Michael Schwartz

Aesthetics, Beauty, and Art: A Brief Definition

  Share...     Caspar David Friedrich, Morning in the Riesengebirge,... 1810-1811 There is a tendency in integral circles to collapse and conflate the terms of art, beauty, and aesthetics. While there can be an aesthetical-sensory experience of art that is beautiful, this... Read More

Comparisons to Lee Gerdes's Brain State Technology (?)

Friends,... I would like to hear more about comparisons of Holosync to other leading edge entrainment technologies, most specifically with regard to Lee Gerdes's Brain State Technologies (http://www.brainstatetech.com/). Gerdes's view is that each brain is unique in its requirements, and... Read More

Integration: The Prime Directive (a Four-Quadrant Interpretation of Star Trek)

The following piece was written for a special team-taught World Humanities class in early 2000 to illustrate a way of reading filmic and TV narratives pioneered by scholars like Fredric Jameson. In integral terms, it approaches these narratives less in terms of individual developmental... Read More

Modernism, Impressionism, and Color

Robb Smith emailed me and asked if I could explain in more detail what I meant by this paragraph, from my treatment of Philip Rubinov Jacobson's art gallery :...  ... “Beginning with Impressionism and taking off with subsequent artists like Van Gogh, Modernism deploys... Read More