Corey deVos

Hail Mary, Mother of God, I've got the whole host of angels shuffling on my iPod.... ~Saul Williams

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About Me

I am the Writer, Content Producer, and Webmaster of Integral Life and Integral Naked, as well as Managing Editor of KenWilber.com. I have worked for I-I since Spring of 2003, and have been a student of integral theory and practice for over a decade.

In a nutshell, my job is to transform audio interviews from their raw unedited state into what you see on the site—editing them down and often breaking them into multiple pieces, finding or creating interesting imagery that somehow captures the essence of the dialogue, and wrapping some sort of meaningful language around them. I am also responsible for most of the writing and imagery for our videos as well, which are produced by our wonderful media department. I then slap everything up onto the site, assemble the weekly content mailer, and deliver the week's offerings to your mailbox.

Born in Pittsfield, MA, I initially went to Northeastern University in Boston to study small business management. Two years later, while sitting in my college apartment, a spontaneous spiritual awakening violently seized my entire being, and for the first time the living intelligence of the universe dramatically made itself known. In a single moment, everything I had ever thought I had known about my identity and about the world completely fell apart–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 my entire life.

Having no precedent for such an intimate experience with my own Suchness, and no religious or spiritual background to help translate the new Reality I had so suddenly become immersed in, I felt trapped in the claustrophobia of a tattered identity that I knew was slowly dying. I was utterly alone in the world, alone in a room full of my closest friends, alone with a beautiful Self I could not begin to share. It was a very long and dark night. After a year of futile attempts to reenter my old life, I made the decision to drop out of college and move to Eugene, OR. There I would begin putting all the shattered pieces of my identity back together, reconstructing myself in the image of all I felt churning and unfolding within me.

Fortunately, I stumbled across A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber just a few months after my initial taste of the divine, and before long I was voraciously consuming everything Ken had ever written. Almost immediately I had fallen in love with the integral world. Through Ken's work, I was able to slowly wrap words around those most ineffable parts of my soul, and to hold all the staggering complexity of my self and the world in a single simple vision. After a few years in Oregon, where I practiced intensive reading, writing, meditation, and contemplation, I 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 me.

After two years in Boulder, while following the same synchronistic path that consciously began that fateful night in my college apartment six years earlier, I miraculously found myself at ground zero of the integral movement. A new formation of Integral Institute had just begun, and I was blessed enough to be able witness its birth from its very beginning.

While in Boulder, a lifetime obsession with all forms of music culminated in the birth of my alter-ego, dj rekluse, whose "trans-genre hip hop beats" can be heard pulsing in the background of the Rocky Mountain integral scene.

Career

I am the Managing Editor of Integral Naked, Lead Writer and Audio Manager for Integral Life, and Managing Editor of KenWilber.com. I have worked for I-I since Spring of 2003, and have been a student of integral theory and practice for nearly a decade.

Pieces I've written:

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
Part 3: Gratitude, the Listening Heart, and Contemplation-in-Action

Integral Zen
featuring Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei and Ken Wilber
Part 1: Standing in the Confluence
Part 2: Perspectives and Practice

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"

In the Company of Truth
featuring Mokshananda and Ken Wilber
Part 1: Mapping the World of Form
Part 2: The Theater of Experience

Video Games and the Future of Interactive Entertainment
featuring Moses Silbiger and Ken Wilber
Part 1: Trojan Horses
Part 2: The Singularity: Rupture or Rapture?

Hobbies and Interests

Here's my most recent dj mix for you all, a "trans-genre" blend of hip hop, classic rock, metal, industrial, downtempo, etc. The mix (like this entire website) is still under construction, with a few new wrinkles to be added soon. You can download the full 80-minute mix; i have also broken it down into four consecutive pieces. Enjoy, and let me know what you think here!

The Real Life Beta Mix (full mix) (right-click to download)

The Real Life Beta Mix - Part A (right-click to download)
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Gnarls Barkley - Charity Case
LCD Soundsystem - Watch the Tapes
The Dragons - Cosmosis
The Black Keys - Strange Times
Honeycut - Dark Days, White Light
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony (UNKLE Remix)
Beastie Boys - Rhyming and Stealing
Peeping Tom - We're Not Alone (Automator Redux)

The Real Life Beta Mix - Part B (right-click to download)
El-p - Flyentology (Cassettes Won't Listen Remix)
Galactic and Lateef - No Way
Lyrics Born - Do You Buy It?
Run Run Run - Fade Into You (Z-Trip Remix)
Outkast - Bombs Over Baghdad
Blackalicious - If I May
Eminem - Lose Yourself (instrumental)
The Beatles - Come Together

The Real Life Beta Mix - Part C (right-click to download)
DJ Shadow - This Time
DJ Shadow - Six Days (Soulwax Remix)
Pearl Jam - W.M.A.
Saul Williams - Sunday Bloody Sunday
Latyrx - Lady Don't Tek No (Instrumental)
The Who - Eminence Front
Beck - Soul of a Man
Tricky - Veronika
David Bowie - No Control
Lyrics Born - L-I-F-E

The Real Life Beta Mix - Part D (right-click to download)

The Smiths - How Soon is Now?
J Dilla - Nothing Like This
Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong
Bill Laswell - Posthuman
Nine Inch Nails - Complications of the Flesh
DJ Krush - Pretense
Massive Attack - I Against I (Instrumental)
Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall (Pt. 1)
Tosca - Honey (Markus Kienzl Dub)
U2 - With or Without You
Lupe Fiasco - Hello Goodbye