Author: Jeff Salzman

Next month it will be two years since Robert McNaughton took over The Integral Center in Boulder and he, along with Decker Cunov and a lot of devoted practitioners and friends who share their vision, have breathed fresh, new...

LIVE TUESDAY CALL #20 Well, it’s been a bad week for us Obamapologists I’m afraid. The lead story in the US is the Obamacare debacle, of course. While it has been demoralizing for those of us who feel government can be a force...

CONVERSATIONS:Weekly Global Webcasts with Patricia Albere Evolutionary Collective Conversations is inspiring an ever-growing audience of courageous evolutionaries interested in the expanding edges of consciousness and culture....

LIVE TUESDAY CALL #19 Before we addressed the big Washington story of of debt and default, we started this week’s call with a quick look at two very positive developments in the international arena. One is the news that on...

(LIVE TUESDAY CALL #18) As integral practitioners we want to notice when people in the public arena are thinking, talking or behaving integrally, whether or not they’ve ever heard of integral theory. One such person is our...

LIVE TUESDAY CALL #17 This has been a good week to think integrally. It’s a relief to be able to take a larger perspective on the first tier food fight that is going on in American politics. As integralists we can see that the...

LIVE TUESDAY CALL #15 Okay, so maybe Gaia IS mad at us. After a year’s worth of rain fell in five days last week in Colorado, causing massive floods and damages, I’m beginning to wonder. On this week’s call I reported first hand...

Join me tonight for The Daily Evolver Live call. We’ll talk to my good friend Huy Lam whose property has vanished beneath the new path of the river (below).   The Integral Center has also been damaged by the flood...

Nicholas Kristof is one of my favorite “liberal with integral tendencies” columnists, and Ross Douthat is one of my favorite “conservative with integral tendencies” columnists. I submit their op-eds in...

On Tuesday night’s call we paused for fifteen minutes to listen to President Obama’s speech advocating for military action to punish Syria for using chemical weapons. This story, unfolding in real time, provides a vivid tableau...

One sign that you are on the right path is that you will encounter help unlooked for. The field is something that is behind us, in front of us, through us, enveloping us…all things without exception. Your intention bends the...

Attack on Syria (1:07) “Real violence is almost always ended by stronger violence in saner hands” – Ken Wilber With the increasing confirmation of the use of chemical weapons on his own people by Syrian...

Egyptian military crackdown (2:04) The world was shocked earlier this month when the Egyptian military overthrew the newly elected Muslim Brotherhood government, arrested their leaders, including president Mohamed Morsi, and...

I kick off this segment with a news item that perfectly represents a topic I’ve wanted to talk about. The article appeared in this week’s issue of the New York Times Science section under the title, The Stuff of Those Visions in...

The picture at left says it all: Charley Cropley is the most vibrant hunk of a man I know. As Boulder’s top naturopathic doctor, Charley is himself the best possible advertisement for his services. At age 67 he has the vitality...

Weekly News Wrap-Up This week I look at a potpourri of stories that caught my eye and illuminate the craziness and wisdom of our evolving world. Inability to communicate (01:53)  Fox news religion reporter Lauren Green (amber...

Few topics strike fear in the hearts of green progressives like climate change. But thus alarmed, Greens are frustrated because they can’t seem to convince orange modernists and amber traditionalists of the truth and urgency of...

Story #1: The New Prince (1:35) This week we start by looking at the birth of the future King of England. I make the case that the Brits are right good at carrying forward the best of what royalty can provide: a sense of...

People sometimes ask me where we can see the red altitude of development (egocentric) in contemporary life. The answer is everywhere — specifically anywhere someone is gripped by their own experience with no empathy toward...

In this segment I look at the big story of the week in the United States: the trial of George Zimmerman for the shooting of Trayvon Martin. This trial has captured the attention of the nation, because it so perfectly represents...