Podcasts about integral wisdom

Join me in conversation with Dr. Marc Gafni, one of the most inspiring, honest, and powerful spiritual teachers I know. We dive deep into the nature of our humanity and the crisis we are in, with the risk to Humanity as a whole and the risk to Our Humanity. Sit with us as we contemplate what we must do to cross over to the Right side, the One side. The side of Love. To the side of the Goddess. The side of She. Official Bio: Dr. Marc Gafni is a visionary thinker, social activist and passionate philosopher.  He is known for his “source code teachings”, including Unique Self theory and the Five Selves, the Amorous Cosmos, A Politics of Evolutionary Love, A Return to Eros and Digital Intimacy. Learn more about Dr. Marc Gafni's work at ⁠⁠https://www.marcgafni.com/⁠⁠.  Center for Integral Wisdom http://www.centerforintegralwisdom.org Office for the Future https://www.officeforthefuture.com/en "First Principles and First Values. Forty-Two Propositions on CosmoErotic Humanism, the Meta-Crisis, and the World to Come," is available world wide this week: Order your copy in America/Canada: https://amplifypublishinggroup.com/product/nonfiction/politics-and-current-affairs/first-principles-and-first-values/ Order your copy worldwide: https://www.amazon.com/First-Principles-Values-Propositions-Cosmoerotic/dp/B0CS85WYVX Follow and connect with Dr. Gafni: Instagram ⁠⁠YouTube ⁠⁠Facebook TikTok⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Join the 'Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies.' Register here for FREE: http://www.onemountainmanypaths.org A Return to Eros (Book) Weekly Broadcast with Dr. Marc Gafni: ⁠⁠https://www.onemountainmanypaths.org/⁠⁠ A podcast with Dr. Gafni, his partner Dr. Kristina Kincaid and Aubrey Marcus entitled Healing the Wounds of Culture. https://youtu.be/1LKnwzJzwEg ... Get my free "Sacred Union: The Dark Goddess & The Divine Masculine Desire Masterclass" here: www.sashalipskaia.com/divine-feminine-desire Are you called to Sacred Union with the Divine inside yourself in your healing and awakening journey? For 1:1 and custom support inquiries, Book a Clarity Call with me: Bit.ly/Deepshift   If you are a woman on a mission to embody your destiny, check out my upcoming "Sacred Union, Love, and Desire" group immersion program: www.sashalipskaia.com/darkgoddessdesire     Thank you for being part of this sacred space with me.   For 1:1 and custom support inquiries, Book a Clarity Call with me: Bit.ly/Deepshift   Free resources: Get your free embodied sexual and intuitive energy manifestation practice: www.sashalipskaia.com/manifest Get your free heart-opening meditations and sign up for more spiritual, intuitive mindset guidance from me at www.sashalipskaia.com/getclear If you are a woman on a mission to Release your chains, Recover your truth, Love yourself in the light + the dark of your heart's desires, and unleash your Divine Feminine power, check out my upcoming "Sacred Union, Love, and Desire" group immersion program: www.sashalipskaia.com/darkgoddessdesire For 1:1 and custom support inquiries, Book a Clarity Call with me: Bit.ly/Deepshift ---------------  Connect with me: www.sashalipskaia.com   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/sashalipskaia   FB: https://www.facebook.com/sashalipskaiacoach   IG: https://www.instagram.com/sashalipskaia   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sashalipskaia About your host: Sasha Lipskaia, MA, is an intuitive, tantric embodiment guide, spiritual coach, and sacred intimacy mentor to those on the awakening path, spiritual entrepreneurs, light workers, and devotional leaders who want to embody their higher purpose and serve God by living and creating a life from the truth of their hearts.    ***Disclaimer*** This episode is meant for informational and entertainment purposes only and is not to be taken or used as medical advice. As a certified mindset coach and intuitive guide, I do not offer professional psychotherapeutic or medical advice or treatment. If you need mental or physical health support, please seek the help of a trained psychotherapist and physician.

Dr. Marc Gafni has been described as a world philosopher, integrating wisdom from across multiple disciplines into what he has called a New Story of Value. He is the president of the Center for the Integral Wisdom, which he co-founded with Ken Wilber. Marc has also authored twelve books including Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment. Today we talk about his latest book First Principles and First Values.Resources:* Amazon page for First Principles and First Values* Download Chapters 1-5 of First Principles First Values* Marc's Socials: Instagram | Twitter | Facebook This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit themetagame.substack.com

We're living in a time where increasingly we see what's happening in the world around us and have to wonder how, or even if, we can find deep truth in the age of the “deep fake”. Artificial intelligence can distort or manipulate many forms of data and information we take in through our physical senses. Sights, sounds and “facts” on a page can all be faked. How then do we with confidence make sense and meaning in a life when even what we see with our own eyes may not be true?There are clues in the name itself: “artificial” intelligence. What about natural intelligence? We know from Portals conversations that the human is designed with the capability to connect with larger, universal sources of intelligence, creativity and inspiration, beyond the reach of even the most powerful AI.It's a deep truth explored throughout history by spiritual teachers, shamans and wise men and women attuned to the finer, energetic, subtle realms as a living reality. Sources of profound revelation and learning that can transform lives and communities, and reconnect the human to its natural birthright.In this conversation we are once again fortunate to have as our guide Layman Pascal, a leader in integral thinking and teaching, and a prominent voice on the Integral Stage YouTube channel and podcast. He joins Aviv Shahar for part two of their conversation, begun with Protecting the Sacred.Among their ponders:AI is going to touch everyone and every type of reality, with inevitable distressing effects, including a reduction of cognitive capacities, and an increasing distrust in all information sources.How do we bring the spiritual and sociological closer together? Integrate a life of deep spiritual practice, freed from dogmatic interpretations, with an emerging cultural and community experience?How do we balance the notion of God with our current notion of reality? Or of creating healthier existing religious structures versus cultivating new emergent religion-like experiences?A big-picture model of deep history shouldn't accept mainstream neo-liberal media or academic consensus as reality, but be open to surprises and anomalies that could reverse consensus going forward.We don't want to be naive utopians, but also not nihilistic, pessimistic, or to give up. Let's invest our imagination, heart, and actions in trying to figure out what a better world actually looks like.Just because someone can enter or produce a state — an unusual chemical, energetic, or psychological condition — doesn't mean they have an established stage of development.This conversation is part of the continuing Portals discovery into what is emerging on the frontiers of human experience in this time of profound change. Information about upcoming special events can be found on the Events page. Also visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel. TWEETABLE QUOTES “I think up to that point, what I'm mostly thinking about is something vaguely like enlightenment. Right? So that I'm undertaking experiences very deliberately, because I want to transform my consciousness.” (Layman) “One of the most prominent ways that people have sort of subtle experiences in the modern world is with entities that they feel are extraterrestrial, right? And the work of Jacques Vallee in the 1970s did a lot of under laboring to support the idea that in a previous time period, you might have interpreted these as elves or angels or something like that.” (Layman)“A lot of these communities are centered around meta models, by which we mean attempts to do transdisciplinary philosophical integrations that take many different models and many different disciplines and many different types of perspective taking into account coherently.” (Layman)“There's a phrase I used in that series which was 'to naturalize the sacred and to sacralize the natural'. And I think this goes along with trying to bring the rational and the intuitive together. So you want to say, we embrace a natural science universe, not a reductive natural science universe, but an expanded natural science universe, and at the same time, it's only relevant to us if it can produce the cultural meaning and the individual transformation that's necessary for a human life.” (Layman)“Is it better for you to treat something like a person or not? You can't objectively have perfect knowledge of whether you're dealing with something that's sentient or not. But is it actually better for you to respect everything you're dealing with as if it was another sentient being? And that makes a lot of spiritual and emotional sense. Or is that the gateway to a path of delusion where we lose important distinctions, and we end up over attributing capacity and depth to things that don't have them and lead our society further down a pathway of simulation and meaninglessness?” (Layman) RESOURCES MENTIONED Portals of Perception WebsiteAviv's LinkedIn Aviv's TwitterAviv's WebsiteA Conversation with Layman Pascal Part 2 - Pursuing Integral Wisdom

Wellness + Wisdom | Episode 622 What does it take to become a fully integrated person? Scott Jackson, joins Josh Trent on the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 622, to share about his journey of healing the feminine wound, how he has embodied integral wisdom, what he learned from meditating on death, and why we all need to choose outrageous love to create a change in the world. "You could wake up spiritually, but still be highly underdeveloped emotionally and psychologically. If you're just focused on spirituality as your path for development, then you're missing a huge part of who you are that must be developed. The thing that you're working towards is already ever-present right now and always has been. That which you want to become is already who you are." - Scott Jackson ❄️ Biohack Your Mind & Body with Plunge Ice Baths! Save $150 on your PLUNGE order with code "WELLNESSFORCE" As seen on Shark Tank, Plunge's revolutionary Cold Plunge uses powerful cooling, filtration, and sanitation to give you cold, clean water whenever you want it, making it far superior to an ice bath or chest freezer. ☀️ Live Life Well from Sunrise to Sunset Save 20% with code "WELLNESSFORCE" on everyone's favorite Superfoods brand, ORGANIFI, including their Sunrise to Sunset Bundle and their Women's Power Stack that includes HARMONY + GLOW for true hormonal balance and great health radiating through your beautiful skin. Click HERE to order your Organifi today.

In this new mini-series, Layman Pascal talks with Marc Gafni about an emerging model he is developing together with Zak Stein and others, which they call Cosmo-Erotic Humanism. For episode one, Layman and Marc discuss the origins of this project, and Marc's work on exploring and unfolding a model of Certainty and Uncertainty for addressing the meaning crisis, grounding moral value, and wrestling with perennial theodicies. Dr. Marc Gafni is a visionary thinker, social activist, passionate philosopher, and author of ten books. He is the co-founder of The Center for Integral Wisdom, and a rabbinic lineage holder in Bible, Talmud, and Kabbalah. He self-describes as a “citizen” of both Integral World Spirituality and classical Hebrew practice. He has been an editor of the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice on issues of Integral spirituality and a faculty member of J.F.K. University. In 2014, Dr. Gafni co-initiated the Success 3.0 Summit and Rise Up movie, with John Mackey and Kate Maloney whose method and movement is to bring together key thought leaders and change-agents to collaboratively evolve a bold new Integral vision of Success, rooted in the entrepreneurial values of Wake Up, Grow Up, Show Up, and Evolutionary Love. Professional Website https://www.marcgafni.com/ The Center for Integral Wisdom https://centerforintegralwisdom.org/ Please consider supporting The Integral Stage on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/theintegralstage

In this episode, I speak with Zachary Stein. Zak has published two books: Social Justice and Educational Measurement, which traces the history of standardized testing and its ethical implications, and Education in a Time Between Worlds, which grapples with the relations between schooling and technology more broadly. Zak is a co-founder of The Consilience Project, which is dedicated to improving public sensemaking and building a movement to radically upgrade digital media landscapes. He is a scholar at the Ronin Institute, where he researches the relations between education, human development, and the evolution of civilizations, and Zak serves as Co-President and Academic Director of the activist think-tank at the Center for Integral Wisdom, where he writes and teaches at the edges of integral meta-theory. We discuss:

You've heard Paul talk a lot about the work of Ken Wilber and how it has influenced his life and career as a teacher and healer. Dr. Keith Witt returns the podcast to discuss the state of American life in the post COVID-19 era and how we can begin to heal and grow by embracing more integrative approaches inspired by Wilber and others in this mindful Living 4D conversation.Learn more about Keith's work at his website where you can enroll in his FREE Art and Science of Relationships course which includes a copy of his book, The Attuned Family, and 12 weeks of videos full of spiritual, personal and relationship tips for a great life.Show NotesAmerican industry keeps people just healthy enough to be dependent on them. (9:52)Human behavior falls into two categories: Solutions or drama. (14:57)The dialectic of progress. (22:37)Everyone has this superpower. (30:02)A volatile mix of politics, emotional challenges and personality disorders. (41:11)Dos and don'ts with guns. (55:37)The lack of cognitive dissonance creates so much unnecessary suffering. (1:05:07)Do you learn through trauma or resilience? (1:16:18)How shadow work helps at an individual, unconscious level. (1:28:36)Authoritative versus authoritarian parenting. (1:47:06)Do kids need a little shame in their lives? (1:53:04)Recognizing your child's inner wisdom. (2:02:03)Life inside the Four Quadrants, according to Ken Wilber. (2:06:50)The value of working with spirit guides. (2:19:11)A preview of Keith's next book. (2:23:53)Do these mindfulness practices along with Keith. (2:30:46)Resources The work of Suzanne Cook-Grueter, Robert Kagan, Alex Grey and Dr. Dan SiegelMattias Desmet discusses mass-formation psychosis on YouTubeLisa Miller discusses her book The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life on YouTubeBeena Sharma describes Polarity Wisdom on YouTubeThe Gift of Shame by Dr. Keith WittMore resources for this episode are available on our website. Thanks to our awesome sponsors: CHEK Academy, Cymbiotika (save 15 percent on your purchase by using the code CHEK15 at checkout), Organifi (save 20 percent on your purchase by using the code CHEK20 at checkout), Paleovalley (save 15 percent on your purchase by using the code chek15 at checkout) and BiOptimizers (save an extra 10 percent on your purchase by using the code PAUL10 at checkout).We may earn commissions from qualifying purchases using affiliate links.

Taking a broader view of personality that includes more abstract layers of selfhood means navigating a more complex perspective on development. In this conversation with writer and futurist Zak Stein we explore the challenge of our time in metabolizing tragedy and complexity, the post-tragic and post-traumatic growth, the difference between ensoulment and transcendence growth, and three streams of personal development and how they can impact a coaching approach. Zachary Stein Ed.D is a writer, educator and futurist whose work focuses on social justice and education through the lenses of developmental psychology and integral metatheories. During his studies he co-founded a research oriented non-profit - Lectica - that studies reforming large-scale standardized testing. Zak has published in a wide range of outlets and his most recent book is entitled “Education in a Time Between Worlds”. He is the Academic Director of the activist think-tank at the Center for Integral Wisdom, as well as Core Faculty at Meridian University. Visit coachesrising.com to see our acclaimed online coach trainings and other offerings.

I'm really thrilled to be bringing you this philosophical deep dive with truly I think one of the most radical and thoughtful thinkers of our generation.Dr. Zachary Stein is a co-founder of The Consilience Project—which publishes novel research and explores questions surrounding global risk mitigation and existential threats facing humanity. He is the Academic Director Center for Integral Wisdom and the author of 'Education in a Time Between Worlds' – which I've personally gifted myself to many friends and shifted how I think about the future of schooling.In this conversation, we cover some truly fascinating territory, because of his multi-disciplinary approach Zak has a truly unique perspective on some of the biggest questions of our time.To give you a sense of what to expect in this conversation:

For episode 10 of the LOVE THE SYSTEM series, Layman is joined by Dr. Marc Gafni, the co-founder of the Center for Integral Wisdom and the author of multiple books and essays on integrative spirituality and spiritual activism. Marc presents his vision of what a planetary politics could and should be, and together they explore the question of AI and the enormous challenges manipulative algorithms pose not only to informed voting, but to sensemaking in general; the emergence of techno-feudalism; the problems with voting protocols rooted in rivalrous dynamics, and the possibilities for liquid democracy or a synergistic democracy; the viability and role of nation states in a globally interconnected and interdependent society; the dynamics of intimacy, and the importance of shared first principles and a shared story; and much more. Dr. Marc Gafni is a visionary thinker, social activist, passionate philosopher, and author of ten books. He is the co-founder of The Center for Integral Wisdom, and a rabbinic lineage holder in Bible, Talmud, and Kabbalah. He self-describes as a “citizen” of both Integral World Spirituality and classical Hebrew practice. He has been an editor of the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice on issues of Integral spirituality and a faculty member of J.F.K. University. In 2014, Dr. Gafni co-initiated the Success 3.0 Summit and Rise Up movie, with John Mackey and Kate Maloney whose method and movement is to bring together key thought leaders and change-agents to collaboratively evolve a bold new Integral vision of Success, rooted in the entrepreneurial values of Wake Up, Grow Up, Show Up, and Evolutionary Love. Professional Website https://www.marcgafni.com/ The Center for Integral Wisdom https://centerforintegralwisdom.org/ Please consider supporting The Integral Stage on Patreon to make more of these conversations possible! https://www.patreon.com/theintegralstage

Obsessed with peak performance in the body, Lisa Witter then progressed into human potential for the mind, and finally moved into the psycho-spiritual realms to maximize evolutionary growth. She worked alongside luminaries like Barbara Max Hubbard and served on the board of directors for the Foundation for Conscious Evolution and the Center for Integral Wisdom. Now Lisa helps people break free of the anxiety, stress, worry and overwhelm caused by repeating the same mistakes over and over with her Karma Clearing Process™. Watch this interview for keen insights into karma and how to clear it. FREE GIFT: Reshape Your Destiny Masterclass https://www.karmic-warrior.com/ More About Lisa Witter As a psycho-spiritual counselor and coach, I've spent over 20 years working with spiritually-minded, high performing, professional women (and men) who want to break free of the anxiety, stress, worry and overwhelm caused by repeating the same mistakes over and over. Most of my clients have already invested in therapy, coaching, personal and spiritual growth programs but have hit a plateau and can't seem to break through to the ‘next level' no matter what they try. Using my Karma Clearing Process™ I help my clients to manage all the responsibilities of their personal and professional lives with inner-calm, focus and emotional resilience and to live a life of meaning, purpose and deep gratification. I have been privileged to work side-by-side with some of today's most influential luminaries and thought leaders in evolutionary spirituality, most notably the late Barbara Marx Hubbard. I have also served on the board of directors for the Foundation for Conscious Evolution and the Center for Integral Wisdom along with people like Ken Wilbur, Sally Kempton, John Gray and Warren Farrell. I am currently a member of the Conscious Leadership Guild, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing conscious leadership into organizations, communities and the world at large, and a member of the Association for Spiritual Integrity dedicated to ethical practice and transforming the paradigm of spiritual leadership. On the personal side of things… I'm a seriously devoted meditation and yoga practitioner, an initiate in the linage of Kriya Yoga and a disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda. I'm blessed to have a wonderful and loving husband and a beautiful daughter who is in college. Connect with Lisa: Website: https://www.karmic-warrior.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lengles3 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lisaengles/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lisaengles LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisaengles/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LisaEngles   YOUR GUIDE TO SOUL NECTAR – KERRI HUMMINGBIRD SAMI I love mentoring women to rewrite the story of their lives through inner transformation, connection to essence, remembrance of purpose, and realignment to authenticity and truth. If you don't want to settle for anything less than a life of passion and purpose, book a Discovery Call and let's talk! Schedule today! http://bit.ly/2CpFHFZ FREE GIFT: The Love Mastery Game, an oracle for revealing your soul's curriculum in every day challenges. http://www.kerrihummingbird.com/play Do you lack the confidence to trust yourself and go for what you want? When you take actions towards your dreams, does self-doubt infect your certainty? Do you find yourself distracting and numbing while also feeling something is missing inside? Do you feel disrespected and like your wisdom is being dismissed? Do you have a hard time asking for what you need? You may benefit from healing the Mother Wound and reconnecting with the Divine Mother for love. Find out more at www.motherwoundbook.com You may be a member of The Second Wave, here to uplift human consciousness from the inside out by healing patterns of suffering that run through your ancestry. Find out about “The Second Wave: Transcending the Huma...

Obsessed with peak performance in the body, Lisa Witter then progressed into human potential for the mind, and finally moved into the psycho-spiritual realms to maximize evolutionary growth. She worked alongside luminaries like Barbara Max Hubbard and served on the board of directors for the Foundation for Conscious Evolution and the Center for Integral Wisdom. […]

Dr Zak Stein is a writer, futurist, and transformative educator working to bring a greater sense of justice and sanity to education. He is also a founding member of The Consilience Project, aimed at improving public sensemaking and dialogue. Zak was educated at Hampshire College and received his PhD from Harvard University, where he studied educational neuroscience, human development, and the philosophy of education. While at Harvard, he also co-founded Lectica, a non-profit organization dedicated to redesigning standardized testing infrastructures. His most recent book, Education in a Time Between Worlds, grapples with the dangers posed by a profound learning and capacity deficit in a time of civilization-wide transformation. From climate change to politics, agriculture to economics, Zak argues that the world we have known is rapidly disappearing and it is now an existential imperative that we transform education systems if we are to survive the planetary crises currently underway. Planetary wellbeing ultimately depends upon schools, technology and society being re-envisioned toward empowering the world's youngest citizens to comprehend and respond appropriately to global challenges of unprecedented size and scope. Zak currently serves as the academic director for the Center for Integral Wisdom, and offers human development and learning science consultations to schools, organizations, and educational technology companies. For more information about The Consilience Project at https://consilienceproject.org/ Zak has published two books: Social Justice and Educational Measurement: http://www.zakstein.org/social-justice-and-educational-measurement-book-release-announcement/ Education in a Time Between Worlds: http://www.zakstein.org/education-in-a-time-between-worlds-book-release/ A range of other publications, including his essay ‘If education is not the answer you are asking the wrong question', are available here: http://www.zakstein.org/publications/

In this pivotal moment in humanity’s history, where the old structures are falling apart, how do we orient ourselves? What guidance is available to us, and how can we help people return to an inner source of wisdom? In this conversation with educator and futurist Zak Stein we explore the deeper layers of collapse that are occurring, the socialisation and destruction of civil communication engendered by social media and how we need to adopt a different myth to lead us forward. Zachary Stein Ed.D is a writer, educator and futurist whose work focuses on social justice and education through the lenses of developmental psychology and integral metatheories. During his studies he co-founded a research oriented non-profit - Lectica - that studies reforming large-scale standardized testing. Zak has published in a wide range of outlets and his most recent book is entitled “Education in a Time Between Worlds”. He is the Academic Director of the activist think-tank at the Center for Integral Wisdom, as well as Core Faculty at Meridian University.

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Dr. Zak is a fucking saint. He's one of my biggest influences right now, which makes this episode truly special for me. He's an educational philosopher and author of ‘Education in a Time Between Worlds’ - a book that lays out how our education system went wrong, what wrong looks like today, what right might look like in the future and how we go about getting it right. It's an incredible book that has been so helpful and insightful lately. It's also somewhat prophetic, he lays out the essence of the metacrisis more than a year before covid brought the reality to a bigger audience’s doorstep. He is the Head of Academics at The Center for Integral Wisdom. His latest article, Covid19; A War Broke Out in Heaven went viral with its gentle but powerful proposition that we're in a battle over the future of human nature that is taking place in each of our hearts. A battle between the angel and devil that sits on each of our shoulders. In this episode, we talk about the role of intellectual mentorship, about fear of authoritarianism, about 'a time between worlds' aka the meta crisis that we're in, about the politicization of science, about the problems and history of IQ tests and standardized testing in general, about how fucked up our education system is, and how much more fucked ADHD diagnosis and biomedical intervention is, aka adderall and ritalin. Zak is a hero and he's fighting for the lives and experiences of children and I love him for it. Please listen to this episode. Here's Zak's article and a link to his book. http://www.whatisemerging.com/opinions/covid-19-a-war-broke-out-in-heaven https://www.amazon.com/Education-Time-Between-Worlds-Technology/dp/0986282677?fbclid=IwAR3YTyLEAwvR9-p4XS9y2tWtP5XhBu3pjoX4ptE60AXr0EeLnWOPootr0YU Please support this podcast by subscribing, sharing and reviewing. Also donate at www.paypal.me/ariintheair Thanks so much to those of you who have donated! Means a ton to me. And thanks to Dr. Zak Stein, for being a person worthy of teacherly authority and for standing up for the children of the world, the ones both growing up now, and the ones still living in the hearts of adults.

In today’s episode, I’m joined by Dr. Zachary Stein. Zak is difficult to introduce because he’s so wide-ranging. He works alongside philosophers Ken Wilber and Marc Gafni at the Center for Integral Wisdom, bringing the heart of integral theory into the discussion of 21st century possibilities. He did his graduate education at Harvard, studying education and human development, and most of his work focuses on education, broadly conceived as the kind of ‘human making forces’ within a society.  His latest book - Education in a Time Between Worlds - is insane. It focuses on what education might become as we transition from what the world was and has been, into what it might become if we decide to value educational abundance and human development as core cultural ideals. And it’s scholarly, which means as far out as his proposals and imaginings go, they’re rigorously researched and supported. I wanted to speak to him specifically about a chapter titled The 13 Social Miracles. These are what Zak calls practices in ‘design fiction’, or concrete utopian theorizing. Which is to say, if we imagine the absolute best case scenario for human culture over the next 50 years, what are the things that need to happen? And unlike so many philosophers, especially those who are primarily interested in consciousness, Zak gets really political. He offers policies, and global projects, and laws, concrete things that would set the cultural conditions for the flourishing of a more wholesome, complex, and human kind of consciousness.  

 Educational Testing, Social Justice, Money & LabelsWe cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.~ Albert Einstein Dr. Zak Stein - Dr. Stein's educational testing interests focus on the interface between social justice and education, including specializations in developmental psychology and ethics. He studied philosophy and religion at Hampshire College, and then educational neuroscience, human development, and his doctorate in philosophy of education at Harvard University. While a student at Harvard, he co-founded what would become http://lectica.org (Lectica, Inc.), a non-profit dedicated to the research-based, justice-oriented reform of large-scale standardized educational testing in K-12, higher education, and business. He writes on a broad range of topics including the philosophy of learning, educational technology, and the fundamental theory of education translated to applications for everyday life. Neuroscientifically validated details also matter for educational testing. Current testing requirements, including IQ, don't adequately cover mind complexity. Listen and comment. Consider: should the term for current standards of educational testing results and their subsequent applications with students more accurately be characterized by the term social injustice? Educational Testing EvolvesTesting doesn't adequately cover mind complexity. Imprecise results create myriads of challenges for everyone concerned - from students to teachers to school administrators and parents. Currently, Dr. Stein serves as Chair of the Education Program at http://meridianuniversity.edu (Meridian University), and as Academic Director of the activist think-tank at the http://centerforintegralwisdom.org (Center for Integral Wisdom). Ed Note: Daniel Schmachtenberger [http://corebrainjournal.com/084 (http://corebrainjournal.com/084)], our respected mutual colleague at http://neurohacker.com/ref/31/ (Neurohacker), is friends with and referred Zak. Bottom line: our system of education-labels in the context of new measurements, new data and evolved mind considerations is woefully inadequate and potentially damaging to the lives of those mislabeled. This discussion is critical, indeed absolutely essential, dare I say mandatory, for anyone involved with any educational process. Feel free to weigh in below with a comment. Connect With Dr. Stein To Encourage Systemic Evolution"I am available for speaking engagements on a variety of topics, including Mind, Brain, and Education, Developmental Psychology, Human Development, Philosophy of Education, Social Justice, Educational Psychopharmacology, Educational Testing, and Integral Meta-Theory. I've been an invited speaker and workshop leader at venues such as Harvard University, The National Security Agency, Integral Institute, Buckingham Browne & Nichols, Amherst College, and a variety of academic conferences. At times I also offer consulting services to schools and other educational institutions around assessment, philosophical alignment of mission, vision, and practice, and developmental psychology. It has been an honor to have served in various consultancy roles with organizations such as the Department of Mind, Brain, and Education at the Harvard University Graduate of Education, Brandies University, Phillips Exeter Academy, the Long Trail School (VT), and Glastonbury Public Schools (CT). I occasionally provide academic coaching to graduate students and professional writers, helping them frame problems, build a course of study, conceive a research project, or simply manage their energy and stress during the completion of complex academic tasks. I'm not a life coach or ghostwriter; but if you come to me with a passion, I will help." ---------- Dr. Zak Stein: Rethinking...

This week’s guest is Dr. Zak Stein, an author and educator whom I met as fellow students of the work of philosopher Ken Wilber over ten years ago. Zak took the road of serious high academic scholarship while I was learning the less laudable and messier way through immersion in the arts and entertainment world, but here we are converging to discuss one of the most important issues of our time: the need for a new human story that includes both modernity’s rigorous scientific inquiry and postmodernity’s revelation of how everything we know is framed by language, culture, and perspective. Without some clever, soulful balance of the two we’re stuck in a “post-truth” era where our need for answers to our fundamental questions leads us backwards into “isms” instead of forwards into something more good, true, and beautiful than what has come before.Zak’s answer (like so many other guests on Future Fossils) is to get MORE rigorous about the scope and limits of the world disclosed by science, MORE honest with ourselves about the context-bound claims we can make on knowledge, and MORE open to how all “reality” starts in direct experience, as conscious subjects – where we meet to make new, open-ended, ever-more refined, evolving answers to the questions:What is human? What is love? What are we here to do?Read Zak’s new paper, “Love in a Time Between Worlds: On the Metamodern ‘Return’ to a Metaphysics of Eros”:http://www.zakstein.org/love-in-a-time-between-worlds/‘Where modern scientists often critique the claims of metaphysics as unverifiable and thus untrue, postmodernists critique both science and metaphysics for making truth claims in the first place. Either way, to call an idea or theory “metaphysical” has become another way of saying it is unacceptable. Often with comes with some implication that the theory is a kind of superstition, which means metaphysics is taken not as an attempt to engage the truth but rather as a kind of covert power play or psychological defense mechanism. I argue the opposite: metaphysics is what saves us from a descent into discourses that are merely about power and illusion. Believe it or not, there are metaphysical systems that survived postmodernism and popped-out of the far end of the 1990’s with “truth” and “reality” still intact. These include object oriented ontology and dialectical critical realism, among others.’Zak is also the Co-Presdient and Academic Director at the Center for Integral Wisdom:https://centerforintegralwisdom.org/…and on the scientific advisor board at Neurohacker Collective:https://neurohacker.com/— In this episode we discuss:Lewis Mumford, Ken Wilber, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Jurgen Habermas, Seth Abramson, Timothy Morton, Rudolf Steiner, Alfred North Whitehead, Hanzi Freinacht, Daniel Schmachtenberger, Jordan Greenhall, and many other luminaries.Right-wing and authoritarian political thought is resurgent today because of the absence of reasonable discourse about metaphysical realities during a time when exactly these realties are being put in question due to the apocalypse of global capitalism and the accompanying planetary transition into the Anthropocene .The way we answer questions like, “What is the human?” will determine the next century because of the emerging power of new technologies that render the human mailable in unpresented ways, which has been made clear by writers like Yuval Harari.“The difference between metaphysics and science is not about what you can see and what you cannot see. It is about what you are paying attention to when you are seeing.”“What we call postmodernism is just modernism with the volume turned WAY up.”The difference between modern, postmodern, and metamodern views on science and the realities disclosed by science.What does it mean to cut a definition of the human out of our education systems?The relevance of Rudolf Steiner’s metaphysics and pedagogy in 21st Century education – especially its attention to subjectivity and interiority.How fundamentalism, nationalism, racism, and other regressive movements in society are symptoms of a postmodern assault on consensus reality.“In the absence of metaphysics, there’s a vacuum of meaning…what can step into that is not always pretty.”“After postmodernism, we can’t return to some pat, totalizing answer for everybody. After postmodernism, when we begin to build a new coherence, it’s always going to be a polycentric and dynamic and always renegotiated coherence. And that’s what science ought to be, which is to say, knowledge building, and not knowledge finding. Period.”“Ideas matter – and right now, we live in a context where ideas matter only insofar as they can be leveraged for clicks on websites that generate advertisement revenue.”When did we start gladly giving our decision-making powers over to others? And who do we trust now when we know that expertise is so contextual and frequently abused?Making the Earth into a giant building is the beginning of metamodern history – the Anthropocene signaling our deep relationship with the ecosphere.Michael reveals his vision of an Eclipse Station & Black Madonna University as a nobler motivation for a second “space race.”We’ve succeeded in making mega-machines out of people but need to reframe what it means to be IN relationship…Hyperobjects and a metamodern investigation of synchronicity and time…the objectivity of time is tricky.“Animals do not build sundials, even though they would benefit greatly from them. And so you’ll notice that one of the things that sets humans apart is their ability to make metaphysics – that they relate to things that are objectively real, like time.”The eternal and the everlasting – two different things.“Who gets to decide, and how do we get to decide, on these deep questions?”“To reify a false and truncated metaphysics – for example, to say that love doesn’t exist, that free will doesn’t actually exist – to really try to build institutions based on that, which would result in a radically authoritarian society – these things have been done. But never with the technological power that we now have to, for example, to build a school around that hypothesis. Or an army. And so there’s this very sincere need to make sure that as we move through this period, we’re keeping the voices who want to simplify and reduce and return to modernity and the monological at bay. So applaud, the postmodernists, but we also want to get beyond the postmodern critique, and the whole spirit and emotion of critique, and somehow move into a space where we’re reconstructing a new metanarrative, instead of taking potshots and deconstructing anyone who steps up to offer a metanarrative. After postmodernism it needs to be provisional, polycentric, built iteratively through collaboration. But there needs to be a project in good spirits in that direction. Because the regressive tendencies on the right who want to drive us toward racism and nationalism are having questions about, ‘What is the human?,’ and answering them irrationally. We need to have VERY reasonable and profound answers to questions like, ‘What is human?,’ ‘What are we here on Earth to do?,’ ‘What is a relationship?,’ ‘How important are relationships?,’ ‘What is love?,’ ‘Is love real?’, ‘What’s the significance of love?’…these things are part of what it means to be human.”How do we build a just and humane, “post-tragic” culture on the other side of the Crisis of the Anthropocene?We are all dependent on unjust and ecologically devastating supply chains…now what?“Hate creates externalities. Love creates no externalities.”The logic of the metamodern system has to be one in which there are no externalities.Support this show on PatreonJoin the Facebook GroupSubscribe on Apple PodcastsSubscribe on Google PodcastsSubscribe on StitcherSubscribe on SpotifySubscribe on iHeart Radio See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As entrepreneurs, we face a litany of mental challenges that can derail our business. Not to mention the external challenges we face. If we’re not battling our own self doubt, loneliness and overwhelm, we’re dealing with non-entrepreneurs who wonder why we don’t just ‘get a job.’ My guest on the podcast this episode has been an entrepreneur for several decades, successfully running a variety of businesses in health, marketing, and now in personal development. She knows these challenges first hand and through the eyes of her clients. But she says, there is one thing that keeps her on track. One thing that can keep any entrepreneur on track, no matter how many challenges they face. In this episode, she reveals how you can develop a practice of inquiry that will lead you to that one thing. Lisa Engels is passionate about helping conscious entrepreneurs find their purpose so that they can serve humanity with their gifts. She is a social evolutionary working toward a new humanity that is free and expansive. In addition to her coaching and mentoring (through InnerStateCoaching.com), she is also the Marketing Directory for the Center for Integral Wisdom and co-hosts a weekly livestream program called Evolutionary Church. In this episode of the Brilliant You Podcast, we dive right into recognizing and overcoming the challenges entrepreneurs face. We explore the dichotomy of the American Dream and the reality of running your own business. Lisa shares her views on how the desire to make a difference can sometimes get lost along the rocky road of entrepreneurism. And, how we can let go of our ego to find our way back to contributing to the greater whole in a way that only we, as individuals, can do. By the end of this episode, you’ll know the one thing you need to discover in order for you to be the entrepreneur you’ve always wanted to be. Plus, how to use the practice of inquiry to discover it. This is how you’ll step into your unique power as a powerhouse woman. Here are the websites mentioned on this episode: Email Lisa for a free 45 minute discover session: lisa@innerstatecoaching.com Grab my confidence kit here: Confidentwithnoapology.com Or email me to work with me or be on the show media@janetzaretsky.com

Richard Barrett's new book A New Psychology ff Human Well-Being offers the world an exciting new approach to the understanding of human well-being: an approach that aligns ancient wisdom with cutting-edge theories of science, psychology, and spirituality. He brings together Eastern and Western approaches to consciousness and medicine in a unifying model that transcends birth and death and leads us into an energetic dimension of reality, where we encounter the soul. Richard is an author, speaker, and internationally recognized thought leader on the evolution of human values in business and society. He is the founder and chairman of the Barrett Values Centre. He is also a fellow of the World Business Academy, member of the council of the Centre for Integral Wisdom, honorary board member of the Spirit of Humanity Forum, and former values coordinator at the World Bank. 

Lori and Kate discuss finding your Purpose and Living a Life You LOVE! Kate Maloney holds a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology and a Doctoral Degree in Psychology with an emphasis in Organizational Applications. She has applied her formal training to the areas of business development as an entrepreneur, organizational psychologist, executive consultant and author. Kate has founded and invested in over a dozen technology companies over the last eight years. She was featured in the January 2014 issue of Inc. Magazine profiling the top entrepreneurs in Boulder, Colorado. She is the Co-Board Chair along with John Mackey (CEO, Whole Foods Market) for the Center for Integral Wisdom and has recently been working on RiseUP The Movie (and the movement!).

Mali Phonpadith interviews Dr. Kate Maloney, Co-Chair for Center for Integral Wisdom, Entrepreneur, Psychologist, and Advocate for Conscious Capitalism. Over the last several years, Dr. Maloney has started ten different companies and sold seven of them. Her current projects include the RiseUp Movie and summit that's redefining the conversation about how we view success. Subscribe to the SCN Podcast on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/soar-podcast/id884527835?mt=2 www.SOARCommunityNetwork.com www.riseupthemovie.com

What My Soul Told Me with Richard Barrett This book provides a practical step-by-step guide to soul activation. This four step process involves: Connecting with your soul; Befriending your soul; Trusting your soul; Becoming one with your soul. You are a soul in a human body but your ego is unaware of this. To fully step into soul consciousness, you must learn how to align the beliefs of your ego with the values of your soul, and commit to leading a values and purpose-driven life. The ultimate arbiter of where you have got to on your journey into soul consciousness is the quality of the connections you have with other people-not just your family and friends, but the strangers around you. Every person you meet is a soul who is working on the same project as you-promoting the evolution of human consciousness. Rejoice in your common heritage and purpose by connecting with them wherever you are and whenever you can. When you fully realize who you are, you will understand that in caring for others, you are caring for yourself. Richard Barrett, Founder and Chairman of the Barrett Values Centre, is an internationally recognized thought leader on values, culture and leadership in business and society. He is a Fellow of the World Business Academy, Member of the Wisdom Council of the Center for Integral Wisdom, Honorary Board Member of the Spirit of Humanity Forum, and Former Values Coordinator at the World Bank. For more information visit: http://www.valuescentre.com/about/richard-barrett/

Bill welcomes author and thinker Richard Barrett to the show. Richard Barrett is an author, speaker and internationally recognised thought leader on the evolution of human values in business and society. He is the founder and chairman of the Barrett Values Centre, a Fellow of the World Business Academy, an Advisory Board Member of the Centre for Integral Wisdom, Honorary Board Member of the Spirit of Humanity Forum, and Former Values Coordinator at the World Bank. We will be discussing his latest book, The Metrics of Human Consciousness. Don't miss it!

Richard Barrett In his latest book, The Metrics of Human Consciousness, Richard delves into what consciousness is and how it can be quantified in order to significantly improve our individual, organizational, and societal performance.    Is human consciousness something we can measure? What good would it do if we could?   We chat about the different levels and stages of measurement and survival. Richard explains cultural entropy and how we can become value driven. Darren takes the Personal Value Assessment during the show.    History has shown that the evolution of measurement is the key to the evolution of societies, something we take for granted since most of our measurements are already standardized. Richard Barrett believes that we are missing one very important standardized measurement– human consciousness. By creating psychological measurement technologies, Richard believes that we can change the conversation not just about what exists, but what we need to move to in order to resolve the current issues our global society is facing. Richard Barrett, Founder and Chairman of the Barrett Values Centre, is an internationally recongnised thought leader on values, culture and leadership in business and society. He is a Fellow of the World Business Academy, Member of the Wisdom Council of the Center for Integral Wisdom, Honorary Board Member of the Spirit of Humanity Forum, and Former Values Coordinator at the World Bank. His books include: Evolutionary Coaching (2014), The Values-Driven Organization (2013), What My Soul Told Me (2012), Love, Fear and the Destiny of Nations (2011) and The New Leadership Paradigm (2010).   www.richardbarrett.net http://www.valuescentre.com/pva/    In the intro it's just Darren and Graham with a couple synchro's. Thanks again to Darnell for help with our website, Jestin for doing our newsletter, and Napoleon for the episode art. Thanks for the voicemails and the feedback, and of course all the reviews.      Don't forget the remote viewing exercise. The coordinates are 2105 6611. The target is in present time.... jot down your impressions, sketches, thoughts and feelings and send them in by June 10 and we will talk about it in the episode released around June 12.    http://www.hardrockcasinovancouver.com/event/george-noory-friends/  http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-grimerica-show https://cloudhead.squarespace.com/    Grimerica’s Honey DoBeDoBeDo List: !! – Please Help support the show. Grimerica is fully and solely listener supported. We adhere to the Value for Value model.  0 ads, 0 sponsorships, 0 breaks, 0 portals and links to corporate websites… just many hours of unlimited content for free. Thanks for listening!! Check out all the other donation types, and get a Grimerica email addy: http://www.grimerica.ca/support/ Listen live and join the chat: www.Mixlr.com/grimerica . Check out the updated schedule @: http://www.grimerica.ca/backstage/ Send us a postcard: http://www.grimerica.ca/contact/ Sign up for our newsletter http://www.grimerica.ca/news Leave a comment, ideas and guest/topic suggestions under any episode or blog http://www.grimerica.ca/ Leave a voicemail http://www.grimerica.ca/ SPAM Graham = and send him your synchronicities, feedback, strange experiences and psychedelic trip reports!! graham@grimerica.com Tweet Darren https://twitter.com/Grimerica Leave a review on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-grimerica-show/id653314424?mt=2# Thanks to Wayne Darnell for help with the website. http://www.darnelldigitalink.com/ Check out the Paradigm Symposium 2015. We will be there again!! Year 4 http://paradigmsymposium.com/ http://www.live365.com/stations/roccijstucci MUSIC Grimerica Theme - Lock & Key The Relm of Human Consciousness - Eragrostis Human Consciousness - Mike Bruce Measure of a Man - Smarttech

The Metrics of Human Consciousness with Richard Barrett History has shown that the evolution of measurement is the key to the evolution of societies, something we take for granted since most of our measurements are already standardized. Richard Barrett believes that we are missing one very important standardized measurement– human consciousness.   In his book, The Metrics of Human Consciousness, Richard delves into what consciousness is and how it can be quantified in order to significantly improve our individual, organizational, and societal performance.   By creating psychological measurement technologies, Richard believes that we can change the conversation not just about what exists, but what we need to move to in order to resolve the current issues our global society is facing. Richard Barrett, Founder and Chairman of the Barrett Values Centre, is an internationally recongnised thought leader on values, culture and leadership in business and society. He is a Fellow of the World Business Academy, Member of the Wisdom Council of the Center for Integral Wisdom, Honorary Board Member of the Spirit of Humanity Forum, and Former Values Coordinator at the World Bank.   For more information visit: www.richardbarrett.net Personal Values Assessment http://www.valuescentre.com/pva/

Richard Barrett  author, speaker and internationally recognised thought leader on the evolution of human values in business and society. He is the founder and chairman of the Barrett Values Centre, a Fellow of the World Business  Academy, a Board Member of the Centre for Integral Wisdom, Honorary  Board  Member  of the Spirit of Humanity Forum, and Former Values Coordinator at the World Bank Lisa Ford is known for her work on customer issues. Her ideas help companies create customer-focused cultures and keeping customers loyal. She is a speaker and author with over 20 years of experience presenting to businesses, associations and government. Lisa is the author of the videotape series How to Give Exceptional Customer Service, the #1 selling DVD series in the U.S.  Dr. Jeff Bauer internationally recognized health futurist and medical economist with 45 years of experience across the health care delivery system. Now an independent thought leader, he forecasts the evolution of health care and develops practical approaches for improving the medical sector of the American economy through multi-stakeholder partnerships focused in the private sector.  He has more than 250 publications, including his two latest books: Paradox and Imperatives in Health Care and Upgrading Leadership's Crystal Ball   Joy Baldridge renowned expert in revenue-driven leadership and sales. Her first speaking engagement was at the White House at the age of 19 and she got there by cold calling the president. She works with the best companies and associations in the world with the sole goal of making the best even better at increasing revenue and productivity while decreasing frustration and stress

Richard  Barrett  author, speaker and internationally recognised thought leader on the evolution of human values in business and society. He is the founder and chairman of the Barrett Values Centre, a Fellow of the World Business  Academy, a Board Member of the Centre for Integral Wisdom, Honorary  Board  Member  of the Spirit of Humanity Forum, and Former Values Coordinator at the World Bank Lisa Ford is known for her work on customer issues. Her ideas help companies create customer-focused cultures and keeping customers loyal. She is a speaker and author with over 20 years of experience presenting to businesses, associations and government. Lisa is the author of the videotape series How to Give Exceptional Customer Service, the #1 selling DVD series in the U.S.  Dr. Jeff Bauer internationally recognized health futurist and medical economist with 45 years of experience across the health care delivery system. Now an independent thought leader, he forecasts the evolution of health care and develops practical approaches for improving the medical sector of the American economy through multi-stakeholder partnerships focused in the private sector.  He has more than 250 publications, including his two latest books: Paradox and Imperatives in Health Care and Upgrading Leadership's Crystal Ball   Joy Baldridge renowned expert in revenue-driven leadership and sales. Her first speaking engagement was at the White House at the age of 19 and she got there by cold calling the president. She works with the best companies and associations in the world with the sole goal of making the best even better at increasing revenue and productivity while decreasing frustration and stress