steve schliebs

Integral Sedona

 Just home from another lively and stimulating meeting of Integral Sedona.  (We meet every Saturday morning in the public library.  Today about 28 people showed up.)  As a practice exercise in our series on "Generative Dialogue" we took up the question,... Read More

Satsang with Stuart Schwartz: Egolessness

A letter to share with the integral community:...  Hi Stuart ,... I really enjoyed the time with you in satsang yesterday!  The air in your living room was perfumed with the fragrance of truth and scintillating with the light of consciousness!  What I experienced with you... Read More

Beige to Yellow, Purple to Turquoise

 Again I'm hearing Don Beck, in his discussion with Jeff Salzman, draw a parallel between the Spiral Dynamics first-tier-to-second-tier hierarchy, and Maslow's deficiency-needs-to-being-needs hierarchy.  It's as if SD is saying that once we begin to make meaning at second tier... Read More

2nd Tier Governance: P. M. Gordon Brown

Many of us have been wondering and discussing amongst ourselves, just what is integral consciousness or second tier, or teal and yellow?  Not what is it in theory, that's easy enough to grasp, but what does it look like out there in the world, or in me?  Where are some examples... Read More

Integral Life in a Small Town

It’s been an extraordinary adventure for me these past nine months in the life of Integral Sedona, my hometown integral group.   I’d like to tell you a little about iSedona, and by inference, something about myself.   I’ll not try to present a comprehensive... Read More

Reflections on the ITC Conference

ITC Reflections... For one who is comfortable with large blocks of solitary time, the Integral Theory in Action Conference was quite a lot of ‘togetherness’ for me.   My time at the Conference in Concord was tremendously exhilarating and exciting, but at the same time a... Read More