Roger Walsh, Author at Integral Life

Beyond Motivation: How to Be a Modern Bodhisattva

Roger Walsh — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 19:44:04 +0000

Renowned psychiatrist Roger Walsh expands Maslow's hierarchy to reveal five "meta-motives" culminating in a profound paradox: the deepest fulfillment requires transcending all motivation and allowing the universe to act through us. He then proposes "Bodhisattva 2.0"—seven upgrades to ancient spiritual ideals—arguing that our global crises reflect collective psychological immaturity requiring integration of contemplative wisdom with modern life.

This post was originally published on Integral Life.

Spiritual Intelligence: 21 Skills for Wisdom, Compassion, and Love in Action

Roger Walsh — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 18:59:20 +0000

Cindy Wigglesworth, trailblazer in the field of spiritual intelligence, has created an assessment tool that identifies our spiritual strengths and weaknesses — qualities that fall outside the traditional IQ or emotional intelligence (EQ) parameters — in order to provide a guide for determining which skills we as individuals need to develop in order to show up in the world as love in action.

This post was originally published on Integral Life.

The Wonderful (But Flawed) Ideals of DEI

Roger Walsh — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 19:47:16 +0000

Keith Martin-Smith takes a careful look at the diversity, equity, and inclusion movement when he began to notice the damage it was causing people he knew under the guise of progress, or equity. Putting his keen mind to the task, Keith identified seven key areas where the DEI movement goes markedly astray from the values it aspires to.

This post was originally published on Integral Life.

The Mysterious World of Shamanism

Roger Walsh — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 19:59:17 +0000

Roger Walsh provides us with a brilliant, big picture perspective, pointing out that at the heart of shamanism (and every great world tradition) are psychospiritual technologies—actual practices—that lead us to the doorway of the Great Mystery, and that service is the culmination of each tradition, both as a means to and an expression of one’s realization.

This post was originally published on Integral Life.

Democracy in Decline? The Supreme Court and the Threat to Public Morality

Roger Walsh — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 19:38:28 +0000

How did the democratic process and the values it represents — equality and liberty for all — come to be teetering on the brink? Mark illuminates the fact that the Constitution is not a set-in-stone document, but eminently open to interpretation, and explains that its interpretation is a direct reflection of the worldviews of the Supreme Court justices. In fact, the whole process of democracy needs to be aligned with a certain level of development in order to deliver...

This post was originally published on Integral Life.

Ken Wilber’s Map of Everything

Roger Walsh — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 18:30:37 +0000

Brad Reynolds gives us a beautiful distillation of Ken Wilber’s work, starting from the beginning and spanning decades. Not only does Brad elegantly relate the major themes of Ken’s work, he also makes clear the value of Ken’s contributions—the way this knowledge can be understood and applied to literally expand our notion of reality and evolve our consciousness

This post was originally published on Integral Life.

The Psychology of Climate Change

Roger Walsh — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:48:31 +0000

Climate change researcher, sustainable development expert, and activist Gail Hochachka works on the front lines of climate change research, asking—and answering—questions like: How does the way we make meaning, at all our different stages of development, relate to the ways we act on climate change? How can we foster more engagement with climate change? Is climate action scalable? And how are we going to show up for the people who are facing the greatest impacts?

This post was originally published on Integral Life.

Bringing Soul and Integrity to American Politics

Roger Walsh — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 20:41:14 +0000

More than a political talk, Marianne reveals a psychological and spiritual portrait of the United States, referencing the brilliant vision of our founding fathers, Martin Luther King’s goal of Beloved Community, and telling a stirring story of the way Abraham Lincoln’s second inauguration reflects the high morality of the populace at that time.

This post was originally published on Integral Life.

Deepening Our Explorations of Reality

Roger Walsh — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 19:48:47 +0000

Bruce Alderman, poet, mystic, and spiritual explorer, is also an integral scholar and pioneer of the emerging field of metatheory, looking at how to put our disparate fields of information—spiritual, psychological, philosophical, environmental, scientific—together and integrate them into a useful whole.

This post was originally published on Integral Life.

Buddhas in Blue: Enlightened Ways to Make Policing Work For Everyone

Roger Walsh — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 19:42:29 +0000

In this moving, illuminating, and impassioned discussion, retired Police Lt. Chris Orrey and San Bruno Police Chief Ryan Johansen open our eyes as to the realities of policing in today’s world and offer solutions as to how the entire institution of police work could be transformed to become more effective and sustainable, both for police officers and for the communities they serve.

This post was originally published on Integral Life.