Keith Martin-Smith gives a quick history of the men's movement, from Robert Bly and the Mankind Project, through David Deida, to today's teachers working with the body and the nervous system. Then he walks through the nine guideposts at the heart of Strength with Heart, the book he wrote with psychologists Daniel Ellenberg and Fred Rabinowitz.

“Suicidal empathy” has become a popular diagnosis of progressive excess: the idea that compassion can become so indiscriminate that it undermines the very people, institutions, and cultures it hopes to protect. In this episode, integral psychologist Dr. Keith Witt and Corey deVos take that critique seriously without accepting the Manichaean worldview often wrapped around it.

Ken Wilber and Corey deVos offer a guided tour through the many kinds of growing up, helping us understand development not as a single ladder we ascend over time, but as an entire psychograph of different intelligences, capacities, and gifts. Whereas most developmental models focus on a single line unfolding through multiple stages, integral accounts for all of these different lines — cognitive, morals, needs, values, and a dozen others, each growing at their own pace.

Developmental psychologist Kimberley Teresa Lafferty and lifelong “experiencer” Robin Lassiter explore what UFO disclosure asks of us on the inside — ontological shock, discernment, and the descent into the body — and why no one should have to move through a broken reality alone.

Zen priest and former psychotherapist Chad Bennett joins Keith Martin-Smith to challenge a seductive spiritual myth: that waking up deeply enough will fix everything else. Together they explore why awakening, growing, and healing have to be practiced as a single braid — and why enlightenment, on its own, never cleans up after you

What if the meta-crisis isn’t something we can fix, but something that reveals the limits of the mindset trying to fix it? This episode explores how different stages of development shape what we can see, and why the next transformation may require seeing our own perspective as part of the problem.

What's really driving you — your deepest values, or a fear you've never quite looked at directly? Dr. Keith Witt introduces a powerful new model of motivation that maps the spectrum between fear-driven compensatory striving and value-driven integrative flourishing, and offers a surprisingly simple practice for telling the difference.

In this rare and intimate conversation, Buddhist practitioner and teacher Edward Sczudlo traces the full arc of a lifetime devoted to awakening — from a spontaneous recognition of continuity at age two, through profound transmissions, meditative breakthroughs, and the long work of integration, to the embodied, grace-oriented practice he now teaches in Bali. Together with host Kimberly, Edward explores what genuine spiritual realization actually looks and feels like from the inside, and why the ancient science of liberation the Buddha offered 2,600 years ago may be more urgently relevant — and more irreplaceable — than ever.