Damon

Obama's Preventive Detention (cont.......)

Charles... I'm going to respond to you here, as I'm not interested in burying my reply in the form of a private exchange in the waste basket of Integral Life.  It's much too important for that.... Those interested in our previous exchange can go here:...... Read More

Detention without Trial: Obama Administration

President Obama's task force on closing Guantanamo recently announced it will require a six month extension. It did release an interim report that in line with Obamas prior pledges envisions a three-tiered system of justice for imprisoning accused terrorists. In all cases to be... Read More

More on Bi-partisanship

Great post here from Salon.com:... "Bipartisanship" has long been, and continues to be, a deceitful fig leaf to demand enactment of Republican policies even when Americans overwhelmingly oppose those policies.  Just look at what two of the other participants in that NYT... Read More

Daily Routines

 Here's Jonathan Lethem talking to writer Paul Auster about his routines. It comes from the site Daily Routines .  Scroll down a little and check out Winston Churchill or  C.S. Lewis, or Erik Satie  or browse around and find your own favorites. Very cool. I love how... Read More

Politics and Art and Otherness...

If Integral (and others) tell us that knowledge, once unified under God,  split with the enlightenment into three strands: The True the Good and the Beautiful..... And if no one of these voices is complete alone.... And Integral is a voice of the True - aka conceptual knowledge... Read More

Practicing Attention

I'm working on being present and its going well enough. This week there's been a few balls I've been trying to keep in the air: First, the aim has been a bright and constant mantra, and, with that, staying mindful to the rhythm and balance of the day. That last concerns my list of things... Read More

Leverage

 ... This is sacred stuff. Intelligence I love.... Kennedy got the cops to try a new way of cleaning up the corners. They rounded up some young dealers; showed a videotape of them dealing drugs; and readied cases, set for indictment, that would have meant hard time in prison. Then... Read More

The Great Google/Baidu In The Sky

Great conversation between Ken and Kevin Kelly . This is exactly what Integral needs - new interesting ideas, grounded in the is-ness of our moving changing world. Fascinating - Artificial Intelligence as our child  will in time grow up to be other than us. And this confrontation... Read More