Emine

Through an Integral Lens: A Look at Spielberg's Munich

 ... I wrote this about three years ago; it was my first foray into applying integral. I thought it might still be of interest despite the 'oh so didactic' ending...   Munich : 2005, by Steven Spielberg. Starring: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciaran Hinds, Mathieu... Read More

Coffee Grounds and the Integral Practitioner

 ...   I got roped into reading many a Turkish coffee cup at the 2008 Integral Without Borders meeting in Istanbul. This is a favorite pass time in Turkey. I first started fortune telling with a group of friends in middle school. We would consume dangerous amounts of the thick... Read More

'The Self as Instrument,' or 'The Importance of Brown Window Frames'

 ...  ... A journal entry of sorts: Hilmi Bey: As soon as he said ‘Wait! First let me tell you how we built all this,’ I knew I had made a big mistake by pulling out the house plans. Hilmi Bey was a 79 year old m an I had just met and I knew his age because... Read More

Conveyor Belts and Social Change

Warning: This is only tangentially about the interview. 'What I see, that I am' and I certainly am preoccupied with theory and social change...... I am preoccupied with the idea of the conveyor belt. Related to this is the idea of translation (reshuffling of surface structures) at each... Read More