Psychology Archives – Integral Life

The Highest Stages of Human Flourishing

Alexander Love — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 17:23:32 +0000

Keith Martin-Smith and Alexander Love explore Terry O'Fallon's STAGES model of human development, focusing on the rarely-discussed MetAware tier where transpersonal awareness becomes a structural feature of consciousness, leading to the dissolution of boundaries and recognition that all meaning is constructed.

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Cybernetics and the Intelligence of Love

Dr. Keith Witt — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 18:49:15 +0000

Dr. Keith Witt and Corey deVos explore how cybernetics — the science of self-correcting systems — reveals the hidden logic of love, power, trauma, and societal evolution. Through the lens of integral theory, they trace feedback loops across all dimensions of life, showing how everything from personal healing to political dysfunction is shaped by the quality of communication and coherence in our systems.

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The Dopamine Revolution: From Human Evolution to Modern Crisis

Dr. Keith Witt — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:02:29 +0000

Dr. Keith Witt traces how dopamine-driven evolution shaped human consciousness from ancient seafood consumption that triggered civilization's "Big Bang" 80,000 years ago to today's hyper-stimulating culture that exploits the same neurochemical reward systems for profit. While our dopamine-flooded modern world creates unprecedented pathologies like addiction and isolation, it also sets the stage for the next evolutionary leap: conscious integration of our reward systems with relational wisdom and ecological awareness.

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STAGES: Cracking the Code of Human Development

Keith Martin-Smith — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 18:56:37 +0000

Keith Martin Smith and Alexander Love explore Terry O’Fallon’s Stages model as a powerful lens for understanding how humans grow, make meaning, and relate across vastly different realities. Together, they reveal how developmental precision — not content or ideology — holds the key to deeper empathy, cultural healing, and truly integrative practice.

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Ride the Tiger: The Psychedelic Renaissance Is Here

Carter Phipps — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 01:43:19 +0000

Carter Phipps explores how psychedelics, postmodern values, and the reawakening of consciousness are reshaping the cultural landscape and laying the groundwork for an integral future. Arguing that we must embrace — and responsibly guide — the weirdness of this transitional moment, he calls for a worldview that integrates science, spirituality, and the deep interior dimensions of human experience.

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The Magic Mirror: How AI Is Reshaping Your Mind

Dr. Keith Witt — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 01:17:37 +0000

Keith and Corey examine AI’s cognitive, relational, cultural, and developmental impacts — highlighting both the dangers of projection, offloading, and disembodiment, and the opportunities to use AI as a practice partner for discernment, shadow integration, and growth. Corey then showcases some of the new AI tools now available to all Core Members of Integral Life.

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The Future Human: Why Spiritual Intelligence Matters

Cindy Wigglesworth — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:48:49 +0000

Cindy Wigglesworth presents spiritual intelligence (SQ) as a vital developmental line alongside physical, cognitive, and emotional intelligence, defining it as the ability to act with wisdom and compassion while maintaining inner and outer peace. Drawing on research, practical frameworks, and her SQ21 model of 21 skills, she shows how cultivating SQ transforms spirituality from abstract potential into concrete behaviors that foster wise leadership, compassionate presence, and greater collective resilience in the face of global crises.

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Everything Is Relationships: The Hidden Force That Shapes Reality

Dr. Keith Witt — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 03:25:12 +0000

Human beings are always in relationship — with ourselves, with others, and with the larger cultures we create together. In this episode, Dr. Keith Witt and Corey deVos explore how the quality of these relationships shapes not only our personal growth, but our experience and perception of reality itself.

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Between Two Infinities: What Does It Mean to Live a Good Life?

Dr. Keith Witt — Fri, 09 May 2025 19:47:59 +0000

What does it really mean to live a good life—and how does that meaning evolve as we grow? In this candid and illuminating conversation, Dr. Keith Witt and Corey deVos explore how progress on meaningful needs, conscious relationships, and a deeper sense of purpose all contribute to a life well-lived.

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Every Scar Has a Story: Rewriting the Narratives That Shape Us

Dr. Keith Witt — Fri, 02 May 2025 18:52:50 +0000

Dr. Keith Witt and Corey deVos explore how trauma shapes the stories we tell about ourselves — and how those stories can be transformed into resilience, wisdom, and self-leadership. Drawing from developmental theory, the Enneagram, and decades of clinical experience, Keith offers a four-stage model of trauma healing rooted in radical acceptance, narrative re-patterning, and the cultivation of a compassionate “wise self.”

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