From Race to Culture to Kosmos

From Race to Culture to Kosmos

Greg Thomas   June 14, 2023  
Join cultural analyst and co-founder of the Jazz Leadership Project, Greg Thomas, as he explores the transformative power of culture, using his knowledge of jazz and blues as a conduit to greater understanding and connection. Greg tackles layered issues of race through a systemic lens, suggesting a shift from racial to cultural worldview, offering an enlightening dialogue filled with anecdotes from music history and a rich exploration of how shared cultural experiences can dissolve boundaries and unite us all.
The Kosmic Vitality of Poetry and Music

The Kosmic Vitality of Poetry and Music

Brooke McNamara   May 12, 2022  
Brooke McNamara and Stephen Banks explore integral art as an expression of Integral spirituality, with its embrace of every dimension of our humanity. Includes a 20 minute performance combining Brooke’s poetry with excerpts from Steve’s Blue Pearl: A One World Oratorio.
The Many Ways We Grow

The Many Ways We Grow

Ken Wilber   April 17, 2019  
Human development is uneven, which means that we are better at some things than we are at others. Some skills come more naturally to us, and others are more difficult to acquire. Watch as Ken and Corey explore each of these developmental capacities in detail, offering a powerful summary of human potentials, talents, and intelligences — a comprehensive map of the territory of “you” that will help guide your own ongoing growth and development.
Easter

Easter

Stuart Davis   September 4, 2016  
Track 04 from the album ¿What (2006). Lyrics by Stuart Davis and Saul Williams.
Stuart Davis: Live and Lurid

Stuart Davis: Live and Lurid

Stuart Davis   May 25, 2012  
Stuart Davis offers an electrifying (and hilarious) performance of music and spoken word. He then shares some exclusive clips from his cable TV show, Sex, God, Rock n' Roll.
An Integral Take on the Blues Idiom

An Integral Take on the Blues Idiom

Greg Thomas   April 19, 2011  
From an integral perspective, the blues has many dimensions, from the personal to the bio-behavioral aspects of the individual, to the cultural and social dynamics of collectives. The blues can be experienced from an egocentric, ethnocentric, and world-centric value level or stage of development. We can view the blues as a musical or cognitive or aesthetic line of intelligence or development also, and even as a philosophical proposition—an existential response to life in the late-19th through the 20th century.
My Morning Jacket and the Search for Meaning

My Morning Jacket and the Search for Meaning

Jim James   November 26, 2008  
Jim James and Ken Wilber discuss the spectacular rise of My Morning Jacket, examining the circumstances and intentions behind each of their albums, tracking the band’s career from their humble beginnings to their latest forays into rock stardom. They take a look at the personal side of Jim’s career, exploring some of the more difficult aspects of maintaining one’s relationships, sanity, and integrity amidst the mania of the rock and roll lifestyle, and reflect on the role that rock music often plays as the primary source of spiritual experience and connection for a great many people in the world.
From Jagged Little Pill to Flavors of Entanglement

From Jagged Little Pill to Flavors of Entanglement

Alanis Morrissette   October 1, 2007  
Seven-time Grammy Award winner Alanis Morissette takes us on a tour of her life and career by sharing how the threads of her life have increasingly come together into one integral tapestry — where once there may have been jagged fragments, we can now see conscious and playful entanglement with all of life.
Artist as Instrument: Esoteric Rock and Roll

Artist as Instrument: Esoteric Rock and Roll

Ed Kowalczyk   May 10, 2004  
Ed Kowalczyk, the lead singer and songwriter for the acclaimed rock band Live, talks with Stuart Davis about music, creativity, and performance as a powerful form of spiritual practice — a means to transcend self and contact Self.
Smoke

Smoke

Stuart Davis   December 21, 2003  
Stuart Davis and Ed Kowalczyk offer a stunning performance of Stuart's "Smoke" — a song Stuart originally wrote with Ed in mind.
Godhead Gives Good Phenomena

Godhead Gives Good Phenomena

Stuart Davis   April 21, 2003  
In this classic dialogue — so classic, in fact, it is the very first dialogue we ever published! — Stuart Davis discusses his music and creative process in intimate detail and offers an intimate performance of 8 of his songs, including a incredibly touching version of "Swim", based on the death of Treya Killam Wilber.