Audio Archives – Integral Life

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

Cindy Wigglesworth — 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.

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The Wonderful (But Flawed) Ideals of DEI

Keith Martin-Smith — 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.

Radical Wholeness and the Five Paths of Transformation

Ken Wilber — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 22:54:16 +0000

Ken Wilber and Andrew Holecek explore the frontiers of integral theory and human consciousness. Ken shares some of the key insights from his latest book, "Finding Radical Wholeness," offering a novel and deeply insightful perspective on the nature of reality and human development.

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

Mark Fischler — 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...

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Ken Wilber’s Map of Everything

Brad Reynolds — 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

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The Psychology of Climate Change

Gail Hochachka — 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.

Deepening Our Explorations of Reality

Bruce Alderman — 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.

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

Ryan Johansen — 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.

The Essence of Awakening: Who Are We Really?

Lama Surya Das — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 14:23:00 +0000

Lama Surya Das, beloved meditation teacher, scholar, pioneer of bringing Tibetan Buddhism to the West, and author of the bestseller Awakening the Buddha Within among many more, shares bright gems of wisdom from his extensive experience practicing Dzogchen, his long immersion in meditation retreats, and studying in person with the great spiritual teachers of Asia.

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Building a Just World: How Our Laws Express Our Collective Values

Mark Fischler — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 19:38:54 +0000

Constitutional law expert and criminal justice professor Mark Fischler has a thirst for justice and a gift for teaching. With cogency and passion, Mark explains that law is not the absolute that we perhaps thought, but an ever changing reflection of the values we hold as a society. Law is a developmental process, and will benefit from our own dedication to inner moral development.

This post was originally published on Integral Life.