The Future Faces of Spirit (Ep. 35: Brendan Graham Dempsey) - Reconstructing Religion The Integral Stage 2021-05-21 | What paths lie ahead for religion and spirituality in the 21st Century? How might the insights of modernity and post-modernity impact and inform humanity's ancient wisdom traditions? How are we to enact, together, new spiritual visions – independently, or within our respective traditions – that can respond adequately to the challenges of our times?RECONSTRUCTING RELIGION: METAMODERNISM AND THE MEANING CRISISFor Episode 35, Brendan Graham Dempsey reflects on the vertiginous transition between worldviews, from the death of God and the collapse of the mythic worldview, to the postmodern deconstruction of modernism, to the disillusionment now with postmodernism and the pervasive meaning crisis that has gripped so many. He describes his own firsthand experience of the disintegration of a well-insulated, mythic worldview, and then considers what gifts and insights metamodernism might have to help us reconstruct religion, how we might draw from the best of what preceded us, and what possibilities might open through the development of a post-postmodern, generative, open-source mythology.0:35 What We Need to Do10:20 First, Correcting a False Dichotomy13:44 Losing Our (Traditional) Religion18:45 Grieving the Loss of Naive Traditionalism22:40 Disillusionment: The Chaos between Worlds28:25 Insights of Modernity33:17 Insights of Postmodernity37:16 Failures of Modernity and Postmodernity41:25 Integration and Development43:35 Reconstructing Religion56:19 ConclusionBrendan Graham Dempsey is a writer whose work focuses on the meaning crisis and the nature of spirituality in metamodernity. He earned his BA in Religious Studies from the University of Vermont and his MA in Religion and the Arts from Yale University. He lives in Wolcott, Vermont.Professional website:www.BrendanGrahamDempsey.comPlease consider supporting The Integral Stage on Patreon!patreon.com/theintegralstage
A New Vision of Reality - TSK for the 21st Century (Ep. 12: Elissa Slanger) The Integral Stage 2024-10-15 | A New Vision of Reality: TSK for the 21st Century is a new series exploring the Time-Space-Knowledge vision, which is a secular or "post-metaphysical" path of spiritual inquiry first introduced by the Tibetan lama, Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche. TSK starts from the radical suggestion that deep, open-ended, sustained inquiry into time, space, and knowledge, as fundamental facets or elements of our being, can have a profoundly transformative impact on our ways of being and knowing in the world. As we head now into the third decade of the 21st century, many people are realizing that we have become caught up, rather surprisingly, in various crises of meaning and sense-making. And as a secular path of transformative inquiry and non-dual insight, open to science and psychology as much as to contemplative disciplines and Socratic dialogue, TSK is powerfully resonant with and relevant to the various integral, metamodern, and other communities that are attempting to articulate and address these crises. In this series, then, we will explore TSK in depth, talking to many of its teachers and long-time students, considering its origins and intentions, its key insights and practices, and looking forward also for whatever wisdom and ways of working it might offer us in the century ahead.For Episode 12, Bruce Alderman is joined by Elissa Slanger, a TSK and Kum Nye instructor, psychotherapist, and former ski instructor. Elissa discusses her early explorations of Christian mysticism and Eastern traditions; her travels to the East and her Zen formation in Japanese Rinzai monasteries; her encounter with Tibetan traditions in Nepal; her first meetings with Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche and her introduction to TSK; and her deepening exploration of TSK, with its impact on her life, her practice as a psychotherapist, her work on the arts of aging, and much more. Center for Creative Inquiry Facebook pagefacebook.com/CenterforCreativeInquiryCenter for Creative Inquiry websitecreativeinquiry.org/developThe torus fractal that forms the base of the cover image was generated by GeoKone.Please consider supporting The Integral Stage on Patreon to make more of these conversations possible!patreon.com/theintegralstage
Both One and Many (Interview with Oliver Griebel) The Integral Stage 2024-09-25 | For the forty-eighth episode of the Integral Stage Author Series, Layman engages in a transatlantic chat with Oliver Griebel about his new anthology, Both One and Many. This volume explores the theological and philosophical grounds for, and implications of, the trans-dual concept of the Many-One, with contributions from Oliver Griebel, John Heron, Philip Clayton, Layman Pascal, Bruce Alderman, Tilmann Haberer, Steve McIntosh, Jorge Ferrer, and Thomas Steininger & Elizabeth Debold.Oliver Griebel, born in 1964 in Munich, is a teacher, philosopher and translator, and the editor for the original German edition of this book, Wir Vielen in dieser einen Welt.Check out The Integral Stage on Fathom apphttps://hello.fathom.fm/Please consider supporting The Integral Stage on Patreon!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, The LIMITED HANGOUT guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
Fearology and Development in the U.S. Election Cycle The Integral Stage 2024-09-09 | In this special Integral Stage episode, Layman is joined again by author and "fearologist," Michael Fisher, to talk about the current "fearological" dynamics involved in the current U.S. election cycle, the role of development in election dynamics, strategy, and reform, and much else.R. Michael Fisher, Ph.D., is an independent scholar, artist, educator and fearologist and is founder and director of In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, The Fearology Center, and hosts the Fearlessness Movement ning as a social platform for building community and sharing resources on the impacts, individual and collective, of the culture of fear. He holds degrees in Ecological Sciences, Environmental Biology, Educational Psychology, Education (Secondary Science) and a M.A. in Adult Education and Ph.D. in Curriculum Design & Instruction (The University of British Columbia). He has specialized in futures, philosophy of education, leadership and organizational development and has long been on a healing and recovery quest, engaging in careers of artistry, research consulting, teaching and rehabilitation for youth and their families. Check out The Integral Stage on Fathom apphttps://hello.fathom.fm/Please consider supporting The Integral Stage on Patreon!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, The LIMITED HANGOUT guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
First Principles and First Values, Part 3 (Interview with David J. Temple) The Integral Stage 2024-08-30 | In this third and final episode in this series, which is cross-posted to both the Cosmo-Erotic Humanism and Authors Series playlists, Layman sits down again with Marc Gafni and Zak Stein to talk further about their jointly authored book, First Principles and First Values, this time focusing on some of the core philosophical arguments. They are publishing the book pseudonymously under the name, David J. Temple.First Principles and First Valuesamazon.com/First-Principles-Values-Propositions-Cosmoerotic/dp/B0CS85WYVX
The Meta-Podcast (Ep. 43: Tucker Walsh) The Integral Stage 2024-08-14 | In this (no longer) new Integral Stage series, we will be talking with podcasters, YouTubers, and other media producers who are trying to offer, or who can't help but offer, more integrative perspectives. Who are these people, what do they collectively understand and point towards, and how can they be interlinked, mutually supported, clarified, and amplified?For episode 43, Layman meets with documentary film producer, Tucker Walsh, to talk about his new podcast, Illuminating Life, where he aims to "shine light on inspiring souls and the passions that light them up."Tucker is an Emmy Award-winning documentary director. His background in photojournalism provides him with a unique cinematic vision centered on authenticity. His ability to work intimately with his subjects builds their trust, giving them the comfort to open up on camera. Tucker’s vivid imagery and dynamic edits bring viewers on a visceral and emotional journey, allowing them to experience life through the eyes of his subjects. He is also the co-founder of Constructing Consciousness.Illuminating Life podcasthttps://illuminatinglife.transistor.fm/Tucker's websitetuckerwalsh.comCheck out The Integral Stage on Fathom apphttps://hello.fathom.fm/Please consider supporting The Integral Stage on Patreon!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, The LIMITED HANGOUT guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
CONEtrolled (Interview with Nava Israel) The Integral Stage 2024-08-05 | For the forty-seventh episode of the Integral Stage Author Series, Layman meets with Dr. Nava Israel to discuss her "Cone" model, which describes a common pattern through which often well-meaning solutions to problems end up transforming into dogmatic systems that rob individuals of their freedoms and worsen their problems. Layman invites Dr. Nava to unpack the inner workings of the systems that oppress and control individuals under the guise of wisdom, necessity, kindness, greatness, unity, or progress. Nava Israel is a lifelong innovator, entrepreneur, author, researcher, facilitator, speaker, educator, a business and academic consultant, and a social and cultural innovator with a PhD in epidemiology. Beyond formal titles, she is a philosopher at heart with an insatiable curiosity for all forms of science, critical thinking, human behaviour, patterns, social justice, true and deep healing, our place in the universe, and the intersections of all the above. CONEtrolled bookamazon.com/stores/Nava-Israel-Ph.D./author/B0D7XVDDQLCheck out The Integral Stage on Fathom apphttps://hello.fathom.fm/Please consider supporting The Integral Stage on Patreon!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, The LIMITED HANGOUT guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
The Soul of AI (Ep. 13: Evelyn Paul) The Integral Stage 2024-07-24 | The question of the promise and peril of AI is a proper one for our long-running Love the System series, but we thought it deserved its own spot as a sub-series due to the rapid development and proliferation of Large Language Models and other ground-breaking AI technologies over the past six months. It may be too early to tell yet, but with the clear power of this emergent technology, its potential to take over many of the tasks we used to regard as exclusively human, and its rapid public uptake, it feels like we are on the cusp of an epochal change. How are we to secure the psychological and spiritual health of human beings in the face of such developments? How do we ethically and wisely merge living and non-living intelligences? What wisdom from this corner of the internet -- from our respective integral, metamodern, and spiritual communities -- can help us navigate the monumental challenges and opportunities ahead?For the thirteenth episode of The Soul of AI, Layman sits down with shaman and spiritual teacher, Evelyn Paul, to explore a shamanic take on the emergence and nature of AI, and to discuss some of her shamanic journeys that have shaped her insights into the topic. Follow The Integral Stage on Fathom! https://hello.fathom.fm/Remember to like, subscribe, and support The Integral Stage on Patreon to make more of these conversations possible!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, the LIMITED HANGOUT guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
First Principles and First Values, Part 2 (Interview with David J. Temple) The Integral Stage 2024-07-18 | In this episode, which is cross-posted to both the Cosmo-Erotic Humanism and Authors Series playlists, Layman sits down again with Marc Gafni and Zak Stein to talk further about their jointly authored book, First Principles and First Values, this time focusing on some of the core philosophical arguments. They are publishing the book pseudonymously under the name, David J. Temple.First Principles and First Valuesamazon.com/First-Principles-Values-Propositions-Cosmoerotic/dp/B0CS85WYVX
The Liminal Café (Ep. 10: Ēlen Awalom, Part 2) The Integral Stage 2024-07-12 | The Liminal Café is where the locals of the liminal web gather for coffee and conversation. In this new series, Layman chats with the people and patrons who, for some curious reason, find themselves drawn to this sketchy corner of the internet...ATTACHMENT, TRAUMA, AND DEVELOPMENT IN GENDER RELATIONSFor episode 10, Layman sits down again with Ēlen Awalom, this time to talk about unhealthy and healthy gender models, and the roles of attachment, trauma, and development in contemporary gender relations.Ēlen Awalom is an Eritrean-American Somatic Experiencing practitioner, writer, entrepreneur and cultural commentator. She lives and works in DC where she is the founder of The Almaz Institute, an organization that provides trauma-sensitive leadership and communication trainings steeped in the most cutting edge insights from developmental and somatic psychology. In a previous life she was an exhibiting Afrofuturist visual artist, women’s dating coach focused on developing securely attached relationships, political activist and serial tech entrepreneur who successfully raised millions of dollars from Google Ventures.Ēlen's Professional websiteelenawalom.comCheck out Integral Stage episodes on the Fathom apphttps://hello.fathom.fm/Support The Integral Stage on Patreon!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, the Limited Hangout guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
The Liminal Café (Ep. 9: Alexander Love) The Integral Stage 2024-06-28 | The Liminal Café is where the locals of the liminal web gather for coffee and conversation. In this new series, Layman chats with the people and patrons who, for some curious reason, find themselves drawn to this sketchy corner of the internet...CREATIVITY, DIAPHANEITY, AND THE 5 EVOLUTIONARY GESTURESFor episode 9, Layman sits down with Alexander Love for a rich conversation about his life and healing journey, love and forgiveness, creativity, integral and Taoist thought, and a book he is working on on what he calls the five evolutionary gestures.Alexander Love is an acupuncturist, life coach, and craniosacral therapist. With gentleness, lightness and depth, he invites us to listen to the voice of our inner wisdom & potency and allow that to move us outward into the world and make a difference. The call to embark on this journey invites us to recognize that we matter beyond measure. Our individual voices, when allowed to speak from the depths of our intrinsic beauty, weave a complex melody of an emblazoned, sacred heart inscribed and aflame with the majestic mystery of life.eōs websiteeoswellnesscenter.com/alexander-loveeōs learning collectiveeoslearningcollective.comCheck out Integral Stage episodes on the Fathom apphttps://hello.fathom.fm/Support The Integral Stage on Patreon!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, the Limited Hangout guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
Public Shadow (Interview with Jill Nephew) The Integral Stage 2024-06-21 | In this special episode, Layman meets with human woman, Jill Nephew, to explore the intricacies of projection and shadow, image and truth, public identities and dopplegangers, in our highly mediated, complexly entangled, and increasingly manipulable digital information spaces.Jill Nephew is the founder of Inqwire, PBC a company on a mission to help the world make sense. The Inqwire technology is designed to enhance and accelerate human sensemaking abilities. The designing of the system required her to attempt to answer a fundamental question: how does technology interact with the mind's ability to do individual and collective sensemaking, and what are the principles that technology should follow to maximize these abilities? Jill's background includes developing tools, platforms, and meta-data-based software languages to help people find solutions to complex, real-world problems. She developed algorithms and models in the area of constraint-based optimization, drug binding, motion control, disease kinetics, protein folding, atmospheric pollution, human articulated movement, complex fluids, and most recently sensemaking.Personal websitejillnephew.com/index.htmlInqwire websiteinqwire.ioFollow The Integral Stage on Fathom! https://hello.fathom.fm/Remember to like, subscribe, and support The Integral Stage on Patreon to make more of these conversations possible!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, the LIMITED HANGOUT guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
Processing Reality (Interview with John H. Buchanan) The Integral Stage 2024-06-11 | For the forty-sixth episode of the Integral Stage Author Series, Layman sits down to talk with John H. Buchanan about his new autobiographical and philosophical meditation on process thought, death, psychedelics, and the journey from addiction to sobriety and meaningful living.John H. Buchanan received his master’s degree in humanistic/transpersonal psychology from West Georgia College and his doctorate from the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. He has been trained and certified as a Holotropic Breathwork practitioner by Stan and Christina Grof. His book, "Processing Reality: Finding Meaning in Death, Psychedelics, and Sobriety", based upon his continuing interests in process philosophy and transpersonal psychology, was published in the fall of 2022. Buchanan has contributed a number of journal articles and book chapters on similar topics, and in 2020 was co-editor for "Rethinking Consciousness: Extraordinary Challenges for Contemporary Science".Processing Reality bookamazon.com/Processing-Reality-Finding-Psychedelics-Sobriety-ebook/dp/B0BM6KYDNHCheck out The Integral Stage on Fathom apphttps://hello.fathom.fm/Please consider supporting The Integral Stage on Patreon!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, The LIMITED HANGOUT guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
Gurdjieff for a Time Between Worlds (Interview with Layman Pascal) The Integral Stage 2024-06-05 | For the forty-fifth episode of the Integral Stage Author Series, Layman bilocates for an interview with his truly, to talk about his newly published book, Gurdjieff for a Time Between Worlds: Hyperpersonal Essays on the Grandfather of Metamodern Spirituality.Gurdjieff for a Time Between Worldsskymeadowinstitute.org/pressCheck out The Integral Stage on Fathom apphttps://hello.fathom.fm/Please consider supporting The Integral Stage on Patreon!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, The LIMITED HANGOUT guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
The Only Constant (Interview with Alyssa Allegretti) The Integral Stage 2024-05-25 | For the forty-fourth episode of the Integral Stage's Author Series, Layman meets with Alyssa Allegretti, to talk about her Substack-published book in progress, The Only Constant: How to Stay (Somewhat) Stable & Organized During Times of Transition & Grief. Dubbing her the Meta-Marie Kondo, Layman invites Alyssa to share her insights into the art of internal housekeeping, and the transformational significance of everyday tasks.The Only Constant (on Substack)adaptivedaydream.substack.com/p/the-only-constant-883The Post-Tragic Art of Liminal Housekeepinghttp://www.whatisemerging.com/opinions/the-post-tragic-art-of-liminal-housekeepingCheck out The Integral Stage on Fathom apphttps://hello.fathom.fm/Please consider supporting The Integral Stage on Patreon!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, The LIMITED HANGOUT guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
The Meta-Podcast (Ep. 42: Amiel Handelsman) The Integral Stage 2024-05-21 | In this new Integral Stage series, we will be talking with podcasters, YouTubers, and other media producers who are trying to offer, or who can't help but offer, more integrative perspectives. Who are these people, what do they collectively understand and point towards, and how can they be interlinked, mutually supported, clarified, and amplified?Episode 42 of The Meta-Podcast is an unusual one -- the first half of it belonging equally to the Integral Authors series. Amiel Handelsman joins Layman to talk first about an article he has written on the topic of deracialization, and whether the social and systemic issues and injustices that anti-racists want to resolve can still be properly addressed without buy-in to the concept of race. And in the second half of their conversation, Amiel introduces his new podcast, How My View Grew, which explores how big thinkers have changed their thinking in relation to significant issues and challenges, and in particular what that reveals about the complexity of our most wicked problems.Why Deracializing People is Essential to Combating Racismamielhandelsman.medium.com/why-deracializing-people-is-essential-to-combating-racism-34724043faa5How My View Grew podcastOn Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-my-view-grew/id1731021662On Podlink: https://pod.link/1731021662Fathom apphttps://hello.fathom.fm/Please consider supporting The Integral Stage on Patreon!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, the Limited Hangout guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
The Meta-Podcast (Ep. 41: Sally Adnams Jones & Jen Peer Rich Redux) The Integral Stage 2024-05-10 | On The Meta-Podcast (formerly Integral Podcasters), we talk with podcasters, YouTubers, and other media producers who are trying to offer, or who can't help but offer, more integrative perspectives. Who are these people, what do they collectively understand and point towards, and how can they be interlinked, mutually supported, clarified, and amplified?For episode 41, Layman is joined again by Dr. Sally Adnams Jones and Dr. Jen Peer Rich, this time to talk about their experience with successfully running and concluding their Radical Emergence podcast project. What did they accomplish, what did they learn from it that can inform our larger community, and what do they plan to do next? Radical Emergence Podcastradicalemergence.orgFathom apphttps://hello.fathom.fm/Please consider supporting The Integral Stage on Patreon!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, the Limited Hangout guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
Alchemy of the Psyche (Interview with Robin Hummel) The Integral Stage 2024-05-03 | For the forty-third episode of the Integral Stage's Author Series, Layman huddles in a Finnish grove with Robin Hummel (Bassareus) to talk about his new book, Alchemy of the Psyche. Robin discusses his journey leading up to the book, and together they explore the nature of archetypes, the difference between direct and indirect approaches to interacting with the archetypes, the importance of ritual, shadow work, and much more.Alchemy of the Psyche booklulu.com/shop/bassareus/alchemy-of-the-psyche/hardcover/product-v88dkze.htmlCheck out The Integral Stage on Fathom apphttps://hello.fathom.fm/Please consider supporting The Integral Stage on Patreon!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, The LIMITED HANGOUT guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
UTIK, Fundamental Shift, and TSK Inquiry (A Presentation at the 2024 UTOK Consilience Conference) The Integral Stage 2024-04-28 | Get Access to all the recordings of this years UTOK Consilience Conference 2024https://utok.circle.so/checkout/utok-conference-2024-video-library
Birthing the Symbiotic Age (Interview with Richard Flyer) The Integral Stage 2024-04-23 | For the forty-second episode of the Integral Stage Authors Series, Layman meets with Richard Flyer, founder of the Symbiotic Culture Lab, to talk about his new book, Birthing the Symbiotic Age. They discuss Richard's early life experiences and influences, and together explore how, as the book argues, "we can emerge from our fragmented and conflicted social networks/silos and create sustainable, interconnected ecosystem networks consisting of local leaders, organizations, businesses, and local government — in parallel to our already established systems."Birthing the Symbiotic Agerichardflyer.substack.com/s/birthing-the-symbiotic-age-new-bookSymbiotic Culture Labhttps://symbioticculturelab.super.site/Check out The Integral Stage on Fathom apphttps://hello.fathom.fm/Please consider supporting The Integral Stage on Patreon!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, The LIMITED HANGOUT guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
The Five Principles of Middle Way Philosophy (Interview with Robert M. Ellis) The Integral Stage 2024-04-15 | For the forty-first episode of The Integral Stage's Author Series, Layman sits down again with Middle Way philosopher and author, Robert M. Ellis, this time to discuss his new book, The Five Principles of Middle Way Philosophy -- the second book in a planned 9-part series on the Middle Way. Layman and Robert review the essential arguments of the book, exploring how a post-traditional, universalized middle-way philosophy might show up and what it might contribute to addressing the challenges of the contemporary world.From the book's description:"This second book in the 'Middle Way Philosophy' series develops five general principles that are distinctive to the universal Middle Way as a practical response to absolutization. These begin with the consistent acknowledgement of human uncertainty (scepticism), and follow through with openness to alternative possibilities (provisionality), the importance of judging things as a matter of degree (incrementality), the clear rejection of polarised absolute claims (agnosticism) and the cultivation of cognitive and emotional states that will help us resolve conflict (integration). These are discussed not only in theory, but with links to the wide range of established human practices that can help us to follow them. Like all of Robert M. Ellis's work, this book is highly inter-disciplinary, drawing on philosophical argument, psychological models and values that prioritize practical application."Robert M. Ellis is a philosopher, writer and teacher. He has produced a series of books about the Middle Way, understood as a principle of judgement that throws us onto experience by avoiding absolutes, both positive and negative. He has also founded the Middle Way Society to support the development and practice of the Middle Way understood in this way, and he has recently opened a retreat center, Tirylan House, in rural South Wales.The Five Principles of Middle Way Philosophy:amazon.com/Five-Principles-Middle-Philosophy-Experientially/dp/1800503032Fathom apphttps://hello.fathom.fm/Please consider supporting The Integral Stage on Patreon!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, The LIMITED HANGOUT guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!Finding the Balance by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100708Artist: http://incompetech.com
The Soul of AI (Ep. 12: Lee Chazen) The Integral Stage 2024-04-05 | The question of the promise and peril of AI is a proper one for our long-running Love the System series, but we thought it deserved its own spot as a sub-series due to the rapid development and proliferation of Large Language Models and other ground-breaking AI technologies over the past six months. It may be too early to tell yet, but with the clear power of this emergent technology, its potential to take over many of the tasks we used to regard as exclusively human, and its rapid public uptake, it feels like we are on the cusp of an epochal change. How are we to secure the psychological and spiritual health of human beings in the face of such developments? How do we ethically and wisely merge living and non-living intelligences? What wisdom from this corner of the internet -- from our respective integral, metamodern, and spiritual communities -- can help us navigate the monumental challenges and opportunities ahead?For the twelfth episode of The Soul of AI, Layman sits down with Lee Chazen, founder of GliderCell AI Lab, to talk about how artists, creatives, and generalist philosophers can contribute to the development of more fruitful expressions and applications of artificial intelligence, and about his own experiments in AI-related 'meta-fiction.' GliderCell websiteglidercell.com/glidercellFollow The Integral Stage on Fathom! https://hello.fathom.fm/Remember to like, subscribe, and support The Integral Stage on Patreon to make more of these conversations possible!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, the LIMITED HANGOUT guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
The Archipelago (Ep. 1: What is The Archipelago? & Reflections on Bioregionalism & Existential Risk) The Integral Stage 2024-03-26 | In this first episode of a new mini-series, The Archipelago, Layman meets with Bonnitta Roy and Brendan Graham Dempsey to talk about the inspirations behind the Archipelago project, which is to map and interlink the various integrative, new thought communities in their region of the American continent. They discuss upcoming events each will host at Brendan's Sky Meadow retreat center later this year; touch on several of the hubs of new thought and practice in Toronto, Vermont and Connecticut, and reaching down to North Carolina; and reflect on bioregionalism and the importance of cultivating a stronger sense of place as we face potential civilizational risk.Sky Meadow Instituteskymeadowinstitute.orgAlderlorealderlore.org/aboutFollow The Integral Stage on Fathom! https://hello.fathom.fm/Remember to like, subscribe, and support The Integral Stage on Patreon to make more of these conversations possible!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, the LIMITED HANGOUT guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
Hoe_Math (In Conversation with Layman Pascal) The Integral Stage 2024-03-15 | Several months ago, seasoned integral content creators watched with a mix of amazement and dismay as the integrally informed video, "Levels of Thinking," on a relationship and dating advice channel called Hoe_Math, blew up and got numbers in a couple weeks that no integral video in history has ever approached. Poor Corey DeVos needed to go get therapy, and I'm still recovering. So Layman wanted to find out who the guy behind the viral video is. Check it out.Hoe_math channelyoutube.com/@hoe_mathFollow The Integral Stage on Fathom! https://hello.fathom.fm/Remember to like, subscribe, and support The Integral Stage on Patreon to make more of these conversations possible!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, the LIMITED HANGOUT guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
The Emotional Backpack (Interview with Vivian Dittmar) The Integral Stage 2024-03-06 | For the 40th episode of the Integral Stage Authors Series, Layman meets with author and wisdom teacher, Vivian Dittmar, to talk about her latest book, The Emotional Backpack. The video quality is unfortunately very poor in the first 20 minutes or so, but it is worth sticking through for the beautiful, sensitive content. From the book: "Everyone carries an Emotional Backpack. It contains difficult, repressed feelings from the past which weigh us down in everyday life, in relationships, and at work, leading to inappropriate reactions and causing even harmless situations to escalate. But if you consciously embrace your emotional backpack, it can transform into a source of connection and wisdom."Vivian Dittmar is an author, wisdom teacher and founder of the Be the Change Foundation. Born in Germany, Vivian spent her childhood and youth on three continents, immersed in very diverse cultural and socio-economic contexts. This gives her a unique perspective on what it means to be human. Through her books, lectures, seminars and online offerings, she has been committed to a holistic development of people, society, economy and consciousness for over two decades. Her books include “The Emotional Backpack”, “The Power of Feelings“ and “Your Inner GPS“.📖 BOOK: “The Emotional Backpack” ► viviandittmar.net/en/the-emotional-backpack-book👩💻 ONLINE COURSE: “The Emotional Backpack” ► campus.lebensweise.net/o/the-emotional-backpack-online-course♥ SUBSCRIBE to Vivian’s YouTube Channel ► youtube.com/@viviandittmareng🎇 VIVIAN'S Website ► viviandittmar.com👩🎓 FREE WORKSHOP: “How Big Is Your Emotional Backpack?” ►signup.lebensweise.net/free-backpack-workshopFollow The Integral Stage on Fathom! https://hello.fathom.fm/Remember to like, subscribe, and support The Integral Stage on Patreon to make more of these conversations possible!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, the LIMITED HANGOUT guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
First Principles and First Values (Interview with David J. Temple) The Integral Stage 2024-02-27 | In this episode, which is cross-posted to both the Cosmo-Erotic Humanism and Authors Series playlists, Layman sits down with Marc Gafni and Zak Stein to discuss their jointly authored book, First Principles and First Values. They are publishing the book pseudonymously under the name, David J. Temple.First Principles and First Valuesamazon.com/First-Principles-Values-Propositions-Cosmoerotic/dp/B0CS85WYVX
Nonduality (Ep. 12: Direct Nondualism with Leeza Edwards and Layman Pascal) The Integral Stage 2024-02-22 | For the 12th episode of Non/duality, Layman meets with nondual teacher, Leeza Edwards, to talk about her early formative experiences, her spiritual practice and transformation, and her insights into the nature of nondual realization and its relationship to or impact on growth, sense of self, relational and communication dynamics, connection to ancestry and lineage, and much more.Leeza teaches self-awareness, embodied peace and mindfulness through the “direct path” lens of non-duality -- principally as self-inquiry and meditation via retreats, online gatherings, presentations and personal sessions. LinkedIn pagelinkedin.com/in/leeza-edwards-756b6742Follow The Integral Stage on Fathom! https://hello.fathom.fm/Remember to like, subscribe, and support The Integral Stage on Patreon to make more of these conversations possible!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, The Limited Hangout Guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
The Liminal Comedy Roast of Alexander Bard The Integral Stage 2024-02-14 | "This will definitely suck a little."
Future Human: Launching the Integral Conference of North America The Integral Stage 2024-02-08 | In this special episode, Layman sits down with Tom Habib to talk about the upcoming Integral conference, Future Human -- its genesis, its focus for this year, who's involved, how it will differ from past events, Tom's hope for it as a coming fixture in the integral / metamodern worlds, and much more.ICON Websiteweareicon.orgFollow The Integral Stage on Fathom! https://hello.fathom.fm/Remember to like, subscribe, and support The Integral Stage on Patreon to make more of these conversations possible!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, The Limited Hangout Guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
Love the System (Ep. 25: Forrest Wilson) The Integral Stage 2024-02-02 | In the Integral community, we tend to show too little love to the Lower Right quadrant. In this new series, Love the System, Layman Pascal and his guests will take deep dives the nature of living and man-made systems, and explore the most promising systemic approaches to managing the challenges of our day.In Episode 25, Layman meets with Forrest Wilson, host of The Forrest Wilson Experience, to talk about healthy, generative relationships to money; the internal and external conditions needed to shift to new, more value-centered, eudaimonic economies; the importance of the cultivation of, and a living relationship with, financial intelligence; and much more.Forrest Wilson is the host of The Forrest Wilson Experience podcast. After his father passed away in his early twenties, Forrest decided to let go of the idea he had for his life based on the expectations, conditioning, and cultural constructs he took on as a young person and dive deep into healing, developmental, and awakening journeys. After nearly a decade of playing in the unseen world, Forrest has found connection to a tremendous passion for supporting a humanity to live life more fully. By embodying a way of being that is palpably alive, clear, penetrative, and illuminating, Forrest invites folks around him to play all out.Forrest Wilson websiteforrestbwilson.comFollow The Integral Stage on Fathom! https://hello.fathom.fm/Remember to like, subscribe, and support The Integral Stage on Patreon to make more of these conversations possible!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, The Limited Hangout Guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
The Subtle Body (Interview with Simon Cox) The Integral Stage 2024-01-27 | For the 39th episode of the Integral Stage Authors Series, Layman cozies up in a yurt with Simon Cox to talk about his recent book, The Subtle Body: A Genealogy. Simon tells Layman about his history studying martial arts, including six years under a kung fu master on Wudang Mountain in China, and the path that led him to a deep, graduate-level comparative exploration of conceptions of the subtle body in Taoist and Tibetan Buddhist / Bon traditions. What are the similarities and differences between Eastern models of the subtle body and those we have inherited from the Neo-Platonists? How have these models been conflated in past scholarship? What did Crowley bring to the subject? What are the practical and onto-epistemological implications of a deep understanding of subtle body tradition and practice? What are some promising paths of future research? What does this tradition have to contribute to the rising interest in neo-animism in our time, or even the strange stories about interdimensional beings now circulating in the halls of Congress following the recent UAP hearings? Join Layman and Simon as they explore these questions and many more.Simon Cox, Ph.D., is an independent scholar and translator who works primarily in Chinese, Tibetan, and Greek. His research focuses on mysticism and the body. He is also a teacher of Chinese Martial Arts at the Okanagan Valley Wudang center, and a collaborator at the Esalen Institute.The Subtle Bodyamazon.com/Subtle-Body-Genealogy-Studies-Esotericism-ebook/dp/B09LVTVYFKOkanagan Valley Wudangokanaganvalleywudang.comFollow The Integral Stage on Fathom! https://hello.fathom.fm/Remember to like, subscribe, and support The Integral Stage on Patreon to make more of these conversations possible!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, the LIMITED HANGOUT guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
The Liminal Café (Ep. 8: Ēlen Awalom) The Integral Stage 2024-01-15 | The Liminal Café is where the locals of the liminal web gather for coffee and conversation. In this new series, Layman chats with the people and patrons who, for some curious reason, find themselves drawn to this sketchy corner of the internet...SHADOW-WORK, DESCENT, AND DEVELOPMENT IN EMBODIED LEADERSHIPFor episode 8, Layman sits down with Ēlen Awalom to talk about her experience as an activist, her spiritual awakenings, and her path of self-healing and development on the way to the creation of an embodied, integrally informed approach to leadership and leadership training.Ēlen Awalom is a technologist, creative (writer, exhibiting photographer, poet), human rights activist, trained anthropologist and start-up entrepreneur who lives in San Francisco, California. Born in Khartoum, Sudan to Eritrean parents, Ēlen came of age in the South Bronx and Northern Virginia.Ēlen's Professional websiteelenawalom.comCheck out Integral Stage episodes on the Fathom apphttps://hello.fathom.fm/Support The Integral Stage on Patreon!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, the Limited Hangout guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
The Marianne Williamson Presidential Phenomenon (Interview with Michael Fisher) The Integral Stage 2024-01-12 | For the 38th episode of the Integral Stage Authors Series, Layman welcomes fellow Canadian, fearologist, and author, Michael Fisher, to talk about his 2021 book, The Marianne Williamson Presidential Phenomenon. While the book chronicled Marianne's first presidential campaign, and offered commentary and critique on the strengths and missteps of those efforts, it is relevant now as well as she enters the US presidential race again. Layman and Michael explore these questions in the larger context of a consideration of the difference between a politics of love and a politics of fear.Dr. Fisher, Ph.D., is an independent scholar, artist, educator and fearologist and is founder and director of In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, The Fearology Center, and hosts the Fearlessness Movement ning as a social platform for building community and sharing resources on the impacts, individual and collective, of the culture of fear. He holds degrees in Ecological Sciences, Environmental Biology, Educational Psychology, Education (Secondary Science) and a M.A. in Adult Education and Ph.D. in Curriculum Design & Instruction (The University of British Columbia). He has specialized in futures, philosophy of education, leadership and organizational development and has long been on a healing and recovery quest, engaging in careers of artistry, research consulting, teaching and rehabilitation for youth and their families. The Marianne Williamson Presidential Phenomenonamazon.com/Marianne-Williamson-Presidential-Phenomenon-Evolution/dp/143317930XFollow The Integral Stage on Fathom! https://hello.fathom.fm/Remember to like, subscribe, and support The Integral Stage on Patreon to make more of these conversations possible!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, the LIMITED HANGOUT guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
Also/Perhaps (Ep. 2: Metaphemes in Science and Philosophy, with Layman Pascal) The Integral Stage 2024-01-08 | Also/Perhaps is a new video essay series, where Bruce Alderman and Layman Pascal will take turns posting thoughts on their respective philosophical projects, Integral Grammatology and The Metaphysics of Adjacency, and the "strange third thing" they will try to call forth from their intersections.In the second episode, Layman introduces the concept of 'metaphemes' — key elements that transcend dualities and connect various fields in science and philosophy; and that in their tracing of transcendent boundary conditions, help us to enact a truly integral pluralism. He examines how figures like Nietzsche, Heisenberg, and Einstein have been misinterpreted, and how their pioneering ideas offer insight into a beyond that is "between," and a difference that is implicit to identities. The discussion then explores how metaphemes shed light on important ideas of Koestler and Wilber, such as holons and quadrants. These theories illuminate the boundary conditions and adjacencies that both limit and enable translation across different perspectives, providing a more nuanced understanding of reality.Follow The Integral Stage on Fathom! https://hello.fathom.fm/Remember to like, subscribe, and support The Integral Stage on Patreon to make more of these conversations possible!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, the LIMITED HANGOUT guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
Also/Perhaps (Ep. 1: Metaximodality in Amerindian Cosmology, with Bruce Alderman) The Integral Stage 2024-01-01 | Also/Perhaps is a new video essay series, where Bruce Alderman and Layman Pascal will take turns posting thoughts on their respective philosophical projects, Integral Grammatology and The Metaphysics of Adjacency, and the "strange third thing" they will try to call forth from their intersections.For the first episode, Metaximodality in Amerindian Cosmology, Bruce turns to Amazonian shamanic cosmology and the ground-breaking anthropological scholarship of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro to illuminate a new integral grammatological concept: metaximodality. What can a deeply participatory, mythic cosmology teach us about doing philosophy in the 21st century? How can it help us to live differently in the world, and to see ourselves, and our visionary projects, anew? Listen in to see how Amerindian concepts such as perspectivism, multinaturalism, and infinite self-difference can shed light on pronounal, adverbial, and prepositional philosophemes -- not just as abstract notions, but as deeply embodied sensibilities.Resources:Sophia Speaks (thank you to whoever uploaded this!):file:///C:/Users/balde/Downloads/1_Alderman_ITC2013-1.pdfIntegral In-Dwelling:https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=conscjournalIntegral Postmetaphysical Spirituality forum (where many rich conversations helped to seed and inspire our respective projects):http://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.comfacebook.com/groups/470435939720069Follow The Integral Stage on Fathom! https://hello.fathom.fm/Remember to like, subscribe, and support The Integral Stage on Patreon to make more of these conversations possible!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, the LIMITED HANGOUT guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
The Soul of AI (Ep. 11: Cris Beasley) The Integral Stage 2023-12-15 | The question of the promise and peril of AI is a proper one for our long-running Love the System series, but we thought it deserved its own spot as a sub-series due to the rapid development and proliferation of Large Language Models and other ground-breaking AI technologies over the past six months. It may be too early to tell yet, but with the clear power of this emergent technology, its potential to take over many of the tasks we used to regard as exclusively human, and its rapid public uptake, it feels like we are on the cusp of an epochal change. How are we to secure the psychological and spiritual health of human beings in the face of such developments? How do we ethically and wisely merge living and non-living intelligences? What wisdom from this corner of the internet -- from our respective integral, metamodern, and spiritual communities -- can help us navigate the monumental challenges and opportunities ahead?For the eleventh episode of The Soul of AI, Layman sits down with healer, artist, and AI entrepreneur and consultant, Cris Beasley, to talk about the interface of art and AI; the narcissistic dynamics that drive much of our modern structures, and bringing healing to those dynamics; "Letting the piranha eat us"; the difference between artificial intelligence and augmented intelligence; the potential for AI to take over the "synthesizing intelligence" and function of our leading-edge thinkers, and what then is left for humans still to develop and do; and much more.Cris founded a sustainable AI company nine years ago – well before it was the latest thing on the block. It was featured in a cover story of The Atlantic. She stopped Sequoia Capital from trying to build an AI that was obviously never going to work. It was obvious if you bothered to do the back-of-the-envelope math, which Amazon did not do. They attempted the same thing, failed, and wasted a few million bucks. They should've had someone like Cris on their team. Before that, she led the redesign of Firefox support, which resulted in an extra 7MM users per year finding the answer to their questions immediately. Cris was selected to be in the first cohort of ambassadors to the Interledger Foundation. Their $15k grant supported her project about Jungian emotional polarities, Becoming Dragon, which was covered in Forbes. She advises Earthcodes.org on strategy for their regenerative data cycles project, AI for Gaia, in partnership with the Biomimicry Institute. In her copious spare time, she convinces two mischievous black cats to come when they're called, paints with watercolors, makes AI-generated short films, and plays electronic music that takes you into meditative theta brainwave states.Cris Beasley portfoliocrisbeasley.com/portfolioBecoming Dragon Oracle Cardshttp://www.crisbeasley.comFollow The Integral Stage on Fathom! https://hello.fathom.fm/Remember to like, subscribe, and support The Integral Stage on Patreon to make more of these conversations possible!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, the LIMITED HANGOUT guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
The Soul of AI (Ep. 10: Speaker John Ash) The Integral Stage 2023-12-08 | The question of the promise and peril of AI is a proper one for our long-running Love the System series, but we thought it deserved its own spot as a sub-series due to the rapid development and proliferation of Large Language Models and other ground-breaking AI technologies over the past six months. It may be too early to tell yet, but with the clear power of this emergent technology, its potential to take over many of the tasks we used to regard as exclusively human, and its rapid public uptake, it feels like we are on the cusp of an epochal change. How are we to secure the psychological and spiritual health of human beings in the face of such developments? How do we ethically and wisely merge living and non-living intelligences? What wisdom from this corner of the internet -- from our respective integral, metamodern, and spiritual communities -- can help us navigate the monumental challenges and opportunities ahead?For the tenth episode of The Soul of AI, Layman meets with musician and systems change thinker and advocate, Speaker John Ash, to discuss the limitations and misperceptions common to popular discourse about AI; the morally questionable, implicit goals behind the development of artificially intelligent agents; AI and art; possibilities for better and more transparently linking AI output to its sources in training data; revolutions in voting and governance systems that AI may facilitate, and much more.Speaker John Ash's YouTube channelyoutube.com/c/speakerjohnashFollow The Integral Stage on Fathom! https://hello.fathom.fm/Remember to like, subscribe, and support The Integral Stage on Patreon to make more of these conversations possible!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, the LIMITED HANGOUT guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
Sexuality Series (Ep. 23: Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers) The Integral Stage 2023-12-01 | To shake things up a little on The Integral Stage, we are dropping down a few chakras to explore all the ins and outs of awakened sexuality, conscious relationship, and sensuously embodied spiritual practice.For episode 23, Layman is joined by Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers, a sex educator and psychotherapist, to explore questions around gender and sexual development; the impact of shame on sexual development, and the relationship of shame and guilt; the problems in recent and contemporary sex education in the United States; the possibilities for a hedonic education; deeper forms of sexual identity and development available through tantra and entheogens; and much more.Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers is a nationally known speaker, educator, and writer on sexual health and the biopsychosocial-sexual impact of sexual shame and trauma. She is professor emerita of sexuality and marriage & family therapy at Seattle Pacific University. As a past board member for The American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT), Tina is at the forefront shaping change in the lives of professionals and families. As a preeminent voice on the impact of abstinence education, purity culture, and the failure to provide comprehensive sex education Dr. Sellers is frequently featured on podcasts, TV, documentaries, articles, and radio, including Spirituality & Health magazine, and NPR’s All Things Considered. In her acclaimed 2017 book, Sex, God and the Conservative Church – Erasing Shame from Sexual Intimacy, Dr. Sellers reveals how the western conservative church in collusion with American consumer-driven culture and politics, has infiltrated our core ability to attach to our partners and instruct our children to attach to theirs. Professional Websitetinaschermersellers.comShameless Parentingamazon.com/Shameless-Parenting-Everything-Shame-free-Confident-ebook/dp/B0C2N7V61GExplore The Integral Stage on the Fathom apphttps://hello.fathom.fm/Support The Integral Stage on Patreon!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, the Limited Hangout guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
Postnormal Worldviews The Integral Stage 2023-11-24 | "People won't be peopleWhen they hear this soundThat's been glowing in the dark at the edge of townPeople won't be peopleNo, the people won't be people when they hear this soundWon't you show me what begins at the edge of town..."~ Atlas, by BattlesI should let these lyrics stand as the full description of this wonderful conversation. But for those of you who need more: In Postnormal Worldviews, Layman is joined by eco-village explorer and Fourth Way practitioner, Markus Feenstra, to inquire into the question of normalcy, how it gets socially established, and what processes, practices, and sensitivities allow for the establishment of new normals; the problem of mismatches between the 'normal' and what we might sense intuitively as what is deeply right; the shamanoid role of the edge-dwellers; the Gurdjieffian possibility for a third position between the exoteric and the esoteric, the mesoteric, and how mesoteric individuals contribute to the evolution of culture; and much more.Markus Feenstra is a resident of the Earthsong Eco-neighborhood in Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and the co-developer of a fractal theory of change and underpinning worldview that assists people committed to enhancing the wellbeing of all beings to renormalize themselves, so they may better embody their gifts for the world in their natural ways of being. Follow The Integral Stage on the Fathom apphttps://hello.fathom.fm/Support The Integral Stage on Patreon! / theintegralstage Special thanks and big love to Shai Newman, the Limited Hangout guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
Soulmakers (Ep. 1: Bruce Alderman) The Integral Stage 2023-11-18 | What is soulmaking, what is wisdom, and who is an elder ... ? This new Integral Stage series explores advanced personal biographies from across the integral, metamodern, developmental, transformational, and regenerative networks. Join Layman Pascal and Cheryl Hsu as they midwife the becoming of liminal elders, by listening to stories of their lives and creating a container to hold them.For episode one, their companion is Bruce Alderman -- founder and producer of The Integral Stage, a teacher and writer, a university program director, and a husband and father. In the container Layman and Cheryl set, Bruce tells a story of early wonderment and creative exploration, innocence and existential threat, love and loss and death; of despair, homelessness, and spiritual transformation; of world travel and contemplative journeys across multiple traditions; of formative relationships, confrontation with shadow, and integral formation; and much more. This is the second time in a year that he has been called an elder, and it is starting to worry him...Cheryl Hsu is a transition designer, speculative researcher and artist, braiding the living root bridges that connect the flourishing of people with the planet. She has been unfolding in soul-inquiry into the imaginal, cultural and cosmological patterns that scaffold collective meaning-making in this time between worlds. Cheryl has worked for over a decade as a systemic designer and researcher in health care, affordable housing, technology, food systems, and policy innovation. Cheryl integrates her philosophical background and artistic practice with design innovation, with a passion for understanding the underlying mindsets and beliefs that drive or inhibit systemic transformations. Cheryl Hsucherylhsu.caFollow The Integral Stage on the Fathom apphttps://hello.fathom.fm/Support The Integral Stage on Patreon!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, the Limited Hangout guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
Mahamudra and the Grammar of Development The Integral Stage 2023-11-15 | In this special episode, Layman Pascal and Bruce Alderman meet with Terri O'Fallon to discuss her recent course exploring the intersections of Mahamudra practice and the STAGES model; the relationship of states and stages, and the role of states in higher psychospiritual development; the linguistic dimensions of development, and developmental assessment; nonduality and the embodied dimensions of language; prepositions and other grammatical forms at the subtle and metaware tiers; AI, grammar, and higher development; and much more.Terri O'Fallon is a researcher, teacher, coach, spiritual director, and designer of transformative containers. She does ongoing research on the Integral STAGES developmental model, which supports a MetAware tier with four later levels of development. Her latest research probes into the relationship between states and stages. Terri is a founder of STAGES International, offering programs based on the STAGES model. She holds Masters degrees in Special Education and Spiritual Direction, and an Integral Ph.D. in Transformative Learning and Change. The Royal Seal: An Introduction to Mahamudra and STAGES coursestagesinternational.com/Mahamudra_STAGESStages International websitestagesinternational.comFollow The Integral Stage on the Fathom apphttps://hello.fathom.fm/Support The Integral Stage on Patreon!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, the Limited Hangout guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
The Fifth Quadrant The Integral Stage 2023-11-09 | In this special, joint-channel event, Layman meets with Portals of Perception host, Aviv Shahar, to explore the edges and boundaries of the famous four-quadrant model, and with the help of a number of unique thinkers and lineages, to push beyond them in search of the "fifth quadrant."Aviv Shahar is the Founder of Aviv Consulting and helps leaders create new futures by unleashing strategic innovation. He is also the author of Create New Futures: How Leaders Produce Breakthroughs and Transform the World Through Conversation.Protecting the Sacred (w/ Aviv Shahar and Layman Pascal)portalsofperception.org/portals/a-conversation-with-layman-pascal-part-1-protecting-the-sacred Portals of Perception YouTube channelyoutube.com/@PortalsofPerceptionAviv Consultingavivconsulting.comFollow The Integral Stage on the Fathom apphttps://hello.fathom.fm/Support The Integral Stage on Patreon!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, the Limited Hangout guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
Metamodernism (Interview with Brendan Graham Dempsey) The Integral Stage 2023-11-06 | For the 37th episode of the Integral Stage Authors Series, Layman meets again prolific metamodern author and friend of the channel, Brendan Graham Dempsey, to talk about his latest book, "Metamodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Cultural Logics." In this much needed work, Brendan surveys the variety of "metamodernisms" that have emerged in recent years and, using some integrative distinctions, argues for their deep kinship and complementarity.Brendan Graham Dempsey is a writer whose work focuses on the meaning crisis and the nature of spirituality in metamodernity. He earned his BA in Religious Studies from the University of Vermont and his MA in Religion and the Arts from Yale University. He lives in Wolcott, Vermont.Metamodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Cultural Logicsamazon.com/Metamodernism-Cultural-Logic-Logics/dp/B0CKS8MF46Follow The Integral Stage on the Fathom apphttps://hello.fathom.fm/Support The Integral Stage on Patreon!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, the Limited Hangout guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
Integral UFOlogy Panel Discussion 2 The Integral Stage 2023-11-01 | Several years after the original Integral UFOlogy series was published, the Integral UFOlogy panel reconvenes to discuss the latest UAP news and disclosures, and the latest developments in their own research and experiences in these areas.Panelists: Sean Esbjorn-Hargens, Stuart Davis, Chris Dierkes, Giorgio Piacenza, Layman Pascal, and Bruce Alderman. Original Panel Discussion: youtu.be/I8cBzyD4YVM?si=BacRDwamyZgDzfpqRESOURCES and REFERENCESSean Esbjorn-Hargens' Exo-Studies Master Course: exostudies.orgStuart Davis' mediaMan Meets Mantis: youtu.be/Zi_8W0qCUH0Stuart's episode on Weird Studies podcast:weirdstudies.com/37The IS Language: youtube.com/watch?v=BkyDxjOVk7kThe Art of Is: youtu.be/q3cpAS9xU8oAliens and Artists: aliensandartists.comExplore The Integral Stage on the Fathom apphttps://hello.fathom.fm/Support The Integral Stage on Patreon!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, the Limited Hangout guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!CreditsIntro and Outro Music: Remix of Sparkspitter's "Pretty Wave"
The Fifth Quadrant (Episode Trailer) The Integral Stage 2023-10-26 | Here's a brief teaser from an upcoming dialogue Layman is doing with the Portals of Perception podcast's Aviv Shahar. The full episode will be jointly released by both podcasts in November.
Sexuality Series (Ep. 22: Catherine Auman & Greg Lawrence of the Transpersonal Center) The Integral Stage 2023-10-21 | To shake things up a little on The Integral Stage, we are dropping down a few chakras to explore all the ins and outs of awakened sexuality, conscious relationship, and sensuously embodied spiritual practice.For episode 22, Layman is joined by Catherine Auman and Greg Lawrence of The Transpersonal Center in LA, to talk about the tantric arts, transpersonal dimensions of development, sexuality as a doorway to mystical or psychedelic experience, psychic integration before and after extended lovemaking, the science of creating a soulmate, the importance of friendship for intimate tantric sexuality, life as lovemaking, and much more.Professional website:thetranspersonalcenter.comExplore The Integral Stage on the Fathom apphttps://hello.fathom.fm/Support The Integral Stage on Patreon!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, the Limited Hangout guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
Metaphysics of Exo-Life (Interview with Andrew Davis) The Integral Stage 2023-10-09 | For the 36th episode of the Integral Stage Authors Series, Layman beams Andrew M. Davis up to his orbital studio to talk about his recently published book, Metaphysics of Exo-Life. In this wide-ranging discussion, they talk about the renewed interest in and relevance of the field of cosmo-theology, as scientists are detecting possible indicators of life on remote planets and the government is apparently taking the topic of UAPs more seriously; the implications of extra-terrestrial life for human religions and soteriological models; the nature of God in an evolving universe, and whether humans and alien species could ever arrive at similar theological or moral understandings; the relevance of A.N. Whitehead’s process theology for these questions; the strengths and limitations of Steven J. Dick’s naturalistic cosmo-theology, and what Whitehead has to offer in response; and much more.Andrew M. Davis is a process philosopher, theologian, and scholar of cosmological wonder. He is program director for the Center for Process Studies where he researches, writes, and organizes conferences on various aspects of process-relational thought. An advocate of metaphysics and meaning, he approaches philosophy as the endeavor to systematically think through what reality must be like because we are a part of it. He holds B.A. in Philosophy and Theology, an M.A. in Interreligious Studies, and a Ph.D. in Religion and Process Philosophy from Claremont School of Theology. Metaphysics of Exo-Lifeamazon.com/Metaphysics-Exo-Life-Constructive-Whiteheadian-Cosmotheology-ebook/dp/B0CDSV9YYZFathom apphttps://hello.fathom.fm/Support The Integral Stage on Patreon!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, the Limited Hangout guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
The Soul of AI (Ep. 9: David Swedlow) The Integral Stage 2023-10-03 | The question of the promise and peril of AI is a proper one for our long-running Love the System series, but we thought it deserved its own spot as a sub-series due to the rapid development and proliferation of Large Language Models and other ground-breaking AI technologies over the past six months. It may be too early to tell yet, but with the clear power of this emergent technology, its potential to take over many of the tasks we used to regard as exclusively human, and its rapid public uptake, it feels like we are on the cusp of an epochal change. How are we to secure the psychological and spiritual health of human beings in the face of such developments? How do we ethically and wisely merge living and non-living intelligences? What wisdom from this corner of the internet -- from our respective integral, metamodern, and spiritual communities -- can help us navigate the monumental challenges and opportunities ahead?For the ninth episode of The Soul of AI, Layman meets with coach and Circling facilitator, David Swedlow, to thread thoughtfully between the usual utopian and dystopian narratives on AI; and given the degree of speculation in the face of the unknown that even experts in the field are forced to do, to consider the roles and responsibilities each of us has to think these issues through carefully and creatively.David's professional websitemetastorming.comFollow The Integral Stage on Fathom! https://hello.fathom.fm/Remember to like, subscribe, and support The Integral Stage on Patreon to make more of these conversations possible!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, the LIMITED HANGOUT guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
Agromancy (Interview with Patrick Gac) The Integral Stage 2023-09-30 | In this special, quasi-Author Series video, Layman meets with Patrick Gac to discuss an innovative, natural-cycle based divinatory system that Patrick argues is compatible with and informed by some of the leading theory in our liminal worldspace, from John Vervaeke's 4-E cogsci to Bobby Azarian's cosmology. Agromancy, meaning "divination of the fields", is a card deck based system that generates mandalas.The Degtras Projectfacebook.com/Degtras86Fathom apphttps://hello.fathom.fm/Please consider supporting The Integral Stage on Patreon!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, the Limited Hangout guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
Bridging Shamanism and Jung (A Conversation with Robin the Finnish Shaman) The Integral Stage 2023-09-25 | Following on several episodes on The Integral Stage where we have discussed subtle energy, neo-shamanism, and related topics, Layman sits down with Robin, a Finnish shamanic practitioner and Jungian, to talk about the history of shamanism, the differences in its forms and manifestations around the globe, the various efforts to reconstruct lost shamanic traditions in our time, its intersections with Jungian psychology, drumming vs. psychedelics, his interest in Bon and the windhorse traditions, and much more.Robin is the host of The Moment Podcast, / @themomentpodcast Fathom apphttps://hello.fathom.fm/Please consider supporting The Integral Stage on Patreon!patreon.com/theintegralstageSpecial thanks and big love to Shai Newman, the Limited Hangout guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!
Schism and Merge (A Brief History of Xagick) The Integral Stage 2023-09-16 | An uncanny preamble to Layman and Scout's upcoming new Parallax Academy course, The Teratogenic Mystique.Check out and sign up for the course here:https://parallax-media.eu/courses/teratogenic-mystiqueAI art by Bruce Alderman / Liminai Art Prints
