Witt & Wisdom: Live with Dr. Keith Archives – Integral Life

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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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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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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The Turquoise Dialectic: Expand Your Cosmology Through Integral Dialogue

Dr. Keith Witt — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 20:49:14 +0000

Corey DeVos and Dr. Keith Witt explore the turquoise dialectic—a mode of deep, integrative conversation where perspectives evolve rather than compete—touching on themes of honesty, trust, intergenerational transmission, and the ways our personal cosmologies shape reality. From the psychology of deception to the ancestral patterns we unconsciously carry, this discussion invites listeners to examine how they construct meaning, engage in dialogue, and participate in the ongoing evolution of consciousness.

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Transform Your Motivation System

Dr. Keith Witt — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 20:11:26 +0000

Why do so many high achievers feel like they’re never enough, no matter how much they accomplish? In this episode, Dr. Keith Witt and Corey deVos explore the hidden meta-motivation systems that drive us — sometimes to greatness, but often to exhaustion.

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Exploring Teal and Turquoise Psychotherapy

Dr. Keith Witt — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 20:33:36 +0000

This discussion unpacks the essence of integral psychotherapy, exploring how Teal and Turquoise approaches integrate all psychologies into a dynamic framework that optimizes healing and growth. With practical insights into productive self-awareness, the role of spirituality, and the interplay of life’s processes, Corey and Keith illuminate the path toward deeper wholeness and transformative relationships.

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Escaping the Drama Triangle: Presence, Problem-Solving, and Relational Mastery

Dr. Keith Witt — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 03:05:50 +0000

Corey deVos and Dr. Keith Witt explore one of the most common yet misunderstood aspects of human interaction: the tension between drama and problem-solving. They dive deeply into the "Drama Triangle," a psychological framework that reveals how the roles of victim, rescuer, and persecutor trap us in cycles of dysfunction. These dynamics, while often personal, are also embedded in cultural systems, politics, and even therapy itself.

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