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 […]

Ordinary Terrestrials Putting Crop Circles to Shame

August 9, 2008 | 4 Comments

Mac Tonnies’ blog tipped me off to “the largest sand drawing on Earth.” Check it out!

Very impressive stuff…though not quite as impressive as the Olympics opener yesterday. That three-hour spectacular display of epic magnitudes of machinelike human precision and techno-majestic creativity almost made me want to enroll in the Communist Party. (I kid!) It was […]

The Kosmocentric Stage - Part 1

August 4, 2008 | 1 Comment

What does it mean to be “Kosmocentric”?
That’s the question I want to explore over the coming weeks on this blog. It’s something that, as a student of Andrew Cohen’s teachings of Evolutionary Enlightenment, I think about all the time, and it’s also a clear line of inquiry that I think may finally […]

Worldcentric Joy

July 3, 2008 | 1 Comment

Now, I’m sure everyone and his brother has seen this by now, in one iteration or another, but we were watching the latest edition of “Where the Hell Is Matt?” at the end of our WIE editorial meeting the other day, and this morning I woke up thinking it would be a nice counter-post to […]

No Handlebars

July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment

A friend just tipped me off to a fascinating song by a Denver band called the Flobots. They’re a Gen-Y alt rock/rap group doing what alt rock does best: lamenting the state of everything. Check out the video for their hit single “No Handlebars” below. Upon an initial viewing, I thought it was very powerful, […]

A Day in the Life

June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment

I’ve been neglecting this here blog for the past couple of weeks while we’ve been working one-pointedly to get the latest issue of WIE out the door, but after finishing my final tidbitty tweaks today, I flipped through the latest issue of Rolling Stone, which tipped me off to something amazing that happened during Paul […]

BIG THINK Features Andrew Cohen

May 31, 2008 | 3 Comments

A few weeks ago Andrew Cohen, founder of What Is Enlightenment? magazine and its parent organization, EnlightenNext, was invited to the BigThink.com studios in New York, where he was interviewed on a number of different topics. I featured BigThink in our “Sites & Blogs” section in WIE’s current issue, and when I wrote the blurb, […]

Public Displays of Meditation

May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Only in California…
The dude in the shades near the end says it all. :)

What I don’t get is why, after leader Max Simon tells them to be still even if accosted by security guards, everyone seems to get up and leave when the security guards tell them to. How about a little passive resistance, […]

Presbyterians Get Grape Juice

May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Indexed’s Jessica Hagy is trying to provoke the ire of Catholics today:

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 […]

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