He’s Just Had Coffee

… about what to contribute to the ongoing discussion of Ken Wilber’s Wyatt Earp post and I was just reading Tom’s post about his own feather-ruffling post on Zaadz and a thought arose that I thought might be worth contributing. In the follow-up to a first post which offended and delighted people in various proportions, […]

More about kaidevis’s statements about the omission of Hermetica from Integral Theory… He accuses Wilber of ignoring the western spiritual traditions, which I think is a fair call. But a little perspective: the Sufis, Jains, the Yezidis, neo-Pagans, Scientologists, neo-Theravadins all have some pretty interesting practices and cosmologies but none of them get much airplay from […]

This is the sound of me saying nothing about the current dust-up in the Integral community… In its place, here’s a quote from kaidevis who is doing some groundbreaking work on an Integral Magick saying things I wish I’d said about the absence of the Western Hermetic tradition from the palette of integral spiritual practices. Wilber […]

In Two Gods?, the newly married Jordan Stratford+ debunks the oft-repeated nonsense that Gnostics believe in the Manichean notion that there are two gods, one good, one evil, locked in endless battle. Along the way, he name-checks Blake, Yeats, the Rastafari and the Wachowskis and posts a great chart diagramming different conceptions of the Divine. […]

Thanks to ~C4Chaos, I’ve been watching this rather topical clip of Dan Millman talking about spiritual teachers and living out what you teach. He talks a lot of sense.

I’m fantastic Since last we spoke, I’ve been away to the countryside for a few days, had a birthday and been working like a demon. Things are good! Oh, and I booked my flights to the US for this in Denver - which is exciting. If you’re in Portland, Seattle or Denver/Boulder and you’d like to […]

So many reasons to love Wikipedia when you’re an unreformed obscurantist like me. I start with an innocent enough question to answer about the key forms of Yoga. That leads me to Agni Yoga, which leads me among other places to Oomoto (and on to Shinshukyo), Burkhanism, stuff about the Holy Grail, Akbar the Great. Burkhanism […]

In a long, thoughtful article, Kevin Kelly argues that there is little evidence that societies can “leapfrog” in the sense that most eco-development folk mean it: […] the billions of people in the world currently living with little advance technology can skip the industrial generation of technology and zoom immediately to the good stuff. […]

You know, some mornings you get up, wash your face, drink some water, stretch the kinks out and sit down on the cushion (in my case a zafu, though not because of any particular commitment to zazen) and begin to let Mind go…. … and I find myself lost in a maze of thinking, then I […]

Frank Visser who runs World of Ken Wilber has started a blog. Welcome to the blogosphere, Frank! Let’s hope you post more than I do Technorati Tags: integral

Courtesy of Wikipedia’s new Picture of the Day: The Buddhabrot is a special rendering of the Mandelbrot set which, when “traditionally” oriented, resembles to some extent certain depictions of the Buddha. When viewed “upside-down”, it vaguely resembles a human face with large, triangular glasses or goggles over its eyes. Technorati Tags: integral, spirit

… just a suggestion. So the core stuff in the ILP kit (I don’t own one, but some of my Sydney Integral peeps do) seems to be the core modules, which have companion “1-minute modules” aimed at busy people. All good. Also 1-minute practices are great things for Enlightenment By Walking Around (EBWA) and cool ways to […]