as though an emphasis upon appearance is vain and superficial—and the real God does not concern Him/Herself with such trivial adornments as physical beauty. But really, what doesn't Spirit touch? And why is Beauty often associated with superficiality? If the mind and the environment around us are not-two, then isn't our capacity to perceive Beauty a tribute to the perfection of existence?

On Relationships (Premium)
Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei
Video

In this clip, Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei gives us 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.

The Most Natural Thing in the World
Stuart Davis and Ken Wilber
Audio

Best friends and colleagues for nearly a decade, if there’s one thing that Ken and Stu agree on, it’s that Marci Walters is one of the most beautiful, passionate, radiant, and astonishing human beings they’ve ever known. For five years Marci was Mrs. Ken Wilber, and for nearly four years now she’s been Mrs. Stuart Davis. Some people find this situation scandalous; for Ken, Stu, Marci, and everyone who knows them, it’s the most natural thing in the world....

Open Marriage, Open Wound
Stuart Davis
Video

Everybody says it: Stuart Davis is funny! He's also willing to talk about taboo issues, issues that make us uncomfortable, issues that challenge our views, whether we agree with them or not, but all the while he is entertaining. In this episode of the Stuart Davis show, Marci offers to let Stu sleep with groupies if he gives her another baby, Stu discovers a very odd fetish and a horrible rash, and Marci hits the jackpot with a Scientologist on the block. How are all these events related? Watch Stuart perform to find out. Co-starring Marci and Aja Davis, Steve Brill, and the Clones.

The Many Levels of Mars and Venus (Premium)
John Gray and Ken Wilber
Audio series (2 clips)

John Gray, Ph.D., is the author of 15 best-selling books, including Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, the number one best-selling book of the last decade. In the past ten years, over 30 million Mars and Venus books have been sold in over 40 languages throughout the world. He is arguably the most popular writer on relationship in the world today.

John and Ken explore the integral model and how it can be applied to gender and relationship issues. The four quadrants (I/We/It/Its) include the personal, cultural, and social realities of a situation, and developmental psychology looks at the interior levels of growth in individuals. The four quadrants—All-Quadrant—and developmental psychology—All-Level—come together to form the core of the AQAL or integral model.

Redefining the Roles Between Men and Women (Premium)
Warren Farrell and Ken Wilber
Audio series (3 clips)

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. In this engaging dialogue, he 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?

Sex, Gender, Trans-Gender
Ken Wilber
Audio

Along with Quadrants, Levels, Lines, and States, Types is one of the five fundamental elements of the AQAL Integral Model. Types has been explored in approaches such as the Enneagram and Myers-Briggs, but the simplest typology is that of masculine and feminine. Here the student questions whether gender identity is not simply a matter of types, but perhaps also a developmental line. As Ken explains, yes, looked at certain way, gender identity is most definitely a line of development. At an egocentric level of development, gender identity is closely tied to one’s biological sex as a male or female human organism. At an ethnocentric level of development, those biological differences between men and women are then cemented in gender roles as “God’s way.” At a worldcentric level of development, one is finally free to critique and reject the socially-constructed gender roles of one’s culture, and then create one’s gender identity as one wishes. At an integral and Kosmocentric level of development, one actually becomes in a sense “trans-gender,” as one’s locus of identity is found in all that is arising, of which the body-mind is one small part. Ken goes on to comment on the four-quadrant nature of sex and gender identity, and the importance of a truly integral feminism….

The Erogenous Zones of Life, Light, and Emptiness
Ken Wilber
Video

How to have sex with all three bodies! No, we aren't talking about a menage a trois. Here Ken Wilber talks about the evolution of sexuality and what it means to make love with the physical body (Life), the subtle body (Light), and the causal body (Emptiness). The deeper point in this dialogue is accessing more sublime aspects of yourself, not just for the physical act of love making, but for the rest of your life as well.

Exploring Conscious Sexuality (Premium)
Ken Wilber
Video Series (5 clips)

David Deida - celebrated spiritual teacher and best-selling author - goes deep into the meaning of sexuality as art in this video series. The question is not just, how do I have better sex? Or, how do I overcome my sexual inhibitions? 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. We hope you enjoy this video series on Conscious Sexuality.

Embodying Passion (Premium)
Kelly Bearer
E-learning Presentation

The Integral approach to embodying passion and great sex offers a number of additional insights that almost every other sexpert is missing, including the artful practice of sexual polarity. In this multimedia program, we will define the two extremes of sexual polarity, help you assess which pole you most resonate with in relationship, and offer a series of practices that you can use to re-polarize your relationship. In the end, by purposefully cultivating an embodiment of your polarity, you and your lover can enjoy passion and intimacy like never before....