Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
A journey into the meaning, role, and crisis of eldership in our time, grounded in a life's journey of spiritual seeking and realisation.
Joining for this VC Network Elder Circle is the general thinker, widely cultured spiritual practitioner and respected teacherly authority on integral theory and its history, Bruce Alderman.
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Learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ voicecraft.io
Access the show notes for this podcast at @ voicecraft.io/content/e82-the-meaning-of-eldership-w/-bruce-alderman-and-the-voicecraft-network
Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0
Listent to Bruce on @theintegralstage8140
Timestamps
3:58 - The Meaning of Elderhood
7:30 - "To Be A Field In Which Time Ripens"
11:35 - Time, peak experience and initiation into expanded awareness
22:20 - The relation between past and present efforts at building on the edge of spiritual / cultural evolution
36:30 - The role of guru in relation to self understanding and cultural evolution (qualities and failure modes)
45:30 - What the Integral Community Has Not Done Well
50:30 - The role of youth and eldership in cultivating culture
57:00 - The relation between eldership and time
1:09:00 - Where eldership goes wrong
1:24:00 - @O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel reflects on the relation between elders, education, the younger, and consequence for thinking economics
1:31:00 - Reflection and beautiful closing thoughts on psilocybin, mystical experience death, and the importance of community
A journey into the meaning, role, and crisis of eldership in our time, grounded in a life's journey of spiritual seeking and realisation.
Joining for this VC Network Elder Circle is the general thinker, widely cultured spiritual practitioner and respected teacherly authority on integral theory and its history, Bruce Alderman.
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Learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ voicecraft.io
Access the show notes for this podcast at @ voicecraft.io/content/e82-the-meaning-of-eldership-w/-bruce-alderman-and-the-voicecraft-network
Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0
Listent to Bruce on @theintegralstage8140
Timestamps
3:58 - The Meaning of Elderhood
7:30 - "To Be A Field In Which Time Ripens"
11:35 - Time, peak experience and initiation into expanded awareness
22:20 - The relation between past and present efforts at building on the edge of spiritual / cultural evolution
36:30 - The role of guru in relation to self understanding and cultural evolution (qualities and failure modes)
45:30 - What the Integral Community Has Not Done Well
50:30 - The role of youth and eldership in cultivating culture
57:00 - The relation between eldership and time
1:09:00 - Where eldership goes wrong
1:24:00 - @O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel reflects on the relation between elders, education, the younger, and consequence for thinking economics
1:31:00 - Reflection and beautiful closing thoughts on psilocybin, mystical experience death, and the importance of community
