Integrity: the Foundation of an Integral Life

August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment

After setting up my profile at the new, just-launched Integral Life website, I’ve been visiting the nascent discussion forums and have started to engage with other members a bit. In the section headed “What does an Integral Life mean to you?” I responded enthusiastically to one member’s suggestion that integrity seems to be an essential […]

What’s Conditioning You Today?

May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Karma: can’t live with it, can’t live without it.

Ken Wilber Interviewed by Salon.com

May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment

It’s long, it’s comprehensive, it’s accessible, and it’s awesome: “You Are the River: An Interview with Ken Wilber.”
From the intro:
Ken Wilber may be the most important living philosopher you’ve never heard of. He’s written dozens of books but you’d be hard-pressed to find his name in a mainstream magazine. Still, Wilber has a passionate […]

The Law of Complexity-Consciousness

January 25, 2008 | 1 Comment

There’s a great interview on Salon.com with the brilliant evolutionary theologian John F. Haught — who was featured in WIE Issue 35 — on his new book, God and the New Atheism: A Critical Response to Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens. I haven’t seen the book yet, but the publisher has assured us a […]

What Is Dark Matter?

January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

In the next issue of WIE (i.e., the one after the brand new issue soon to be at Borders, Chapters, Whole Foods, and Barnes & Noble stores near you), we’ll be featuring an interview with Joel Primack, one of the pioneers of the theory of “cold dark matter,” the mysterious invisible substance that supposedly makes […]

Physics: Platonic Laws or Kosmic Habits?

November 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Rupert Sheldrake dukes it out with Freeman Dyson, Daniel Dennett, and Stephen Toulmin on the radical, cosmology-crushing possibility that the laws of nature, like everything else, evolve over time . . .

For more on the topic of morphic fields or kosmic habits, Ken Wilber is always a good place to start. :)

Ye Ole Scientistic Bias of SciAm

October 4, 2007 | 1 Comment

I was just looking at the cover of the October issue of Scientific American, sitting here on my desk, and was intrigued by this metaphysically loaded cover line:

CONSCIOUSNESS
Scientists Debate How
Neurons Make Us Aware

Now, does that cover line even make sense in a materialistic framework? How neurons make “us” aware? Are “we” the physical […]

Jacques Vallée Speaks!

September 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment

While looking into an upcoming remote viewing conference for possible WIE coverage, I was excited out of my head to learn that my hero since I was about 14, the one and only Jacques Vallée, was giving the keynote address! For those who aren’t up to speed on the field of ufology, Vallée […]