He’s Just Had Coffee

This is advertising, but hopefully interesting to a lot of my readers. Some friends and I have been scheming for a while about making some things happen in the integral scene in Australia. One of the outcomes of that scheming is that we’re bringing Diane Hamilton to Sydney to hold a retreat in September. This is […]

I’m mucking around with tumblr by creating a tumblelog for my ongoing reading related to my various non-IT interests - particularly an integral take on organisations and on Gnosticism. It’s called Resonance, it’s got a feed. Please feel welcome. Technorati Tags: blogging, gnostic, integral

I’m pretty sure that Frank Visser’s Integral World site has pop-up ads. Every time I go there, I get a pop-up - when I go back or reload, I can’t replicate it, but it seems to keep happening. I’m sympathetic for the need for revenue to keep a big project like that going, or […]

Forgive me for the following set of mismatched ideas that landed on me while drowsing this morning that I just wanted to get out. I’ve been reading more (and in a very undisciplined, eclectic way) about Christian theology over the last two millennia without any particular preference for which of the various traditions I focus […]

“I think we should be skeptical of wedding the essential building blocks of argument to a value level” - TuffGhost Hell, yeah. In this discussion, there’s at least the skills and techniques that become available to you as you develop and there’s the aspects of life you get fascinated with (notice me wiggling around trying not […]

One of the things that I liked about Tim Leary’s 8-circuit model of consciousness as a developmental theory was the emphasis he placed on the imprinting stage - the idea that the experiences you had when that new mind lit up were formative. Some folks had positive experiences, some had negative and that kind of […]

In his recent blog entry, Douglas Rushkoff voices a plea to lend financial help to Robert Anton Wilson who is in the midst of dying. Douglas gives a good summary of RAW’s literary contributions. I’d add that he did a lot to interpret and translate a lot of the practical material from people like Timothy […]

I just went looking for Geoff Falk’s blog today to read his take on recent postings by Ken Wilber and noticed that, according to whois, his domain name has disappeared. His “Stripping The Gurus” site is alive, but his personal site seems to have fallen off the ‘Net. Has anyone had any contact with Geoff? Is […]

(Just because it’s nice to check occasionally) Googlism for: ken wilber ken wilber is a fraud ken wilber is a fraud by david deida ken wilber is the preeminent scholar of spirituality in our time ken wilber is the author of one taste ken wilber is america’s most translated academic author ken wilber is praised ken wilber is a champion of that which […]

Just a heads-up. There’s a new(ish) site called Open Integral which features a group blog with people like Ray Harris and Michel Bauwens talking about applications of Integral theory to things in the world. Worth following, I’d think. Technorati Tags: integral, p2p

In Metal phone, Schulze & Webb outline a vision-logic appreciation of the mobile phone as a space-time contour: The Nokia 5140i is an illusory object. Disconnected from the network when you’re underground, it becomes a lump of plastics and metals. Although safe in your hands, you wouldn’t want to eat the components. It, too, […]

Terry Patten ran a really lovely night about fun with devotional singing and dancing for Integral Spiritual Centre and in the discussion afterwards, Ian McDonald from the UK quoted this great poem by Hafiz: God and I have become like two fat people on a boat We keep bumping into each other […]