GameOfThriving

Moving Beyond Emptiness - The Point Of Life.

The first Chicken Soup For The Soul has a syrupy story about a guy on a beach with thousands of dying, beached starfish. He sees another person picking them up one by one and throwing them back into the sea. He tells the person "you can’t save them all. Most will die here on... Read More

Get Yours Today! 10-day Retreat Meditation Trophy Bowl w/ spiritually infused earth-toned ribbon

Please visit my ebay auction! ... 10-day Retreat Meditation Trophy Bowl w/ spiritually infused earth-toned ribbon     This auction offers you the chance to own a genuine, nature-green "I attended a 10-day meditation retreat!" Meditation Trophy... Read More

Realizing Awe-Quanimity Through Thriving Narratives

You are the Author of your life. Your mind tells stories about your life to your brain like a parent to a child. Your brain responds with emotions/feelings based on 1) how it understands the story, and 2) the desires/fears that story promises/threatens to fulfill. Then, your mind tells a... Read More

Team America and Spiral Dynamics

The movie "Team America: World Police" is an irreverent political satire filled with crude, blatant, and lowbrow humor, including puppet sex, foul language, and graphic violence. With this introduction, it seems an unlikely place to find meaningful commentary on world... Read More

Adding a Tea Party voice to the conversation

 Jeff and David - Interesting show as always. Thanks for your great work.... As you offered your analysis, you included a description of the Tea Party and its heavily Amber elements, with some Orange symbolism. Since this show (dare I say it! :-) privileges the economic... Read More

Ripe For Integral - Concentrating our Social Capital on Greens ready for Yellow.

Lemons and Bananas...Both are Green that ripen into Yellow. (Spiral Dynamics vs. Elevations - sorry).... It seems that there are a lot of socially powerful Greens who would make great assets and contributions to the Integral Cause, IF they could only be encouraged and guided into Yellow.... Read More

Integral mathematics calculus of indigenous perspectives - beyond excerpt C?

In Excerpt C, Wilber lays out his Integral Calculus, and says that he will be posting more using it as he moved forward. I have been looking for more (other than Integral Spirituality). Is there anything anyone can point me to?... Thanks!... Mark...

The Invisible hand of the market vs. the very visibile and heavy hand of legislators and lobbyists...

Let's make sure we don't lose the message and the gift which the idea of "the invisible hand" offers us.... The idea of the invisible hand is not that, by each person tending after their own self-interest, you will achieve the best imaginiable results. Rather, it is that, the... Read More