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Maestro: An Integral Take On an Integral Artist
Hey Folks, This week we’re looking at Maestro, Bradley Cooper’s new movie about Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein has been a favorite of mine since I happened upon a lecture he gave in the 70s charting the development of music from a single note to the full musical...
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2023: How Culture Evolved
This week I’m sharing a terrific conversation I had with Nomali Perera and Lee Mason reviewing 2023 from an integral perspective. Through a series of lightning-round questions -- greatest surprise, greatest disappointment, etc -- we tour the evolving culture,...
About integral theory
Integral theory is a school of philosophy that seeks to integrate all of human wisdom into a new, emergent worldview that is able to accommodate the gifts of all previous worldviews, including those which have been historically at odds: science and religion, eastern and western, and pre-modern, modern and post-modern. Read more
About Jeff Salzman
I am an integralist, an evolutionary, and a public commentator who, swimming against the current of prevailing culture, is heartened by the state and future of things. It seems to me self-evident that life is animated by the power of evolution, inside and out, and that we are riding a geyser of emergence toward a sacred world. Read more
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Integral Conference Denver, May 16 – 19
Hey folks, What does integral theory tell us about how humanity will evolve? That is the fascinating question at the center of ICON, the first “Integral Conference of North America”, coming up in May. In this short episode I’m joined by conference organizer, Tom...
Maestro: An Integral Take On an Integral Artist
Hey Folks, This week we’re looking at Maestro, Bradley Cooper’s new movie about Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein has been a favorite of mine since I happened upon a lecture he gave in the 70s charting the development of music from a single note to the full musical...
2023: How Culture Evolved
This week I’m sharing a terrific conversation I had with Nomali Perera and Lee Mason reviewing 2023 from an integral perspective. Through a series of lightning-round questions -- greatest surprise, greatest disappointment, etc -- we tour the evolving culture,...
The Return of Red Trump
A year away from the US Presidential election, Ankur Delight and I ponder the spectre of Donald Trump being the odds-on favorite to win. Our muse this week is Rick Wilson, the founder of the Lincoln Project, who sounds the “Never-Again Trump” alarm in his recent...
Jonathan Haidt’s “Stupid America”
Is America really getting stupider? Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt makes the case in his influential essay in The Atlantic Magazine titled “Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid”. I challenge his thesis from an integral perspective....
Hot Takes on a Movie, a Play and Pronouns
In this episode, I take another look at the movie Everything Everywhere All At Once in light of its popularity and controversy - including in the integral community. I also consider how taking one new perspective on the play, The Realistic Joneses by Will Eno, turned...
House Speaker Mike Johnson, Covenant Marriage and Porn
On today's Daily Evolver Live (every Thursday @ 10am PT on YouTube) Ankur and I discussed the new Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson. He's a fundamentalist Christian who supports Trump and the election deniers. He's also for Covenant Marriage and...
New Rules of Postmodern Debate
If a debate isn’t about facts and arguments, what is it about? In this episode I look to a high school debate Tournament of Champions for the answer. As you will hear this next generation is Green, they’re mean, and they are discovering new territories of being human...
The United Auto Workers Deal
Ankur Delight and I talk about the major new deal the UAW struck with the Big Three automakers in the US. The three pillars of the deal are 1) a 25% wage increase, 2) equalized pay for the same job, and 3) the ability to strike in response to plant closings. All...
What Really Helps? The Kosmo-centric View
Hey folks, In this episode, Ankur kicks off our discussion by asking: “What can we do for Israel and Palestine? What really helps?” We discussed a Kosmo-centric view and how it transcends (and includes) the world-centric view of green postmodernity. Also the evolution...
Israel and Palestine: A Developmental View
Transcending the dueling perspectives of history, politics, religion and race, the insights of cultural development offer a more integrated, evolutionary understanding of wicked geopolitical problems like the conflict in the Middle East. PART 1 of this podcast is my...
Russel Brand and the Evolution of Sexual Politics
Ankur and I take an integral look at the Russel Brand sex scandal and how it is raising consciousness. We talk about: Presentism: a moving target * The power (and limits) of consent * Green sexuality’s great contributions and what it keeps in shadow * Cancellation,...