Cultural issues are important, but they're not as important as what's happening in the economy.

  Are you a narcissist? Probably. An exploration of our self-focused culture.  

    Contrary farming...not the wrong way but the right one!

  A sermon on the topic of human language in relation to divinity and what a 6th century pseudonymous author has to say on the subject. 

    The physiology of the need, not the psychology.

    A music head churns up the new wave compost pile and unearths some lost gems for your listening pleasure.

      Resisting conformity, a mother crafts her way into an artist's life.

  A good ending can make or break a work of art. Here are four that blew my mind.

  A Temporary Autonomous Zone opens up in Colorado this summer with the second Integral Community Seminar.  

  Yet another week on the farmm. Here are some thoughts...

  One congregations expression of an evolving Christian faith.  

  A reflection of last week's first ever in-person, facilitated, process Beams and Struts has run. 

    Nope. He was made of straw.  

  An invitation into the inner lives and struggles of pro athletes, with a vision for healthier development in sport.

  In this week's Jukebox, we explore the powerful and peculiar sounds of Ariana Gillis.

  Why is there such enduring interest in existentialism, and what do these thinkers still have to tell us?

Hunter S. Thompson provides his unique brand of insight and analysis on the President's announcement around marriage equality.

    This is a first in a new series of podcasts, exploring the ignored and underestimated.  

  Highlights from a month of living (and writing) on a farm.

  A look at French presidents through the eyes of relationship dynamics.

  What's your life's work? What's it going to take to really dig in and dish it out? Let's take a look...

  A meditation on Walt Whitman and giving alms.  

  A few members of the Beams team will be presenting one of our collective intelligence processes live tomorrow night.

    You've probably had some, if you're partial to raspberry flavour.

  What story does the new Obama campaign video and slogan, "Forward", tell the country?

    An introduction to an upcoming series exploring the subject of fear.  

    An exhaustive and humourous inventory of everything that's wrong with Protestantism. Enjoy.

  Against the worst sports tendency of all time--playing not to lose--as in seen in the Manchester City v. Manchester United match.

    Emelia chronicles her search for a traditional form of female empowerment in the modern world.

      NPR's All Songs Considered website is a treasure trove for audiophiles.

  A short photo essay of Springtime flowers and colours.  

  Can something as simple and cliched as hope transform our politics, and thereby our world?

    Personal songs between public people.

  Think that the only worthwhile thing that George Lucas ever gave us was Star Wars? Think again.

    Singer/songwriter and Beams and Struts contributor Corin Raymond talks about Tom Waits, Sam Cooke, the Rolling Stones, Howlin' Wolf and The Band.

  Joseph Campbell with a tour of the chakras and much more.  

  To the streets brothers and sisters. The revolution is upon us! The potato has been freed!

  Where we play and watch sports is far more important to the culture of a sport than we tend to give credit to.

  A look at integral theory and shamanism. 

  In short: collaborators, language, sex, violence, poetry, adapters, prolific, Central England, underappreciated.

  Tribute to the best sort of industry man.

In honour of Earth Day, I offer you a compilation. Here are wise words of great thinkers, mystics and poets, woven between poems of children and the wonder of the Earth seen through their eyes and art.

  Why are fairy tales so popular on television right now? A possible shamanic explanation. 

  What if the financial sector was a democratic space. Would we have had the sort of melt down that occurred in 2008?

  John David Ebert helps us 'mine the strata' of consciousness in a new video series.

  William Irwin Thompson on turning our electronic technologies into cathedrals of light. 

  Gabor Mate is a doctor and best-selling author. His totems are Gautama Buddha, Yeshua (aka Jesus), Karl Marx, Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. Beethoven's in there too.

  A fed up angry rant about our ongoing obsession with beauty and with re-defining beauty. I'm done. Let's go for ugly.  

    Famous for booze-soaked ballads in the 70s and creative musical weirdness ever since, the legend is now sober. 

      A black diamond examination of the intersection of these two systems.