Podcasts about aqal

Aqal, ghussa, mohabbat – har taqat mein aik balance zaroori hai. Is bayan mein Mufti Tariq Masood samjhate hain ke mentally mature insaan kaise sochta hai, Hinduon ko kya paighaam diya gaya, aur ghar ki doodh malai ka kya raaz hai. Gaza ke zulm se le kar Shohar-Beewi ke disputes tak, har pehlu ko ilm aur hikmat ke saath samjhaaya gaya hai.(0:00) Intro(0:23) Aayaat Surah Ma'arij(1:04) Namaz: Sabirin ki Alamat(2:18) Insan Aetadal Se Kaisy Hat'ta Hai? (Diet Example)(3:54) Vegetarian Dull Faces(4:48) Mtm's Favourite – Ghar ka Doodh aur Garam Malai(6:33) Mtm's Message for Hindus(7:25) Mentally Mature(8:20) Mentally Immature(9:35) Aetadal Peda Karne ka Tariqa(10:28) 5 Powers mein Balance(11:22) Bhook ki Taqat mein Aetadal(13:04) Aqal ki Taqat mein Aetadal(13:36) Ghusse ki Taqat mein Aetadal(14:10) Mohabbat ki Taqat mein Aetadal(15:23) Sexual Power mein Aetadal(17:16) “Tairi Mairi Biryani” Ribbon Cutting by Mufti sb(17:53) Nafrat ki Taqat mein Aetadal(18:14) Gaza ke Zulm par Fatwa(18:52) Zalim se Nafrat aur Boycott(19:30) Fazail of Nafrat(19:50) Nafrat ka Hadis se Saboot(20:07) Nafrat ka Qur'an se Saboot(20:32) Zalim par Tars Khana?(20:58) New Karachi – Dakuon ka Hashar(23:24) Ghusse ki Taqat mein Aetadal(23:42) Aqal ki Taqat ka Istemal(25:54) Mtm's Reply to Those Who Deny Glory of Sahaba(27:12) Batil ko Jawab Dene ka Tariqa(28:25) Mtm's Learnings in Mediation Course(29:44) Fatwa ke Zariye Zojain/Virasat ke Masail ka Hal(31:24) Judge Ban'kar Do Parties ke Beech Paisay ka Hal(36:54) Shohar ki Burai Karne Wali Aurat ka Case(39:10) Mufti sb ki Announcement for Dispute Resolvers(39:39) Mufti sb's 30 Years of Experience on Spouse Disputes(41:50) Aqal ka Bilkul Istemal Na Karna – Atheists ki Soch(45:39) Butt Paraston ki Aqal (Thailand Experience)(47:37) Fazool Aqal – Bhook ka Najaiz Faida(48:00) Mtm's Childhood Thinking About Hunger(48:26) Sar Dard mein Panadol(49:53) Mtm's Dua for Rishtay During Hotel Opening in KSA(56:46) Shadi ke Baad Sar Dard mein Panadol – Fazool Aqal(55:20) Allah ke Wujood ka Saboot(56:20) Nabi ﷺ ke Wujood ka Saboot(57:11) Ehkaam jin mein Aqal nahi chalani(59:49) Talaq par Gusse mein – Naye Sunni Namune(1:02:37) Darhi aur Ramazan Rozay par Aetraz(1:03:16) Mufti sb par Comments – Mazdooron ke Rozay(1:03:32) Jihad Farz Fatwa – Mufti Taqi Usmani sb par Comments(1:04:28) Mazdooron ke Rozay – Yusuf Ludhianvi ra ka Fatwa(1:08:04) Tayammum – Taqwa Haaiz Shakhs ka Sawal(1:09:08) Guinness Record Holder ka Tanz(1:10:57) Aqal ka Sahih Istemal – Waqia(1:12:25) Islami Ehkaam(1:12:49) Ghamdi Fitna – Family Planning(1:13:15) Mtm's Reply to Irshad Bhatti – Adalti Khula(1:14:26) Sach aur Jhoot – Kaab ibn Malik ka Waqia(1:17:34) Bachay Jhoot Bolna Kahan Seekhtay Hain?(1:20:10) Mufti sb ki Sach Bolnay ki Aadat(1:21:19) Khulasa aur Dua(1:21:31) Aadam as ko Sajda – Farishtay, Jinnat aur Iblees ka Maqam(1:31:51) Duniya Asbab ke Sath Hai – Ghareeb Shadi Kaise Kare?(1:44:14) Mufti sb Buzurg Kyun Nahi Lagte?(1:45:31) Hamara Ilm vs Aima e Arba ka Ilm(1:50:18) Google Witr Confusion – Mufti sb ka Jawab(1:51:44) Negative Comments on Witr Clip(1:53:09) Witr ka Authentic Tariqa – Hazrat Ayesha ra(1:53:44) Imam e Kaaba ke Witr par Aetraz(1:55:19) Germany/Oxford Universities mein Qudoori aur Hidayah(1:56:04) Hindu ka Bayan Sunna aur Masjid Jana?(1:56:23) Nabaligh Bachon ke Maal par Zakaat ke Ehkaam? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

(0:00) Intro(1:26) Waqt ki Raftar aur Zindagi ka Charagh(2:10) Manzil ka Hasool – Insan ka Target(5:02) Target mein Rukawat: Do Asli Wajuhat(6:11) Attractive Cheezen (Wife, Status, Ride, Job)(9:02) Shaitani Dhoka: Gunah ko Aqal se Legal Banana(9:54) Charsi ki Aqal(10:10) Daku ki Soch(11:10) Dukandaar ka Hila(11:30) Behen ki Virasat k Chor(11:56) Kamyab Insan – Jo In Do Fitnon se Bach Gaya(14:46) Non-Muslim ka Depression(16:24) Gaza ke Musalmaan vs Gora Kafir(18:28) Non-Muslim ki Gumrahi ki Asal Waja(20:45) Pakistan mein Fohash Films ke Deewane(22:39) Gaza par Tehzeeb Yafta Ki Chup?(23:00) Muslim vs Non-Muslim – Allah ke Hukum ke Samne(25:14) Muslim Soldier vs Ghair-Muslim(26:46) Nabi ﷺ ka Farman(27:00) Shaheed ki Bakhshish par Sawal(28:00) Nabi ﷺ: Border Guard ki Raat = Lailatul Qadr(28:37) Achha Kaam Rokna – Shaitani Chaal: Rayakari(30:05) Hosla Afzai ki Tareef se Khushi(30:59) Allah ke Liye Jaan Dene Wale(32:03) Khawarij ki Soch(32:28) Agar Allah Humein Apni Aqal ke Hawale Kar Deta(33:32) Confused Musalman Numa Kuffar(34:43) Hindu Motivational Speaker ki GF(36:02) Nikah vs Goro ki Legal Ghalazat(37:15) Aise Logon par Allah ki La'anat(37:37) Non-Muslim Motivational Speakers ka Asal Chehra(38:34) Kafir ki Misal – Andheron Bhara Samandar (Surah Noor)(44:36) Kamyab Zindagi Kiski?(45:00) Molvi vs Angraiz(49:52) Broadminded Liberals ki Ghalati(51:28) Sadaqa Lene ka Sahih Tareeqa(52:37) Imam Masjid k Ahl-e-Kamal Honay Chahiye(53:40) Jeo Sar Utha Ke(54:16) Kehna Aur Karna – Faraq(56:42) Biryani Expert Rafee Bhai(57:26) Ramadan mein Musalman ka Amal(58:14) Ehl-e-Imaan ki Dua (Mufti sb Roz Maangtay Hain)(59:33) Angraiz Aurat Mufti sb ke Ghar(1:00:34) Muslim vs Non-Muslim Soch(1:01:28) Rafee Bhai ka Pichlay Jumay ka Sawal(1:02:08) Kufriya Jumloun ka Bayaan(1:03:00) 2 Mareez – Aik Vehmi, Doosra Aashiq (By Ashraf Ali Thanvi ra)(1:05:26) Aik Sahib Jo Khud Ko Naik Samajhtay Thay(1:06:24) Farz Namaz Qaza Nahi Karni (Post-Ramadan Checklist)(1:07:28) Be-hayai se Bachao(1:13:56) Dua Mangna(1:14:17) Dua(1:14:20) Ghazwa-e-Hind, Hazrat Esa (as) aur Imam Mehdi ka Jehad – Kya Ye Hadithen Sahih Hain?(1:25:17) Mangni ke Baad Eid/Gifts ka Masla(1:28:05) Qur'an ko Urdu Mein Parrhna(1:29:17) Peer mein Konsi Khoobi Honi Chahiye(1:38:18) C-Section ke Baad Aurat Kab Pak Hoti Hai?(1:39:00) Wuzu par Asar: Baithay Baithay Sona?(1:41:48) Teacher aur Student ka Nikah?(1:43:11) Nai Currency Notes aur Sood ka Masla(1:43:48) NFT ka Shari Hukam(1:44:38) Meezan Bank Services(1:44:54) Listener USA se Sirf Mufti sb se Milne Aaya(1:47:02) Mufti Munir Shakir sb ke Aqaid aur Mufti sb ka Radd(1:47:34) Fikr-e-Shah Waliullah ki Tanzeem(1:47:45) Qabz/Peshab ke Qatron ka Masla(1:48:21) Best English Tafseer(1:48:30) Jehaiz agar Larki walay Dena Chahein?(1:48:48) Ka'aba ki Taraf Paon Karna(1:56:16) Kya Salat ut Tasbeeh Mustanad Amal Hai?(2:03:04) Ghazwa-e-Hind Par Tafsil(2:03:56) Peshab ke Qatron ka Weham ho to Wuzu kaise karein?(2:04:31) 20 Raka'at Taraweeh ke Baad Nafl Jamaat? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

(0:00) Intro(0:24) Qur'ani aayaat, hadis, dua(1:28) Reason for discussing the same topic for 30 years?(8:34) Qur'an ki balaghat se Ghamdi aur Qadiyaniyon ka radd: Hayat-e-Esa ka aqeeda(9:50) Ghamdi ka ghalat concept(11:07) Qur'an o Hadis ke label par manjan faroshon se bachne ka tareeqa(13:08) Mufti sb's reply to someone's clip(14:51) Hayat-e-Esa as ke inkar par Ghamdi ko Mufti sb ka jawab(16:26) Meraj-un-Nabi ﷺ jasad-e-athar ke sath hui hai. Ghamdi ke inkar par jawab!(18:44) Corona ko sazish kehne ka propaganda(20:22) Ghamdi ki ghalti: Lafz “Ro'oya” par!(25:26) Khwabon ki haqeeqat: Jab Mufti sb ko kisi ne khwab ka message kiya?(26:26) Meraj-un-Nabi ﷺ jasad-e-athar ke sath hui(33:38) Ghamdi ke akhlaq vs true ulamaQuestions(35:00) Taqdeer ka falsafa(36:11) Atheist ka bewaqoofana sawal(40:26) Allah ki zaat: Aqal se balatar(42:38) Aik sust ka waqia(43:03) Mufti Sahab ka jawab: Maslak parasti se nikalne ka mashwara dene wale shakhs ko(44:50) Qiston ka karobar haram qarar dene wale molvi sb(45:56) Taqdeer ka falsafa aur logon ka haal(46:38) Asbab vs dua vs wazaaif(49:15) Business without experience(50:50) Government Golden Handshake Policy se barbadi? Waqia(52:12) Always look at ground reality instead of mojaiza (54:07) Gaza war?(54:20) Battle of Badar: Islam ka mojaiza(55:20) Jesus' birth without a father: Mojaiza(56:00) Baap ki wajah se beti pagal: Waqia(57:38) “Kaash” ka lafz bolne wale kafir hain. Qur'an o Hadis ke mutabiq.(1:03:12) Mashwaray ki ehmiyat (Surah Shoora se saboot)(1:05:34) Istikhara kya hota hai?(1:08:41) Sawal: Agar istikhara dua hi hai, to 2 rakaat parh kar alag se kyun dua ki jati hai?(1:11:20) Quality of old dramas(1:14:54) Pakistan ki Steel Mill kaisay tabah hui?(1:16:06) Karachi mein bori bandh lashon se khaufzada shakhs(1:17:10) Khulasa bayan(1:17:34) Dua(1:17:37) Announcement on Mufti Rasheed Ahmed Khursheed sb's Seerat SeriesCredit for the timestamps goes to @mrs.masroor8476 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

(0:00) Intro(0:17) Exemplary incident: Mufti sb ke jannay walon mein Talaq-e-Salaas ka waqia(1:38) Ehl-e-Hadith ke khokhlay dalaail on Talaq-e-Salaas(3:36) Qadiyaniyon ke khokhlay dalaail(4:38) Hajj 2014: Mufti Sahab ki mulaqat aik barre aalim se(8:00) Ehl-e-Hadith ki andhi taqleed par challengeTalaq-e-Salaas: In-depth Analysis(10:17) Ghair Sharai Talaq ka masla(11:06) “Jo Allah se darta hai, uske liye museebat se nikalne ka rasta hai” (Aayat ki tafseer)(12:26) Hazrat Rukana (RA) wali Hadis ki hasiyat(13:42) Nabi ﷺ ke daur mein Teen Talaq aur Muta'a ka masla(14:11) Mufti Sahab ke Tafseer lectures on Surah Baqarah regarding this issue(14:32) Imam Tahavi (RA) ke mutabiq Talaq ka masla ijmai hai (Ehl-e-Hadith aur Shia ki ghalat fehmi)(16:28) Ehl-e-Hadith se sawal: Jo is masle ko ikhtilafi kehte hain(18:52) Shia logon ka Hazrat Umar (RA) par aitraaz ka jawab(19:52) Mufti Sahab ka wazni dawaa on this issueDebates with Ehl-e-Hadith and Related Observations(21:36) Ehl-e-Hadith ki halat manazron ke waqt(25:10) Saudi ulama ko Ehl-e-Hadith gumrah kyun nahi kehte?(27:28) Teen Talaq ke tay shuda masle ko sadiyon baad uthane walay Sheikh Bin Baas ka tazkira(30:52) Ehl-e-Hadith se 2 sawal:1.Agar ye masla ikhtilafi hai to dalaail ki duniya mein kaun wazni hai?2.Kisi aik Sahabi (RA) ya Taba'ee ka fatwa dikha dein.Talaq and Its Implications(33:28) Next generation's future(34:02) Talaq ki saza itni barri kyun hai?Masah: Rulings and Wisdom(35:18) Jarabon aur Imama par Masah ke masail(42:30) Hazrat Ali (RA) ka qoul jo aab-e-zar se likhne ke qabil hai(43:15) Aqal, deen ka mayaar nahi(48:00) Paaon/Jarabon par masah(55:04) Na'alain Mubarak mein masah(56:40) Teen qism ke Jarabon par masah(58:48) Imama par masah ke ehkaam Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The veils are lifting. Are you ready to see the truth? Why is humanity more mentally and physically unwell than ever before? Why are we so disconnected from ourselves, each other, and the world—despite living in the most technologically advanced era in human history? In this episode, we're going beyond the headlines of the Congressional UFO hearings and diving into the deeper questions no one is asking.Together, we'll explore:• The veils that obscure the truth—from the military-industrial complex and government secrecy to the church and the scientific establishment.• The subjugation of the Divine Feminine and how it's led to a spiritually starved and fractured collective soul.• Why the phenomenon isn't here to terrify us, but to awaken us to the truth of who we are.For too long, the narrative has been dominated by fear—threats to national security, alien invasions, and government cover-ups. But after listening to this episode, you'll see why these arguments fall apart under deeper scrutiny. You'll never view discourse from the government or military about the phenomenon in the same way again. The fear is the distraction. The truth is far more profound—and liberating.This isn't just a podcast episode—it's a personal journey. I'll share my own story of synchronicities, mystical experiences, and an encounter with the phenomenon that changed my life. We'll uncover how reconnecting to the divine within is the key to healing mental health struggles, finding spiritual fulfillment, and unlocking humanity's potential.If you've ever questioned the nature of reality, the role of spirituality in mental health, or the deeper meaning of the UFO phenomenon, this episode is for you. What if the answers you've been searching for weren't out there—but within?TIME STAMPS:00:00 - 09:25 | Disclaimer + Intro: Who this episode is for and why it matters.09:25 - 19:55 | Part 1: Meeting the Bledsoes: My personal encounter with the phenomenon.20:29 - 01:35:49 | Part 2: Lifting the Veils: Why UFO discourse is stuck and the veils distorting our understanding.01:36:45 - 02:43:25 | Part 3: Reframing the Phenomenon: Jacques Vallée's lens, the Divine Feminine, and the wisdom of mystics.02:43:25 - 03:00:26 | Part 4: Historical Parallels: Lessons from the past: suppression of the mystical and feminine.03:00:26 - 03:09:01 | Part 5: Why This Matters: Implications for mental health and the awakening of society.ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:→ Full U.S. House Oversight Committee hearing on UFOs from November 13th, 2024 (testimony of Dr. Tim Gallaudet, Luis (Lue) Elizondo, Michael Gold, and Michael Shellenberger.)→ My interview with Chris and Ryan Bledsoe→ unlock higher states of consciousness by understanding the different levels of thinking (exploring ken wilber's AQAL integral theory)Dive deeper into my work at backfromtheborderline.com. acast+ https://plus.acast.com/s/back-from-the-borderline. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Keith Martin-Smith explores the potential and pitfalls of integral theory in addressing global challenges. He argues that while integral thinking offers valuable tools for understanding complex systems and human development, it often falls short in practice due to misapplication and ego-driven superiority complexes. Keith proposes a more nuanced approach: treating people as unique individuals, communicating integral ideas more skillfully, and focusing on practical applications rather than theoretical grandstanding. [line] At its best, Integral Theory is a powerful tool and map to help us to better understand ourselves and our world. The AQAL model – all quadrants, lines, levels, states, and types – has helped hundreds, perhaps thousands, better navigate the world with compassion and care, and wisdom and humility.   At its worst, integral Theory can lead to what Keith Martin-Smith calls the “insufferable integralist,” or someone who uses the theory to look down on others they deem “less evolved” then they are. Or to create a cognitive tower from which to look down on the world, disembodied and unable to do much of anything but watch. This can create a cult-like “in-group” that can become obsessed with their own development and use the model as a cudgel on others.   Today we face a polycrisis or metacrisis – existential-level problems in economics, technology, energy production and access, late-stage capitalism,  increasing polarity in almost all Western democracies, and the fracturing of truth. For the first time, the existential challenges facing humankind are entirely created and sustain by us. More and more, we all live in our separate worlds, with our own beliefs, cultures, and good and bad guys. And the world burns, people suffer, and we divide against one another at a time we need to be coming together.   Can Integral Theory, applied wisely, do good for the world, and for each of us? How do we hold the model lightly but wisely, and be careful about the traps it can create? Key concepts discussed in this talk will be polarities such as discernment versus judgement, modesty versus surety, compassion versus condemnation.   If you've been curious how Integral might help you and the world, but leery of the ways it can seemingly misguide those who know it, this talk may be helpful for you.

Imam Abu Hanifa Sahab Ki Aqal o Danish Ka Khoobsoorat Waqia - by Qibla Syed Sarfraz Ahmad Shah Sahabامام ابوحنیفہ صاحبؒ کی عقل و دانش کا خوبصورت واقعہ - قبلہ سید سرفراز احمد شاہ صاحبWatch over 2000+ video library of Syed Sarfraz Ahmad Shah Sahab

In this insightful conversation, Dr Mariana Bozesan, a renowned AI pioneer, successful entrepreneur, and architect of integral investing, shares her remarkable journey from overcoming poverty in communist Romania to becoming a prominent figure in the world of technology and sustainability. Drawing from her diverse background and expertise, Dr Bozesan offers a holistic perspective on harnessing exponential technologies like AI, quantum computing, and semiconductors to address humanity's grand challenges, particularly climate change. With a deep understanding of consciousness and the need for a global mindset, she advocates for an integral approach that combines profit and prosperity, aligning economic growth with planetary boundaries. Her award-winning book, "Integral Investing: From Profit to Prosperity," serves as a roadmap for investors, entrepreneurs, and leaders to create a sustainable future through innovative solutions and conscious collaboration. 00:09- About Dr Mariana Bozesan Dr Mariana Bozesan is a polymath and AI pioneer with a remarkable background. She is a successful entrepreneur and architect of integral investing. Her transformational thinking and award-winning work have had a very impactful global influence throughout her impactful career. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tbcy/support

Ep. 117 (Part 3 of 3) | Brad Reynolds, author of Embracing Reality: The Integral Vision of Ken Wilber and Where's Wilber At? Ken Wilber's Integral Vision in the New Millennium, gives us a beautiful distillation of Ken Wilber's work, starting from the beginning and spanning decades. Not only does Brad elegantly relate the major themes of Ken's work, he also makes clear the value of Ken's contributions—the way this knowledge can be understood and applied to literally expand our notion of reality and evolve our consciousness. Brad deftly leads us through the subjects that Ken has developed: the spectrum of consciousness, the integration of science and religion, transcending and including what has come before, the importance of the transpersonal, and much more. We learn why Ken's teachings are timeless and also so relevant and important today.Brad's scholarship, his own spiritual practice and insight, his engaging, easygoing style, and the close working relationship he had with Ken for many years make this podcast a goldmine for learning the essence of Ken's theories, for deepening our appreciation of the magnitude of Ken's understanding, and above all, the topics covered here point the way for us to evolve as human beings. We come to understand that integral is much more than a theory: it's a practice, a call to grow and transcend, to become more inclusive, more responsive—to live our true potential. Brad eloquently brings it home just how much we need integral thinkers and leaders right now, with regressive developmental trends on the rise. Especially pertinent in our polarized society, integral shows us how to take all that is valuable within ostensibly conflicting worldviews and integrate it for the benefit of all. Recorded January 3, 2024.“Integral thinking is really about encouraging people to be their best selves.”(For Apple Podcast users, click here to view the complete show notes on the episode page.)Topics & Time Stamps – Part 3Ken's Phase 5: Ending the solitary period and establishing the Integral Institute to apply the AQAL model in the world (00:49)Ken's health issues multiplied in 2006 (05:19)Brad's favorite book of Ken's: Integral Psychology (06:37)Ken's critique of postmodernism in his novel Boomeritis (09:05)Ken's new book would often address the flaws in his last book (13:28)What Ken's The Marriage of Sense and Soul intended to do: how to integrate value-free science with value-laden religion? (14:40)And how do we mitigate the clash of civilizations, the war of worldviews? (19:01)How psychology uses the scientific method to develop our interiors and help heal our fractured culture (20:52)Ken's theory is based upon the reality of his transpersonal awareness (22:04)The need for integral leaders to permeate our institutions and establish global reconciliation—otherwise there will be a regression (23:39)History is calling on us as a collective to address the pathologies we haven't addressed or we will lose our democracy and regress down the spectrum of consciousness (25:16)Integral is really about encouraging people to be their best selves, to be inclusive; it's a way of securing the rights of liberty and justice (27:32)Ken's most recent publications, The Religion of Tomorrow, A Post-Truth World, and Revolutionary Social Transformation...

Ep. 116 (Part 2 of 3) | Brad Reynolds, author of Embracing Reality: The Integral Vision of Ken Wilber and Where's Wilber At? Ken Wilber's Integral Vision in the New Millennium, gives us a beautiful distillation of Ken Wilber's work, starting from the beginning and spanning decades. Not only does Brad elegantly relate the major themes of Ken's work, he also makes clear the value of Ken's contributions—the way this knowledge can be understood and applied to literally expand our notion of reality and evolve our consciousness. Brad deftly leads us through the subjects that Ken has developed: the spectrum of consciousness, the integration of science and religion, transcending and including what has come before, the importance of the transpersonal, and much more. We learn why Ken's teachings are timeless and also so relevant and important today.Brad's scholarship, his own spiritual practice and insight, his engaging, easygoing style, and the close working relationship he had with Ken for many years make this podcast a goldmine for learning the essence of Ken's theories, for deepening our appreciation of the magnitude of Ken's understanding, and above all, the topics covered here point the way for us to evolve as human beings. We come to understand that integral is much more than a theory: it's a practice, a call to grow and transcend, to become more inclusive, more responsive—to live our true potential. Brad eloquently brings it home just how much we need integral thinkers and leaders right now, with regressive developmental trends on the rise. Especially pertinent in our polarized society, integral shows us how to take all that is valuable within ostensibly conflicting worldviews and integrate it for the benefit of all. Recorded January 3, 2024.“Reality encompasses all perspectives.”(For Apple Podcast users, click here to view the complete show notes on the episode page.)Topics & Time Stamps – Part 2How Phase 3 evolved: the importance of practice & the AQAL map (all quadrants, all stages, all lines, all states, all types) (00:49)No boundary awareness: the limits of the mind and how the heart becomes the driving force (04:19)Hierarchies and the great chain of being—the great nest of spirit—from matter to nature to body, mind, soul & spirit (08:33)Rescuing the interior from scientific materialism and the development of the four quadrants: interior elements of reality are just as authentic as exteriors (10:31) The importance of a stable ego and the current emphasis on growing up and showing up to avoid spiritual bypassing (13:16)Finding our way in spiritual traditions, cults, and with gurus, and Ken's map to distinguish spiritual teachers' legitimacy, authenticity, and authority (17:16)The timeless nature of Ken's teachings and how they point to the evolution of humanity (26:48)In a cult (and some religious traditions) we are looking for the leader to play our parent, submerging our autonomy (31:15)We are largely at an adolescent stage of development; the difference between adolescent and mature stages of development (33:03)Crucial distinctions between problematic spiritual groups and beneficial spiritual groups (35:49)Roger's summary of Ken's 4 phases, with phase 5 still to come (37:35)Resources & References – Part 2Ken Wilber,

Muxubo Suleymaan, oo ah gabadh farshaxanka hidaha iyo dhaqanka soomaaliyeed ku xeel dheer ayaa Laanta Afsoomaaliga ee Idaacada SBS ka waraysatay sida aqal soomaali loo dhiso. Wax badan oo aqalka dhisidiisa khuseeya kaga bogo wareysigan.

Muhubo Qaymaa - oo caan ku ah farshaxanka hidaha iyo dhaqanka Soomaaliyeed - ayaa aqal Soomaali iyo agabka aqalka sida loo sameeyo kusoo bandhigtay bandhig-farshaxaneed hidaha iyo dhaqanka oo ka dhacay magaalada Melbourne.

Muxubo Qaymaa, oo dumar baraysa sida loo falgiyo (sameeyo) agabka lagu dhiso aqal-Soomaaliga. Aqal dhisan iyo sidoo kale barida falginta agabka lagu dhiso aqalka ayey koox haweena ku baraysay bandhig-farshaxaneed hidaha iyo dhaqanka, oo ka dhacay magaalada Melbourne, Australia.

Mureed Ka Ilm Se Aqal Tak Ka Safar - by Syed Sarfraz Shah

Book 02 Faqeer Rung - Session 11 - Ilm Se Aqal Tak

Aqal Se Aagay Ho Ker Zindagi Guzarna Qasim Ali Shah.

In the early 2000s, Ken Wilber began to publish excerpts from his long-awaited follow-up to Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, tentatively titled "Kosmic Karma and Creativity" or "Sex, Karma, Creativity." In it he was no longer writing, as he said, for the general public; he was writing for serious students of his vision. That version of a promised second volume of the Kosmos Trilogy never appeared, however, and the excerpts (A, B, C, D, and G) have remained our only tantalizing glimpse of what promised to be a postmetaphysical tour de force. In their new Integral Stage series, Reading the Kosmos Trilogy Excerpts, Bruce and Layman will take a deep dive into these five thought-provoking and in many ways revolutionary documents, not only to give them some overdue attention and engagement, but to highlight them also for their prescience and relevance to many of the issues and challenges we confront in the third decade of the 21st Century. We start with Excerpt A: An Integral Age at the Leading Edge, which discusses an emerging integrative tipping point in the culture across multiple fields; a reading of the relational and causal dynamics of the four quadrants through the lenses of Whitehead's prehensive unification and Sheldrake's morphic resonance; revolutionary integral pluralism and an AQAL reframing of Marx; the dialectic of facts and interpretations; and the promise of integral methodological pluralism for promoting transdisciplinarity and deepening holistic vision and practice. A: AN INTEGRAL AGE AT THE LEADING EDGE Excerpt A: An Integral Age at the Leading Edge (kenwilber.com) Please consider supporting The Integral Stage on Patreon to make more of these conversations possible! https://www.patreon.com/theintegralstage

In this episode of the Metamodels series, Bruce and Layman are joined by Ken Wilber, one of the greatest metatheorists of the past century, and a primary inspiration for many of us on this channel. Armed with vision-logic machetes, Bruce and Layman take a trek into the Wilberness to explore the guiding drive or call behind Ken's metatheoretical work for the past 50 years; his thoughts on what he would be working on now if he was just launching his career; his understanding of the difference between sense-making and meaning-making in relation to the meta-crisis; the nature and scope of cognition, and the role of 'relationality' in his AQAL model; how to cultivate communities of integrity, and navigate the culture wars; his perspective on the paranormal and subtle energies; what the Integral community should do to continue thriving in his absence, whenever that day eventually comes; and much more. Ken Wilber, a visionary thinker of inspired genius, is the developer of an integral “theory of everything” that embraces the truths of all the world's great spiritual, scientific, and philosophical traditions. He is the most widely translated academic writer in America, with 25 books translated into some 30 foreign languages. Ken Wilber currently lives in Denver, Colorado, and is still active as a philosopher, author, and teacher, with all of his major publications still in print. Often referred to as the "Einstein of consciousness studies," Ken Wilber is a preeminent scholar of the Integral stage of human development. Ken Wilber is also the founder of the Integral Institute, which is the first organization fully dedicated to advancement and application of the Integral Approach in relation to contemporary global issues. It was formed in collaboration with over 200 scholars and experts, specializing in education, politics, business, medicine, psychology, spirituality, as well as, law and criminal justice. Integral Life website https://integrallife.com/ Please consider supporting The Integral Stage on Patreon to make more of these conversations possible! https://www.patreon.com/theintegralstage

Layman welcomes Andrés Bernal, a lecturer at CUNY Queens College, to discuss Modern Monetary Theory -- how he became interested in it, its major claims, its main proponents and detractors, and what it would take to begin to put it in action. Andrés discusses his work with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; the development and implementation of the Green New Deal; the potential for South American countries to lead the way in monetary and economic reform; the role of AQAL, existential philosophy, and spiritual practice in his activism and the formation of his ideas; and much more. Andrés was born in Bogota, Colombia and immigrated to the United States as a child. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley with a focus on Existentialism, Political Economy, and Social Theory; and a Master of Arts from the University of San Diego's School of Leadership and Educational Sciences with a specialization in group learning and development and organizational leadership under the mentoring of renowned scholar-practitioner Zachary Green of Group Relations International. Andrés has over a decade's worth of experience in youth leadership development and community building and serves as the Director of Political Education for the Young Progressives of America. In the Summer of 2017, Andrés began supporting the Congressional campaign of former colleague Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a policy advisor and organizer. His work facilitated the incorporation of the Federal Jobs Guarantee policy onto the official campaign platform and helped in the vetting process of various academic resources. Alexandria would go on to become the youngest woman in history to be elected to the United States Congress. Currently, Andrés resides in New York City where he is a Lecturer of Urban Studies at CUNY Queens College and Doctoral student at The New School For Public Engagement, Division of Policy Management and Environment. His research focuses on the Green New Deal as a site of political communication and policy analysis. Andrés is a leading voice and proponent associated with the heterodox school of economic thought known as Modern Monetary Theory. He is a Research Fellow at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Missouri Kansas City Department of Economics. https://www.andres-bernal.com/

Aqal badi ya bhains is a commonly used Hindi proverb. In this episode, we attempt explain its meaning and usage. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/angrezdesi/message

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Ek Soch Aqel se phisal gay Mujhe yaad thi k badl gyi  Meri Soch thi ke wo kawab tha Meri zindgi ka Hissab tha Meri Justju ke Bar-aqs thi Meri Muskiloo ka wo Aqass thi Mujhe yaad ho to wo soch thi  jo na yaad ho to guman tha Mujhe bethy bethy Guman Howa Guman Nhi Tha Khuda tha Wo Meri soch nhi thi khuda tha Wo Khudy ke jis ne Zuban di Mujhe Dil Diya Mujhe Jan De Wohi ZUBAN JESY na chla sake Wohi dil jesy na mana sake  Wohi jan jesy na laga sake Kahbi mil to tujko bataye hum  tujhe iss terha se satye hum Tera Ishq tujse cheen ke tujhe  May,, pela ke rulaye hum Tujhe dard do to na Sah Sake Tujhe do zuban to na keh sake  Tujhe Doo makan tu na rah sake Tujhe muskiloo mein ghira ke  mein koi asy rasta nikal do Tere dard ki mein dawa kero  kisi garz ke mein siwa karo Tujhe hir nazr pe ubooor doo  tujhe zindgi ka saoor do Kabhi mil bhi jaye gy gum na ker Hum ger bhi jaye gy gum na ker Tere Ek hone mein shak nhi  Meri niyaatoo ko tu saaf ker  Teri shan mein bhi kami nhi  mere iss kalam ko maaf ker। Written by:- Yousuf Bashir qureshi Recorded by:-Mahesh

High School Director Gabe Johnson gives an introduction to Communicative Action through the lens of the Integral Model. Along the way, he describes the AQAL, one of Integral's tools for navigating perspectives of consciousness.Here's a link to his brief presentation:https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MV8y0Q_mKFusB_jRpgGRoDnq0ZA-jeb9Q5ZvDt8sIm0/edit?usp=sharingSupport the show (http://odysseycommunity.org/giving-to-odyssey/)

This is the beginning of our series of interviews with Ken Wilber. Ken Wilber is the author of over 25 books and the creator of Integral Theory, which has been one of the most influential frameworks for understanding the stages of human development. For that he’s been sometimes called the “Einstein of consciousness studies”. This is a multi-part interview, and we start by talking about Integral Theory from a historical perspective, and the current stage of societal development. Ken also offers his comments of Jordan Peterson’s interpretation of awakening and Greta Thunberg’s climate activism. In later parts, we will be talking about the Metamodernism movement, transition to the so-called 2nd tier stages of human development, as well as shadow work and practices that can help us get to the higher stages of development. Show notes: http://www.futurethinkers.org/110  There is one week left to enter our contest and win 6 months worth of Future Thinkers Premium Membership, as well as 1 month supply of Qualia Nootropic Energy from Neurohacker Collective. Enter today at http://www.futurethinkers.org/giveaway

Entrevista com Lilian Shibata, Mestre em Psicologia Sistêmica pela PUCSP. Desenvolveu carreira clínica e em consultoria em projetos de desenvolvimento de pessoas, e Coaching individual e de grupos. É Sócia fundadora da Aqal, empresa de consultoria alicerçada na abordagem Integral que contempla as dimensões do indivíduo, suas relações, e os ambientes pelos quais transita. Lilian fala sobre a ABORDAGEM INTEGRAL da vida e do indivíduo e sobre a essência desse tipo de aproximação que diz respeito à conexão de movimentos individuais, culturais e sociais de expansão da consciência. Explica como localizar ou acessar os recursos que já dispomos para adotar esta abordagem na prática, e apresenta sua visão sobre como as atividades relacionadas à prática do turismo, podem promover a ampliação dos níveis de consciência. Saiba mais sobre o trabalho da Dra Lilian acessando os links a seguir: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilian-shibata-2ab52129 http://institutointegralbrasil.com.br/ http://www.aqal.com.br

- What is AQAL? - When should it be used - When should it not be used? - How can we best make members feel guided? - What does a perfect session look like?

Show Notes 0.00-1.00 -Intro, Sembang kencang updates 2.00- 13.00 -Arabic dan the problem with English Translation -Ar Rahman and Ar Rahim 13.00-17.00 -Aqal and the horse's rein 17.00- end Belajar Quran sorang2 ni belajar dengan Syaitan?? Salvaging what's left of Ramadhan Ramadhan second phase, hustling dikala orang tidur

It was great to sit down with Acupuncture lecturer Amanda Bedding and discuss acupuncture and what brought her to be practicing this amazing therapy. We talk about integral health models and why the chinese system is so comprehensive, does it hurt, how do acupuncturists decide what to needle, what the difference between acupuncture and dry needling is.It's really great to get a broad idea of what acupuncture can do and how it works best.

We had to essentially relive the entire death all over again which is a few of us didn’t even bother to turn up. Listen to our latest episode where Podcast host Waqas, along with Abdullah Ansari, Arham and the Debuting Mohammad Ansari try and make sense of the disaster which continued in Newlands. That said if you'd like to tell us what a horrible job we've done so far, please do so at our Twitter handle using the link, https://twitter.com/downthegroundtw or send us your disappointments via Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/DownTheGround/ and if you’re into reading and stuff then do check our website at https://www.downtheground.com for latest editorials and player interviews.

After years of deep work and thought, Commander Divine has developed a model for the Unbeatable Mind Operating System. His system is derived partly from the AQAL integrative system that was developed by the philosopher Ken Wilber combined with his knowledge of Eastern philosophy. He stresses the importance of needing to upgrade our "Operating System," to deal with the world as it currently challenges us. Learn how: He focuses on the four circles of Core, Commitments, Competencies and Capacity We generally use our Mana or lower mind and our subject to material cravings because of that. We need to use our Buddhi or higher mind more effectively to focus on more important things. We can develop our internal "witness," so that we can understand ourselves and utilize the OODA loop to make decisions With hard work and training, you can make all the circles of the "Operating System," work for you.

After years of deep work and thought, Commander Divine has developed a model for the Unbeatable Mind Operating System. His system is derived partly from the AQAL integrative system that was developed by the philosopher Ken Wilber combined with his knowledge of Eastern philosophy. He stresses the importance of needing to upgrade our “Operating System,” to deal with the world as it currently challenges us. Learn how: He focuses on the four circles of Core, Commitments, Competencies and Capacity We generally use our Mana or lower mind and our subject to material cravings because of that. We need to use our Buddhi or higher mind more effectively to focus on more important things. We can develop our internal “witness,” so that we can understand ourselves and utilize the OODA loop to make decisions With hard work and training, you can make all the circles of the “Operating System,” work for you.

Episode 37 How do YOU define addiction? The Art of Holding Multiple Perspectives and the Quadrants of the AQAL Map The Price of Certainty “The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.” – Bertrand Russel “Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.” – […]

Episode 28: Going Home Resentments, Challenges, and Opportunities All our relationships are complex and nuanced, but perhaps none more so than our relationships with our family. And unless we learn how to navigate this inherently thorny terrain, we jeopardize our continued sobriety and unfolding evolutionary growth in every dimension of the AQAL map. No matter […]

In this podcast, Gregg and Ron introduce to our listeners Integral theory. Developed by philosopher and author Ken Wilber, Integral Theory is a supertheory or metatheory that attempts to explain how the most time-tested methodologies, and the experiences those methodologies bring forth, fit together in a coherent fashion. Integral Theory’s pragmatic correlate is a series of social practices called Integral Methodological Pluralism (IMP). The personal application of AQAL is called Integral Life Practice (ILP). “AQAL” (which stands for “all quadrants, all levels, all lines, all states, all types”) is often used interchangeably with Integral Theory, the Integral approach, the Integral map, the Integral model, and the Integral Operating System (IOS).

In this episode of Shrink and Pundit, integral psychotherapist Dr Keith Witt and I talk about how intimacy, longevity and happiness are programmed into the human genome, and accessible to all of us. But at a cost. Keith recently participated in an extraordinary conference called Plenitude near Sintra, Portugal. The conference brought together experts from around the world to explore a multidimensional approach to aging well. Join us in our discussion of some surprising and not so surprising data about the current state of longevity research and how it relates to intimacy and happiness from an AQAL perspective.

Episode 10: Introduction to AQAL Stages and Developmental Levels Climbing the Ladder to Recovery and Growth We’ve heard it said that addicts are selfish and care only about themselves. In Integral Recovery, this behavioral tendency can best be understood through the lens of developmental stages. Our exploration of the AQAL map continues today as we […]

On this episode of The Shrink & The Pundit, Jeff and Dr. Keith talk about one of the oldest and most dreaded of human afflictions. They consider not just the suffering, but also the wisdom and growth potential that depression offers. They look at the qualities of modernity that magnify the condition, the mixed blessing of pharmaceuticals and neuroscience, and how depression is experienced and best treated at different stages in the developmental journey. It seems that humanity is paying a heavy price for the “spectacularly tangible” achievements of modernity. The current generation has four times more depression than the last one, and ten times more than the one before that. Part of that story is increased self-awareness and over-diagnosis, but only part of it. Antidepressants are the most widely prescribed drugs in America. There is so much of these drugs in our waste that we're actually poisoning the fish. What's going on here? Generally, if you're sufficiently bummed so that you can't live the life you want to live, you could be depressed. But that includes a huge spectrum, says Dr. Keith. “When therapists talk about depression it's like Eskimos talking about snow. There is a panoply of experiences that fall within the zone of depression.” All mammals have the capacity for it, but humans are particularly vulnerable because of genetic mutations that gave us an awareness of ourselves in the stream of time. The tradeoff for remembering a past and imagining a future is an increased capacity for depression and anxiety. Trusting your feelings only works when you are centered and connected with your higher self. ‘Trust your feelings' does not work when you're anxious, depressed or frightened. ~Dr. Keith Witt In the upper right quadrant of the AQAL maps (the physical body) there are many things that can contribute to depression—low testosterone, hyperthyroid, hypoglycemia and other endocrine imbalances, as well as chronic lack of sleep. The integral view is that there are causes of depression in each quadrant. It's a bio-psycho-social condition, with genes, culture and individual choices all in play. Put any mammal into a situation of learned helplessness and they’ll get depressed, so groups of people with low socio-economic opportunity and a sense of oppression become very susceptible. Another way to depress people is to gradually give them more and more stuff to do so they never feel they have enough time to do what has to be done. Excerpt | Mammals have a natural capacity for depression, humans especially But the number one cause of depression is a sense of isolation. It's an oft-remarked irony of the modern age that as connected as we are, we also experience more loneliness.  With increasing numbers of the population living in urban centers, uprooted from family and culture, there is a more pronounced sense of social isolation. So what to do? One in ten people are diagnosed with major depression at some point. Only about half of them get treatment and the most common treatment is drugs. In the podcast Dr. Keith tells Jeff how the drug companies hijacked the neuroscience back in the seventies to sell us the idea that depression is a biochemical imbalance, which is a partial truth. It was an easy sell, of course, because who wouldn't want to believe that taking a pill could make everything better? Yet, they work barely better than placebos. “In 2007 the drug companies spent 23 billion dollars promoting antidepressants and 16 billion of that were free samples that they spread to doctors around the country,” he tells Jeff. And once you're on them, it's not so easy to get off. Of course, occasionally they do work. And when they work, they work really well. “If you're at a ten on a 1-10 depression scale and they can take you down to an eight so you're functional, that's how they should be used—only for severely depressed people,” says Dr. Keith. An integrally informed psychotherapy is becoming the standard of the 21st century. It includes the possibility of pharmaceuticals but it will look at the issue from all four quadrants, with a developmental perspective, and the realization that different types of people are coming from different states of consciousness. People at different stages of development deal with different flavors of depression and anxiety. The source and the remedy depend upon your worldview. In addition to bio-psycho-social treatments, an integral approach can reframe the issue to include a larger embrace of all the aspects of being human, of being alive in a wonderful and difficult time. “At every stage in development there is a dark night,” says Jeff, “this is well mapped in the mystical traditions … and you're supposed to be depressed, you're supposed to be unhappy. It's part of the path. In some ways we need to be friendlier to that.” In this way an integral perspective not only includes more, it can completely reframe the issue. Dr. Keith says there are many different kinds of depression, but in general, “if we see depression as a sign that the current worldview is breaking down, and that we need to push through to a new worldview, then that completely reorganizes our thinking around the experience. It's not a sign of disease under that circumstance, it's actually a reflection of development.” If your center of gravity is at an integral altitude, and you're depressed, either you're in the process of resolving that depression or you're recognizing that you're neglecting a major personal responsibility. ~Dr. Keith Witt In more developed stages we resolve to turn toward these emotions with more consciousness and more love, while staying connected to others. This is crucial. “People who try to get happy just to get happy are rarely successful,” says Dr. Keith, “people who do their best to engage in meaningful relationships, they get happier.” Find past episodes of The Shrink & The Pundit here, and more about Dr. Keith Witt here.

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi gives an amazing summary of his dissertation relating Ibn Taymiyyah at the Yale University and it makes for an interesting listen as we try to decipher the concepts of Aqal and Naqal in the light of Islam. During the sixth century of Islam,  an Iranian scholar named Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi Rah generated ... Read more

Frank Visser is arguably the chief critic of Ken Wilber, integral theory and the integral community as a whole. Based in Amsterdam, Frank is publisher of the website INTEGRAL WORLD: An Independent Forum for a Critical Discussion of the Integral Philosophy of Ken Wilber which hosts over a thousand essays by mostly dissenting voices in the integral scene. Contrast this to Jeff Salzman and his work with the Daily Evolver. Jeff is an unabashed Wilberian and self-described integral evangelist who “sees the animating power of evolution, inside and out.”  Frank and Jeff spoke by phone before the holidays while Frank was getting ready to head out to an island on the coast of the Netherlands. Visser was once an enthusiastic proponent of Ken Wilber’s AQAL model. In 2003 he wrote the book Ken Wilber: Thought as Passion (SUNY Press), a chronological overview of Ken's life and work through 2003, and has recently released a new online chapter, “Reaching Out to the World”, covering the intervening years. This new writing is far more critical of Ken and the integral movement and has sparked new controversy, most notably a fascinating and fruitful back-and-forth between Frank and Joe Perez, creator of the outstanding Integral Blog. Joe's first volley is entitled “Properly Integral: A Response to Frank Visser's Three Disappointments”, and leads to the rest of the debate. In this podcast Jeff and Frank talk about their differences, which primarily boils down to the question does Spirit exist? Is there a loving intelligence at work in the kosmos? Jeff says “yes”, and Frank says “not so fast.” For Frank, the idea that there is an intelligent force driving evolution, that the substrate of existence is consciousness, or Spirit, is where the line is crossed. To make such claims requires an unhealthy mixing of science and religion. “Wilber is a complicated figure, because he argues for spirit but he includes so much scientific material to back up that case…it's only natural for people who are in the sciences to hold him accountable for how strong is his case.” Of course, the integral project is to integrate the realms of science and mysticism, which have different injunctions and different validity claims, and which have long been estranged. But Frank is skeptical; are we integrating or are we mixing? Probably both, says Jeff, but this is how we move forward. I think you get stronger when you can engage your opposing views, there's no way out of that. Otherwise you create a bubble and you repeat what you already think and that's not very fruitful to me. There came a point when I was stepping over to the dark side, so to speak. I was so immersed in all this critical writing that I took up that role to become a focus for it and that's basically how the website Integral World has received its reputation. I must say that I always am a bit surprised by people who say, well, this is just a junkyard of Wilber bashing or whatever.   ~Frank Visser Part of Frank's skepticism comes from the fact that spirituality is comforting for us. It's always been there to explain things that we can't otherwise understand. When the questions get too difficult, insert “God” and the equation is balanced. And isn't it nice to know that no matter how troubled the world seems, at the end of the day it's all okay because, after all, it's in God's hands. “If you feel there is a kind of spirit behind everything then of course you're safe,” says Frank, “because then it will work out in the end. If you don't have that drive, which is my feeling, things can still progress but you can always fuck it up mightily by depleting the world's resources and so on.” Do we really need a spirit, an animating force in the equation, when the universe is already wonderful and mysterious beyond comprehension? What does it add? We might even understand reality better without it, says Frank. Jeff counters that such a view ignores the interior dimensions of reality, including consciousness itself. The presence of Spirit doesn't negate the scientific view, but to take it away diminishes our experience of life because it is an intrinsic aspect of existence. To see this requires spiritual insight, which is generally the result of a spiritual practice. Science works with the principle that seeing is believing, and spirituality works with the converse: believing is seeing. On a good day I can still relate to the idea of a cosmic evolution and a spirit behind everything and the hope that it gives that things will work out and so on. On a bad day (or a good day, depending on how you look at it) I see different things and I'm not so sure anymore and I'm not necessarily unhappy with that. I'm kind of role-playing, I sometimes think. I play this role of the devil's advocate and I still feel myself connected to the integral field. I don't know where that ends, but it could also be that in a couple of years I'm done with this and I become more positive in my writings or in my expressions. ~Frank Visser Frank and Jeff go on to discuss the idea of free will, politics and current events, the Big Bang, and artificial intelligence. They disagree plenty, but this is how things work themselves out, says Jeff, “If you look at the history of any significant movement…we need to manage the polarities in order to provide the juice for continued evolution.” Frank adds that we should be playful with our positions and not hold them too seriously. “And of course, there's a common ground between two positions where you want to have the best for the earth and humanity and all that lives; even a humanist can consent to that. Then you don't even need to have a spirit behind everything. There's a common ground for people with good intentions.” Listen or download the podcast below, and here's to the juice of continued evolution!

I started the call this week by responding to a couple listeners who think I've gone a little soft on modernity (Orange altitude). The first, David O'Conner from Australia, critiqued me by saying, “you believe a little too much in the evolutionary goodness of Orange without sufficiently taking into account what is not so good about Orange.” Good point. So let me self-correct a bit. Every stage of development comes online bearing a dignity and a disaster. For instance, on the upside Red brings on the juice of individual power; on the downside it gives rise to plunder and patriarchy. Amber civilizes us, but into a conformity that ultimately becomes stultifying. Each stage experiences radical new powers that are used for both good and ill. The powers that emerge in Orange are jaw-dropping in all four quadrants: in the exterior quadrants, science and technology turn dirt into Chevys, create “the indoors” and triple life-spans. Orange becomes world-centric and modern people are able to mobilize resources from all corners of the planet. Money flows, as well as communication and travel. In the interior quadrants, humanity abandons millennia of dogma and superstition in favor of observation and reason.  We wake up to our own individual sovereignty and ascribe equality of status to every citizen under the rule of law (not men). Astonishing! But the interiors and the exteriors do not always come online at the same time. People with modern exteriors often harbor pre-modern interiors that are quite provincial and even ethnocentric. This is a dangerous stage of the game: modern technology in the hands of a pre-modern mentality (think of a 12 year old with a chainsaw), and it is the source of much of the downside of Orange, particularly in its early stages: On the war front, we are able to fight at exponentially higher levels of lethality. Although genocide is old hat to us humans, modernity introduces the ability to industrialize it with gas chambers and atomic bombs. Modern economies do away with the age-old hunt for calories, but deliver this gift by means of industrial mono-farms that create disease and obesity, and meat factories where living beings are treated as units of production. Modernity does away with state-sanctioned slavery, but creates corporate fiefdoms in developing countries with little regard to the culture it is uprooting. Indeed modernity creates a new philosophy to support its new power: social darwinism, an application of the law of “survival of the fittest” to human affairs in which the exploitation (they see it as the “civilization” or “modernization”) of weaker people and cultures is justified as the march of progress. Currently, one of the most threatening downsides of our modernizing world is its global environmental impact. People have always exploited their environments to the degree that they were able. But you can only do so much damage with a digging stick or a team of horses. Bring on technology and you suddenly have hundreds and thousands of horsepower at your disposal stripping down forests, dragging mile-long fishing nets, pumping rivers dry and belching poison into the air. Modernists are able to see and rectify environmental degradation in their local environments, but they don't see or have the will to rectify it on the global scale … until they do. Feeling into the larger global commons defines movement into the next stage: post-modernity (Green altitude). At this stage of consciousness we see that although any environmental violation may be local the larger effect is global: ocean acidification and climate change as examples.  Because Green sees the finiteness of the planet system its orienting principle becomes sustainability, not growth (which is Orange's orienting principle) and post-modernism sets out to right the wrongs of modernity. And the culture wars ensue in all their gory glory. One of the leading warriors against pernicious modernity is Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. She was recommended to me by listener Scott Bogart of Alberta, Canada as a tonic against over-valorizing modernity. Klein's thesis is that capitalism grows by finding (or creating) social disaster then rebuilding things in an image more to their liking. In her introduction she writes, “I am writing a book about shock. About how countries are shocked—by wars, terror attacks, coups d'état and natural disasters. And then how they are shocked again—by corporations and politicians who exploit the fear and disorientation of this first shock to push through economic shock therapy. And then how people who dare to resist these shock politics are, if necessary, shocked for a third time—by police, soldiers and prison interrogators.” So far so good, and indeed all of this has happened in different proportions throughout the world as modernity has come online. But while I don't disagree with most of her facts, I want to point out a couple things I think she misses: The modern world that is created by “disaster capitalism” is usually better than the one that was washed away. I'll address Klein's signature Shock Doctrine example, the one she starts with and uses to lay out her case against disaster capitalism. It is the story of the New Orleans school system after Hurricane Katrina ten years ago. The public schools were in ruins and thus education privateers, led by economist Milton Friedman, saw it as a chance to come in and install charter schools, a public/private hybrid. She writes: Milton Friedman, grand guru of the movement for unfettered capitalism and the man credited with writing the rulebook for the contemporary, hypermobile global economy. Ninety-three years old and in failing health, “Uncle Miltie,” as he was known to his followers, nonetheless found the strength to write an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal three months after the levees broke. “Most New Orleans schools are in ruins,” Friedman observed, “as are the homes of the children who have attended them. The children are now scattered all over the country. This is a tragedy. It is also an opportunity to radically reform the education system. Friedman's radical idea was that instead of spending a portion of the billions of dollars in reconstruction money on rebuilding and improving New Orleans' existing public school system, the government should provide families with vouchers, which they could spend at private institutions, many run at a profit, that would be subsidized by the state. It was crucial, Friedman wrote, that this fundamental change not be a stopgap but rather “a permanent reform. And that's what happened. She goes on, apparently unaware of the positive case she is making for the privateers: In sharp contrast to the glacial pace with which the levees were repaired and the electricity grid was brought back online, the auctioning off of New Orleans' school system took place with military speed and precision. Within nineteen months, with most of the city's poor residents still in exile, New Orleans' public school system had been almost completely replaced by privately run charter schools. Nobody ever said capitalism wasn't efficient! Klein wrote her account of the New Orleans school overhaul shortly after it begun.  Seven years later we have more understanding of how New Orleans is handling the shock. Last week the fair-minded Christian Science Monitor published a major article on the New Orleans school system. They report that indeed nine in ten students today attend charter schools in New Orleans, the highest percentage in the country: Gone is a traditional central district office that assigns students to schools, hires and promotes teachers in negotiation with a union, and controls everything from budgets to textbooks. Instead, families here choose among charter schools citywide that – in exchange for their autonomy – have to meet certain benchmarks in order to have their charters renewed. The results? Test scores and graduation rates have climbed steadily. And while there are fewer public school students than before the storm – 43,000, down from 65,000 – the demographics are similar: 90 percent African-American (compared with 94 percent pre-Katrina) and 82 percent low-income (up from 77 percent). A surge of extra resources has helped: In 2010-11, for instance, per-pupil spending in New Orleans was about $13,000, compared with just under $11,000 statewide. So it's pretty promising so far, and the article goes on to point out how other communities, especially urban districts with chronically under-performing schools, are using New Orleans as an example to emulate. Obama's education department is supporting the movement with large, high-profile grants in several test cities. I wonder how many New Orleaners, including the most disadvantaged, would choose to go back to the pre-Katrina system that existed before their exploitation by Milton Friedman and his ilk. Which brings me to another aspect of “disaster capitalism” that is surprising and certainly missed by Naomi Klein: in most cases, the majority of people affected by it support it.   Let's take another key example Klein uses to illuminate The Shock Doctrine, the rise of the oligarchs in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. Klein tells of how these feudal strong men exploited the chaos of the disintegration of the state to build vast business empires and fortunes. This is undoubtedly true, and the alpha oligarch is Vladimir Putin himself, who has wealth estimated at 40 billion dollars stashed around the world. So how do the Russians feel about that?  An American president would love to be so popular with his people. Putin's approval ratings hover around 65 – 70% (Obama is at 42%). 69% back his incursion into Ukraine. Economic optimism in Russia is over 50%; in America it's currently at 29%. How does this happen? Ken Wilber's AQAL altitudes of development help us understand.  Most Russians, although well educated and cultured, are still largely traditional (Amber altitudes) in their view of state power. They are used to autocrats running things; that's how it always is in Amber. They are willing to tolerate leaders skimming some cream off the top as long as the economy is growing. In Russia it is, and under Putin economic growth has been reasonably strong and steady. People at these altitudes will also tolerate some diminishment of personal freedom as long as the streets are safe, and in today's Russia they are. So Putin has the peoples' support, and as Moscow integralist Victor Shiryaev pointed out in my interview with him a couple weeks ago, many Russians refer to the pre-Putin 1990's, under the regime of Boris Yeltsin, as “the dark age.” In the West, particularly the US, we have our own strata of population with Amber interiors, the social conservatives and nationalistic hawks, and they too love tough-guy leaders. A circumspect and nuanced leader like Obama actually leaves them feeling insecure and is the source of much of their reflexive antipathy towards him. Now of course, from a more developed Green perspective — where Naomi Klein is living — it is the authoritarian leader who becomes scary and repulsive. Welcome to evolutionary progress! It is this evolution that will bring on the end of Putinism, if not Putin himself, over the long run. We just don't know how long the run is. Evolution, while beautiful, is not pretty and we have to remember that we too have had our history with crony capitalism and we're not done yet.  Evolving Russia will find its way too. All in all, what limits the value of The Shock Doctrine to me is that it is a Green critique of Orange. In Klein's view disaster capitalists are the bad guys who exploit the innocent victims who just want to get back to their old way of life. I see it differently: that disasters are always an opportunity for radically better structures to be built, and this is true for life at any scale. At a macro scale, for instance, the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs also made room for great arising of mammals. When our house burns down we strive to build a better one. At the personal level, a divorce or job loss may be a catalyst for a much better life. The struggle between Orange and Green is a fruitful one, and we Integral practitioners want to appreciate both views of the world, as we find them in other people and as we find them struggling in our own minds. In so doing we have a better chance of bringing the gifts of each worldview to the project of building a better world. WHAT TO MAKE OF YOU, MILLENNIALS? I ended the call with a look at a major Pew study this week that seeks to reveal the soul of American Millennials, our youngest adult generation, ages 18 – 33. The upshot of the research? It turns out the youngsters are less supportive of institutions like religions, political parties, even marriage and career — and more tuned into their own networks of people and organizations, networks which are much larger than those of previous generations. They are more multicultural and less patriotic than any generation in history. These changes represent welcome evolutionary movement into world-centrism, which is less dangerous and more fertile than nation-centrism. One striking irony: Millennials are at the same time the first generation to be economically less well off than the previous generation at the same age … and the most optimistic! So human race, welcome to your future! As an evolutionary I am hooked on studying what is emergent, and am so happy to encounter this new generation, both through the Pew study and directly through my friendships with the the Millennials I know. A couple smart millennial listeners spoke up on the call, and I will be interviewing more as the world turns. Which bring me to one final quality of the Millennials that impresses me: they are actually willing to talk with the old folks. That's more than I can say for us don't-trust-anyone-over-thirty boomers at their age. Ah well, we're all just right on schedule!

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