Awaken the I of Beauty
By: Robb Smith

"Look around you: you’re immersed in a world of almost overwhelming aesthetic richness, from food to film, music to art, drama to design, architecture to websites, each giving special access to a new world.  And as art becomes ubiquitous how can we not become numb to the overload, where every next expression has to become louder, more shocking, more ironic to shake us into even noticing...?"  [+more]

Art Gallery: 1000 Views of God
*FREE*
Contributor: Bryce Widom

"By painting 1000 Views of God, I’m consciously marrying my work as an artist with my spiritual path. Each painting becomes a meditation, a prayer, a moment of turning all my attention toward the divine with an open body, mind, and heart." [+more]

Call For Submissions: If you would like your own art to be considered for a future Integral Life Art Gallery, please submit samples of your work as well as a brief description of how the Integral vision has informed your process to Angie at: art@integrallife.com

Think you’re enlightened?
Yeah, go home for the holidays!

Have you ever noticed that no matter how much you’ve changed through the years, you can still get stuck in the same family dynamics when you go back home?

Unleash a new level of self-confidence and authenticity with your family this holiday season by joining us for Integral Life’s FREE “Home for the Holidays” interactive coaching teleseminar.

This is big. This is Integral Life’s first teleseminar ever and if you know us you know this will be totally different than any you’ve seen before.  You don’t want to miss this... [+learn more]

The Life of an Artist:
Fantasies, Realities, and a Thousand Views of God
Contributors: Bryce Widom & Stuart Davis

A lot has changed over the years for artists. But one thing has remained true since time immemorial: in order to be a truly great artist, you must live your entire life as your ultimate work, your friends and family as your grand masterpiece, your every breath as your finest creative denouement. Now more than ever, an artist must strike just the right balance between inspiration and occupation, between creativity and commodity, between the idealism of form and the pragmatism of function. It is a dance which, when we see it danced well, lifts us all out of the mundanity of daily life, offering us new eyes and new perspectives through which we can see the world in an entirely new way. [+more]

Integral Art and Literary Theory
*FREE*
Contributors: Ken Wilber

Here is Ken Wilber's masterful essay, excerpted from Eye of Spirit, called Integral Art and Literary Theory—a pièce de résistance in its own right. Here Ken walks us through his integral process of art interpretation and takes an in-depth look at Van Gogh's famous painting of a pair of worn shoes. [+more]

Coaches' Corner:
Five minutes with family and a teenager all over again!
By: Lisa Frost

“Yes Mom, I’ll be there for Thanksgiving,” I said with grimacing anticipation.

The relationship that seems to trigger me most is the one with my mother.  I remember the last time I was home for the holidays.  I was excitedly sharing some of the changes that had occurred in my life and as I paused my mother said “That’s nice honey, I’m glad you are happy.  Those pants are a little tight, don’t you think?  Have you put on some weight?” [+more]

Featured JITP Article:
The State of the Integral Enterprise *FREE*
Contributors: Roger Walsh & Ken Wilber

This article and dialogue is the first in a series of offerings from the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice, to be published every month for free here at Integral Life. Given Roger’s stature in the Integral community (one of our wise elders, we might say) we thought it would make sense to begin this feature with his work. Here Ken and Roger discuss Part 1 of Roger's article, Current Status and Potential Traps, in which he identifies nearly a dozen pitfalls that we are likely to fall into at one point or another. By becoming more aware of these individual and collective dynamics, we can work together to address and minimize them. The second part of his article, Key Ideas for a World at Risk, will be available next month. [+more]