Ken Wilbur: Is Yours An Integral Life?

To change the world we must learn to think, feel and intuit differently. Ken Wilbur is considered one of the world’s greatest philosophers. He is best known for his book ‘A Brief History of Everything’. He is one who would be considered a thinker outside of the box.

See what you think, perhaps you are also a integral thinker 🙂

http://www.integralinstitute.org/

Integral theory is an all-inclusive framework that draws on the key insights of the world’s greatest knowledge traditions. The awareness gained from drawing on all truths and perspectives allows the Integral thinker to bring new depth, clarity and compassion to every level of human endeavor — from unlocking individual potential to finding new approaches to global-scale problems.

The Institute’s active scholars represent individuals throughout the world who are presently engaged in writing, teaching or collaborative research in Integral theory with the Institute. True to the breadth of the Integral map, these scholars reflect a wide array of academic backgrounds, disciplines, and methodological approaches.

The Institute’s programs focus on research, education and leadership for humanity’s most pressing problems.

The dawn of the 21st Century sees humanity in a bind: our most pressing problems are complex and multi-disciplinary, yet in the face of this complexity, we tend to seek deeper and narrower expertise for these solutions. We train our academic, political, business, scientific and artistic leaders to be deeply functional experts in one area, while the problems they face spill over every imaginable boundary.

The result: we are producing deeply fragmented solutions to problems that require an Integral approach. The Institute’s programs focus on research, education and leadership and are just the beginning of the critical work yet to be done.

Research

* Psychological growth
* Global ecology and sustainability
* Conscious capitalism and organizational practice
* Integral medicine
* World hunger/famine
* Education (in first, second, and third-world settings)
* Transpartisan politics
* City and community planning
* Conflict resolution
* Integration of science and spirituality (Integral epistemology)

http://www.integralnaked.org/integral.aspx

“Integral” means comprehensive, inclusive, balanced, not leaving anything out.

At this very time, there is something of an “integral revolution” occurring around the world, as all the old and partial approaches are being questioned, and new and more integral responses are being explored.

Integral Naked offers a direct access to the most influential of these discussions and a way to participate in their exploration and application.

We want to emphasize that you do not need to have an understanding of the details of an integral approach to enjoy the lively conversations at Integral Naked. We have intentionally selected those that are accessible to virtually anybody. But if you want to get more involved in the integral revolution, here are several options you can explore:

Integral Data
Click here for fun presentations—flash, video, audio, PDF—explaining the essentials of the integral framework.

Integral Institute
www.integralinstitute.org is the main website of Integral Institute and its various branches. The many ways that you can join I-I or support its activities are outlined on this site.

Integral Education Network
Includes two graduate degree programs and over a dozen Centers of Discourse on specific integral disciplines, including Integral Art, Integral Business, Integral Medicine, and Integral Spirituality!

Integral Training
Integral Institute is pleased to announce seminars and workshops developed specifically for those who want to become more integrally oriented in their personal and professional lives. Our staff of expert, integrally-informed trainers is also available to do consulting in organizations. Here’s your chance to join other integrally-informed people on an adventure into your own growth and development!

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Announcement: Integral Naked is now Integral Life!

Why are you here? You’re here because you’re intelligent, you have broad interests, and you’re looking for something deeper. You have an understanding and an intuition that life is deeply interconnected and rich in meaning. You’re looking for a way share, unfold, and live what you know inside.

Featuring hundreds of hours of audio and video discussions with today’s greatest thinkers, leaders, artists, and visionaries, Integral Life is a portal into the many facets of the 21st Century’s cultural renaissance—including spirituality, sexuality, psychology, ecology, art, business, and politics. Through this rich diversity of subject matter runs the single thread of our mission: to weave together the many strands of our modern lives into a deeply meaningful whole…

We know you are already committed to the expansion of consciousness, both personally and for our culture as a whole. But it’s a challenging and complex journey. Chances are, you have encountered a frustrating problem with most of today’s institutions and belief systems: they are unable to recognize value in a variety of perspectives. Politicians routinely label the views of their opponents as “extreme”, implying that they hold no truth or value at all. Religious fundamentalists deny the authority of science, while scientific fundamentalists deny the timeless wisdom contained in all religions. Even many pluralists claim that all value is relative and thereby dismiss everyone who is struggling to create real value in the world. In one field after another, mature conversations get drowned out by ideologies insisting that “the only way” is to dismiss the value of other perspectives completely.

Chances are you can already feel why these partial approaches don’t work: the world is becoming more deeply interconnected in every moment. Partial solutions cannot solve our complex problems, nor can they lead us to the deep clarity and compassion to which we find ourselves called.

That is why we founded Integral Life. We are a community that will challenge you to see things in new ways, but will never tell you to simply throw away something you value. We ask the big questions. What is of ultimate concern to us as human beings? What is truth? What is right? What are the major social and political forces of our time? How do we become enlightened? How do we understand enlightenment in the context of science? What is the next step for humanity? Through it all, we invite you to find and unfold the bright grain of truth in every perspective.

Much of our site content is hosted by Ken Wilber, widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers alive today, having devoted his entire career to exploring radical new ways of looking at ourselves and the world around us. His collected work has been termed Integral Theory, and is also called by some the first genuine “theory of everything” the world has seen.

The more fully we can experience reality, the more freedom and fullness blossoms in our lives. Integral is a means by which we can see—and feel!—that somehow, everyone is right in their various interpretations of reality—or, put another way, “no one is smart enough to be wrong all the time.” The Integral vision draws upon all the very best ideas throughout history—East and West, pre-modern, modern and beyond—synthesizing all of our accumulated knowledge and wisdom in such a way that we can see very real patterns emerge right before our very eyes, patterns that connect all the various aspects of our lives. Integral Theory helps to refine and empower our own perspective of the world, while opening us up to all the infinite perspectives around us, so we may share fully and freely in the most comprehensive view of reality possible.

By signing up for Integral Life, you are helping to directly support and enable a multitude of projects, including Integral Institute and the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice, groundbreaking events such as Integral Spiritual Experience and the emergence of the integral movement globally.