A TICKET TO ATHENS PATHWAYS: Why does Spirit bother to manifest at all, especially when that manifestation is necessarily painful and requires that It become...
PATHWAYS: So to start the game of manifestation is to start the world of suffering. KW: It starts to look like that, doesn't it? And the mystics seem to agree....
PATHWAYS: Could you tell us. ... KW: If I could interrupt, do you mind if I give you one of my favorite quotes from Aldous Huxley? PATHWAYS: Please. KW: This...
PATHWAYS: Are there any teachers who are now doing this type of integral practice? KW. Well, unfortunately, there are not many teachers, at this early time,...
Kate Olson and T George came over for dinner last night with Marci and me. T George is pretty amazing. He's what? Seventy-two years old? And still vital and...
Once we have integrated the body and the mind, it is much easier- and more likely-that growth can then continue beyond the body and mind, into the realms of...
"So what's the stage after group?" Kate wondered. "All groups," said T George. "Yes, worldcentric. You go from egocentric to sociocentric to world-centric,...
Both T George and Kate were curious as to why this bodyism has become so rampant. I suggested it was part of the downside of modernity. For over a thousand...
I had a student ask why, if nothing ultimately matters, we should care about anything at all. Well, that's why no world religion will take you all the way to...
Has anyone seen the trailer for "Raw For 30 Days"? It's a documentary about six people, who normally eat fast food, who decide to go 100% raw for a month. It...
I have a friend locked in a loveless marriage for decades. She is finally about to make a move, and trust me, she is absolutely raving with fear, and that fear...
In studying writings on the unraveling of the human ego and the state of enlightenment, I begin to suspect that I understand more clearly the reason most world...
a bad habit is going to be based upon a false ego identity. If you could identify the aspect of your personality that clings to the behavior, you might well be...
Fifteen minutes in the morning: 5 minutes visualization for each of the three arenas. To this end, Once the "Heartbeat" meditation is mastered at a basic level...
But then, why shouldn't we merely lie to each other, and ourselves, about our feelings? Because it keeps us asleep. It keeps us children. The first of...
Our inner demons will strike at us through any open portal. If you can set goals in all three arenas, and know that you will do Whatever It Takes to achieve...
I was at Chapel Hill, and a lady asked me about fear and writer's block. I gave her a slightly flip answer.and then looked at her eyes. She had said she'd...
Again, the specific meditation recommended goes something like this: 1) Listen to the heartbeat for five minutes. Visualize the things and people that you love...
"Genius is eternal patience." -Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet (1475-1564) Got the above today in my word-a-day email. And it...
Dear Integral Community, My name is Rachel Cullar and I am the administrative assistant at Integrative Spirituality, a non profit spiritual organization and an...
Dear Integral Community, My name is Rachel Cullar and I am the administrative assistant at Integrative Spirituality, a non profit spiritual organization and an...
Several readers expressed interest in the concept of focus, and how to transfer it from one domain to another. As Musashi said, "Master one thing, master ten...
Now, it's possible to "focus" on, say, writing for years and never develop good skills. Such people might focus on, say, producing 1000 words a day without...
The usual meditative progression: listen to heartbeat. Find heartlight. Coalesce it into the image of my own infant self. Create a mirror-image that transforms...
You know, another of the things I come across is that the real masters, the REAL masters, do what they do seven days a week, 365 days a year. Not five days....
I've had a real example of what happens when people don't communicate honestly with themselves and others, or when communications are not allowed to run...
World Spirituality Day was the first annual Spiritual Holiday event of the Integral Spirituality movement. It was started 5 years ago by Integrative ...
Regarding Yoga. I've done yoga on and off my whole life, starting with Richard Hittleman on television when I was about five. There are some opinions I'd like...
Had lunch with Nancy Levine, a wonderful woman, bright, beautiful, vivacious, who worked at Naropa until a few months ago, when she became the conference...