Bringing Integral Theory Home
By: Robb Smith

"Here's something you might already suspect: knowing integral theory is good for you.* It helps you to cover all the bases, to make more compassionate decisions, and to bring more balance to your life. This isn't marketing hype. Well okay, it might seem like it, but it isn't just marketing hype—this is why I fell in love with the integral vision..." [+more]

Ken Wilber’s Newest Product - Now Available!

For over seven years now, Ken has wanted to make his work more accessible — to expand the power and promise of the Integral Vision. Now, with the launch of Core Integral, Ken’s first interactive learning course, has made this a reality. Featuring an entirely new, built from the ground up curriculum, Essential Integral, is now available. [+more]

2009 Holiday Gift Guide

Share your love of an Integral lifestyle with your friends and family this year with our Holiday Gift Guide. Take advantage of these limited offers: save $70 on the Integral Life Practice Kit, 20% off the Future of Christianity DVD set, and 20% off Core Integral's Essential Integral Course. [+more]

Religulous:
The Baby and the Bathwater
*FREE*

Contributors: Ken Wilber & David Riordan

Is Bill Maher too smart for God? Or not smart enough? Bill Maher, host of the HBO talk show Real Time With Bill Maher, often asks his guests: "How can someone as smart as yourself actually believe in this religious stuff?" It's fair question, one that a great many people ask themselves every day, and forms the premise of Maher's recent comedy/documentary Religulous... [+more]

Coaches' Corner
My Family: Accepting “What Is” & Moving Forward with My Life

By: Susan Hodges

“Cultural myths say that families and holidays are synonymous and that participating in them is a jovial, loving, and intrinsically rewarding endeavor. My family seems to have a spectacular talent for defying these supposed norms. Amazingly, we keep coming together, as if hoping that by showing up in body, we might achieve a new spirit. Regrettably, I know many who share my experience... ” [+more]

Creativity as Unique Self Expression
*FREE*

Contributors: Alex Grey & Marc Gafni

How do our unique perspectives of the world color our relationship with beauty, creativity, and transcendence?

In this discussion, Alex shares his own personal path to Unique Self, describing how his creative process is directly informed by an intimate realization of radical and unqualifiable emptiness, combined with his unique and irreducible perspective of the world. Alex talks about how his passion to create springs from an almost Bodhisattva-like yearning to serve, and how this devotion to service is one of the defining characteristics in the emergence of Unique Self. [+more]

*This is a part of an ongoing content series addressing the theme of the first annual Integral Spiritual Experience, held this December.

Featured JITP Article:
Beauty and the Expansion of Women’s Identity *FREE*

Contributors: Vanessa Fisher

"The history of women’s beauty is written in bodily gestures that express both the constraints of their culture as well as the unfolding desire of their interiority. Embracing the power of beauty has always been problematic for feminism and for good reason. We have yet to create a language for our own yearning or find an expression for our own radiance that could also embrace other women rather than attempt to outshine them. We have yet to acknowledge that our expression of beauty itself has an evolution that continually expands our embodiment through a process of reclaiming gestures. This article offers an AQAL analysis of the current views that dominate feminist discourse on women’s beauty. It is also a personal story of my own ongoing journey as a young woman trying to reclaim my beauty, for the benefit of all beings..." [+more]

 

 

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