Topher Hunt

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My website. Currently an undergrad at Middlebury College, VT.

I found A Theory of Everything in the summer of 2007 just before heading to college. It was a very timely find. I had just returned from a gap year teaching in rural Nicaragua, where the Green new-age internal causality philosophy of Conversations with God (Neale Donald Walsch), which had served me well previously, was deeply inadequate to explain the economic unhappiness and poverty I saw there despite a stubborn cultural joy and energy. I left Nicaragua happy for the positive changes I had made but disheartened philosophically. I was stuck running in the logical/theoretical circles of Green postmodernism, which was very unhealthy for me because the circular, aimless conclusions I kept coming to clashed strongly with my personal need for agency, meaning, and direction. Then I stumbled on ATOE and latched onto it, developing my understanding of Wilber's Integral theory and tentatively trying to apply the concepts since them.

I'm interested in how societies work, I'm interested in psychology, I love computers and open-source movements, I like music and singing and I've taught a little and I have a lot of fun with foreign languages... but the prospect of applying and understanding integral theory for the rest of my life is the only thing I feel passionate about. That's been the case since before I found KW; strangely enough, working with these concepts definitely feels like a central mandate for me - and as a college sophomore, I'm happy enough to feel so sure about one.