The Sword and the Lotus: Sacred Masculinity in a Time of Metacrisis

The Sword and the Lotus: Sacred Masculinity in a Time of Metacrisis

Keith Witt and Corey de Vos clarify masculine and feminine as energetic polarities (not gender), showing how sexuality, psychotherapy, and culture all hinge on whether power is expressed as domination or as disciplined, heart-led discernment. From collective trauma and “weaponized ambiguity” to the Manjushri “flaming sword” of clear seeing, they argue that what changes people—and societies—isn’t outrage, but compassion and wisdom strong enough to protect what’s true.
Synthesis Isn’t the Middle: Exploring the Faces of Free Speech

Synthesis Isn’t the Middle: Exploring the Faces of Free Speech

Corey deVos and Stephanie Lepp unpack Stephanie’s Faces of Free Speech—a short-form installation featuring Destiny (Steven Bonnell) performing multiple perspectives on the free speech polarity—then trace why “more speech” only works as a remedy inside healthy information ecosystems. Along the way, they clarify why synthesis isn’t centrist compromise but a sharp integration of the healthiest expressions of opposing poles, and Corey tests the piece through an Integral Life “debate analyzer” prototype that maps polarity, developmental framing, and pathways toward deeper sensemaking.
Why Eating Got So Hard (It’s Not Your Fault)

Why Eating Got So Hard (It’s Not Your Fault)

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.
Three Faces of Bypassing: Spiritual, Developmental, and Shadow

Three Faces of Bypassing: Spiritual, Developmental, and Shadow

Many of us do deep inner work and still find ourselves stuck, exhausted, or strangely unchanged. This conversation explores why — revealing how spiritual, developmental, and shadow work can quietly turn into forms of bypassing, and what helps growth become integrated and alive again.
Growing Beyond Conflict: The Power of Polarity Thinking

Growing Beyond Conflict: The Power of Polarity Thinking

Barry Johnson and Beena Sharma offer a clear, fast-paced masterclass on polarity wisdom—what polarities are, why they matter, and how to pursue the upsides of interdependent opposites (not by choosing either/or, and not by settling for vague both/and, but by integrating both). Along the way, they ground polarity thinking in a deeper spiritual view and show how our relationship to polarities shifts with developmental maturity, applying the lens to real-world tensions like justice/mercy, claiming power/sharing power, and being/doing across democracy, social change, and inner practice.
The Four Pillars of Good Therapy

The Four Pillars of Good Therapy

Corey and Dr. Keith Witt kick off the new year by returning to first principles: what makes therapy genuinely effective, and how an integral view of consciousness reframes the whole endeavor. Keith lays out his four foundations of healthy psychotherapy—clear boundaries, feeling deeply understood, making skillful observations and connections, and shifting from drama into problem-solving—while exploring how the “wise self” and the therapeutic relationship container can support healing, development, and a re-enchanted sense of meaning.
How to Build a Life Worth Living

How to Build a Life Worth Living

Keith Martin Smith and David Arrell diagnose the modern meaning crisis as a cultural imbalance: we’re overtrained in attainment (status, optimization, external validation) and undertrained in attunement (presence, depth, emotional regulation, and real connection), leaving many people “adrift” in a sea of stimulation and “infobesity.” They offer a practical path out—post-tragic devotion, the shift from reacting to responding, and a values → vision → action “life audit”—and invite listeners who want structure and community to join their live Attunement training.
How Fear and Fragility Are Threatening Free Speech

How Fear and Fragility Are Threatening Free Speech

Former ACLU president Nadine Strossen joins us to explore why censorship is rising across the political spectrum — and why fear-driven speech controls, even when well-intentioned, often do more harm than good.
The Deathless Self

The Deathless Self

After a near-fatal accident left him with a spinal cord injury, Kabir Kadre recounts his near-death experience and the life-defining moment he was asked: “Do you want to be alive or dead?” What unfolds is a profound dialogue on death as spiritual practice, the ordinariness of awakening, and the sacred responsibility that comes with choosing life again — not just for the self, but in service to all beings.
Bayesian Psychology: Your Brain Is a Lying Prophet

Bayesian Psychology: Your Brain Is a Lying Prophet

This episode explores how our brains operate as prediction engines, using unconscious mental models to interpret reality — and how those models shape our relationships, identity, and capacity for growth. Drawing from psychotherapy, neuroscience, and integral theory, Dr. Keith Witt and Corey deVos examine how transformation happens when our models break down, and how love, safety, and perspective-taking create the conditions for real psychological and spiritual evolution.
From Attainment to Attunement

From Attainment to Attunement

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.
The Fourth Turning: A Sacred Revolution Begins

The Fourth Turning: A Sacred Revolution Begins

In this visionary keynote, John Churchill explores the collision between exponential technological power and humanity’s lack of spiritual maturity, warning that without sacred initiation, our civilization risks becoming the sorcerer’s apprentice—enchanted by tools we cannot control. But alongside this Fourth Industrial Revolution, he reveals a parallel awakening: a Fourth Turning of consciousness, where psychedelics, contemplative traditions, and the science of the heart converge to birth a planetary culture rooted in coherence, compassion, and soul.
The Sacred Mandala of Being: A Spiritual Journey with Kabir Kadre

The Sacred Mandala of Being: A Spiritual Journey with Kabir Kadre

What if awakening isn’t the absence of limitation, but the presence of love within it? In this luminous dialogue, Kabir Kadre and Lama Kimberley Lafferty explore the path of embodied realization — where vulnerability becomes a teacher, the body becomes a mandala, and compassion becomes the clearest expression of truth.
The Highest Stages of Human Flourishing

The Highest Stages of Human Flourishing

Keith Martin-Smith and Alexander Love explore Terry O'Fallon's STAGES model of human development, focusing on the rarely-discussed MetAware tier where transpersonal awareness becomes a structural feature of consciousness, leading to the dissolution of boundaries and recognition that all meaning is constructed.
The Four Quadrants: A New Way of Seeing

The Four Quadrants: A New Way of Seeing

The Four Quadrants are a simple but radical upgrade in perspective: reality always shows up through four irreducible lenses—the inner and outer of the individual (I/It) and the inner and outer of the collective (We/Its)—and most conflict and confusion comes from mistaking one lens for the whole. Quadrant literacy trains you to “see whole” by locating what’s true in each perspective (experience, behavior, culture, systems), so you can communicate more skillfully and respond to complexity with greater clarity, compassion, and practical leverage.
Cybernetics and the Intelligence of Love

Cybernetics and the Intelligence of Love

Dr. Keith Witt and Corey deVos explore how cybernetics — the science of self-correcting systems — reveals the hidden logic of love, power, trauma, and societal evolution. Through the lens of integral theory, they trace feedback loops across all dimensions of life, showing how everything from personal healing to political dysfunction is shaped by the quality of communication and coherence in our systems.
The New War on the First Amendment: Words as Violence, Jokes as Crimes

The New War on the First Amendment: Words as Violence, Jokes as Crimes

Keith Martin-Smith tackles America's free speech crisis in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination—examining how both left and right have abandoned principled commitments to the First Amendment in favor of tribal speech enforcement.
Nocturnal Meditations: How to See in the Dark

Nocturnal Meditations: How to See in the Dark

Andrew Holecek presents dark retreat—extended periods in complete sensory deprivation—as a transformative meditation practice that accesses deeper levels of consciousness typically obscured by our light-obsessed, distraction-heavy culture. He argues that conventional "waking" awareness is actually humanity's most contracted state, while nocturnal practices like lucid dreaming and sleep yoga offer profound opportunities for shadow work, creativity, and spiritual development.
Don’t Just Transcend Your Pain — Include It

Don’t Just Transcend Your Pain — Include It

After the tragic murder of his father at age 20, Alexander Love began a decades-long journey through grief, spiritual practice, and shadow work — seeking not just to rise above his pain, but to finally and fully include it. In this deeply personal conversation, he shares how real healing began not with transcendence, but with embracing the very wounds he had tried to escape.
The Dopamine Revolution: From Human Evolution to Modern Crisis

The Dopamine Revolution: From Human Evolution to Modern Crisis

Dr. Keith Witt traces how dopamine-driven evolution shaped human consciousness from ancient seafood consumption that triggered civilization's "Big Bang" 80,000 years ago to today's hyper-stimulating culture that exploits the same neurochemical reward systems for profit. While our dopamine-flooded modern world creates unprecedented pathologies like addiction and isolation, it also sets the stage for the next evolutionary leap: conscious integration of our reward systems with relational wisdom and ecological awareness.
STAGES: Cracking the Code of Human Development

STAGES: Cracking the Code of Human Development

Keith Martin Smith and Alexander Love explore Terry O’Fallon’s Stages model as a powerful lens for understanding how humans grow, make meaning, and relate across vastly different realities. Together, they reveal how developmental precision — not content or ideology — holds the key to deeper empathy, cultural healing, and truly integrative practice.
When Democracy Eats Itself: Navigating the Politics of Confusion

When Democracy Eats Itself: Navigating the Politics of Confusion

Mark Edwards and Bruce Alderman explore Jean-Pierre Faye's "Horseshoe Theory," which reveals that political extremes curve toward each other when they abandon democratic norms, explaining why some voters support both Trump and AOC as anti-establishment alternatives. The discussion introduces meta-theoretical tools including Roy Bhaskar's concept of "demi-reality," Bruno Latour's analysis of "modal confusion," and the possibility of "post-conventional coalitions" that transcend left-right polarization while maintaining democratic integrity.
Ride the Tiger: The Psychedelic Renaissance Is Here

Ride the Tiger: The Psychedelic Renaissance Is Here

Carter Phipps explores how psychedelics, postmodern values, and the reawakening of consciousness are reshaping the cultural landscape and laying the groundwork for an integral future. Arguing that we must embrace — and responsibly guide — the weirdness of this transitional moment, he calls for a worldview that integrates science, spirituality, and the deep interior dimensions of human experience.
Tantra Is Not What You Think (And Way Better Than You Imagined)

Tantra Is Not What You Think (And Way Better Than You Imagined)

Two accomplished tantric practitioners — one from Kashmir Shaivism, the other from Tibetan Vajrayana — share their profound awakening stories and reveal how ancient consciousness technologies can accelerate the challenging transition from teal to turquoise awareness and beyond.
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