Announcing ISE Year 2:
The Future of Love

The essence of relationship is Love. Some hold Love to be the animating core of all of reality. Love is the Eros that drives evolution, even as it is the joy that moves our heart and fills our being. And, put simply: if all levels of reality evolve, then love must evolve as well!

And this evolution needs your participation. We are gathering at Integral Spiritual Experience II: The Future of Love to transform our love lives on a personal level and map a vision of where relationships will evolve for all humankind. In the second year of our five-year journey, the Integral Spiritual Experience moves from an exploration of Unique Self in year 1 to that of Unique Relationships in year 2. This promises to be a profound engagement of the 2nd Person of Spirit - relationship as a fundamental dynamic of reality. [+more]

ISE Keynote:
"Why be a Buddhist, when you can be the Buddha?"
Contributor: Lama Surya Das

With this simple question, Lama Surya Das cuts directly to the heart of the integral spiritual impulse, hinting at a secret that lies at the center of all the world's spiritual traditions. It is a secret that has been hiding in plain sight for thousands of years; a secret that you yearn to discover for yourself. You can have the same experience that the Buddha had. You can have the same experience that Jesus Christ had. Or that Muhammad had, or St. Teresa, or Rumi, or any other great mystic in history. All this is abundantly available to you, at this very moment.... [+more]

Obama's First Year:
The Good, the Bad, & the Partial
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Contributor: Ken Wilber, Diane Musho Hamilton, Robb Smith, Aaliyah Haqq, and Bert Parlee

After last month's State of the Union Address, you may have been reflecting upon the past year of Obama's presidency and asking yourself a few questions: How did he do? Am I feeling inspired? Am I benefiting in any real way from Obama's policies and his leadership? Could Obama really be our first truly integral president, transcending and including the best of Democratic and Republican values?

We've been asking ourselves the same questions, and thought we would take a moment to offer our own integral assessment of President Obama's first national State of the Union Address. [+more]

Coaches' Corner
Navigating the Crucial Point of Career Change
By: Barbara Alexander

"It may feel like global crisis is a tad removed from our lives, like our individual lives are tangential to it. We may feel we have only a tenuous connection to the larger events of human history, but such is not the case. For the fear that rises within this dangerous and crucial moment affects us all. All of us feel the impact of deteriorating economic, social, and political systems. All of us understand the uncertainty that is part and parcel of a world in flux  ready to evolve....  [+more]

2010 Integral Theory Conference:
Academic Presenters Announced!

We are extremely pleased to share with you our list of academic presenters and pre-conference workshop facilitators for the 2010 Integral Theory Conference! We believe that this years presentations reflect the growing diversity and deepening quality of the field of Integral Theory and its application.

The conference is already half sold-out! If you plan on attending, we highly recommend you sign up as soon as possible. [+more]

The Three Most Important Things You Need to Know About the Integral Approach

Maybe youve been a student of the Integral Approach for many years, or perhaps youre just a few months in. Regardless of which happens to describe you best, the three most important topics of integral learning may have eluded you. Why? Well, to start, they have nothing to do with quadrants, levels, lines, states or types. [+more]