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Oct 25, 2010, 2:11 pm
Keith Martin-Smith Introduction Art struggles in our postmodern world, where genius has been pronounced dead and mediocrity and irony congratulate one another on their empty existence. A trip to a modern museum of art leaves most of us scratching our heads in confusion. Cutting-edge art and literatu... Comment - Like
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Sep 23, 2010, 8:03 pm
Integral Liberties The two, hour-long videos of Hitchens, Dennett, Dawkins and Harris talking on atheism are making their way through the Integral Province. I made a short comment on them at Open Source Integral and was asked to expand on the thoughts. One of the main reasons for pursuing the matter... Comment - Like
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Sep 20, 2010, 8:07 pm
John Welwood Living with someone we love, with all the joys and challenges, is one of the best ways to grow spiritually. But real awakening only happens, says renowned psychologist John Welwood, in the charnel ground where we acknowledge and work with our wounds, fears, and illusions. While most peo... Comment - Like
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Sep 13, 2010, 12:11 pm
Upaya In August 2005, Roshi Joan, Hilda Ryumon Gutierrez, and I joined hibakusa (survivors of the bombing) and others at Upaya Zen Center to mark the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We sat zazen at Upaya and we practiced bearing witness at Los Alamos, the place whe... Comment - Like
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Sep 6, 2010, 4:35 pm
A Dialogue with Robin Kornman How does one classify Ken Wilbur? Philosopher, psychologist, contemplative, author, avid consumer of popular culture, Wilber is one of our era’s grand synthecists, integrating many levels of knowledge from the most concrete to the most etheral into a great unified vie... Comment - Like
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Sep 5, 2010, 2:34 pm
Indistinct Union In a previous post I said I would go to into the metaphors within Wilber’s work combining my long-standing interest in his philosophical work with my new interest in metaphor theory For the (heavy duty) theoretical background to this piece, see this article by Mark Edwards on unit... Comment - Like
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Sep 5, 2010, 1:24 pm
Authored by Derek Question Derek, the topic of homosexuality came up the other day as I was discussing the Tao with a group of people. One person said that since homosexual people could not have children naturally, they were against the natural order of the world, and therefore against the Tao. “I... Comment - Like
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Sep 5, 2010, 1:19 pm
Authored by Anon Question Derek, some of the people who study the Tao are vegetarians and some are not. When I ask those who are about their dietary practice, they tell me they prefer to avoid killing. I respect that, but I also think they contradict themselves, because eating plants is killing, too... Comment - Like
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Sep 5, 2010, 1:09 pm
Jim FlowersJim Flowers is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industry and Technology, Ball State University, Muncie, IN. Problem solving and product design experiences can empower students by presenting unique learning opportunities. Although the problem solving method may have been importa... Comment - Like
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Aug 30, 2010, 11:31 pm
Just a quick note to say that Chris Weigel has an exciting new paper forthcoming on psychological distance and intuitions about free will. (For a brief summary, see this post.) if you enjoyed this post, please consider supporting the development of IntegralBuddha with $1
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Aug 29, 2010, 5:41 pm
Elizabeth Debold Quick: “masculine”–take ten seconds and say the words that come to mind that describe masculine. Next, do the same with “feminine.” That was the first exercise that my friend and colleague Cindy Wigglesworth and I asked participants to do in the breakout session that we le... Comment - Like
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Aug 29, 2010, 4:36 pm
Suppose you knew you were going to be reborn after you died, and you could choose the time and place of your next birth—any time in human history up to the present day. Would you like to be born in the 21st century, or during some earlier period? Current societies are more complex and technologica... Comment - Like
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Feb 19, 2010, 1:25 pm
Art Markman, PhD @ Psychology Today There is a lot of evidence that people are overconfident in many judgments about themselves. If you ask a group of people how talented they are at some skill relative to the population as a whole (or even relative to a specific group that they are a part of), Comment - Like
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Feb 17, 2010, 11:07 am
Michael Lamport Commons, Sara Nora Ross, and Jonas Gensaku Miller The first Beyond Formal Operations Symposium was held at Harvard in 1981. The resulting text Beyond Formal Operations (Commons, Richards, & Armon, 1984) was published by Praeger. There have been many subsequent publications on the sub... Comment - Like
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Feb 16, 2010, 12:08 pm
Steve McIntosh
Introduction
This is a presentation about how the values known as the beautiful, the true, and the good play a central role in the evolution of the universe. We’ll be considering this ancient and venerable triad of values from the perspective of integral philosophy to see how ... Comment - Like
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Oct 14, 2009, 1:12 pm
By H.B. Augustine
A Proposed Solution and Expansion
To the Platonic Explanation
Of So-Called Universals
In this essay, I will consider the problem of universals and its major interpretations. I will proceed to see which interpretation is the case, and – because it is Plato’s theory – I... Comment - Like
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Oct 10, 2009, 12:48 pm
Dave Pollard of Salon
Natural and social systems are complex — that is, not entirely knowable, unpredictable, resistant to cause-and-effect analysis, in a word, mysterious. For our first three million years on Earth we humans, like every other species on the planet, accepted that mystery. We ... Comment - Like
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Oct 10, 2009, 12:46 pm
Merlin Donald
Origins of the Modern Mind (1991) was an attempt to synthesize various sources of information–neurobiological, psychological, archeological and anthropological, among others–about our cognitive origins, in the belief that the human mind co-evolved in close interaction with... Comment - Like
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Oct 10, 2009, 12:44 pm
Ben Fitzhugh of the University of Washington
Introduction
"The decision to reject one paradigm is always simultaneously the decision to accept another, and the judgement leading to that decision involves the comparison of both paradigms with nature and with each other." (Kuhn 1970:77)
"Normal sci... Comment - Like
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Oct 10, 2009, 12:43 pm
By Monica Sharma, M.D.Director, Leadership and Capacity Development, United Nations, OHRLLS
Our World
We are living in a time of whole system transition on a personal and planetary scale that affects every aspect of life as we know it. Patterns of possibility are emerging that have never before be... Comment - Like
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Oct 10, 2009, 12:42 pm
Paul Ehrlich w/ Seed Magazine
Does human culture evolve via natural selection, as our genes do?
Biologists have a pretty good idea of both how flies become resistant to DDT and how humans and primates have diverged over time. That’s because the mechanism underlying these processes is the sam... Comment - Like
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Oct 10, 2009, 12:40 pm
By George Por
Wisdom Society or Extinct Society
Connecting our conversations is the best way to discover that the future is already here, but that the awareness of it is not evenly distributed. Why is this important? Because, the choice is between joining together to create a wisdom society or reg... Comment - Like
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