Integral Archive
On appreciating military service, even in Iraq
In response to Joe Duarte's rant against serving in Iraq in order to promote American freedom -- "The idea that Iraq was ever a threat to Americans' freedoms is both hilarious and revolting..." -- I ...
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Liberal vs Conservative? Christ! Oops.
If you struggle, as I do, with the nutty distinction between being considered "liberal" or "conservative" in modern America, you might share my enjoyment of this thoughtful post by Patrick Stephens.
In fact, Patrick's discussion here, ...
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Creativity Coaching for Musicians, by Andrew Schwartz
Regular readers of Mudita Journal and Mudita Forum are already familiar with Andrew Schwartz.
I've enjoyed his contributions here for many years now, because he's one of those rare souls who lives and breathes ...
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Integral Critique of The Secret
April 5, 2007 · Category: Integral, Intellectual
Writing for KenWilber.com, Stuart Davis posts an interesting critique of The Secret, called The Secret: The Spirituality of Narcissism.
Kathy and I have found aspects of The Secret (both the book and the movie) to be ...
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Do AQAL and Spiral Dynamics Really Help with Political Analysis?
I enjoyed reading Matthew Dallman's brief critique of spiral dynamics (the first chunk of block-indented text on this page).
I'm relatively new to the theory of spiral dynamics, but I too am beginning to wonder whether ...
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The Dead End of Contemporary Liberalism
I highly recommend Matthew Dallman's article "Contemporary Liberalism Is Dead."
He concludes:
Also, it is vital to realize just what "Classical Liberalism" was and how it lives on in conservative circles, in various ways both simple ...
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Capitalism = Happiness?
The situation may not be as simple as "Living Under Capitalism = Being Happier" but a new article in New Scientist called "Wealthy Nations Hold the Key to Happiness" suggests that such a conclusion is ...
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Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Institute a Cult?
July 11, 2006 · Category: Integral
Prompted by Jay Allen's interesting exercise in arguing (against his own inclinations) that Ken Wilber is a cult leader, I just finished reading Elliott Benjamin's scholarly essay assessing the presence or absence of cultish features ...
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Check Out Jay Allen’s Blog
I recently discovered the bloggings of another Rand-influenced meditator, Jay Andrew Allen.
Yes -- for those of you who remember -- this is the same Jay Allen that was a spirited defender of Leonard Peikoff from ...
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Ken Wilber Shines
Marshall has been dragging me, kicking and screaming, into the Integral world of Ken Wilber.
Kicking and screaming, because I've felt for some time that Ken Wilber's world is one where people wax extensively about theory, ...
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