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BLOG: Empty Spaces: A Musical Meditation

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:16:00 PST

Empty Spaces: an 80-minute musical meditation by dj rekluse (Corey deVos). Featuring Alex Grey, Ken Wilber, Sally Kempton, and Alan Watts. A soundtrack for Dark Nights. Liberation upon hearing.

Empty Spaces: A Musical Meditation

BLOG: Stages of Meditation: An Interview With Ken Wilber

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:13:00 PST

In this essay, originally included in The Collected Works of Ken Wilber: Volume IV, Ken offers an in-depth description of each of the major state-stages of meditative practice—ranging from psychic absorption, to subtle illumination, to causal transcendence, to the ultimate nondual embrace of Form and Emptiness.

Stages of Meditation: An Interview With Ken Wilber

BLOG: Half of It: A Union of Opposites

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:11:00 PST

In this chapter from No Boundary (Kindle, iBooks), Ken Wilber explores the intrinsic dualism of the mind, offering a simple but cogent way to "transcend the pairs" and discover the nondual heart of the Always Already....

Half of It: A Union of Opposites

BLOG: A Ticket to Athens: Looking Through the Lens of Contemplation

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:08:00 PST

In this essay, originally written in 1997 and included in One Taste: Daily Reflections on Integral Spirituality (Kindle, iBooks), Ken begins by explaining why an all-knowing, all powerful God would ever want to create a universe to begin with. He then describes an approach to spirituality anchored in direct experience rather than belief or dogma—experience that can be best cultivated through a genuinely integral approach to spiritual practice.

A Ticket to Athens: Looking Through the Lens of Contemplation

BLOG: Integral Life News: December 2011

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:52:00 PST

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BLOG: Ken Wilber Statement on Marc Gafni and the Center for World Spirituality

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:38:00 PST

The board of directors of the Center for World Spirituality recently made a public statement, conveying their support for Marc Gafni as a leader and teacher in the Center.

Earlier, in a post on the Integral Life website, I have commented on the situation that developed several months ago in the blogosphere.

I acknowledged in that post that Marc, like most great spiritual teachers and pundits, has great gifts as well as human complexity. I pointed out that everyone must make up their own mind as to whether they want to work with Marc, or to be his student.

I am writing to share that, for myself, I have made up my mind. I am rejoining the Wisdom Council of the Center for World Spirituality, to which I invited many of my colleagues to participate.

I look forward to future...

BLOG: Integral Life News: November 2011

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 13:56:00 PST

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BLOG: Integral Life News: October 2011

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:00:00 PDT

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BLOG: Integral Life News: August 2011

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 14:04:00 PDT

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BLOG: Kosmic Creativity (with Ken Wilber, Andrew Cohen, and Marc Gafni)

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:32:00 PDT

Kosmic Creativity

Ken Wilber, Andrew Cohen, and Marc Gafni

Listen as Ken, Andrew, and Marc each offer a 20-minute overview of several important facets of creativity, including:

- The universal creativity that drives the engines of evolution from the Big Bang to this present moment.

- The connection between creativity and spiritual practice.

- Creativity as a moral and ethical imperative.

- The ever-changing cultural roles of art and artistry.

- The feeling of ecstatic urgency we experience when we fully step into our own personal creative drive.

- The need to reclaim creativity from its current social, cultural...

BLOG: The Loft Series: The Many Faces of Ken Wilber

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:30:00 PDT

The Loft Series: The Many Faces of Ken Wilber

Ken Wilber

Out of the several hundred hours of Ken dialogues we've shared in the last eight years, it seems fair enough to say that at least 99% fall into the realm of Ken speaking on quadrants, or levels, or states, or some other theoretical aspect of Integral living. Given this history, we assume that you might be ready for something completely different. Well, if so, the hour long segment you're about to engage is simply one of the most raw and most intimate set of personal reflections we've ever published—and we suspect you'll enjoy this change of pace as much as we did....

BLOG: Art Gallery -- The Transhuman: Agape and Eros by James Post

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:25:00 PDT

Art Gallery -- The Transhuman: Agape and Eros

James Post

This month we are proud to feature the work of James Post. James' art is astonishingly rich: diverse stylistic idioms in various media, presenting visionary mandalas, diagrammatic worlds, energy bodies in action, and more. Please take the time to contemplate the wider gestalt and the exquisite details of these scintillating works of art as they offer sliding scales of shining wonder and aesthetic delight.

"My work is informed by martial arts, transformations of consciousness, mystical cultivation, and the body. The illustration of energy in my drawings is a way for me to better understand my relationship with the gross...

BLOG: Fuel for Life: 10 Strategies for Nutritional Freedom (with Shawn Phillips and Ken Wilber )

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:20:00 PDT

Fuel for Life: 10 Strategies for Nutritional Freedom

Shawn Phillips and Ken Wilber

In this week's dialogue, Shawn Phillips and Ken Wilber talk about one of the most important (and least discussed) components of integral living: food and nutrition. Let's face it: it's hard to eat right. With so many different dieting fads and follies in our culture, it can be difficult to find straight answers about what you should and should not put into your body, which can make improving your own eating habits a significant challenge.

And yet there is a very real nutrition crisis in the world—particularly in the U.S., where 49 out of 50 states have an obesity rate exceeding 20% of the...

BLOG: The Economics of Being Integral (with Ken Wilber)

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:14:00 PDT

The Economics of Being Integral

Ken Wilber

A few weeks back, a truly global group of integral practitioners stopped by Ken's loft for a visit. These folks were taking part in Boulder Integral's Incubator intensive, a week-long workshop aimed to help folks bring to life their integral projects, and Ken was tasked with inspiring their visions. As the hour and a half long talk unfolded, it became increasingly clear that Ken wasn't merely speaking to the incubator participants, rather he was speaking to all practitioners of an Integral approach, to everyone who's faced the dignity and disaster of treading an integral path.

The economics of being integral is a good...

BLOG: Art Gallery: Arresting Stillness (by Jeff Lieberman)

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:07:00 PDT

Art Gallery: Arresting Stillness

Jeff Lieberman

with commentary by Michael Schwartz

Every month, we at Integral Life like to commit an entire week to some of our all-time favorite themes: Art, Beauty, and Creativity. Because these themes are so important to us (and to the Integral movement at large) we are constantly trying to further enrich our art-related offerings. Here is what you will find this week:

Featuring the most prominent and talented artists from all over the Integral world, our monthly Integral Life Art Gallery goes way beyond the deconstructive malaise that seems to define so much of the contemporary post-modern art scene, reaching into a brand new...

BLOG: Coming Home: A Guided Tour (with Leslie Hershberger and Ken Wilber)

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 21:01:00 PDT

Coming Home: A Guided Tour

Leslie Hershberger and Ken Wilber

Listen as Leslie Hershberger talks to Ken about her own inspirations for creating the Coming Home practicum, and offers a guided tour through the first lessons offered by the course (stay tuned in coming weeks for more!) If you are thinking about signing up for Coming Home, this talk will offer you a general overview of what to expect. Even if you are not considering joining the practicum, this dialogue completely stands on its own, offering you a birds-eye-view of some of the most exciting evolutions of Christianity in over 2000 years.

BLOG: Rumi With Love (Coleman Barks and David Darling)

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Tue, 31 May 2011 16:15:00 PDT

Rumi With Love

Coleman Barks and David Darling

Coleman Barks is a preeminent poet, scholar, and interpreter of the writings of Jalal ad-Din Rumi. David Darling is a Grammy-winning cellist who recorded 2009's Prayers of Compassion. Together they perform a breathtaking rendition of Rumi's poetry at the 2010/2011 Integral Spiritual Experience event.

These clips are excerpted from a stunning 75-minute performance by Coleman Barks and David Darling, presented at the 2010/2011 Integral Spiritual Experience event. The full recording is available in our ISE 2 Media Collection, along with another sixteen...

BLOG: Integral Tantra: Bringing Everything to the Path (Sally Kempton and Ken Wilber)

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Mon, 30 May 2011 16:08:00 PDT

Integral Tantra: Bringing Everything to the Path

Sally Kempton and Ken Wilber

This is not a discussion about sex. It's a discussion about bliss.

It often seems that the word Tantra is mishandled by the West, fantasized and fetishized and repackaged into something more enticing to our collective sexual shadows. But outside the realm of self-help books, soft-core porn, and Sting interviews, Tantra actually has very little to do with sexual virility or finding ways to last longer in bed.

Of course there are Tantric traditions that include sexual practices, but at its core Tantra is really just the simple recognition of the erotic union of emptiness and form—that is...

BLOG: Meditation for the Love of It (Sally Kempton and Ken Wilber)

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Sun, 29 May 2011 16:07:00 PDT

Meditation for the Love of It

Sally Kempton and Ken Wilber

Spiritual practice—it can be such a chore, can't it? Even the word "practice" sounds like homework, like you need to eat all your vegetables before you can taste the sweet dessert of liberated consciousness. However, you might be surprised to find out that this isn't how spiritual practice is supposed to feel!

"The best reason to do any meditation practice is that you like it. You should enjoy it. You should be able to relax within it. It should give you a feeling of peace. Once you've become familiar with it, the practice should feel natural. If you have to work too hard at the...

BLOG: Living an Ethical Life (Roger Walsh and Ken Wilber)

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Sat, 28 May 2011 16:04:00 PDT

Living an Ethical Life

Roger Walsh and Ken Wilber

How do you live your life free of regret? How do you take the wisdom of the Integral vision and exercise it in your day to day life? How do you move beyond the blame and guilt that so often festers in the basement of your psyche? And why can it be so hard to simply be good? Roger discusses this and more in his presentation on Integral Ethics, delivered at the 2010 Integral Theory Conference.

We recommend that you hold this presentation on ethics as an important cornerstone of your Integral Life Practice. In many ways, ethics represents both the first and final word in any authentically-lived life, where the fruits of our practice ripen, fall to the...

BLOG: Lifestyle and Mental Health: Restoring Sanity in the 21st Century (Roger Walsh and Ken Wilber)

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Fri, 27 May 2011 15:59:00 PDT

Lifestyle and Mental Health: Restoring Sanity in the 21st Century

Roger Walsh and Ken Wilber

The 21st century is becoming an increasingly bizarre time, when a significant portion of humanity seems to be conducting a massive, unprecedented, world-wide lifestyle experiment. As Roger discusses in this video, people are spending more and more time indoors in artificial, nature free environments, with low-level artificial lighting. We are eating high calorie and nutrient-poor diets, and tend to get very little exercise compared to previous generations. We are completely and totally immersed in the online multimedia world, and exist as parts of huge, largely impersonal, often anonymous communities...

BLOG: 8 Simple Lifestyle Tips to Improve Your Health and Happiness (Roger Walsh and Ken Wilber)

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Thu, 26 May 2011 15:59:00 PDT

8 Simple Lifestyle Tips to Improve Your Health and Happiness

Roger Walsh and Ken Wilber

Have you ever struggled with depression, anxiety, stress, exhaustion, or illness?

If you happen to be a living, breathing human being, there's a very good chance that you answered "yes, all of the above". After all, as the Buddhists are quick to point out, life is suffering. We are all subject to certain limitations, whether emotional, mental, spiritual, or mortal. And while it's good to learn to accept the reality of our condition—yes, we all suffer—there are some astonishingly simple ways to help manage and reduce the pain of samsara, while dramatically increasing...

BLOG: Integral Health & Healing, with Ken Wilber and Dr. Roger Walsh

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Thu, 26 May 2011 15:44:00 PDT
Integral Health & Healing, with Ken Wilber and Dr. Roger Walsh

Sat. Jun. 4 at 2pm at the Boulder Integral Center

An event to explore:

* Health and wellbeing

* Psychological and spiritual problems, health and wellbeing

* Optimal lifestyles

* The interplay of personal, social, and cultural pathology and wellbeing

* And whatever topics you want to bring up

Join us for an exploration of healing and health, featuring author and integral philosopher Ken Wilber, with Australian professor of Psychiatry, Philosophy and Anthropology, Roger Walsh. In this relaxed three-hour session at our old church in downtown Boulder, you will gain insights into a more comprehensive approach to health, well-being and medicine, one that respects — and integrates — all streams of human wisdom and healing. Read more/purchase tickets

BLOG: Ken Wilber's Message to Japan

kenwilber.com@gmail.com — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:05:00 PDT

Hello to my friends in Japan,

As one attempts to live an Integral Life, there are always ups and downs in the process. To have an Integral awareness means that you have a higher, wider, deeper awareness, with more perspectives and more care and more concern and more love. So even when difficult times arise, it's important to keep the heart and mind open and wide and embracing.

This goes for the troubles in Fukushima prefecture. The potentially devastating nature of these problems has a tendency to make one close one's eyes, narrow one's awareness, push the whole thing out of mind. But that's exactly what we shouldn't do. Instead of closing down, we need to open up, to...