The New Authoritarians: This is Progress?
Today I’m sharing my I my guest appearance on Radio Evolve, a German podcast hosted by Tom...
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Trump’s War Cabinet Drops a Developmental Level
Today Jeff and Corey consider the choice of John Bolton to become Donald Trump’s national security...
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Trump’s first year
Donald Trump has just completed the first year of the most unlikely, outrageous presidency in...
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Ann Coulter’s Piece of the Truth: Critiquing Trump from the Right
Ann Coulter’s provocative personality often obscures two aspects of her that are far more...
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Finding Greater Resilience in the Trump Era
Dr. Keith Witt talks to Jeff Salzman about the negative effects today’s polarized politics are...
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Mueller, Trump & Collusion: The Rule of Law Pushes Back
The gradual breakdown and reorganization of the prevailing world order–“the great...
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Donald Trump Has A Very Small Amygdala
In this episode I attempt once again to plumb the shallows of Donald Trump’s mind.
I was spurred by an article in The Atlantic magazine about children who have been diagnosed with “callous and unempathetic traits.” In many ways Trump fits the profile of these children, who to a surprising degree do not respond to disapproval or punishments, but do respond to praise and rewards. The article reports on interesting new treatments that are helping these kids grow into better adults.
Unfortunately, at age 71 Trump may be a lost cause. In the last part of the podcast I look at some of the ramifications of his psychological profile, specifically as it relates to North Korea.
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Trump: the Anti-Green Backlash Begins
The Trump Presidency is an evolutionary correction for a culture whose leading edge “is in a 50-car pileup.” This is the thesis of Ken Wilber’s excellent new eBook, Trump and a Post-Truth World, and the kickoff point of a wide ranging conversation I had with Ken last week. Here’s Ken’s argument:
Every now and then, evolution itself has to adjust course, in light of new information on how its path is unfolding, and it starts (apparently spontaneously but with this deeper morphic field actually operating) by making various moves that are, in effect, self-correcting evolutionary realignments. The leading-edge of cultural evolution is today—and has been for four or five decades—the green wave (“green” meaning the basic stage of human development known to various developmental models as pluralistic, postmodern, relativistic, individualistic, beginning self-actualization, human-bond, multicultural, etc.—and generically referred to as “postmodern”).
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Pre-Truth, Post-Truth and Beyond
Inaugurated with bogus crowd claims and tales of voter fraud, the post-truth presidency of Donald...
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The Trump Era: Day 45 – Prepare for Impact
Ok, folks, we’ve had 45 consecutive mornings of waking up and wrapping our heads around the fact that Donald J. Trump is going to be the next president of the United States of America. What do we know now that we didn’t know before? To the degree that we can discern a pattern, we see that Trump will govern the same way he campaigned: as a disrupter. And he is doubling down on that approach with a team and cabinet of disrupters.
What will happen? Here is where I’m grateful for my Buddhist training in “don’t know mind,” a practice of watching one’s mind try to make sense of something that is unknown. The fruit of the practice is the realization that you are more happy and effective, and life is more rich and vivid, when you recognize that every moment is unknowable and thus full of possibility.
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The Trump Era: Day 1 | Three integrally-informed friends attempt to face reality
My colleagues Diane Hamilton and Terry Patten are here at my home, preparing for the Integral Living Room gathering which begins tomorrow. They arrived a day early, yesterday (November 8), so we could celebrate Hillary Clinton’s victory together. Ha ha!
Instead we, like millions of people, are trying to come to terms with the victory of Donald Trump. Suddenly we are embarking on a new adventure together — one that Diane, Terry and I, at least, would never have chosen.
We recorded a conversation of our process to share with you, in case it might help you make sense of things as well.
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Trump the Terrible: an Integral Look at the Boy who Would be King
Defeat Trump! Not because he is a big alpha figure who would bust up the establishment. Not because he’s vulgar. Not because lacks a coherent policy vision. Those things can actually be evolutionarily potent in their proper measure. No, the real problem with Donald Trump is that in important lines of development he is arrested at the level of a five-year-old. Keep nukes out of the hands of children. Make sure to vote!
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