The Integral Stage Expanded Universe (ISEU)

Dr. Kieran Fox has written I am a Part of Infinity to explore his deep interest in the cosmic spiritual of Albert Einstein -- combing his scientific vision, his practice of wonder, his deep intuitions and his relentless study of sages like Pythagoras, Plato, Schopenhauer, Spinoza, the rishis of the Upanishads and Mahatma Gandhi.We also touch on my view that what Einstein did to integrate relativistic physics is a core example, albeit in a single domain, of the transition to post-pluralistic consciousness.I Am a Part of Infinityhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/1541603575/

In this special new mini-series, Postmetaphysical Gestures, Layman sits down with Alexander Love to talk about a spiritual philosophy he has been developing at the intersections of Ken Wilber's integral postmetaphysics and Terri O'Fallon's STAGES model.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.

The Journey to Cosmo-Erotic Humanism (J2CEH) continues with the second volume of Radical Kabbalah -- Gafni's exploration of the acosmic humanism of Mordechai Leiner. We discuss the historical and esoteric figure of Solomon, the tension between universal & ethnocentric understandings of "Israel" in Leiner's work, the role of the sacred feminine Shekhinah in this spiritual cosmology, and the historical status and future needs of actual women participating in the Solomonic Wisdom lineage.

Our intrepid producer Bruce Alderman sits down with John O'Neill to talk about the life, work, and ongoing relevance of Fr. Raimon Panikkar. Panikkar, who passed away in 2010, was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest, philosopher, and scholar of comparative religion who became a major pioneer in interfaith dialogue. John O’Neill, now retired, worked as a social worker, mostly for the Australian government’s Social Security Department. Since his retirement in 2011, he has become very involved with the integral community, locally and worldwide. He has attended 7 conferences and workshops in the US, two of them with Ken Wilber present for some of the time. He presented a paper at the Integral Theory Conference in San Francisco in 2013, titled “Towards a MetaIntegral Philosophy: Mysticism in the Philosophies of Bhaskar, Panikkar and Wilber,” since published in the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice, December 2013, Volume 8, Numbers 3 & 4. His recent article on attending the World Congress of Philosophy in Beijing in 2018 was published in the December 2019 issue of Integral Leadership Review. He is a staunch, active member of the Sydney Integral group and a member of the Australian Integral community. He lives alone, close to the bush, on the outskirts of Kurri Kurri, a small country town in the Hunter Valley, near Sydney. He has a large extended family. He is a practicing Catholic, a Christian meditator, and a member of the local diocesan ecumenical and interfaith council. He is a keen student of the work of Raimon Panikkar and now of Christopher Hareesh Wallis with his Classical Tantra teachings. He has a growing interest in Hindu and Indian philosophies.Raimon Panikkar's website:https://https://raimon-panikkar.org/

Jonathan Mozenter is an organizational consultant and personal coach working at the intersection of integral theory, process thinking, artificial intelligence, psychedelics, and shadow work.psychedelicsandhighperformance.com

We sit down with Mat from the Claymont Society to discuss the life, work and vision of JG Bennett. Bennett was a prominent integrative thinker, futurist, developmentalist, environmentalist and visionary associated with a particular lineages in the Gurdjieff Work. https://claymont.org/about-us/

For episode 5 of The Dreaming Arts, Layman meets with psychotherapists Willow Pearson Trimbach & Eva Tuschman Leonard to talk about their new book, The Emotional Truth of Dreams. The Emotional Truth of Dreams (book)https://www.amazon.com/dp/1032964707Willow's Professional Websitehttps://drwillowpearson.com/Eva's Professional Websitehttps://www.evatuschman.com/about

dimensions of the Awakened Wholeness project which is being stewarded by Abigail Lynam and Geoff Fitch, with special support from Tucker Walsh.In the eighth and final episode of the series, Layman, Abigail and Geoff explore the facet they call the collectivehttps://pacificintegral.substack.com/p/the-seven-facets-of-awakened-wholeness-bb0

In this new Integral Stage Authors interview, Layman meets with Brendan Graham Dempsey to talk about his latest book in The Evolution of Meaning series, Psyche and Symbolic Learning."Having established in Volume 1 that meaning is a kind of adaptive knowledge complexifying across emergent information processing regimes (structural, genetic, neuronal, and symbolic), Volume 2 of The Evolution of Meaning zooms in on the last of these levels to examine in detail how the socialized human mind acquires increasingly adaptive knowledge through symbolic learning. Summarizing the findings of 150 years of research from developmental psychologists into how the mind learns via evolutionary dynamics, Dempsey shows not only how our notions of morality, self, value, and God evolve as the psyche complexifies but also how these changes can be precisely measured. Using hierarchical complexity as a universal metric, he argues, we can identify distinct systems of meaning-making and justification that emerge across the developmental spectrum. Charting this empirically grounded map of worldviews will be essential for orienting efforts in future volumes to track the evolution of meaning and the sacred across human cultural history."https://www.amazon.com/Psyche-Symbolic-Learning-Evolution-Meaning/dp/B0FPV8M3Z8/

This discussion continues the exploration of the intellectual journey to the Cosmo-Erotic Humanism model of the Center for World Philosophy & Religion. We take a deep look at the intricacies of the "acosmic humanism" of Mordechai Leiner through the lens of the book Radical Kabbalah. Explore the book:https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Kabbalah-Set-Marc-Gafni/dp/1467522740/"