Ken Wilber explores the many sorts of reactions people had to the tragedy of 9/11, and offers a theoretical framework within which a genuinely Integral approach to politics and governance might emerge.
If the world feels chaotic, fractured, or out of control, you’re not alone. Robb Smith calls our era the Transformation Age—a time of geopolitical, economic, and ecological upheaval. In this category, you’ll explore the global Metacrisis and trace the deep causal structures behind these challenges: from social and environmental systems to interiority, meaning-making, and consciousness itself. As Sean Esbjörn-Hargens and Nicholas Hedlund note, integrative metatheories like Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory and Roy Bhaskar’s Critical Realism are the only tools that give us a framework for understanding and confronting this vast web of interconnected, wicked problems. Let’s make sense of it together.