Ken Wilber shares a beautiful set of pointing out instructions on the "Myth of the Given" conference call....

Ken Wilber shares the premise of "The Many Faces of Terrorism," and what a one person/one vote wordwide democracy could unwittingly lead to....

Ken Wilber discusses harmful spiritual movements with Jacob Bartels, and how an understanding of stages and shadow can help to see why things go wrong....

Dr. Rupert Sheldrake is abiologist and author of more than 75 scientific papers and ten books. As a former Research Fellow of the Royal Society, he studied natural sciences at Cambridge University, where he was a Scholar of Clare College, took a double first class honours degree and was awarded the University Botany Prize. He then studied philosophy at Harvard University, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow, before returning to Cambridge, where he took a Ph.D. in biochemistry. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University, where he carried out research on the development of plants and the ageing of cells. At Clare College he was also Director of Studies in biochemistry and cell biology. He is the current Perrott-Warrick Scholar and Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project.

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Theosophy (literally, “god-wisdom”) is a surprisingly little known but nonetheless highly influential movement of the past several centuries in Europe and North America. In this week’s featured audio, Ken Wilber traces the development of theosophy and its descendents, down to the New Age movement.

Discussions on topics focused on the coming Vingean Singularity, Entheogenic Exploration, the re-localization of community & agriculture, and Individual Conscious Autonomy.

The Buddhist tradition contains what is perhaps the finest phenomenology of consciousness ever devised, and the richest array of meditative practices for leading its adherents to increasingly deep states of consciousness. And yet, Buddhism finds itself between a rock and a hard place in the modern/postmodern West. In its traditional form, Buddhism has had a difficult time meshing with Western culture. But in its typically Western form, much of postmodernism is projected back onto the tradition, to the detriment of the sparkling, original, teachings. From an integral point of view, what is the cause of this problem? And what is the solution?