Roger Walsh is the author of the book Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind, which explores the universal teachings found at the core of all the world's great wisdom traditions. He presented these teachings to a previous Integral Leadership seminar held by Integral Institute, and we are proud to present a selection of pointing-out practices led by Roger during his presentation. Each clip is only 8-10 minutes long, and offers a quick and easy way to recontact the sacred dimensions of this and every moment. So choose one of the three clips, sit back, and let the next few moments be devoted to your Higher Self....

10 Minutes to Reconnect with Spirit

What is your own personal relationship with Beauty?

Integration: The Prime Directive (a Four-Quadrant Interpretation of Star Trek)
Michael Schwartz

"The following piece was written for a special team-taught World Humanities class in early 2000 to illustrate a way of reading filmic and TV narratives pioneered by scholars like Fredric Jameson. In integral terms, it approaches these narratives less in terms of individual developmental waves or intentions (UL) and more in terms of the social and economic systems (LR) as these sustain and are sustained by cultural worldviews (LL). The mass cultural narrative is understood, in such terms, as a sublimated “allegory” of collective conditions and concerns along with their tensions and fault-lines...."

Nigerian Visionaries
Emily Levang

"Coaching in Nigeria is fascinating! I’ve had a front row seat to some really breathtaking developments! Consider the huge challenges this country faces—widespread corruption, poverty, AIDS, deforestation, the list goes on. It is the world's 5th largest oil producer, yet sometimes the citizens wait in line for days to buy gas. It is the most populous country in Africa, and I have read that it is often considered the tipping point for the entire continent—that if healthy leadership can develop here, it will take the continent up with it, and sadly the reverse is true as well."

Bill Clinton Discusses Ken Wilber in Recent Foreign Policy Interview
Corey W. deVos

Bill Clinton: "I was influenced by Ken Wilber's book A Theory of Everything, because he tries to point out that throughout history we get connected to people who are different from us before our heads get around the implications of that, and then as soon as they do there is a parallel level of interconnectivity and we have to get our heads around that...."

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