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.
The Shadow Vignettes: A Tale of Reintegration in Six Parts

The Shadow Vignettes: A Tale of Reintegration in Six Parts

Ken Wilber offers what's got to be one of his most hilarious teachings to date. His focus is on shadow, but this time he adopts a more practice-oriented perspective, offering examples of shadow at each of six levels of development—featuring conversations with a stripper, a monster, a man burning in eternal flame, a radiant being, an oil tanker, and Gaia. As for what these conversations entail, you'll just have to experience them yourself....
Recollecting Divinity

Recollecting Divinity

"I open myself to all experience as a path to remembering divinity. In my desire to share my experiences along this path, I paint that which I find difficult to express in words. May you find yourself feeling invited into experience."
The Feeling of Eros

The Feeling of Eros

Ken Wilber offers a 30 minute guided process that will put you in direct touch with Eros — and in so doing, you'll likely encounter the simple mistake of ascribing it source to some object outside yourself. By relaxing the contraction around your heart, you'll experience an unbounded expansion of care, in a simple moment of non-seeking presence.
Synchronicity: A Post-Metaphysical Interpretation

Synchronicity: A Post-Metaphysical Interpretation

Synchronicity (or "meaningful coincidences") is a word that has become all to susceptible to new age gibberish and the pre/trans fallacy. But in this gem from the "Integral Post-Metaphysics" chapter of the Integral Spirituality: A Deeper Cut series, our own Corey deVos engages Ken Wilber in a lively and provocative discussion of synchronicity — demystifying much of the supernatural claptrap that so often surrounds this word, while reframing synchronicity as an entirely natural part of the evolutionary fabric.
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.
Heavy Light

Heavy Light

De Es's art de-familiarizes our taken for granted sense of what it means to be human. Please take your time to allow these subtle and profound images to crack your soul wide open to the sheer mystery and extraordinary gifts of being here now, just as you are.
Spiritual Bypassing: When “Enlightenment” Becomes Escapism

Spiritual Bypassing: When “Enlightenment” Becomes Escapism

Robert Augustus Masters talks to Ken Wilber about some of the common traps of spiritual life that have become sadly common in many of today's spiritual communities.
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.
Albert Murray Defines Art

Albert Murray Defines Art

Whether or not Albert Murray's thought and frameworks of analysis are Integral remains to be seen and decided by Integral readers and scholars; however, what's indisputable is his deeply pluralistic and interdisciplinary approach to knowledge. A prime example, in which he elaborates definitions of art and aesthetic statement, follows.
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.
Living the Apostles’ Creed

Living the Apostles’ Creed

Brother David Steindl-Rast offers a fascinating re-interpretation of the Apostles' Creed. In his carefully thought-out, lovingly rendered, phrase-by-phrase translation of the Creed, Br. David liberates the hidden meaning of the text from the yoke of mythic symbolism, revealing the silent, timeless, esoteric core at the heart of the Christian tradition—the very same core that lies at the heart of this and every other moment.
I Am

I Am

Crossing Lines

Crossing Lines

"I've always been fascinated with the figure beautifully rendered and by pattern and decoration. In my new work, I focus on these two interests: my figure studies are given a context within the designs found in erotic Japanese "Shunga" prints, Persian miniatures and the pattern traditions of Eastern Art: realism and pattern/Eastern and Western aesthetics."
Avatar: The Many Levels of Pandora

Avatar: The Many Levels of Pandora

Ken Wilber is the Olo'eyktan of the AQ'AL clan. He is the teller of many tales, all of which can be accessed at your local Tree of Souls. Here he offers a long-awaited review of James Cameron's sci-fi blockbuster, Avatar! (Warning: spoilers...!)
Love and Evolution

Love and Evolution

In order to uncover love's future, we need to explore love's past. So Ken Wilber looks all the way back to the Big Bang, retracing love's role throughout the history of evolution. Rather than just a mere human emotion, love is cast as a central driving force in the Kosmos—the force of Eros itself, pushing all of us along our inevitable return to Spirit.
The Art of Tribal Leadership

The Art of Tribal Leadership

If you really want to fulfill your dreams, one of the best ways to improve your chances is to do a bit of work to understand and upgrade your culture. Author Dave Logan talks to Ken Wilber about the five levels of our professional tribes, offering a glimpse into the values and strategies of the world's most effective leaders—and some of the ways you can become one of them.
She

She

"My art is a true expression of the creativity that lives inside of me. This creativity is a gift, and I am honored to have been chosen for it. My hope is that my art identifies with the creativity that lives within you, and that it somehow inspires you to seek your creative self."
Evolving Our Approach to Sexual Harassment

Evolving Our Approach to Sexual Harassment

Diane Musho Hamilton talks with Ken Wilber about ways to evolve our moral and legislative approach to sexual harassment so we can better protect men and women alike from harm and abuse, but without presupposing women as perpetual victims without agency of their own.
It’s Time to Jump!

It’s Time to Jump!

Jean Houston invites us all to take the next evolutionary jump into greater consciousness, greater complexity, and greater love.
Consciousness Explained Better

Consciousness Explained Better

Allan Combs, a pioneer of Integral thought and practice whose name may be familiar if you've ever heard of the "Wilber-Combs lattice", speaks with Ken about a better way to explain the mystery of consciousness.
Divine Pride and the Integral Movement

Divine Pride and the Integral Movement

"Divine Pride" is a simple recognition of our holy heritage, and an acknowledgement of the tremendous responsibility that comes along with this recognition. This is not the braggadocio of a new age narcissist — it is a pride stripped of all arrogance, tempered by humility, and held with unwavering devotion to an intelligence infinitely greater than our own.
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