Top Rated Videos and E-Learnings

Here are the ten highest-rated video and e-learning offerings on IntegralLife.com:

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Integral Economics. Part 1. Understanding our Economic Institutions
Kevin Bowman
Usefulness: 83/87

This e-learning presentation offers an Integral economic framework to help differentiate fundamentalist approaches to economics from decidedly more sophisticated economic policies. It is argued that economic policies are often generated in the context of friction between fundamentalist conservative and liberal tendencies. For progress on several issues of economic concern today, Part 1 of this program aims to raise the level of debate to include more sophisticated versions of conservative and liberal approaches. Also covered is a quadrant analysis of liberal and conservative economic ideologies, an integral approach to capital, the prevalent conflation of sophisticated and fundamentalist policies, and the impact of shadow dynamics on our collective approach to economics.
 

An Essential Introduction to the Integral Approach: What Is the Integral Map?
Clint Fuhs
Usefulness: 76/80

The Integral Map is nothing less than a map of the human experience - a composite framework that honors the key insights of the world's greatest traditions and distills them into five simple factors, five keys to unlock and facilitate your growth and development. Sound too daunting and complex? Well, that's the thing. Life is complex enough as it is, so we’re sharing this map with you as a means to help you find your way. And what you’ll find, with just a little perseverance and a willingness to learn and "not know," is greater understanding and love for yourself, others and the world you live in. Watch this introductory e-learning program to begin the journey and find out how to better navigate your life.
 

Technologies for Awakening
Ken Wilber
Usefulness: 68/68

In this video, Ken discusses the benefits of Holosync, an audio technology that uses binaural beats to influence brain wave patterns, generating a variety of creative and meditative states—just one example of the many tools that can assist us along our transformative paths. He also suggests that to get at shadow material, the 3-2-1 process is essential. Although Holosync, and other technologies like it, may uncover painful or shadow-ridden states of mind, it may not help you understand your relationship to that shadow, which is the crux of of effective shadow work. Listen in for a great description of the benefits of Holosync and how you can augment that practice, and others like it, with other forms of practice to accelerate your growth.

On Relationships
Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei
Usefulness: 68/69

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 Markers of Second-Tier Consciousness
Jeff Salzman
Usefulness: 63/65

What is an Integral level of consciousness? Amidst the wealth of second-tier perspectives that are only now emerging, and despite the rudimentary traits of second-tier consciousness that have been identified thus far, it's important to keep engaging the question and not cling to a definitive answer because we've only just begun our journey. We have barely scratched the surface of defining what living an "Integral Life" actually means. Please join the conversation with us.
 

Integral Pathologies
Ken Wilber
Usefulness: 61/61

Here Ken discusses some of the possible pathologies of the Integral stage of consciousness, patterns of unhealthy integration that will surely have an effect upon the next hundred years of human development.  When considering human development—the process by which people and cultures grow through magic, mythic, rational, pluralistic, and integral stages of consciousness—it is important to keep in mind that each of these major stages come in both healthy and an unhealthy forms.  For example, someone moving through mythic consciousness in a healthy way would most likely take on the very best qualities associated with that level, including traits such as honor, respect, and hard work—while someone experiencing an unhealthy version of mythic consciousness would slide rather easily toward religious fundamentalism, xenophobia, and groupthink.  The same is true for the rational stage—a healthy version would include things like intellectual curiosity, agnosticism, and critical thinking—while an unhealthy version would display qualities of scientific reductionism, as scientific curiosity becomes replaced by the certainty of materialism.  And while the healthiest aspects of pluralism emphasize multiculturalism, egalitarianism, and emotional sensitivity, unhealthy versions tend toward radical deconstructionism, narcissism, and political correctness.
 

Obama and McCain: Seeing Through the Talking Points
Clint Fuhs and Corey W. deVos
Usefulness: 59/59

Obama and McCain: Seeing Through the Talking Points lets you watch the Integral political map emerge in real time in the acceptance speeches of Senators McCain and Obama.  What is each candidate really saying, and to whom are they speaking?

States and Stages: Freedom and Fullness
Ken Wilber
Usefulness: 55/55

The distinction between states and structures of consciousness may be one of the most important contributions to the religious dialogue in centuries, and may well play a fundamental role in the future of spirituality. Mastery of the various states of consciousness (e.g. gross, subtle, causal, and nondual) determines the amount of freedom you can experience in life, which Integral calls "horizontal enlightenment", while development through the many structures of consciousness (e.g. magic, mythic, rational, postmodern, and integral) will determine the degree of fullness you can experience, known as "vertical enlightenment." By recognizing these two types of enlightenment you'll enhance the amount of warmth, light, and consciousness you have to share with the rest of the world.
 

A Tale of Four Americas: A Brief Summary of an Integral Approach to Politics
Corey W. deVos and Clint Fuhs
Usefulness: 52/53

A Tale of Four Americas takes a look at the political dynamics and cultural perspectives that influence every part of the Republican and Democratic parties.  It explores the ideological divides that exist within each party, and offers a simple map to help make sense of these seemingly conflicting beliefs.

Surrender
Ken Wilber
Usefulness: 51/51

Here Ken is asked about his own relationship with surrender, grace, and inner knowledge. He shares a glimpse into his own creative process, namely the need to make a choice to fully surrender to the creative impulse.