Stanley

Nietzsche on Friendship

 ... I guess that one of my hopes for our community here is that it would be a community of good friends. That is one reason I have been so frustrated by what I have seen as a culture of harm and abuse. It has appeared to me that most of the people who have been capable of good... Read More

A Successful 2012

 ...  ... In reference to; http://integrallife.com/member/robb-smith/blog/four-steps-creative-ecstasy?show=all...  ... I wish some of us a successful 2012. It would be great if we were all at least successful enough to be able to afford a premium membership here... Read More

Let's Wage War

 ... In Reference to: Integral Christianity: Answering the Call to Evolve...  ... (P3) There are many good things to wage war against including;... starvation & poverty war itself cruelty towards any living beings abuse of our planet abuse in our own town square But it... Read More

What Matters Most?

(Q3) It seems self evident that what matters most about our self is that which is eternal. Ken Wilber explains that our eternal drop is affected by our ability to understand (be) emptiness and good over evil. Our ability to be emptiness is called wisdom and our ability to express good... Read More

A Good Question

"How should we treat one another?" ( Integral Life Practice p. 267 )....  ... I confess that after getting this book when it was first published it took me a long time, over a year, to read the chapter on Integral Ethics. I freely admit that I continue to include... Read More

A Caring and Compassionate Website

 ... In Reference to: Synchronicity: A Post-Metaphysical Interpretation Some people might have noticed that this author has been very critical at what he has seen as an uncaring and uncompassionate website because terrible abuse has been allowed to fester here for way too long. When... Read More

One Good Thing

One thing that has been extremely disappointing for me is that although integral theory sounds magnificent, and I deeply believe that Ken Wilber’s intentions are stellar, I have not yet seen where we have done one significant good thing in terms of making our world a better place.... Read More

Wholly Cow!

This talk by Ken Wilber has so many moving, swirling, changing, and interrelated parts that it makes my head spin! It has visions, logics, too many minds to shake a stick at, ladders, rungs, climbers, Wilbers, Aurobindos, patterns, perspectives, samadhies, chakras, world views, and much... Read More