Integral Life

The Fourth Turning: A Sacred Revolution Begins

John Churchill — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:37:15 +0000

In this visionary keynote, John Churchill explores the collision between exponential technological power and humanity’s lack of spiritual maturity, warning that without sacred initiation, our civilization risks becoming the sorcerer’s apprentice—enchanted by tools we cannot control. But alongside this Fourth Industrial Revolution, he reveals a parallel awakening: a Fourth Turning of consciousness, where psychedelics, contemplative traditions, and the science of the heart converge to birth a planetary culture rooted in coherence, compassion, and soul.

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The Sacred Mandala of Being: A Spiritual Journey with Kabir Kadre

Kabir Kadre — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 04:52:11 +0000

What if awakening isn’t the absence of limitation, but the presence of love within it? In this luminous dialogue, Kabir Kadre and Lama Kimberley Lafferty explore the path of embodied realization — where vulnerability becomes a teacher, the body becomes a mandala, and compassion becomes the clearest expression of truth.

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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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The Four Quadrants: A New Way of Seeing

Corey deVos — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 21:11:57 +0000

A New Way of Seeing Every day, we’re surrounded by people who seem to be living in different worlds. Some argue from “facts,” others from “feelings.” Some focus on individual choices, others on systemic forces. Some ask, “What’s going on inside you?” while others demand, “What’s happening out there?” They’re all pointing at the same reality — yet talking past ...

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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 New War on the First Amendment: Words as Violence, Jokes as Crimes

Keith Martin-Smith — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 18:54:20 +0000

Keith Martin-Smith tackles America's free speech crisis in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination—examining how both left and right have abandoned principled commitments to the First Amendment in favor of tribal speech enforcement.

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Nocturnal Meditations: How to See in the Dark

Andrew Holecek — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:33:44 +0000

Andrew Holecek presents dark retreat—extended periods in complete sensory deprivation—as a transformative meditation practice that accesses deeper levels of consciousness typically obscured by our light-obsessed, distraction-heavy culture. He argues that conventional "waking" awareness is actually humanity's most contracted state, while nocturnal practices like lucid dreaming and sleep yoga offer profound opportunities for shadow work, creativity, and spiritual development.

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Don’t Just Transcend Your Pain — Include It

Alexander Love — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:08:40 +0000

After the tragic murder of his father at age 20, Alexander Love began a decades-long journey through grief, spiritual practice, and shadow work — seeking not just to rise above his pain, but to finally and fully include it. In this deeply personal conversation, he shares how real healing began not with transcendence, but with embracing the very wounds he had tried to escape.

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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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