Ken Wilber on Integral Theory and the Intellectual Dark Web | Future Thinkers | Integral Life | Rebel Wisdom

  • What is the main problem with the world today?
  • Integral Theory and AQAL framework
  • Historical perspective on consciousness and developmental studies
  • Why “growing up” is not included in any major religious or spiritual system
  • What is the obstacle to resolving climate crisis?
  • How we can cooperate better to solve global problems
  • Ken’s commentary of Greta Thunberg’s climate activism
  • Eight stages of human development
  • Ken’s commentary of Jordan Peterson’s awakening process
  • Metamodernism movement and Integral Theory
  • The percentage of people who are on 2nd tier stage of development right now
  • What we can do to arrive to the tipping point of 10% of people at the 2nd tier
  • Who are the people who embody the 2nd tier thinking
  • The practices that individuals can do right now to support their development process
  • Why start from cleaning up the unconscious and repressed shadow material
  • Taking the role of other and 3-2-1 practice for integrating the shadow
  • How you can start practicing waking up with Neti Neti observation
  • Growing up process – conventional vs. true self
  • Showing up for reality – integrating all 4 quadrants of the Integral framework
  • The Good, The True, The Beautiful and how it relates to the development process
  • What are the 3 stages of moral development
  • Who are the people who are practicing waking up, growing up, cleaning up and showing up best?
  • Potentials of technology to mediate growing up and collective intelligence processes
  • Overcoming the stumbling blocks on the path to enlightenment
  • Waking up – why do it, why not do it?
  • How much time it takes to wake up, and why”ego death” is not permanent
  • The delusion of quantum physics and the desire for certainty
  • What are the potential flaws of the Integral Theory and Integral Movement
  • The problem with seeking “the ultimate truth”
  • How to approach cognitively developed people who haven’t done cleaning up and have a lot of shadow materials
  • Dominator hierarchies vs. growth hierarchies
  • The lack of teaching growing up and cleaning up in all major spiritual schools

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The War on Sensemaking | Daniel Schmachtenberger, Jamie Wheal and Jordan Hall | Rebel Wisdom

What can we trust? Why is the ‘information ecology’ so damaged, and what would it take to make it healthy?

This is a fundamental question, because without good sensemaking, we cannot even begin to act in the world. It is also a central concern in what many are calling the “meaning crisis”, because what is meaningful is connected to what is real.

Daniel Schmachtenberger is an evolutionary philosopher – his central interest is civilization design: developing new capacities for sense-making and choice-making, individually and collectively, to support conscious sustainable evolution.

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