Robert McNaughton is an engineer by training who went to Naropa for music and contemplative psychology, and has followed AI for more than twenty years from two seats at once — cognitive science and contemplative practice. He and Keith Martin-Smith work through what right relationship with a technology nobody designed actually asks of us: the risks worth naming precisely, the ones we invent when we are frightened, and the human capacities that just became the scarce resource.

Keith Martin-Smith unpacks Abi Awomosu's provocative essay "Your Imagination Was Always Empire's Last Frontier," which claims the empires of AI aren't after your job or your reasoning but the part of you that dreams — praising what's true in her warning before mapping exactly where it overreaches into boogeyman "empires," romanticized indigenous pasts, and dreamless-villain founders. What emerges is a genuinely integral position on AI that refuses both doomer and evangelist: AI is our child, carrying our brilliance and our greed alike, and the only real path forward is conscious participation — using the tool to strengthen the soul rather...

Warren Farrell explores the boy crisis, fatherlessness, the cultural vilification of men, and the breakdown of communication between men and women as urgent human problems with deep consequences for children, families, and society. Drawing from decades of research and practical work with couples and parents, he offers a path toward healing the gender divide through truth-telling, care, accountability, and more skillful communication.

This two-part conversation with Jack Kornfield explores the nature of real greatness as a form of awakened dignity, nobility, and greatness of heart, rooted in compassion, love, and our deepest spiritual potential. Through reflections on awakening, the bodhisattva ideal, burnout, sacred purpose, and the joy of serving others, Jack offers a warm and profound invitation to remember our own beauty, live our ideals, and embody a more liberated way of being.

This episode dives into how to eat sanely and joyfully in a “Food 2.0” world engineered for overeating—using Jeff Siegel’s story of anorexia, his “inner eaters” model, and an Integral lens to end the civil war between mind and body. Together we explore how biology, psychology, culture, systems, and even GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic all shape your plate—and how to reclaim a flexible, wise, and genuinely nourishing relationship with food.

In this deep and dynamic conversation, Keith Martin-Smith and David Arrell explore what it means to grow beyond the noise of modern life into a more aligned, dignified, and awake way of being. Moving through themes of trauma integration, attention as spiritual practice, and the evolution from attainment to attunement, they offer a powerful invitation to live not from reaction, but from coherence and character.

In this episode of Integral Edge, Keith Martin-Smith explores the modern crisis of masculinity and offers a powerful framework for reclaiming the healthy strengths of traditional, modern, and postmodern masculine expressions. Rather than choosing between power and empathy, discipline and vulnerability, Keith shows how wholeness means learning to embody all of them—at the right time, in the right way.

Brendan Dempsey offers a powerful re-engagement with James Fowler’s Faith Development Theory, applying cutting-edge tools from developmental psychology to illuminate how our structures of meaning evolve. This presentation reveals not just how faith matures, but why this maturation is critical for meeting the challenges of a world in search of deeper coherence.