BLOG: Guest Blog: Towards a More Integral Christianity (by John Dupuy)

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:39:00 GMT

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TOWARDS A MORE INTEGRAL CHRISTIANITY

by John Dupuy

A few weeks back I attended a workshop on Integral Christianity at the Boulder Center for Integral Living, in Boulder, Colorado. This center is housed in a former church building (with a storied past), and is the brain child of Jeff Salzman, who is an extraordinary Integral teacher in his own right (see video clips in the integralnaked.org archives).

I attended the five-day workshop, with no real expectations, but with a definite agenda of sorts. Firstly, as my practice has deepened over the past few years, and as I have relaxed and looked into vastness of my interiors, that Jesus fellow has come up as a presence, as a strange...

BLOG: David Deida - Exploring Sexual Stages with Buddhists

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:37:00 GMT

Exploring Sexual Stages with Buddhists

In this provocative clip, David Deida explains how the three major schools of Buddhist thought reflect the stages of psycho-sexual maturity, and how these stages play themselves out in our spiritual practices and in our relationships. What does conflict look like from each of these stages? How can we use this understanding to help us respond to the world from our highest possible selves, moment by moment? Listen to this free clip to find out!

"So the real question is: are you in a Hinayana moment, a Mahayana moment, or a Vajrayana moment when your woman is throwing something at you?" - David Deida

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Who: Acknowledged as one of the world's...

BLOG: Brother David Steindl-Rast on Integral Naked - Integral Christianity: Theory and Practice

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:32:00 GMT

Integral Christianity: Theory and Practice. Part 1. The Relationship of the One and the Many.

In this dialogue, Brother David and Ken Wilber discuss the concept of Integral panentheism—the belief that God imminently exists within the manifest universe, interpenetrating all that we can touch and see, while simultaneously existing infinitely beyond the universe in timeless transcendence. Contrasted with theistic, deistic, and pantheistic belief systems, Integral panentheism brings new life to traditional Christian practices and doctrine, such as gratefulness, prayer, and the Holy Trinity, while also offering a stable foundation for truly inter-religious conversations in the modern and post-modern worlds.

"I am a little concerned that so many people who have discovered the One simply eradicate their sense of the Many, or consider it unimportant...." - Br. David Steindl Rast

BLOG: Mokshananda on Integral Naked - In the Company of Truth

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:34:00 GMT

In the Company of Truth. Part 1. Mapping the World of Form.

In this discussion, Mokie and Ken discuss the concept of Integral Satsang, an Indian term that roughly translates as "in company of the truth." While typically associated with the Advaita Vedanta tradition, the concept of satsang can be applied to any spiritual tradition, East or West. How can the Integral map help us better relate to spiritual truth, teachers, and communities?

"It's like the effulgence of consciousness is illumining those higher levels [of development], as you start to really see life in a totally different way—it actually brings forth life in a totally different way."

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Who: Mokshananda (or...

BLOG: A Letter to Huston Smith

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:47:00 GMT

A Letter to Huston Smith

from One Taste

Tuesday, February 4

I’m worried about Huston’s health [Huston Smith]. I sometimes feel that he will live another decade or two, then I worry he won’t live out the year. Ever since Treya’s death, I have tried to tell people how I feel about them before they are gone, before it’s too late. Treya and I had the chance to do that, but I saw what it did to those who did not.

The amazing thing about Huston is that he was working on the perennial philosophy long before most people had even heard of it. Years before it became fashionable—multicultural wisdom traditions, the world’s religious heritage, the celebration of spiritual diversity and spiritual unity—Huston was doing the work.

His body is almost transparent...

BLOG: Warren Farrell on Integral Naked - Redefining the Relationships Between Men and Women

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:04:00 GMT

Does Feminism Discriminate Against Men? Part 1. Redefining the Relationships Between Men and Women.

Dr. Warren Farrell and Ken Wilber discuss some of the ingredients of an Integral account of human sexuality, while exploring the nuances of relationships between men and women, the many attempts of feminism to redefine sex and gender, and the historic causes behind the division of labor and the rigid patriarchies that followed….

"It's definitely true that men, as a rule today in industrialized societies, are basically where women were in the 1950's, psychologically and socially. Part of what is keeping men there is being blamed for having power that is really a camouflage for the powerlessness. Real power is control over my own life."

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SCENE: New Image Uploaded to KW.com

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:19:00 GMT

George Faddoul, renowned i-NLP Coach, and Ken talk about more integral forms of growth and transformation. 6/12/08.

BLOG: Tami Simon on Integral Naked - How to Deal with Disappointment in Your Spiritual Teachers

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:10:00 GMT
How to Deal with Disappointment in Your Spiritual Teachers

Tami Simon shares her experiences of being painfully disappointed by various spiritual teachers, as well as her own personal methods of working with this disappointment. What do we do when our spiritual guides don't quite measure up to our own expectations of them? Can recognizing their limitations actually help free the wisdom the have to offer us? And most importantly, what does the actual feeling of disappointment have to offer our own spiritual awakening?

"Even though, Ken, I've been exposed to Integral theory for a few years, it hasn't prevented me from feeling disappointed, again and again, in teachers when a new aspect of their twisted humanness is uncovered in the course of working with them...."

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BLOG: Foreword to Sex, God, and Rock and Roll by Stuart Davis

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:36:00 GMT
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Sex, God, and Rock and Roll by Stuart Davis

Foreword by Ken Wilber

Stuart Davis is an amazing being—a genius songwriter, extraordinary singer, gifted actor, wild rock star as well as devoted family man, and, central to all of that, an advocate of Integral thought and practice.

What is “Integral”? It simply means whole, complete, full, all-inclusive. It is both a theory and the basis of a life practice. It demonstrates how to integrate and include body, mind, and spirit in self, culture, and nature. This means acting so as to find your entire life to be full and complete, a life that “makes room for...

BLOG: Foreword to The Practice of Lojong by Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:29:00 GMT
A new foreword has been uploaded to the Writings section of KW.com--be sure to check it out! And if you haven't already, notice that all pdf's can now be downloaded from the site, by simply right-clicking the arrows next to each title. Enjoy!

The Practice of Lojong by Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche

Foreword by Ken Wilber

It is my honor to introduce The Practice of Lojong, by one of today’s most respected and renowned Tibetan Buddhist masters, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche. It is Rinpoche’s belief, which I heartily second, that not only are the secrets of Lojong an antidote to much of today’s emotional pain and suffering, they contain the very practices that can fully awaken the mind and liberate awareness. And not just in a passing, self-help kind of fashion, a “Gosh-I-feel-better” kind of way, but by striking right at the heart of suffering itself, while simultaneously pointing to the...

BLOG: Some Thoughts on Integral Politics

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:42:00 GMT
Some Thoughts on Integral Politics

by Ken Wilber

Originally published in The Marriage of Sense and Soul, 1999

Politics. I have been working with Drexel Sprecher, Lawrence Chickering, Don Beck, Jim Garrison, Jack Crittenden, and several others toward an all-level, all-quadrant political theory (in addition to working with the writings of political theorists too numerous to list). We have been involved with advisors to Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Tony Blair, and George W. Bush, among others. There is a surprisingly strong desire, around the world, to find a "Third Way" that unites the best of liberal and conservative—President Clinton's Vital Center, George W. Bush's Compassionate Conservatism, Germany's Neue Mitte, Tony Blair's Third Way, and Thabo Mbeki's African Renaissance, to name a few—and many theorists are finding an...

BLOG: Integral International Development Master Classes

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Thu, 29 May 2008 10:52:00 GMT
Integral International Development Master Classes

Theoria in Praxis

Paul van Schaik

Following our Integral International Development Centre – Integral without Borders gathering in Istanbul I feel that there is a need for much more detailed work on the How and What of Integral International Development, especially for those who have more extensive experience in the field. I am therefore proposing to hold a series master classes in Florence, Italy over the next few months and maybe later in the year also in Cape Town. Other places will also be added in time.

The classes will be kept small to ensure that there is sufficient time to work with each individual’s project.

The download gives a brief outline of what I think needs to be covered. But the idea is for individuals to bring along their own programs/projects/ proposals and working through these would be...

BLOG: Integral "Third-Way" Politics - Free Video!

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Mon, 26 May 2008 12:51:00 GMT
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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...

BLOG: Patrick Sweeney - Realizing Ordinary Mind

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Fri, 23 May 2008 11:10:00 GMT
Patrick offers a beautiful discussion of nondual consciousness, the nameless, effortless, self-liberating quality of awareness in which all distinctions between self and other, this and that, inside and outside fall away completely, leaving only the brilliant clarity of this very Moment, exactly as it is. Although this "Ordinary Mind" is and always has been the ever-present condition of consciousness, the separate self somehow rarely seems to notice that which it always already is—in fact, it is fair to say that the majority of our actions and intentions as human beings are in avoidance of this simple recognition, with all its ego-shattering implications. However, we have all experienced this radical One Taste many times in the course of our lives, if even for the briefest of moments. Patrick mentions accidents, orgasms, and death as typical moments of spontaneous and profound realization, but these experiences tend to occur whenever the normal continuity of life...

SCENE: Announcing Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei's New Website!

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:39:00 GMT
One of our most beloved Integral teachers has just launched her own personal website - check it out!

Diane Musho Hamilton is a gifted facilitator, mediator and spiritual teacher living in Utah. She is well known as an innovator in facilitating group dialogues, especially controversial conversations about religion, race and gender relations.

Diane is a fully ordained Zen priest and teacher. She has studied Buddhism since 1984, and was given dharma transmission by her meditation master, Genpo Roshi in 2006. She works with the Big Mind process; a facilitation technique synthesized by Roshi to convey eastern teachings to western audiences.

Diane also teaches Integral Spirituality, and has worked with Ken Wilber and the Integral Institute in Denver, Colorado since 2004. She lives in Salt Lake City with her husband, Michael D. Zimmerman, a lawyer and...

BLOG: Anamnesis, or The Psychoanalysis of God

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:30:00 GMT
Anamnesis, or The Psychoanalysis of God

by Ken Wilber

from One Taste

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BLOG: Rupert Sheldrake on Integral Naked - Christianity, the Holy Trinity, and Kosmic Creativity

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Mon, 19 May 2008 09:25:00 GMT

Integral Evolutionary Biology. Part 4. Christianity, the Holy Trinity, and Kosmic Creativity.

The man behind the theory of morphic resonance shares his drive to explore the evolutionary impulse behind the Kosmos itself. In this discussion, Rupert Sheldrake discusses more of his own spiritual heritage, contemplates the meaning of the Holy Trinity in Christian thought, and explores the remarkable implications of creativity in evolutionary studies.

"There's a whole series of questions that have finally come to a dead end, and different philosophers have poked into their versions of these ultimate questions--like Schelling's 'Why is there something instead of nothing?' And what i think happens is that we exhaust the limit of our intellectual mind, and open to our intuitive, trans-rational, or spiritual mind--the intellect pushes right up against its own boundaries, and the answer is given by another...

INTEGRAL LIFE: Highlights from Holons

Thu, 15 May 2008 11:17:27 GMT

BLOG: Jim Garrison on Integral Naked - In Hot Water

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:27:00 GMT

Politics in the 21st Century. Part 3. In Hot Water.

Jim Garrison discusses the increasingly dangerous crises the world is currently experiencing, and the unique ability for Integral consciousness to face the precarious challenges of the 21st century head-on.

"Nobody on this planet goes to bed at night hungry because of lack of food. They go to bed at night hungry because of lack of political ideas, and the lack of political systems to get them the food."

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Who: Jim Garrison is the chairman and president of the State of the World Forum, which he cofounded with Mikhail Gorbachev in 1995. The State of the World Forum (SWF) is often thought of as a "shadow...

BLOG: Therefore, be Consciousness.

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT
From One Taste

Sunday, August 3

People typically feel trapped by life, trapped by the universe, because they imagine that they are actually in the universe, and therefore the universe can squish them like a bug. This is not true. You are not in the universe; the universe is in you.

The typical orientation is this: my consciousness is in my body (mostly in my head); my body is in this room; this room is in the surrounding space, the universe itself. That is true from the viewpoint of the ego, but utterly false from the viewpoint of the Self.

If I rest as Witness, the formless I-I, it becomes obvious that, right now, I am not in my body, my body is IN my awareness. I am aware of my body, therefore I am not my body. I am the pure Witness in which my body is now arising. I am not in my body, my body is...

BLOG: David Meggyesy - Sports and Spirituality

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:39:00 GMT
Sports and Spirituality. Part 1. In the Zone.

In this fascinating discussion, former NFL linebacker David Meggyesy discusses the extraordinary overlap that exists between sports and spirituality, and how professional athletes may be more familiar with experiences of spiritual transcendence than any of us might assume….

"You are the founder of Athletes United for Peace, using positive aspects of sport—which can be a self-transcendence—to transcend other boundaries. Boundaries between race, between sexes, any of these political and social boundaries that ultimately divide people. Sports is probably the single most widely practiced avenue for transcendence, and yet it's the single least discussed...."

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BLOG: Tami Simon on Integral Naked - Enlightened Business Practices

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:41:00 GMT

Enlightened Business Practices. Part 1. The Birth of Sounds True.

The founder of America’s largest producer of spoken-word spiritual material shares the inside story behind the origins of Sounds True, one of the world's leading exemplars of integral business practices....

"In a way, I gave birth to Sounds True, and then over the next decades Sounds True gave birth to me...."

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Who: Tami Simon is the founder and president of Sounds True, a multimedia publisher dedicated to "the dissemination of spiritual wisdom" and North America's leading publisher of spoken-word spiritual teachings.

Summary: In this compelling dialogue, Tami Simon and Ken Wilber...

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BLOG: Tami Simon on Integral Naked - The "Twenty Tenets" of Sounds True

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BLOG: Guest Blog: Towards a More Integral Christianity (by John Dupuy)

BLOG: David Deida - Exploring Sexual Stages with Buddhists

BLOG: Brother David Steindl-Rast on Integral Naked - Integral Christianity: Theory and Practice

BLOG: Mokshananda on Integral Naked - In the Company of Truth

BLOG: A Letter to Huston Smith

BLOG: Warren Farrell on Integral Naked - Redefining the Relationships Between Men and Women

SCENE: New Image Uploaded to KW.com

BLOG: Tami Simon on Integral Naked - How to Deal with Disappointment in Your Spiritual Teachers

BLOG: Foreword to Sex, God, and Rock and Roll by Stuart Davis

BLOG: Foreword to The Practice of Lojong by Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche

BLOG: Some Thoughts on Integral Politics

BLOG: Integral International Development Master Classes

BLOG: Integral "Third-Way" Politics - Free Video!

BLOG: Patrick Sweeney - Realizing Ordinary Mind

SCENE: Announcing Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei's New Website!

BLOG: Anamnesis, or The Psychoanalysis of God

BLOG: Rupert Sheldrake on Integral Naked - Christianity, the Holy Trinity, and Kosmic Creativity

INTEGRAL LIFE: Highlights from Holons

BLOG: Jim Garrison on Integral Naked - In Hot Water

BLOG: Therefore, be Consciousness.

BLOG: David Meggyesy - Sports and Spirituality

BLOG: Tami Simon on Integral Naked - Enlightened Business Practices