Integral art alert! “Chandelier” by Sia and Maddie Ziegler
Wow, artistic double whammy here this morning. Howard Stern had a singer, Sia, on his show who...
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Report from integral Budapest
Wow, just back from the Integral European Conference (IEC) in Budapest and getting ready for the...
Read MoreEvolution In The Age of Ecocide
This week Jeff took a look at the emergence of some radical new Green ideas in the economic conversation, with an advanced peek at the influential new book “Capital in the 21st Century”, by Thomas Piketty. He also addressed the cultural issues of climate change and a striking new way of dealing with it: give up.
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When Worldview Trumps Facts
This week Jeff takes a look at new research that reveals how worldview overrides evidence in determining one’s political perspective. He also explores the conservative view of the Russian/Ukraine situation by critiquing an essay by Robert D. Kaplan, Geopolitics and the New World Order in which Kaplan argues that “in geopolitics, the past never dies and there is no modern world.”
Read MoreConscious Capitalism And Corporate Personhood
THE DAILY EVOLVER LIVE EPISODE 88 This week I focused on a topic that is always front and center in the culture wars: the role of the public sector and the private sector in our lives, and the tension between the two. One story...
Read MoreChaos In Venezuela & The Toll of Pre-Modern Leadership
THE DAILY EVOLVER LIVE EPISODE 87 With so much of the world’s attention focused on Vladimir Putin and the struggle in Ukraine it’s easy to miss another important real time story of a nation in a similar developmental crisis:...
Read MorePutin Takes Crimea, But Who Has The Plane? Also, Was The Big Bang Conscious?
DAILY EVOLVER LIVE, EPISODE 86 AMBER TRUMPS ORANGE IN RUSSIA It appears that nationalistic hope has won out over economic fear in the question of Russia claiming the Crimea. Vladimir Putin has decided that restoring a piece of...
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The downside of modernity and upside of millennials
I started the call this week by responding to a couple listeners who think I’ve gone a little soft...
Read MoreAmerica Isn’t War Weary, It’s Orange
LIVE TUESDAY CALL NO. 28 Vladimir Putin’s “uncontested incursion” into the Crimea has provoked a political controversy in the West over how we should respond. What’s striking about the argument to me is that even the most...
Read MoreIntegral Europe Rises — in Beautiful Budapest!
Bence Ganti is one of the most interesting and accomplished people in the international integral scene, and I was happy to have a chance to speak with him about his work, particularly a major new event he is co-producing in...
Read MoreUkraine: The Modernist Revolution Continues
LIVE TUESDAY CALL NUMBER 27 The conflict in Ukraine is emblematic of the ongoing struggle between pre-modern and modern altitudes of development going on in key...
Read MoreWe Don’t Believe in Yesterday
I laughed at this column by Rachel Manteuffel in yesterday’s Washington Post: Today, Boomers Should Get over ‘Yesterday.’ Maybe it’s the evolutionary in me, but I love hearing from millennials, especially...
Read MoreRussia Today: From Putin to Pussy Riot (Audio)
On last week’s call I included an excerpt (focusing on the Sochi Olympics) of a wide-ranging interview with Victor Shiryaev, one of our integral colleagues in Moscow. Russia is a fascinating country, growing and changing in many...
Read MoreThe Withering Spotlight: Woody Allen and the Russian Olympics
LIVE TUESDAY CALL no. 25 We start our weekly call with a look at the Woody Allen child abuse scandal which has been revived by the attention generated a few weeks ago when he received a Golden Globe Lifetime Achievement Award...
Read Moreher: Siri on Steroids
LIVE TUESDAY CALL NUMBER 24 Spike Jonze is one of America’s hottest young film directors. His new movie, her, stars Joaquin Phoenix as Theodore Twombly, a professional man living in Los Angeles about twenty years in the future....
Read MoreSecond Tier People Watching
People are interested in people, and we love looking at each other. But it’s rare that we really get to look – to stare – and see past the surface into the depths of another person. Adam Magyar’s Stainless...
Read MoreThe Various States of the Union (Audio)
LIVE TUESDAY CALL NUMBER 23 This Tuesday’s call was scheduled for the same time as President Obama’s fifth State of the Union address, so I encouraged listeners to tune into the speech and we talked about it directly...
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Income inequality: the defining issue of our time?
America is moving into a new economic cycle that is more tuned to the post-modern (green altitude) values system. Stories on income equality are popping up across the political spectrum and during this show I focus on two extensive news features that were broadcast this week: one from Fox news, and the other from MSNBC. I also look at two major policy speeches by top leaders from the left and right.
Read MoreMichael Is Calling Us To Greatness
We had the pleasure of seeing Michael Dowd give the newest incarnation of his teaching last night at the Integral Center. He’s spreading the good news and doing his part to usher in the evidential reformation. There were about...
Read MoreThe Economy Evolves And Chris Christie Devolves (Audio)
LIVE TUESDAY CALL NUMBER 21 CHRIS CHRISTIE’S BRIDGE SCANDAL We all know the story: in an apparent act of political retribution for the mayor of Ft. Lee not endorsing his re-election, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’...
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Review of MEMEnomics: The Next Generation Economic System, by Said Dawlabani
I had an interesting conversation last week with Said Dawlabani, author of the new book,...
Read MoreGod is Always Up to Something New
A CONVERSATION WITH REV. PAUL R. SMITH (AUDIO) It’s a few days before Christmas and I thought it was time to check in with Pastor Paul who is at the beginning of a new phase in his life. After leading the flock of his Southern...
Read MoreHow to Be A Student of Conflict — A Conversation with Diane Musho Hamilton (Audio)
Earlier this week I had a wonderful conversation with my dear friend and integral sister, Diane Musho Hamilton, about her new book: Everything is Workable: A Zen Approach to Conflict Resolution. Diane is the perfect person to...
Read MoreDealing With Iran: A Conversation With Farzin Shokooh (Audio)
It looks like the world might be on the brink of a new relationship with The Islamic Republic of Iran. With the change of the presidency to a more moderate leader, Hassan Rouhani, the door to negotiations over Iran’s nuclear...
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