Integral Life is a social media hub documenting the rise of a unique 21st century renaissance occurring amongst visionary leaders, scientists, thinkers and artists around the world. It was founded in 2007 by Ken Wilber and Robb Smith.
We live in a complex, fast-paced world that has many of us literally chasing the tail of our own busy lives. We often ask ourselves why our activities don’t seem to fit together in a way that makes sense. If you think briefly about your job, what motivates you, how you communicate with others, your exercise and nutrition, your spiritual practices (or perhaps none at all), your friends, your relationships, what you read, etc... Do these things all make sense to you in a way that feels like you are living an authentic expression of who you are (or want to be)? If not, Integral Life may be able to help you better understand your life and how you experience it.
Running between the yoga studio and work (in jobs many of us are not in love with), reading about the daily disaster in the morning paper, hearing the latest culture war in religion or politics, putting on one persona for work and another for our family life... the list goes on and on. Integral living is about taking these separate parts of our lives - seemingly fragmented parts - and organizing them in the only place that counts: our own awareness. (In fact, our awareness is the only place where fragmentation can possibly be integrated.)
Living integrally means a life where things finally make sense through broader and deeper awareness. Integral awareness allows you to expand and deepen your experience of every moment, make sense of your world and your relationship to it, and to organize all the fragmentation of modern living in a way that doesn't exclude any part of you. An integral life is a way to process your own life experience that includes everything you are while leaving nothing out. Imagine living in a state of self-awareness such that in every moment you are capable of saying "Here I am, fully present. I know who I am in this moment and why."
This is what integral awareness can do for the life you lead right now, just as it has for some of the most successful people in the world, from the world's most respected academics and spiritual teachers to Hollywood producers; from journalists to heads of state; from university professors to yoga dads. If you want to join the Integral Life community in using the most comprehensive map of human awareness ever developed to make sense of your life, we welcome you, and look forward to getting to know you.
Integral Life works globally at the forefront of personal and social transformation using integral philosophy, the 21st century’s first genuine world philosophy. Offering private coaching, transformational media experiences, online community and major global events, Integral Life is the world’s largest "deep lifestyle" community and sits on the cutting-edge of cultural evolution.
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If you become a member of Integral Life you will be exposed to perspectives, knowledge, content and community found nowhere else, month after month. You'll have access to interviews with integral thinkers, video, audio, e-learning experiences, books, products, blogging and more. More importantly we will ask you to reflect on your expanding awareness in a way that helps you learn, helps you transform (grow vertically to higher stages of consciousness), helps you better translate your experience (grow horizontally by better translating the stage you're at), and helps you live with greater authenticity to your purpose (did you know your purpose changes as your consciousness evolves?). Some of our members spend hours on the site every week, some check in for just a few minutes when they want to reconnect with a broader perspective or perhaps to address some question or issue they've been wrestling with. Integral Life is less a product or even a service and more like a lifelong friend.
If you become a member of Integral Life you'll join a global community of people that value learning, self-awareness, love, authenticity and service. It's a nice place to be and is probably worth your time and energy if you value these things, too. But we don't believe in hard sales pitches. Because of the nature of what integral means, people who are ready to integrate their experience will insist on finding ways to do so (and often thinking that they are alone in the search). Integral Life is the most unique community on Earth today, specifically designed for people who are looking to make sense of everything they experience, who are seeking to integrate the wide diversity of truths and wisdom found throughout the world, and looking to put it into action for a better life for themselves and the planet. You are an immensely important part of this unfolding story and we look forward to knowing you.
I'm ready to become a MEMBER OF Integral Life!
By becoming a premium member of Integral Life, you be able to access everything on the site—hundreds of hours of the most provocative, insightful, and important conversations on the planet. You will also receive exclusive discounts on future products, courses, and events.
Have you ever wondered why there are so many competing opinions about what is "true"? It would be easy if there were just competing claims on truth between the various religious traditions, but competing truth claims are everywhere: within politics, economics, science and spirituality, just to name a few. There are even a wide range of competing views and opinions on a subject as seemingly simple as a diet. Where can we to turn to make sense of the wide array of conflicting opinions? Integral Life can help.
We're here to help you make greater sense of the human experience, to help you organize and understand all of these competing claims to truth so that you can live your life more freely, more fully, and more authentically within your current stage of growth. To do so we start with the Integral Map, a sort of "theory of everything" that maps all of known human experience, with which you can better understand and navigate your life and relationships.
If you've ever wondered about any of the following, Integral Life can help you find clarity:
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How can I wake up (find enlightenment or awakening)? There are so many conflicting views on spiritual paths, which is right? And what is enlightenment, really?
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Why are there so many conflicting opinions and contradictory advice on just about everything? Most of the time I can't figure out who's correct, or if I choose one view I have to fight against all the others. Isn't there a way to hold all of the partial truths with a broader perspective?
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In our information age there are so many fragmented views, how do I sort through them to find true insight and know when someone is offering real wisdom?
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When I listen to the news, it seems like a lot of people are partially right, but not completely so. Why can't we just take the best of each?
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Why do people often behave in seemingly non-sensical ways? And why do people in groups tend to behave similarly?
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When I look at the world, all the different cultures and issues, I wonder why there seem to be so many behaviors and beliefs that I don't understand.
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I seem to take a broader and more diverse set of perspective than most people around me, why do I see so much more than other people? Do I operate at an integral stage of development?
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I've noticed that it isn't always about what people think, rather it's more important how they think.
At Integral Life you will discover clarity on a broad range of issues, from personal to interpersonal to broadly social, and it will help you begin to make sense of everything around you. Since Integral Life offers media products, books & articles, events, online community, accredited graduate programs, coaching programs, and salons across the globe, you have a lot of ways to start leading a life that touches all the bases of who you really are....
Sounds great, sign me up!
By becoming a premium member of Integral Life, you be able to access everything on the site—hundreds of hours of the most provocative, insightful, and important conversations on the planet. You will also receive exclusive discounts on future products, courses, and events.
More questions?
Here are some of the main channels you will find on Integral Life. You can sample everything on the site for free, so take a look around! You can find our full archives here.
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How many world-class philosophers can you think of who have their own weekly radio show? Each week Ken Wilber interviews today's greatest thinkers, leaders, artists, and visionaries, all of whom are living the integral vision in their own lives and work—offering you insight into the many facets of the 21st Century renaissance that is currently gaining momentum all around the world. |
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Recorded each Saturday at Ken Wilber's loft in Denver, The Loft Series gives you direct access to some of the latest developments in Ken's own thinking. These are some of the highest-quality audio recordings you can find on Integral Life, in terms of both audio and theoretical fidelity. Much of what Ken says has yet to be written down, and until now has lived only in his head. Now it can live in yours too. |
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In Integral Life's Daily Evolver series, host Jeff Salzman explores some of the greatest and most pressing news stories of our time, lending some much-needed perspective to the people, events, and ideas that shape the world around us. The Daily Evolver uses the Integral lens to help make sense of the complexity, anxiety, and turbulence that surrounds our lives, offering a regular touchpoint for one of the most important practices of all: the practice of staying informed. |
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Integral Post is a high-profile blog series that features writings and articles from many of our favorite Integral thinkers, offering exciting updates, observations, and applications from their respective corners of the Kosmos—reaching all the way from academia to pop culture to the innermost heart of the world's great spiritual traditions. |
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In the Future of Buddhism series we explore how an integral approach to Buddhism preserves the great contemplative heritage of the Buddhist tradition, but reinterprets it in the light of the very best of modern, postmodern, and Integral thought. Its injunction: follow the venerable instructions, pointing out Emptiness. But navigate in the world of form as skillfully as you possibly can. What might the "fourth turning" of Buddhism look like? Ken Wilber's suggestion: you might as well call it Integral! |
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In the Future of Christianity series, best-selling author Ken Wilber, Christian contemplatives Father Thomas Keating, Brother David Steindl-Rast, Cynthia Bourgeault, and many other progressive Christian thinkers offer their visions of hope for the future of the world's largest religion, helping it to fulfill its potential as one of the world's most powerful "conveyor belts" of human development at a time when it is so badly needed. These luminaries envision the Christian journey in a new way, with radical implications for our spiritual lives and for the world as a whole. |
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Featuring the most prominent and talented artists from all over the Integral world, our monthly Integral Life Art Galleries reach into a brand new "reconstructive" space of Integral aesthetics. Each gallery offers a unique window into the Integral vision, where all the abstractions and ideas commonly associated with the Integral model are grounded and expressed with amazing sublimity and sensuality. These galleries don't just offer you new ways of seeing the world around you; they offer new ways of seeing yourself. |
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Ladies and gentlemen, it's The Stuart Davis Show! Here you can find all of Stuart Davis' special performances, dialogues, and comedy sketches that he's produced over the years. Stu embodies a deeply Tantric humor that leaves no stone unturned, no taboo untouched, and no sacred cow unskewered. He offers nothing less than a full-chakra embrace of the absurdity of existence, from body fluids to Brahman—which can be a bit unnerving for those who take their spiritual identities and idolatries just a bit too seriously! |
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Image Credits:
#1: Land of Plenty by Bo Bartlett [+view gallery]
#2: Two Philosophers by Philip Rubinov-Jacobson [+view gallery]
#3: Hide and Seek by Sheri Munce [+view gallery]
#4: Mind No Mind by Kelli Bickman [+view gallery]
#5: Something Higher by Michael Harris [+view gallery]
