Numinous Nonsense

What is Life About From an Integrated Perspective?

I’m reading through, for the first time, Don Beck and Christopher Cowan’s book Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership and Change. Having worked for Ken Wilber, who helped to popularize their work, and knowing many people who are into their theory (about theories) I’ve been exposed to the ideas before, but am finding it much [...]

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The Hegelian Sutra

I wrote a critical post about Red Pine’s commentary on The Heart Sutra yesterday. Afterwards, I decided to explore the points he made again this time doing my best to represent the two diametrically opposed views and finally come up with a integration of the two. The positions below are framed in terms [...]

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The Many Levels of Responsibility: Part 2

[This article was originally written for Precision Change.] In Part 1 I described the difference between victimhood and full responsibility, and how one can move toward full responsibility. In this post I wanted to push the envelope a little, and describe territory that I believe most self-development literature is unaware of (or even worse confuses [...]

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Correlating the Maps of Awakening

I’m writing an uber-geeky paper (all of probably 100 people would find it interesting) on the correlation of the stages of awakening in the Theravada tradition with Ken Wilber’s stage-stage framework. Since I haven’t seen this correlation made, and because these are the two maps I’m most familiar with, I figured I’d give a [...]

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Ken Wilber on the Singularity

Good video on Ken Wilber talking about the notion of a technological singularity: Interpreting the Singularity. Although Ken doesn’t seem to have a very good grasp of Kurzweil’s work or of technology in general (hey, it isn’t his strong suite … I know, I worked with him on technology issues for a couple of years), he [...]

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Commemorating Black Tuesday

My buddy Paul S. blogged about an event that went down at I-I last year around this time, where several people quit. What he is calling Black Tuesday. I had already left I-I (only months earlier, actually) but I was glad I had: It was exactly one year ago today that I and nine [...]

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