Author: Jeff Salzman

Around the world in less than half an hour!  In this conversation I take a look through the integral lens at a wide range of topics, from the struggle between conservatives and liberals, animal rights, the markers of integral...

Great conversation here with another of my Integral Brothers, Keith Witt.  Keith is a Central Casting Integralist, a California surfer as a young man, accomplished martial artist, father of two, married to the same woman for 30+...

  Spiritual growth is one of the goals of integral development.  But what does it look like? What does it feel like? What are the new antennae that come online that help us to receive the ever-deeper and ever-higher signals...

Natura Cosmeticos, based in Brazil, is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of beauty and home care products. They are also one of the world’s leading companies in applying integral principles to their business processes and...

“THE DAILY EVOLVER LIVE” WITH DECKER CUNOV PART ONE: In this video Decker and I focus on the employment situation, and do a comprehensive analysis of what employment looks like through an Integral, developmental...

Had a great session with the local gang this week at The Integral Center here in Boulder.  As usual, we focused on an integral view of the current headlines. Here are some audio segments… MITT ROMNEY: TEAL SHAPE-SHIFTER OR...

“ALWAYS THE PROCREANT URGE OF THE WORLD” Here’s a riff on an integral first principle: why is anything happening at all?  We see the scope and story of history and we are a living part of the frothy edge of evolution that...

OUR DEFACTO WORLD GOVERNMENT As we look at the history of how human beings have organized themselves, we see that we have created traditions and institutions of ever-greater breadth and complexity: from tribes to clans to...

THE NEXT ROSS PEROT MIGHT NOT BE CRAZY: THE FUTURE OF THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM Here I look at the American two party system in comparison to the parliamentary or multi-party systems we find in other advanced democracies. Our system...

  It’s been a heck of a couple weeks, people, and we need to talk about it!  The presidential election, the events in the Middle East…integral gives us an amazing lens on all these issues. Our Daily Evolver Live...

  The events in the Middle East provide a riveting display of the developmental stages of consciousness and culture in action. As of this morning protests have broken out in 20 countries throughout the Muslim world,...

Brother Terry Patten and I have been hanging together in Boulder the last week talking a lot of politics. Yesterday we turned on the recorder as we had a breakfast discussion about the presidential election. Here’s an excerpt...

One of the markers of the tribal and warrior stages of cultural development is the belief that the leader is divine, and has real magical powers. This was true for cultures as recent  as the court of Louis XIV, the Sun King, in...

Profound point here from David Brooks in his 8/23 column in the New York Times: … the No. 1 political fantasy in America today has inebriated both parties. It is the fantasy that the other party will not exist. It is the...

New research reported in this article from CNN Health draws a connection between our genes and how we think politically. By pinpointing certain genes in the human body, scientists can predict parts of a person’s political...

Check out this terrific column by Emily Matchar in Saturday’s Washington Post, “How those spoiled millennials will make the workplace better for everyone.”  Yes, yes, yes, so much of what we reflexively see as wrong...

I’m taking advantage of the national conversation on Medicare to challenge my assumptions and actually learn something. This morning’s column by Robert J. Samuelson in the Washington Post, entitled “Why Ryan might be right about...

Peggy Noonan is always worth reading; she’s reliably conservative but always thoughtful and emotionally-intelligent. In her Wall Street Journal column this week she writes: … we are becoming a nation that believes nothing....

* Chick-fil-A president says says he is against gay marriage. * Gays protest. * Conservatives rally. * Today Google delivers 643,000 results (in.17 seconds) for “Chick-fil-A controversy”. This is evolution at work, my friends....

To use William F. Buckley’s famous line, the role of the conservative in society is to “stand athwart history yelling Stop!” So let’s see how that’s working out. Conservatives fought to maintain slavery, they fought...

  This week’s Daily Evolver focuses on the 2012 Presidential campaign as election year politics continue to heat up with countless attack ads bombarding us from all sides of the political spectrum, fueled by unprecedented...