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The Best of 2025 — The Ideas That Matter Most

The Best of 2025 — The Ideas That Matter Most

Corey deVos   December 22, 2025  
A guided orientation through some of the most important conversations Integral Life hosted this year—on leadership, meaning-making, the metacrisis, spiritual intelligence, and what kind of humans this moment is calling forth.
How to Build a Life Worth Living

How to Build a Life Worth Living

Keith Martin-Smith   December 18, 2025  
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

Nadine Strossen   December 11, 2025  
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

Kabir Kadre   December 4, 2025  
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

Dr. Keith Witt   November 12, 2025  
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

Keith Martin-Smith   November 7, 2025  
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

John Churchill   October 31, 2025  
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.

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How to Think Integrally

How to Think Integrally

Ken Wilber   September 19, 2018  
Ken and Corey explore some of the major qualities of integral thinking at the “vision logic” or “construct aware” stages of development.
The Major and Minor Scales of Integral Politics

The Major and Minor Scales of Integral Politics

Ken Wilber   November 13, 2018  
Ken Wilber and Corey deVos take an in-depth look at the “major and minor scales” of integral politics — an inventory of the most critical elements, polarities, and patterns of self-organization that are at play within all of the major political systems across the world, from the rise of civilization to today.
The Baby and the Bathwater: Saving Liberalism

The Baby and the Bathwater: Saving Liberalism

Ken Wilber   January 17, 2019  
In this episode of The Ken Show we explore five themes near and dear to the liberal heart — tolerance, nonviolence, power, privilege, and gender — celebrating the healthy aspects of each that we want to include in a more integral embrace, while weeding out the unhealthy regressive narratives that most of these have devolved into.
On the Front Line of the Culture War — Give Me Some Real Examples, Not Just Theories!

On the Front Line of the Culture War — Give Me Some Real Examples, Not Just Theories!

Ken Wilber   February 15, 2019  
Watch as Ken and Corey offer their views on some of the most controversial policy debates of our time, each of which has become a battle line in our constantly escalating culture wars.
The Four Quadrants: A Guided Tour

The Four Quadrants: A Guided Tour

Ken Wilber   March 20, 2020  
Ken and Corey take a in-depth tour through one of Ken’s most well-known contributions to integral philosophy: the Four Quadrants. Watch as Ken shares his personal story about the origins of the Four Quadrant model — the day everything came together — as he weaves 3rd-person theoretical descriptions of the model with his own 1st-person experience and creative process.
Integrating Shadow

Integrating Shadow

Ken Wilber   July 16, 2020  
Ken and Corey offer a stunning overview of the psychological shadow. Ken describes several different kinds of shadow, how shadow can show up differently in all four quadrants, and the relationship between shadow, violence, and social transformation.
Ken Wilber Goes to High School: Sex, Ecology, Spirituality

Ken Wilber Goes to High School: Sex, Ecology, Spirituality

Ken Wilber   September 28, 2021  
In this very special episode of The Ken Show we are joined by Aissatou Diallo, Zoe Tray, and Noah Delorme, students at Choate Rosemary Hall who have been studying Ken Wilber’s seminal book, Sex, Ecology, Spirituality for their senior year project. Watch as Ken, Aissatou, Zoe, and Noah unpack many of the core insights of SES and discuss the unique value Integral work holds for a new generation of thinkers, leaders, artists, and scholars.
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2025 wasn’t just chaotic. It was disruptive, disorienting, and occasionally disturbing. This isn’t a recap for the sake of nostalgia. It’s a guided orientation through some of the most important conversations Integral Life hosted this year—on leadership, meaning-making, the metacrisis, spiritual intelligence, and what kind of humans this moment is calling forth. For members, this is a reminder of the depth and coherence of the work we’re doing together. For non-members, it’s a glimpse of what it feels like to be inside a community dedicated to making sense of complexity — together. A community you are invited to join, if these insights speak to you. Become a supporting member of Integral Life to access all of these incredible discussions, as well as our full archive of practices and perspectives to help you make this next year the very best year of your life. https://integrallife.com/membership Here are the full discussions included in this video: How the Metacrisis is Birthing the New Human | Nick Hedlund https://integrallife.com/how-the-metacrisis-is-birthing-the-new-human/ The Cycles of Time: Mapping Evolution at the Edge of History | Keith Martin-Smith and Terri O'Fallon https://integrallife.com/the-cycles-of-time-mapping-evolution-at-the-edge-of-history/ Beyond Motivation: How to Be a Modern Bodhisattva | Roger Walsh https://integrallife.com/beyond-motivation-how-to-be-a-modern-bodhisattva/ Between Two Infinities: What Does It Mean to Live a Good Life? | Dr. Keith Witt and Corey deVos https://integrallife.com/between-two-infinities-what-does-it-mean-to-live-a-good-life/ A Grand Strategy for the Transformation Age | Robb Smith https://integrallife.com/a-grand-strategy-for-the-transformation-age/ STAGES: Cracking the Code of Human Development | Keith Martin-Smith and Alexander Love https://integrallife.com/stages-cracking-the-code-of-human-development/ The Fourth Turning: A Sacred Revolution Begins | John Churchill https://integrallife.com/the-fourth-turning-a-sacred-revolution-begins/ Ride the Tiger: The Psychedelic Renaissance Is Here | Carter Phipps https://integrallife.com/psychedelic-renaissance/ The Future Human: Why Spiritual Intelligence Matters | Cindy Wigglesworth https://integrallife.com/the-future-human-why-spiritual-intelligence-matters/ The Turquoise Dialectic: Expand Your Cosmology Through Integral Dialogue | Dr. Keith Witt and Corey deVos https://integrallife.com/the-turquoise-dialectic-expand-your-cosmology-through-integral-dialogue/ Tantra Is Not What You Think (And Way Better Than You Imagined) | Kimberley Lafferty and Scott Schwenk https://integrallife.com/tantra-is-not-what-you-think-and-way-better-than-you-imagined/ The Shadow of Trump | Kim Barta and Keith Martin-Smith https://integrallife.com/the-shadow-of-trump/ Nocturnal Meditations: How to See in the Dark | Andrew Holecek https://integrallife.com/dark-retreat-and-the-five-nocturnal-meditations/ The Deathless Self | Kabir Kadre and Kimberley Lafferty https://integrallife.com/the-deathless-self/
The Best of 2025 — The Ideas That Matter Most
Every time you love something deeply, you’re accepting an ending. And you choose it anyway. That’s devotion: showing up fully without needing a guarantee. Check out Keith and David's new training here: https://integrallife.com/attunement #Love #Grief #Meaning #Devotion #Relationships #LifeLessons #EmotionalResilience #Mindfulness #PersonalGrowth #InnerWork #Spirituality #MentalHealth #Healing #Dogs #IntegralLife
Heartbreak on an Installment Plan
Most of us don’t “choose” our reactions—we get hijacked. The shift is simple: pause, get curious, and respond instead of react. That one move is the difference between repeating the same fight… and growing through it. Check out Keith and David's new training here; https://integrallife.com/attunement #Mindfulness #EmotionalRegulation #Relationships #CommunicationSkills #SelfAwareness #PersonalGrowth #InnerWork #NervousSystem #MentalHealth #ConflictResolution #Attachment #ShadowWork #TherapyTools #GrowthMindset #IntegralLife
The 3-Second Pause That Changes Everything
Sign up for Keith and David's live training: Attuned https://integrallife.com/attunement Keith Martin Smith sits down with executive coach and developmental thinker David Arrell to name a quiet epidemic beneath the noise of modern life: the meaning crisis. Their starting diagnosis is simple but bracing—many of us are “adrift,” not because we lack intelligence or options, but because the cultural scaffolding that once delivered purpose has dissolved. For most of human history, meaning came preloaded through tribe, religion, shared roles, and communal practices. Today, we inherit something else: an attainment culture optimized for visibility, accumulation, and external validation—more likes, more status, more productivity, more “proof” that we matter. Keith and David don’t demonize attainment. Instead, they argue the crisis emerges from imbalance: when a culture overvalues achievement and undertrains inner life, people lose contact with the capacities that make success feel worthwhile. The result is a landscape of “infobesity”—endless information and stimulation paired with shrinking wisdom, attention, and presence. Younger people, in particular, face a potent mix of nihilistic narratives (“nothing matters”) and collapsing pathways to stability, leaving many stuck between anxious striving and disillusioned disengagement. Against that backdrop, they map three common stances toward the future: naive “hopium” (it’ll all work out), cynical realism (we’re doomed), and a third alternative David calls post-tragic devotion—the willingness to show up and do what’s possible anyway. Like caring for a dog you love even knowing the heartbreak at the end, devotion becomes a mature way to live: grounded, unsentimental, and still fiercely engaged. The work begins close to home—your body, your nervous system, your relationships, your daily choices—where agency is real. From there the conversation turns practical. They contrast conventional linear self-improvement with a complex adaptive approach: an ecology of practices that you iterate over time, in community, so that your habits, triggers, and relational patterns don’t quietly sabotage your best intentions. Presence becomes the foundation—because most suffering is generated in “mind castles” of rumination about the past and catastrophizing about the future. The key shift is moving from reaction to response: slowing down, regulating the nervous system, meeting discomfort without immediately numbing it, and choosing with clarity rather than compulsion. Keith draws on martial arts and Zen training to underline the same principle: becoming comfortable being uncomfortable is what makes you trustworthy under pressure. A central promise of attunement, they suggest, can be felt in its “signature”: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control—the lived texture of coherence. The path forward, then, is not abstract philosophy but concrete alignment: articulate your values, craft a realistic six-month vision, and conduct a “fearless moral inventory” of where your actions match—or contradict—what you say you care about. Along the way, they offer a challenging relational reframe: imagine giving your parents what you always wanted from them—being seen, valued, accepted—without bypassing the real work of trauma, boundaries, and accountability. Maturity, they emphasize, is a both/and. They close with an uncompromising invitation. If your story is blame—politics, parents, partners, landlords—your future is predictable. The alternative is radical responsibility: building attunement from the inside out, supported by practice, community, and the willingness to live from devotion rather than desperation.
How to Build a Life Worth Living
After laying out the deadlock, Ken unveils the breakthrough: an evolutionary step that can see value in mythic, rational, and pluralistic stages—all at once. It’s a hopeful path out of polarization, without erasing anyone. https://integrallife.com/who-is-ken-wilber/ #IntegralLife #IntegralTheory #Polarization #PersonalGrowth
A Radical Shift: From Culture War to Integration
AI is generating an endless wave of misinformation—so much that truth risks being drowned out. But civil libertarian Nadine Strossen reminds us: every form of media has faced this challenge. From books to social media to AI, free speech has always been both a blessing and a battlefield. Can we still trust speech to fight speech in the AI age? Watch the full discussion here: https://integrallife.com/how-fear-and-fragility-are-threatening-free-speech/ #FreeSpeech #AIethics #Misinformation #NadineStrossen #AIDebate #CivilLiberties #SpeechVsSpeech #Censorship #YouTubeShorts
AI Is Flooding Us with Fake Speech — Can Free Speech Survive?
In this excerpt from our full conversation with former ACLU president Nadine Strossen, we dive into one of today’s most urgent and complex cultural tensions: the battle between free speech and psychological safety. ✨ Watch the full episode here: https://integrallife.com/how-fear-and-fragility-are-threatening-free-speech/ What happens when speech is labeled as harmful — not because it incites violence, but because it causes distress? Should we censor “dangerous” ideas to protect the public, or does that backfire in the long run? Drawing on decades of constitutional law, lived experience, and current cases, Nadine makes the powerful argument that censorship—especially in times of fear—offers the illusion of safety while undermining the very freedoms we need to solve our biggest problems. We explore: - Why speech that feels threatening isn’t always legally punishable - How censorship often emerges in moments of collective panic - The legal standard for restricting speech (and why most speech doesn't qualify) - Why emotional safety and resilience aren’t opposites — and how we can hold both - What happens when governments pressure platforms behind the scenes If you've ever asked yourself, “Where’s the line between protection and suppression?” — this clip is for you. ✨ Watch the full episode here: https://integrallife.com/how-fear-and-fragility-are-threatening-free-speech/ 🎧 Subscribe for more integrally-informed conversations about growth, consciousness, and human development.
Freedom vs. Security: Why Censorship Backfires | Nadine Strossen
Ken Wilber maps “culture wars” to three value systems—mythic/traditional, modern/scientific, and postmodern/relativistic—and shows how each defines truth differently. It’s a crisp decoder for why debates feel impossible and what’s actually clashing underneath. https://integrallife.com/who-is-ken-wilber/ #IntegralLife #CultureWars #SystemsThinking #PersonalGrowth
Culture Wars Explained: Mythic, Rational, & Postmodern Truth
Ken Wilber describes the moment he realized that we develop through multiple levels of awareness—and how that insight shaped his first book, rejected by 36 publishers before finding its audience. The takeaway: big ideas often meet resistance before they reshape the culture. https://integrallife.com/who-is-ken-wilber/ #podcast #IntegralLife #StagesOfDevelopment #Consciousness #PersonalGrowth
The Flash That Became “A Spectrum of Consciousness”
What if evolution isn’t something that happened "back then" — but something moving through you right now? In this clip, Corey deVos and Dr. Keith Witt flip the usual Big Bang story on its head, pointing out that the Big Bang is still banging right now at this very moment, and we are living expressions of that ongoing creative surge. It’s a playful but profound reminder that you’re not a passive bystander to the cosmos… you’re an active participant in its unfolding. #BigBang #Evolution #IntegralTheory #Spirituality #Consciousness #CosmicPerspective #PersonalGrowth #WittAndWisdom #CoreyDeVos #KeithWitt #Nondual #Metaphysics
The Big Bang is STILL Banging!
In this powerful excerpt from The Deathless Self, Kabir Kadre recounts his near-death experience during a catastrophic car accident — and the simple, profound moment where he was asked: “Do you want to be alive or dead?” What unfolds is not a supernatural tale, but a clear, grounded reflection on death, awareness, and the ordinary miracle of waking up to life. ✨ Watch the full episode here: https://integrallife.com/the-deathless-self/ 🎧 Subscribe for more integrally-informed conversations about growth, consciousness, and human development.
"Do You Want To Be Alive Or Dead?"
Ken recalls the moment he learned the ego is a self-contraction that fuels suffering—not with joy, but with rage that no one told him sooner. A gripping, relatable ignition point for spiritual practice. https://integrallife.com/who-is-ken-wilber/ #IntegralLife #Ego #SpiritualAwakening #PersonalGrowth
“I Was Enraged”: When Ken Wilber Discovered the Ego’s Trap
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