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Laughing, Learning, and Loving: Behind the Scenes of The Daily Show with Warren Farrell and Corey W. deVos In today’s cultural climate, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to talk about complex things in the mainstream media without being reduced to a caricature or a talking point.  This is one of the things that makes The Daily […]

The State of the Integral Enterprise. Part 3: Key Ideas for a World at Risk with Roger Walsh and Ken Wilber We live in a time of unprecedented challenges and opportunities. Never before have we had the power to imperil our species and our planet. And never before have we had the power to heal […]

Gratefulness and the Spirit of Thanksgiving with Brother David Steindl-Rast and Rollie Stanich It’s that time of year again—the leaves have changed, the birds have made their mass exodus toward the equator, and we’ve begun arming ourselves to the teeth with rock salt and ice scrapers.  As the curtain of another year begins to draw […]

Creativity as Unique Self Expression with Alex Grey, Marc Gafni, and Diane Musho Hamilton How do our unique perspectives of the world color our relationship with beauty, creativity, and transcendence? Alex Grey has become one of our most iconic and immediately-recognizable artists, and somewhat of a poster-boy for a genuinely integral approach to art, life, […]

Religulous: The Baby and the Bathwater Is Bill Maher too smart for God?  Or not smart enough?  Listen and find out! Duration: 1 hr 17 min Bill Maher, host of the HBO talk show Real Time With Bill Maher, often asks his guests: “How can someone as smart as yourself actually believe in this religious stuff?”  It’s […]

The State of the Integral Enterprise. Part 2: Potential Traps Roger Walsh and Ken Wilber Written by Corey W. deVos At the 2009 Integral Theory conference, Roger Walsh led a presentation titled The State of the Integral Enterprise, offering a critical appraisal of the “Integral movement:” where it is, where it’s going, and what kinds […]

Practice for Two Realities Ken Wilber Here Ken discusses two very different approaches to spiritual practice, both of which need to be recognized and honored in order to bring ourselves into the fullest possible relationship with ourselves, each other, and the world around us. In the majority of the world’s mystical literature dealing with concepts […]

Mobilizing to Save Civilization with Lester Brown and Jim Garrison Lester Brown and Jim Garrison discuss the real-world consequences of climate change, especially as it pertains to the global food supply. Lester also offers a summary of his new book, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. Topics include: – Tipping points: A discussion of […]

350: The Magic Number with Bill McKibben and Jim Garrison Bill McKibben and Jim Garrison discuss the science and symbolism behind the number 350 (as in parts per million, the level scientists have identified as the safe upper limit for CO2 in our atmosphere.) Topics Include: – Worse and worse, faster and faster: Climate change seems […]

Exploring the Technium. Part 4: The Nine Laws of God with Kevin Kelly and Ken Wilber In the final installation of this fascinating dialogue about technology, consciousness, evolution, and spirituality, Kevin and Ken continue to explore the mystery of “up-creation”—the natural evolutionary tilt of the universe toward greater and greater wholeness, by which new forms […]

Exploring the Technium. Part 3: The Great Google in the Sky with Kevin Kelly and Ken Wilber In this installation, Kevin and Ken discuss the impact the inevitable rise of “spiritual machines”—truly conscious A.I.—will have upon humanity in the decades to come.  Ken reads aloud from Kevin Kelly’s blog, titled “Will Spiritual Robots Replace Humanity […]

Exploring the Technium. Part 2: Spiritual Machines with Kevin Kelly and Ken Wilber In the second installation of this extraordinary dialogue, Kevin Kelly and Ken Wilber discuss the nature of evolutionary emergence – the mysterious process by which new wholes manifest in the universe, each greater than the sum of their parts.  They speak about […]

Exploring the Technium. Part 1: Technology, Evolution, and God with Kevin Kelly and Ken Wilber Wired magazine’s own “Senior Maverick” talks with Ken Wilber about some of the ideas behind Kevin’s blog The Technium, which explores the various ways humanity defines and redefines itself through the interface of science, technology, culture, and consciousness.  Kevin also […]

Integral Trans-Partisan Politics with Ken Wilber While surveying the current American political landscape, it can be easy to feel as though the country is divided into two radically opposing populations: the Left and the Right. When watching the speeches, interviews, and debates on either side of the fence, there is such an incredible difference between […]

Interpreting the Singularity with Ken Wilber Moore’s Law has shaped the technological and social change of the past 50 years. Technically, the law states that the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit doubles every two years, which translates to both an increase in computational power and an overall decrease in […]

Does Quantum Physics Prove God? with Corey W. deVos and Ken Wilber This conversation sheds clarity on a very confused notion in the area of spirituality today—namely, the “tao of physics” and all its variations, as exemplified by the recent film What the Bleep. So what relationship, if any, does God actually have with quantum […]