Author: Jeff Salzman

At the Integral Center Monday night Jeff set the tone by inviting us all to watch the video of the wonderful and well known Hans Rosling presentation “200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes” in which Hans demonstrates...

Okay, what’s got your goat this week? The sequestration? Drones? The porn ban in Iceland? Then come to the Integral Center in Boulder — or tune in live — for an integrally-informed discussion on these and any other...

Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world. Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always subtance and increase, always sex. Always a knit of identity, always distinction, always a breed of life. -From...

Okay, I confess: I’m sitting here with my morning coffee wiping tears from my eyes watching Ultimate Male Adele Covers on YouTube. It’s a video collage of young male singers performing their versions of Adele’s song,...

I ran across a fascinating TED video the other night: “Jay Walker on the world’s English mania.” As Walker says in his introduction, “The intensity to learn English is almost unimaginable – unless you witness...

I often argue that the increasing ability of human beings to efficiently create material wealth – cars, clothes, calories – as well as our development from a “growth economy” to a “sustainable...

[typography font=”News Cycle” size=”24″ size_format=”px”] This world of dew Is only a world of dew And yet; oh, and yet … – Issa [/typography] See more photos by David Chambon...

One of the laments we hear from social dystopians is that our era is marked by an increasing alienation, that people have lost the sense of the communal  story which so effectively created community identity (the lower left...

Barbara Marx Hubbard was Evolutionary when Evolutionary wasn’t cool! In her 40+ years as a “conscious evolutionary”, she has racked up an impressive list of achievements, including having her name placed in...

This is not flesh. It is marble, carved by Gian Bernini in the mid-1600’s. How the f ***?

We had a great time with Michael Dowd the other night at the Integral Center (see previous post for more on Michael). The first half of our talk focuses on the intersection between the Wilberian lineage of evolutionary theory...

I’m thrilled to have a chance to sit down with one of my heroes, Michael Dowd, author of THANK GOD FOR EVOLUTION: How The Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World.  One of the things that makes...

Each month a bunch of us political junkies get together at The Integral Center in Boulder to talk about current events from an integral perspective.  This time we will be joined by Mark Michael Lewis who is an...

Andrew Sullivan is indeed one of the most integrally-conscious of our mainstream media commentators.  His blog is an evolutionary’s joy! Andrew, if you should ever see this, please check out integral theory.  Like many of us,...

  Corey deVos asked a few of us to answer the question “what’s your reaction to the 2012 election?” for his Integral Post series on integrallife.com. This is my submission. See the links below for other...

Had a great conversation with Carter Phipps the other day. Carter has been a luminary in the integral/evolutionary world for many years. He is the past executive editor of What is Enlightenment? magazine, (subsequently known as...

How can we evolutionaries view the meat grinder of politics and still stay heartened? Simple, we take the larger perspective. All is well either way. Don’t agree? Come straighten me out! It’s a fun, informal evening...

With our panoramic view of history we can see that human cultures have evolved through distinct stages of development. Bands became tribes became clans became fiefdoms became nations. Today nations are knitting themselves...

What many of us in the integral world feel is next is a mutual enlightenment, a getting together and creating something that is new. -Jeff Salzman It’s actually exciting to feel that kind of shifting and changing occurring...