Integral Life | Media Legitimacy and the Four Faces of Truth @IntegralNaked | Uploaded April 2022 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
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Integral Journalism in the Disinformation Age
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We live in an age of extreme fragmentation, where our informational terrains have become more broken and balkanized than ever before. Whether it’s ideological propaganda coming from any number of narrow partisan outlets, corporate propaganda coming through the mainstream media, blatant state propaganda coming from our governments, or the bottom-up aperspectival madness coming from social media — we are flooded on all sides by deliberately-partial truths, carefully tailored for each of us by unseen algorithms that reinforce our biases and keep us clicking. As a result we’ve seen a critical breakdown of legitimacy and trust in our media institutions, our collective sense-making, and our overall sense of shared reality.
And of course, Integral is very comfortable working with partial truths, pulling them together into a more coherent understanding of reality. We often say things like “everyone is right” — but there is a difference between “partial truths” that we definitely want to integrate, and “deliberately partial truths” — another name for propaganda, and something we want to be very cautious about integrating or else we risk infecting our own operating systems with socially-engineered malware.
When the information we have grown to depend upon for our own sense-making has become so broken and fragmented, so do our minds. And when a constant firehose of false narratives are internalized and become a core part of our own identity, it can be very difficult to begin healing the divisions between us. With any hope, this conversation (and others like it) can help begin to heal our hearts, and defrag our heads.
Here we take a close look at the breakdown of media legitimacy, using Ken Wilber’s “Four Faces of Truth” — truth, truthfulness, justness, and functional fit — in order to guide the discussion.
Stefan Schultz is a journalist for Der Spiegel magazine since 2007, and a student of integral theory since 2018.
Find the full discussion here:
Integral Journalism in the Disinformation Age
integrallife.com/integral-journalism-in-the-disinformation-age
Find the full discussion here:
Integral Journalism in the Disinformation Age
integrallife.com/integral-journalism-in-the-disinformation-age
We live in an age of extreme fragmentation, where our informational terrains have become more broken and balkanized than ever before. Whether it’s ideological propaganda coming from any number of narrow partisan outlets, corporate propaganda coming through the mainstream media, blatant state propaganda coming from our governments, or the bottom-up aperspectival madness coming from social media — we are flooded on all sides by deliberately-partial truths, carefully tailored for each of us by unseen algorithms that reinforce our biases and keep us clicking. As a result we’ve seen a critical breakdown of legitimacy and trust in our media institutions, our collective sense-making, and our overall sense of shared reality.
And of course, Integral is very comfortable working with partial truths, pulling them together into a more coherent understanding of reality. We often say things like “everyone is right” — but there is a difference between “partial truths” that we definitely want to integrate, and “deliberately partial truths” — another name for propaganda, and something we want to be very cautious about integrating or else we risk infecting our own operating systems with socially-engineered malware.
When the information we have grown to depend upon for our own sense-making has become so broken and fragmented, so do our minds. And when a constant firehose of false narratives are internalized and become a core part of our own identity, it can be very difficult to begin healing the divisions between us. With any hope, this conversation (and others like it) can help begin to heal our hearts, and defrag our heads.
Here we take a close look at the breakdown of media legitimacy, using Ken Wilber’s “Four Faces of Truth” — truth, truthfulness, justness, and functional fit — in order to guide the discussion.
Stefan Schultz is a journalist for Der Spiegel magazine since 2007, and a student of integral theory since 2018.
Find the full discussion here:
Integral Journalism in the Disinformation Age
integrallife.com/integral-journalism-in-the-disinformation-age
![What Is Integral Spirituality? [PREVIEW]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Qtt2FMsUPvI/hqdefault.jpg "What Is Integral Spirituality? [PREVIEW]
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What exactly do we mean by spirituality, and what do we mean specifically by “integral spirituality?” In this discussion, Nomali Perera presents a brief but vast array of ways in which we can explore this topic of integral spirituality. Her guests, longtime integral spiritual teachers and practitioners, Lama Pema Dragpa, Jeff Salzman & Rollie Stanich share their own inquiries and ideas of practices as well as answer questions from event attendees. At the end, you’ll also find a great integral anthem, “Universe Communion” by Stuart Davis, which beautifully captures the theme of integral spirituality.
Lama Pema Dragpa is a resident Dharma teacher at Padma Samye Ling (PSL) since 2004. Ordained as a lama, Dragpa graduated with honors in philosophy & religious studies from NYU in 2002, and is a senior editor of over 25 books on Buddhist philosophy & meditation.
Jeff Salzman co-founded the Boulder Integral Center, worked alongside Ken Wilber in the early to mid 2000s developing the Integral Institute, and has been the host of The Daily Evolver podcast for over 10 years. He also co-founded CareerTrack Training, an adult education company he and his partner built into an international organization producing over 3000. A long time spiritual practitioner in many traditions, he has a Masters Degree in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism from Naropa University.
Rollie Stanich was the co-director of the Integral Spiritual Center at Integral Institute in the mid 2000s and played a critical role in developing multiple events bringing together some of the best spiritual teachers of various traditions. He is the author of Integral Christianity: The Way of Embodied Love. Rollie Stanich grew up in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was awarded the University of Calgary’s highest scholarship for four consecutive years, and graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Management in 1990. Rollie is also working in the clean energy industry.
Nomali Perera has been in the field of leadership development coaching, facilitation and teaching since 2007. Nomali is a certified facilitator of Polarity Management, the Immunity to Change™ process, and an Integral Master Coach through Integral Coaching Canada. Nomali has also been a professional consultant in people development and training in Brazil and Mexico. She was a staff member of Integral Institute in the early to mid 2000’s and was a co-founder of the Boulder Integral Center.")
