Inside the Super Brain: Integrating Mind, Matter, and Consciousness

Inside the Super Brain: Integrating Mind, Matter, and Consciousness

Deepak Chopra talks to Ken Wilber about his new book, Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being—exploring how we can train our brain to reach beyond its present limitations, and how our subjective "mind" and objective "brain" co-arise and even co-create one another. Deepak also discusses his experience engaging and debating "new atheists" such as Richard Dawkins, and how he has dealt with the sometimes unkind and mean-spirited attacks from many of these popular modern thinkers.
Igniting Brilliance: An Integral Approach to Education

Igniting Brilliance: An Integral Approach to Education

Willow Dea and Ken Wilber explore the promise of an educational approach that can fully nourish, enrich, and challenge our children in every dimension of their lives.
Discovering an Integral Civic Consciousness in a Global Age

Discovering an Integral Civic Consciousness in a Global Age

In an age of global crisis, why does the idea of global governance remain a such a taboo topic? Here John Bunzl posits a civic line of development, suggesting only those possessing a worldcentric level of civic awareness can fully comprehend global problems and the need for binding global governance.
Building a Global Democracy

Building a Global Democracy

John Bunzl and Ken Wilber take a look at some of the most difficult obstacles in the way of creating a genuine integral global government, how this world government might function, and how we just might be able to get there from here.
Yes, Virginia, Consciousness Goes All the Way Down. But Does It Go All the Way Up?

Yes, Virginia, Consciousness Goes All the Way Down. But Does It Go All the Way Up?

Although the apparent confirmation of the Higgs Boson, the so-called God particle, has been attracting attention recently, the most vexing problem in science and philosophy remains the mind-body problem: What relation is there between material brain states and conscious, first-person experience? In the past few years, as we shall see in a moment, some neurosciences have now arrived at an answer that was anticipated by Ken Wilber’s version of integral theory.
A Brief History of Integral: The Story So Far

A Brief History of Integral: The Story So Far

Ken Wilber chronicles the emergence of integral consciousness and culture in recent decades. Ken describes this emergence as the latest in a historic series of transformations stretching all the way back to the birth of humanity, bringing humanity through several distinct stages of consciousness — namely archaic, magic, mythic, rational, pluralistic, and integral stages.
How Highly Conscious Leaders Are Engaging the Problem of Sustainability

How Highly Conscious Leaders Are Engaging the Problem of Sustainability

Barrett Brown talks to Ken Wilber about the extraordinary overlap that exists between leadership, sustainability, and the highest reaches of adult development.
Integral Coaching: A Closer Look

Integral Coaching: A Closer Look

In this intimate conversation between Ken Wilber, Laura Divine, and Joanne Hunt, you will be exposed to some of the in-depth nuances of Integral Coaching Canada's work. You will gain more intimate access to the Integral lenses that are illuminated, as well as how ICC's coaches uniquely use them, through embodied "Looking At" and subtle "Looking As" capacities.
Integral Cinema Studio: A Comprehensive Guide to the Cinematic Experience

Integral Cinema Studio: A Comprehensive Guide to the Cinematic Experience

Grab a snack, turn off your phone, and enjoy this groundbreaking exploration of the cinematic arts.
Spiritual Intelligence: Measuring the Infinite

Spiritual Intelligence: Measuring the Infinite

Cindy Wigglesworth and Ken Wilber explore the history of human intelligence research, beginning with the well-known ideas of IQ and EQ (emotional intelligence), noting their impact on our personal relationships and careers.
The Spectrum of Political Thought

The Spectrum of Political Thought

More than ever, the world is in need of a new political vision — one that fully honors the brilliant multi-perspectival mechanics of modern democracy, allowing various forms of political thought to inform and influence our decision making, while avoiding the paralysis of ideological gridlock that has become the new norm for American governance.
Nature of Mind

Nature of Mind

Alex Grey and Ken Wilber take us on an intimate, in-depth tour through the seven panels of Grey's "Nature of Mind", discussing both the inspiration and the execution of the piece as well as Alex's background, his growth as an artist, and his distinctive style of portraying the gross, subtle, and causal anatomies that we all possess.
Taking the Long View: Immortality and the Technological Singularity

Taking the Long View: Immortality and the Technological Singularity

Anti-aging and longevity research reports, in addition to predicting lifespans beyond 200 years within just a few decades, also report no theoretical reasons preventing extensions into the thousands of years a few decades after that. What if you lived for another few hundred or thousand years? Would you bear witness to the end of disease, the coming of an integral age, the creation trans-human cyborgs, the end of poverty, the enlightenment of the planet — or maybe even flying cars...?
The Principles of Integral Sustainable Design

The Principles of Integral Sustainable Design

Mark DeKay talks to Ken Wilber about his new book Integral Sustainable Design, exploring the world of architecture and design through the lens of the Four Quadrants. Listen as Mark and Ken explore the deepest and most profound potentials of Integral design and architecture.
The Economics of Being Integral

The Economics of Being Integral

The economics of being integral is a good news and bad news situation. Even possessing an interest in this work seems to correlate with development that's moving toward increasingly integral waves awareness, resulting in the capacity to see more, feel more, care more, and love more — a capacity for an awareness that is simply greater and more encompassing.
Albert Murray’s Lines of Cultural Development

Albert Murray’s Lines of Cultural Development

Greg Thomas explores the fascinating intersection between the work of Albert Murray and Integral Theory.
Atlas Evolved: The Life and Loves of Nathaniel Branden

Atlas Evolved: The Life and Loves of Nathaniel Branden

Nathaniel Branden, Ayn Rand's former lover and the inspiration for her famous John Galt character, was at ground zero during the rise of the Objectivist movement. Listen as Nathaniel offers an intimate insider's view of the origins, major contributions, and inevitable limitations of Rand's philosophy and the intellectual movement it sparked. Masterfully hosted by Ken Wilber, this talk offers invaluable insight into Ayn Rand's legacy, the human potential movement, romantic love, self-esteem, self-transcendence, and the art of conscious living.
Bringing Perspective to Climate Change

Bringing Perspective to Climate Change

The problem of climate change is so big, so complex, and so politicized, it is almost impossible to know what to think about it, let alone what to do. Michael Zimmerman, co-author of Integral Ecology, helps cut through the partiality and propaganda that are so rampant on both sides of the argument, offering a more sober perspective on the current status of the climate change debate.
The Integralist’s Guide to Understanding Art

The Integralist’s Guide to Understanding Art

How should we go about finding meaning in art? Should we ask the artist herself, or is everything we need to understand a piece of art already contained in the artwork itself? Does meaning exist only in the observer, thereby varying from viewer to viewer? Or is the meaning of art determined by the circumstances surrounding the artist? Listen as Ken Wilber describes each of these major schools of interpretation, how they originated, and how they all fit together into a more cohesive vision of art and aesthetics.
Bringing Legitimacy to UFO Research

Bringing Legitimacy to UFO Research

Leslie Kean talks with Stuart Davis about her book UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go On the Record, the result of a ten-year investigation into one of the world's most mysterious (and most marginalized) phenomena. Whether you "want to believe" or you want to roll your eyes at the mere mention of UFOs, we invite you to open your mind, open your heart, and allow yourself to sit in the radical, unknowable Mystery for just a little while. The universe is so much bigger and darker than we can ever imagine. Good thing we've got a flashlight.
Why God Needs Your Spiritual Intelligence

Why God Needs Your Spiritual Intelligence

Ken Wilber outlines two required steps for bringing religion and spirituality into greater accord. He's guided by a vision of a fully functional and healthy religion—one which institutionalizes a care and concern for spiritual intelligence that grows in two directions: waking-up and growing-up.
The Seeker’s Guide to Self-Deception

The Seeker’s Guide to Self-Deception

Ken Wilber discusses the many kinds of self, the nature of identity and enlightenment, and the spectrum of deceit that keeps us from knowing who we really are.
Perls of Wisdom: Introflection, Retroflection, and Other Games People Play

Perls of Wisdom: Introflection, Retroflection, and Other Games People Play

Ken Wilber offers insight into the high-level features of two major therapeutic approaches, the role that a defense called "retroflection" plays in the process of projection, and some of the ways in which we can objectify the role-based psychological games we play while interacting with each other.
Spirituality, Purpose, and Meaning in Higher Education

Spirituality, Purpose, and Meaning in Higher Education

Alexander and Helen Astin are the some of the most widely-quoted authorities in the field of higher education—as Ken alludes early in the dialogue, whenever these two talk it's generally a good idea to pay attention. Listen as Ken, Alexander, and Helen discuss the complex role of spirituality among college students, the important differences between religion and spiritual life, and the effects religion, spirituality, and academics have upon our worldviews and political ideologies.
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