Podcasts by The Daily Evolver

The Return of Red Trump from 2023-11-29T17:45:36

A year away from the US Presidential election, Ankur Delight and I ponder the spectre of Donald Trump being the odds-on favorite to win. Our muse this week is Rick Wilson, the founder of the Lincol...

Jonathan Haidt’s “Stupid America” from 2023-11-22T01:29:11

Is America really getting stupider? Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt makes the case in his influential essay in The Atlantic Magazine titled “Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniq...

Hot Takes on a Movie, a Play and Pronouns from 2023-11-22T01:25:51

In this episode, I take another look at the movie Everything Everywhere All At Once in light of its popularity and controversy – including in the integral community. I also consider how takin...

House Speaker Mike Johnson, Covenant Marriage and Porn from 2023-11-15T02:41:28

On today’s Daily Evolver Live (every Thursday @ 10am PT on YouTube) Ankur and I discussed the new Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson. He’s a fundamentalist Christi...

New Rules of Postmodern Debate from 2023-11-11T02:36:44

If a debate isn’t about facts and arguments, what is it about? In this episode I look to a high school debate Tournament of Champions for the answer. As you will hear this next generation is Green,...

The United Auto Workers Deal - The Daily Evolver Live with Ankur and Jeff from 2023-11-04T23:03:27

Ankur Delight and I talk about the major new deal the UAW struck with the Big Three automakers in the US. The three pillars of the deal are 1) a 25% wage increase, 2) equalized pay for the same job...

What Really Helps? The Kosmo-centric View from 2023-10-26T19:17:42

Hey folks, In this episode, Ankur kicks off our discussion by asking: “What can we do for Israel and Palestine? What really helps?” We discussed a Kosmo-centric view and how it transcends (and incl...

Israel and Palestine: A Developmental View from 2023-10-15T02:37:35

Transcending the dueling perspectives of history, politics, religion and race, the insights of cultural development offer a more integrated, evolutionary understanding of wicked geopolitical proble...

Russel Brand and the Evolution of Sexual Politics from 2023-09-26T01:31:01

Ankur and I take an integral look at the Russel Brand sex scandal and how it is raising consciousness. We talk about: Presentism: a moving target * The power (and limits) of consent * Green sexuali...

Prigoshin and Guiliani: The Wages of Red from 2023-09-02T14:26:10

We saw a powerful eruption of red warrior consciousness in the recent saga involving mob boss Vladimir Putin and his renegade enforcer, the late Yevgeny Prigozhin. Rudy Guiliani is also playing wit...

David Brooks to Elites: “Are We the Baddies?” from 2023-08-22T22:16:21

Hey folks! The New York Times has published two major columns by columnist David Brooks criticizing the modern meritocracy and the postmodern therapeutic culture. What if We’re the Bad Guys Here? H...

What is Evolution Doing to Us? from 2023-08-15T18:29:22

In this episode, Ankur Delight and I reflect on the power and purpose of emergence in our own lives and culture. For Ankur, this conversation was sparked as a result of a recent road trip. For me, ...

Barbie: Pink Via Green from 2023-08-07T18:40:19

Hey folks, Barbie tells the story of the cultural evolution of women in three stages. In the traditional world girls play with baby dolls, practicing the sacred roles of domesticity and motherhood....

The Next Stage of Moral Development from 2023-08-01T17:08:05

Evolving your consciousness means enlarging your circle of moral consideration. Who is inside your circle and who is “the other”? In this episode, Ankur Delight and I look at the moral development ...

The Evolution of the Afterlife from 2023-07-21T16:05:11

Taking a little summer break from the news, Ankur Delight and I turn our attention to a subject that has fascinated – and terrified – human beings since day one: what happens when we di...

What Are You Watching? - Some hot takes on movies and TV from 2023-07-15T14:45:32

Hey folks! In this episode, I look at the evolutionary significance of our emerging mediaverse, with its gusher of entertainment coming to us from all over the world. How do we navigate it? We ask ...

American Grievance and Gratitude from 2023-07-07T15:12:32

This week Ankur and I share our 4th of July experiences and chart the different routes we took to a more integral appreciation of America. Enjoy! – Jeff Ankur Delight – 10,000 Heroes po...

Are The Kids Alright? - Dr Keith and I look at teen depression from 2023-06-28T00:34:33

Hey folks, welcome to another episode of The Shrink and the Pundit, where Dr Keith Witt, integral psychotherapist extraordinaire, joins me to take a look at our next generation: the kids, teenagers...

Not Your Grandfather’s Nazis - The Role and Prospects for Ukraine’s Right Wing, with Jeff Salzman and Ankur Delight from 2023-06-13T23:08:56

In this short episode, we bring an integral lens to a controversial New York Times story, “Nazi Symbols on Ukraine’s Front Lines Highlight Thorny Issues of History”. Jeff Salzman, The Daily Evolver...

Seeing and Being Seen: The Practice of Conflict and Mediation from 2023-06-06T18:49:39

In this episode, Jeff Salzman and Ankur Delight look at the culture war and explore exciting new insights Ankur has gained from training with mediation master Ken Cloke.

Labor Strikes, AI&Getting Off the Couch: The Next Workplace Emerges from 2023-06-06T18:34:25

In this episode, Jeff Salzman and Ankur Delight look at some of the questions involving the emerging workplace: Will artificial intelligence be able to create? How do we integrate the goals of achi...

Maher, Musk&the Woke Mind Virus from 2023-05-10T03:46

Hey folks, As integral practitioners, we have insights that help us harmonize cultural polarities, which is why it’s too bad Bill Maher didn’t invite me on his recent show with Elon Musk where they...

Tucker Carlson, Don Lemon&the Evolution of the News from 2023-05-03T02:04:07

A brand new iteration of “This Week in the News”. Ankur Delight, who hosts one of my favorite podcasts, 10,000 Heroes, joins me to bring an integral take to the headlines of the week. This week, we...

Peter Zeihan And The Missing Piece In Public Discourse from 2023-04-28T03:00

Hey folks, This week I look at a rising star in the mainstream commentariat: Peter Zeihan. To me he is a good example of a proto-integral thinker in that he is a master synthesizer, weaving compell...

Chatbot’s Paean to Integral&Trump Goes to Court from 2023-04-16T23:07:54

This week I look at the hubbub surrounding the introduction of large language chatbots, the latest evolutionarily-potent development in artificial intelligence. A long-time listener asked ChatGPT t...

What Integral Brings to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - Guest: Diane Musho Hamilton from 2023-04-08T15:06:44

The DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) movement is one of the leading edges of cultural evolution, installing green postmodern values which in part seek to correct hidden power imbalances regard...

Green Art, Stage Debate, Ukraine/Russia - Fireside Chats with Jeff Salzman from 2023-03-25T13:43:29

Hey Folks, In this Daily Evolver I explore a variety of topics:  A telling difference between green art and integral art  – Learn more about the Lost Birds music here. Yes, stages exist but m...

AVATAR, BROS AND OUR SKIN - Where Woke Goes Right and Wrong from 2023-01-20T23:33:21

In this episode, I take a look at three cultural artifacts that present worldcentric ideals of sustainability, egalitarianism and gender fluidity through an ethnocentric lens of good versus evil: A...

Elon Musk: Spiral Wizard? - An Integral Take on the Multi-Dimensional Man from 2023-01-06T04:57:25

In this episode, I analyze Elon Musk through the lens of developmental theory, which maps the “spiral of worldview evolution” within people and cultures. There are three major worldviews currently ...

2022: An Integral Review from 2022-12-28T03:04:12

Hey folks, welcome back to The Daily Evolver! It’s good to be with you again. Today’s episode was initiated by my Integral colleagues, Nomali Perera and Lee Mason of Practical Integral, who invited...

Transgenderism and Abortion from 2022-09-23T17:15:27

In this episode, Dr. Keith and I take on two hot-button issues in the culture wars, each of us coming up on different sides of key issues. Hopefully our disagreements will be as illuminating to you...

The Enchantment of Science from 2022-09-23T17:09:14

In this episode, Dr. Keith and I notice a growing attempt in the culture to bring meaning and purpose into the realms of science. We focus on English scientist Rupert Sheldrake, who argues that “sc...

The Three Sources of Suffering from 2022-09-23T17:03:28

There are at least three distinct sources of human suffering, all related, and none reducible to the others. They are: Nature—the unique combinations of temperaments and constitutional strengths an...

HEXACO: The Quality that Leverages All Others from 2022-09-23T16:56:11

Dr. Keith and I marvel at an exciting new (to us) typology system developed by Kibeom Lee and Michael Ashton: the HEXACO system. Lee and Ashton researched the popular 5-factor system and identified...

Playing and Fighting: The Keys to Sociability from 2022-09-23T16:45:12

In this episode, Keith introduces me to his theory of human sociability. As he sees it, human relationships can be seen on a spectrum of playing and fighting. Playing is a cooperative activity with...

Integral Conference: What’s the Future (WTF?) - A visit with conference hosts Lynn and Jose Fuentes from 2022-07-19T14:04:17

In this short episode, I am joined by Jose and Lynn Fuentes, who are producing an exciting conference for the integral community this November in Sedona, Arizona. The event is called Integral: What...

Who is Inside Your Circle of Compassion? (10 minutes) from 2022-07-15T17:54:49

Who’s Inside Your Circle of Compassion? – A key marker of consciousness development is an ever-expanding circle of people (and other living beings) who you consider to be worthy of moral cons...

The Left’s Split, Embracing More (6 minutes) from 2022-07-09T00:03:04

The Left’s Split, Embracing More  – The political Left is differentiating into “woke” and “non-woke” contingents – and fitfully integrating into a larger emergent identity. Full episode...

Reflections on Death (5 minutes) from 2022-07-05T15:19:56

Reflections on Death – An evolution-inspired contemplation on what dies and what … maybe doesn’t. Full episode here.

Do We Care More About People Who Look Like Us? (6 minutes) from 2022-07-05T15:09:40

Do We Care More About People Who Look Like Us? – Some thoughts about moral development from my series of episodes on the war on Ukraine. Full episode is here.

A Post-Progressive Approach to Climate Change - Guest: Steve McIntosh, President, The Institute for Cultural Evolution from 2022-06-01T17:56:41

This week political philosopher Steve McIntosh joins me to discuss global warming through the lens of cultural evolution. We focus on solving the “political will problem” that is currently stymying...

ARMED INSANITY: Getting real about guns and criminality from 2022-05-26T19:04:02

This week I share our collective outrage and heartbreak over the shooting of the Texas schoolchildren and teachers, and manage to offer some hope that this time it will be different, that this shoo...

Frances Fukuyama: Trajectory Without Teleology - What’s driving the “long arc of history”? from 2022-05-13T00:37:42

Frances Fukuyama is one of our most prominent political philosophers. He is famous for his argument that liberal democracy and free-market capitalism represent “the end of history,” a thesis widely...

Illuminating Our Stage Structures - Guest: Developmental Psychotherapist Kim Barta from 2022-04-29T23:29:42

Sometimes in our psychological development the way forward requires us to go back, to re-explore earlier stages of life to see what is distorted or left unintegrated. This is the theme of the work ...

APOCALYPSE ALWAYS - Doom, Post-Doom and Beyond from 2022-04-22T19:04:44

This week I address a listener’s question about a fascinating subculture arising in the environmental movement: the “post-doomers”, people who, as she writes, “hold the idea that the collapse of ci...

Integral Oratorio Debuts in London - Steve Banks on “Blue Pearl: A One World Oratorio” from 2022-04-14T03:27:58

My guest today, Steve Banks, is an accomplished, integrally-inspired composer who is about to drop a fantastic new piece of music that is both classical and cutting edge. It’s called  Blue Pe...

David Fuller, Wise Rebel - A revealing visit with the founder of Rebel Wisdom from 2022-04-07T22:09:04

Today I’m talking with David Fuller, one of the emerging luminaries of the emerging emergence movement (whew!). David, along with his partner Alexander Beiner, founded Rebel Wisdom four years ago, ...

Trauma to transcendence - Using life’s wounds to grow from 2022-03-31T03:58:21

In this episode of the Shrink and the Pundit, Dr. Keith Witt and I discuss a powerful realization emerging at the leading edge of culture regarding the role of trauma in our lives. Dr. Keith is wri...

Gender Fluidity: Fruitful and Fanatic from 2022-03-24T23:31:08

The sexual evolution continues! This week I look at the controversy raging over the dramatic emergence of transsexual identity and gender fluidity, particularly among young people. I place it in th...

Emergence Appears as Regression and Decadence - The developmental delusion we all share from 2022-03-18T19:03:18

Vladimir Putin’s ill-conceived war on Ukraine reveals a hidden aspect of consciousness evolution: newly emerging stages are seen by existing stages as a regression. Putin the autocrat saw democraci...

“Why do I care more about people who look and think like me?” - Listeners reflect on the war in Ukraine from 2022-03-14T16:06:22

I’ve received many thoughtful and heartfelt comments on the war in Ukraine from my listeners. In this episode, I share their insights and add a few of my own. 0:42 – How the stages of conscio...

Ukraine: Putin‘s War on Modernity from 2022-03-07T01:23:09

Recorded 3/4/22 Vladimir Putin’s romantic Russian nationalism has metastasized into megalomania. Will  Russian society go along?  Will the modern world?  Witnessing the heartbreak and resista...

Does Integral Help? - Conversation on Ukraine with Corey DeVos from 2022-03-06T19:45:04

Integral Life’s Editor-in-Chief Corey DeVos and I are old integral pals who love talking about current events. Here we turn on the microphone to share our attempt to make sense of the Ukraine confl...

Ukraine Through the Lens of Development from 2022-03-06T19:18:41

Considering situations like the Ukraine war from multiple perspectives is like turning up the resolution on a google map. We are able to see more of what is there, how things fit together in a larg...

The Global Minimum Tax + Social Media on the block (18 minutes) from 2022-01-21T03:34:06

A surprising step forward in defacto world governance, and keen eyes on the ongoing complexity of social media platforms.

John McWhorter Celebrates New Gender Pronouns (15 minutes) from 2022-01-21T03:27:19

Surprising support for woke politics from one of today’s leading anti-woke thinkers.

On David Brooks’“When Dictators Find God” (16 minutes) from 2022-01-21T03:18:45

The New York Times columnist considers every motivation except authentic religious experience.

Take the Familiar and Make it Better (9 minutes) from 2022-01-21T03:11:08

Reviewing media writer Peter Baker’s critique of Chloe Zhao’s integrally-flavored, retro-future commercial.

Terry Patten, An Integral Life - Diane Musho Hamilton and I remember our beloved brother, and 20 years of Integral history from 2022-01-07T00:47:08

Today I am joined by my dear friend and colleague, Diane Musho Hamilton, to honor our brother-in-arms, Terry Patten, who recently passed away at the age of 70. Terry was beloved by many in the Inte...

2022: New Culture Arising - Infinite dots and ways to connect them from 2021-12-31T22:22:17

Here are some end-of-year-musings about our current moment in the evolution of consciousness. I bring an integral lens to look at cultural polarization, effective governance, Covid, progress, our b...

Spielberg‘s West Side Story: An Integral Masterpiece from 2021-12-21T02:26:22

In his remake of West Side Story, master filmmaker Steven Spielberg demonstrates how to bring a classic work of art into the present. Integrating the 60-year old Broadway musical’s cultural context...

The Left’s Split: “Woke” and “Anti-Woke” from 2021-12-10T05:21:54

In this episode, I discuss a terrific essay I stumbled upon that brings an integral sensibility to a new cultural emergent: the differentiation of the political left into “woke” and “anti-woke” ide...

Preview: The Dawn of Everything - A New History of Humanity from 2021-11-27T19:36:41

On this podcast a couple weeks ago I explored “The Great Stage Theory Debate”, a controversy kicked off by a tweet from Nora Bateson that said that developmental theory is “BS, colonial as hell and...

The Great Stage-Theory Debate - “Colonial BS” or “True and Humane”? from 2021-10-28T19:37:02

Is developmental theory valid? Is it even moral? This is the gauntlet laid down by author Nora Bateson in a cheeky tweet that launched a thousand comments: Stage theory… Is BS. Always was. An...

Bite Size: Experiencing Integral–20 minutes - Letters from Second Tier from 2021-10-28T17:32:52

Jeff Salzman considers the question, what is it like to experience integral consciousness?  How does one feel, relate and function differently?  Also, letters from listeners.  

Bite Size Evolver: Racism through the stages–13 minutes - A integral answer to the question, "Is it racist?" from 2021-10-28T17:00:37

Race is seen differently at each developmental worldview. What might the integral version be?  Plus, a back-pocket thought experiment for race empathy.

Bite Size: Everyone Has a Piece of the Truth–3 minutes - How to integrate, not conquer, opposing worldviews from 2021-10-26T00:16:27

Quick intro to the Daily Evolver • The three major worldviews fighting the culture war • How an integral approach gets the best of each.

Bite Size: Quick intro to Jeff’s work on the Daily Evolver–16 minutes - Applying integral theory to the issues of the day from 2021-10-25T22:08:45

How consciousness and cultural evolution help explain current events (and vice versa).

Bite Size: Think Your Way Back to Religion?–14 minutes - Considering Ross Douthat's arguments for a rational path to the Divine from 2021-10-25T18:26

Is our secular meritocracy capable of knowing God?  In this excerpt from This Week in the New York Times, I consider Ross Douthat’s column: A Guide to Finding Faith.

Bite Size Evolver: Moral Development–5 minutes - Animals are people too! from 2021-10-24T18:31:28

How we regard animals is a marker of moral development.

Post-Progressivism Meets Academic Philosophy - Guest: David Storey, Professor of Philosophy, Boston College from 2021-10-08T21:28:56

Welcome to a new episode of Post Progressive Inquiries, where my co-host Steve McIntosh and I talk with people who are co-creating the next stage of human development. Our guest today is David Stor...

When Meditation Goes Wrong - Hidden dangers in Western Buddhism and the mindfulness movement - Guest, Dan Lawton from 2021-09-24T02:04:02

I have studied, taught and practiced meditation for over 30 years. I consider meditation, arising in its endless variations, to be indispensable to spiritual development and I sing its praises regu...

Bite Size: When Simone Biles Stepped Aside - Simone Biles exemplifies new attitudes to work from 2021-09-07T16:46:15

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Bite Size: When Simone Biles Stepped Aside - Simone Biles exemplifies new attitudes to work from 2021-09-07T16:46:15

Afghanistan: An Integral Case for Staying, and Leaving from 2021-08-19T21:31:23

The US withdraws from Afghanistan and the Taliban enters — and all so much faster than expected. In this episode, recorded 8/18, I take a look at what is happening in Afghanistan through the ...

Post-Issue Relationships: Interpersonal development at teal and turquoise - Guest: Dr. Keith Witt from 2021-08-06T22:51:40

Dr. Keith Witt, integral psychotherapist extraordinaire, joins me for another episode of The Shrink and the Pundit, where we explore the contours of emerging integral consciousness. Today’s topic i...

Why I Hated the Movie “Pig” - Give me ugliness or give me nihilism, but not both at once from 2021-07-28T21:58:19

This week I review the new Nicholas Cage movie, Pig, about a truffle hunter in the wilds of Oregon who goes on a quest to find his kidnapped pig. It is the work of first-time filmmaker, Michael Sar...

Progress Denialism: Getting us Nowhere from 2021-07-16T17:32:52

Bill Maher kicked off a cultural meme a few weeks ago with a segment on his popular show Real Time where he skewered the cultural left for progressophobia, which he defined as “situational blindnes...

Announcing The Post-Progressive Post! - A new web publication for the politically homeless from 2021-06-29T17:14:11

The Post-Progressive project proceeds! In this episode, Steve McIntosh, president of the Institute for Cultural Evolution, joins me to introduce a major new web publication created to transcend and...

Triggered by Deep Disagreement - … and how “integral pluralism” breaks the deadlock from 2021-06-18T18:53:37

In this episode, I point out a heartening trend among cultural commentators: an increasing recognition that people, particularly people fighting a culture war, not only think different things, they...

Mapping the Emerging “Integrative Meta-Perspective” - with psychiatrist and futurist Charles M. Johnston M.D. from 2021-05-28T00:58:11

Today on Post-Progressive Inquiries I explore the contours of the next stage of human development with psychiatrist and futurist Charles M. Johnston. Charles has just released two new books explori...

The Meaning of It All - An integral look at grief and loss from 2021-05-19T17:36:31

In this episode, I take a look at the “ultimate questions” of religion and philosophy: Who are we? Where are we going? How does one live a meaningful life in a world that is marked by loss and deat...

Psychedelics go Mainstream + John McWhorter&Bill Maher on Race from 2021-05-14T22:14:39

Part 1: I look at a front-page story in the New York Times about how psychedelic drugs, such as ecstasy and magic mushrooms, are poised to reshape psychiatry. I make the case that this is a signifi...

More on Post-Progressive Diversity - … plus Lee Mason on Integral Flourishing from 2021-05-06T22:34:04

In this episode, I look deeper into the Integral project of ”worldview diversity,” where we seek to befriend, appreciate, and be influenced by people and cultures who inhabit different world-spaces...

Post-Progressive Diversity - Integral Consciousness Busts Ideological Bunkers from 2021-04-29T19:32

This week I explore an essay published in Israel’s newspaper Haaretz that The New York Times said “shook the Israeli left like an ideological bunker-busting bomb.” In it, Nissim Mizrachi, former he...

Our Hearts in Boulder, Colorado from 2021-03-25T20:57:13

Typically Jeff Salzman would have a new episode to post, but not this week. The supermarket shooting in Boulder has hit close to home, which Jeff explained briefly to his live audience on Wednesday...

Fighting and Friending our Way Forward - Dr. Keith Witt on the psychological mechanisms that animate evolution from 2021-03-21T22:08:09

All living processes exist in a rhythm of opposing forces which create conflict, resolving into either cooperation or domination. This dynamic of tension is the subtext of most human activity. The ...

Meghan and Harry, The Nobility of Green from 2021-03-11T18:38:57

Every stage of development brings forth new territories in the evolution of human consciousness and culture. A few days ago we witnessed a move into postmodernity (green altitude) in Oprah Winfrey’...

The Maladies of Mean Modernity - Anxiety and depression ravage a world of plenty from 2021-03-04T18:23:20

Good rationality demystifies the world and bad rationality disenchants it. This week I look at two examples of the casual blindness of mainstream culture to all things divine. 05:44 – Amy Dic...

Empathy and Friendliness at Integral - Joe Biden and a New Generation Lead the Way from 2021-02-27T20:33:31

This week I spotlight more of what’s new in cultural evolution: President Joe Biden leads a memorial to COVID victims and offers consolation to their survivors in a way that brings on the best of “...

The Next Economy with Pia Malaney - Senior Economist at the Institute for New Economic Thinking from 2021-02-19T18:29:23

In this episode of Post-Progressive Inquiries, Steve McIntosh and I visit with economist Pia Malaney to ponder economics through the lens of evolutionary theory. We look at what is arising concerni...

Impeachment Hits Bedrock, Cancel Culture Evolves from 2021-02-11T22:47:21

In this episode, recorded in the middle of the impeachment trial, I examine both the stunning House prosecution of the worst presidential betrayal in U.S. history (thank you Liz Cheney) as well as ...

Marjorie Taylor Greene is Optional - Integral observations on life in times of war from 2021-02-04T19:40:24

Just when we thought it was safe to go back in the water, out of the depths arises Marjorie Taylor Greene, the QAnon Congresswoman from Georgia who trumps Trump in conspiracy nonsense. In this epis...

Gen Z at Second Tier - Guests: Gary Sheng and Zoë Jenkins of Civics Unplugged from 2021-01-29T23:16:58

Inspiring+++ Worth sharing! I shared to a Greta Thunberg Facebook group. – Pierre Hamel Very inspiring! Hopeful! Refreshing integral worldview in action. – Pat Veenema This is so inspir...

The Inauguration of Relief - Biden and Harris are new but normal from 2021-01-21T05:19:23

Hey folks, here’s some commentary I did live today as the Inauguration for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris was unfolding. As always I looked for interesting integral angles, and think I found some. Als...

Leading Leaders to Higher Ground - Rand Stagen on what’s next in executive development from 2021-01-15T19:51:42

Epic interview. Brilliant and inspiring ideas (and strategies and tactics) around leadership development and how to work with “power” in the service of cultural transformation – Accelerating ...

PUKE HIM OUT! - Mean Red Trump is Poison from 2021-01-11T22:36:21

Thank you for this hopeful and inspiring conversation. – Donnell Allan Thanks fellas. I needed this chat. – Mary Evans Absolutely love you guys. Tons of sense-making along with optimism...

The Light and Shadow of Integral Consciousness - Guest: Nomali Perera, Integral Coach, Facilitator, Trainer from 2020-12-31T23:27:40

Excellent nuanced conversation. – Daniel Schulman Never heard anybody articulate so beautifully the differences between integral self and holistic self; although hearing explained so succinct...

Letters from Listeners and My Favorite Things from 2020-12-24T22:23:52

I start this week with some feisty and insightful letters from listeners and end with an idiosyncratic list of my products of the year, decade and millennium (so far). (01:34) Who’s more mean, trad...

The Evangelical Schism - “Jericho politics” causes Christians to choose from 2020-12-20T23:52:19

In this episode, I look at the tensions arising among conservative Christians about how fervently to support Trump. 01:23 – Clips and observations from the Jericho march on Washington DC earl...

A Call To Further Becoming for Women Over 50 - Guest: Sue Brightman from 2020-12-16T22:56:13

In this episode, I welcome integral thinker Sue Brightman to talk about her new book, A Call to Further Becoming, The New Declaration From Women Over 50.  Sue describes the cutting edge of consciou...

Newsmax–Righter Than Fox - Trumpers making sense of the world from 2020-12-11T21:11:43

In this episode I share some clips from Newsmax, the cable news network that is the new home for Trump people who have left Fox News for not being supportive enough of the President. Though inspire...

American Post-Progressivism Meets Swedish Metamodernism - Guest: Tomas Bjorkman, Co-author of The Nordic Secret from 2020-12-05T00:01:57

This is intellectual champagne!!! – Alexander Husum Welcome to Post-Progressive Inquiries, a new podcast series coproduced by the Daily Evolver and The Institute for Cultural Evolution (ICE)....

What is Truth? - The path to a trans-truth world from 2020-11-29T01:44:06

Thank you Jeff. I love your show. Thank you for this talk. I struggle with these same feelings and it was good to find some humor in it. – John & Barbara Knoops Many thanks Jeff and Keith...

Using and Misusing History - Premodern lessons in a postmodern world from 2020-11-20T06:41:41

As always, Jeff gives us an outstanding talk about the user of Integral Theory to understand and navigate our world. – Nils Montan On last week’s edition of CNN’s Global Public Square, host F...

Turning Off Trump - Guests: Diane Musho Hamilton and Terry Patten from 2020-11-10T05:45:47

Who better to process the election with than my integral political pals, Diane Musho Hamilton and Terry Patten? After all, it was just four years ago we gathered at my place to celebrate Hillary Cl...

How Sam Harris Misreads the Right - And reveals a blind spot of “mean modernism” from 2020-11-06T02:29:03

Very good podcast Jeff. Puts a lot of calm into a very chaotic time. – Nils Montan The day before this week’s US presidential election one of my favorite public intellectuals, Sam Harri...

Vote for Joe! - And his vision of our next America from 2020-10-30T13:39:57

One of my biggest surprises in this campaign has been the growth in my estimation of Joe Biden as a person, candidate, and possible President of the United States. No longer just the compromise con...

Good Green’s Path to Integral - What’s emerging in racial reconciliation from 2020-10-28T15:15:22

That is great piece! Real manifestation of 2nd tear in practical terms. And eye opening even for people from abroad USA, which have bit different racial issues. – KuboF Hromoslav Powerful. Ex...

Psychopaths are People Too - A growing empathy for empathy disorders from 2020-10-24T05:12:48

I remember hearing something like “any behavior is appropriate in some context”. Your presentation really brings this out! – George Shepherd Moral development involves increasing ...

When the Left Goes Right - Conspiracies and Trump-love among spiritual progressives. Guests: Jason Lange and Nomali Perera from 2020-10-21T01:34:58

Wow a great stimulating conversation. – Mary Linda Landauer These two guests were particularly interesting. a fascinating discussion. – Dave Cardano A couple weeks ago I received an ema...

Integral Life Practice Comes to Life! - Live sessions with leading teachers. Guest: Corey DeVos from 2020-10-13T19:49:18

Hey Folks, I recently checked in with Corey DeVos, Editor-in-Chief of Integral Life, about their long-awaited debut of Integral Life Practice (ILP), a “personal-evolution” program that integrates t...

The Autocrat and the Democrat - Trump loses his breath while Biden pulls ahead from 2020-10-08T22:34:02

That is the best and most integral commentary on the US presidential election I have come across so far. Thanks so much, Jeff. – John O’neill With less than a month left in the campaign...

The First Presidential Debate: Nutty And Fruitful from 2020-10-01T18:04:10

The first debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden is over – and I didn’t start drinking! In this episode, I show how an integral view helps us see the debate for what it is instead of a def...

“What’s Up With These Trump People?” - And other questions from listeners . . . from 2020-09-23T04:06:48

Hey Folks! In this episode, I respond to provocative comments from my very smart listeners, and share some photos from my trip to Trumplandia!  See topics and timestamps below. I love hearing what’...

Breath and Body Vitality - Dr. Keith and I rage against the dying of the light from 2020-09-20T00:06:38

In this episode of “Shrink and the Pundit,” Keith and I explore breathing practices described in a powerful new book, Breath, the New Science of a Lost Art, by James Nestor, as well as a muscle con...

What’s So Good About WOKE? - Culture is getting greener and sometimes meaner from 2020-08-28T04:21:12

“Claire and I listened to Jeff’s latest podcast on Sunday and it was a breath of fresh air. Highly recommended if you’re upset by the current culture wars. (if you’re not, a...

Life Beyond Outrage - Can we really be friends with our enemies? from 2020-08-20T04:40:58

Integral psychotherapist Dr. Keith Witt sparked this episode of our ongoing conversation, “The Shrink and the Pundit”, by writing to me about a dilemma that many evolutionaries share: In our person...

My Spiral Unfolding So Far - Jeff Salzman with Nomali Perera and Lee Mason of Practical Integral from 2020-08-07T19:40:23

In today’s episode I recount my own evolution through the spiral of development and share how the integral vision has illuminated my world(s). I was approached for this interview by two dear friend...

The Power of Authentic Relating and the Circling Practice - A Conversation with Jason Digges from 2020-08-03T17:19:54

One of the most powerful projects to come out of the integral movement is the practice of “authentic relating” with its core 2nd-person technology of “circling.” The Boulder Integral Center was a l...

Evolving Race and Culture - A conversation with Phil Anderson and Greg Thomas from 2020-07-21T06:03:01

We are in a cultural moment regarding race where we can literally see and feel the movements of history. It’s making for many great conversations among integralists, and in this episode I sha...

Listeners respond on race from 2020-06-22T21:40:20

My last episode, Toward A Post-Progressive View of Race Relations, sparked a lot of letters from listeners. In this episode, I answer some of the very good questions and very smart criticisms I rec...

Toward a Post-Progressive View of Race Relations - Part 1: How George Floyd’s murder is growing-up AmericaPart 2: Reading Ibram X. Kendi and Thomas Sowell from 2020-06-10T16:01:15

The videotaped murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police and the subsequent two weeks of demonstrations has galvanized the nation. In part 1 of this episode (00:10), I look at t...

The Emergence of Post-Progressive Political Thought - A conversation with Steve McIntosh from 2020-05-20T18:01:22

It’s subtle but some of you have noticed: I’ve changed the tagline of the Daily Evolver to “A post-progressive look at politics and culture”. It used to read “Integral insights into politics and cu...

Zoom into the Integral European Conference - The show will go on - online! from 2020-05-12T04:40:16

I’m a big fan of The Integral European Conference (IEC), which has become the leading event in the international integral community. The fourth and latest IEC, Global Integral Awakens, was schedule...

Conversations as Phenomena of Evolution - Cultivating the second-person at second-tier from 2020-04-29T03:51:32

Human beings have evolved – and continue to – within the domains of first-person, second-person, and third-person reality. In first-person (I-space) we integrate ideas and worldviews. I...

The Light in the Covid Tunnel - Dr. Keith and Jeff on life in lockdown from 2020-04-22T20:50:06

Dr. Keith Witt and I have way too much fun discussing the consequences, in all four quadrants, of life in the time of COVID-19.

Some Cheery Contemplations on Death - …. and the Self that doesn’t die from 2020-04-15T18:56:19

Consider, friend, as you pass by, as you are now, so once was I. As I am now, you too shall be. Prepare, therefore, to follow me. This famous epitaph from a Scottish tombstone sums up the central d...

A Plague Arrives - How Integral practice helps us to meet it from 2020-03-22T05:33:27

This week I take a look at the Coronavirus pandemic and humanity’s response to it. The integral lens helps us see more clearly the myriad forces rising out of this crisis, which increases our wisdo...

Why Not to Have a Secret Affair - Dr. Keith on How Cheating Ruins Everything from 2020-03-12T01:14:39

As a psychotherapist, I have conducted over fifty thousand therapy sessions with men, women, couples, teens, kids, and families over the last thirty-seven years. And I’m here to testify that secret...

So It’s Joe - Biden claims the middle lane in a race with Bernie from 2020-03-06T02:18:11

What a difference a Super Tuesday can make! Last week I and many others wrote off Joe Biden’s candidacy as hopeless. Now he is the front runner for the Democratic nomination in a two-man race with ...

Bernie, Bloomberg or Pete? - Choosing from My Final Three from 2020-02-27T16:26:12

It’s the high political season here in the U.S., and like all good citizens I am called on to cast my vote. My fellow Coloradans and I are part of Super Tuesday, where one-third of the Democratic e...

The Gebserian Practice of Integral Consciousness - Jeremy Johnson previews his new course on The Ever-Present Origin from 2020-02-20T21:16:53

In the lineage of Integral philosophers, Jean Gebser is a mystic. Famous for delineating the structures of human consciousness as archaic, magic, mythic, mental and integral, he regarded them as ar...

A New Politics of Culture - Steve McIntosh discusses his new book, Developmental Politics from 2020-02-15T01:18:30

In this episode integral philosopher Steve McIntosh and I discuss his new book: Developmental Politics—How America Can Grow Into a Better Version of Itself. Steve employs integral political philoso...

Choosing the Best Psychotherapy for You - Guest: Integral Psychotherapist and Zen Priest, Chad Bennett from 2020-01-28T23:56:03

Like everything, the practice of psychotherapy is evolving. Emerging in the field today is a new integration of modalities that have previously been siloed, each claiming to be the best. But best f...

Befriending the State of the World - Terry Patten and I take our perennial argument to the next level from 2020-01-18T02:36:06

My longtime friend and integral comrade Terry Patten and I have argued for many years about the state and trajectory of the world. And though we both strive to bring an integral perspective to the ...

Trump Trips the Trigger on Iran from 2020-01-09T17:37:09

President Trump’s drone assassination of Iran’s General Qassim Suliemani has dramatically increased the tensions between the US and Iran. It also raises concerns about Donald Trump’s motives and ju...

Integral European Conference Preview from 2020-01-07T02:38:58

Today my guest is Bence Ganti, the driving force behind the upcoming Integral European Conference, a major six-day event for the Integral community which will commence on May 26th at the Azur Resor...

The Path of Virtue - How an internet quiz made me a better person from 2019-12-29T18:58:50

Integral philosopher Steve McIntosh helps us usher in the new year (and decade) with a fresh look at an ancient formula for living a happy, productive and meaningful life. In this episode he explai...

Spotting Integral Arisings - Three comedians evolve culture and consciousness from 2019-12-16T21:50:52

In this episode, I point out some integral insights bursting forth from the world of comedy: Bill Maher, who ended his season of Real Time on HBO with a surprising sort-of-integral message Joel Ste...

Cultural Evolution Goes Mainstream - Considering “This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution” from 2019-11-26T22:59:43

In this episode, Dr. Keith Witt and I discuss evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson’s latest book, This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution, where he challenges mainstream science...

Climate Changes at Every Stage - Guests: Gail Hochachka and Terri O’Fallon from 2019-11-22T22:19:19

“All of us – researchers, practitioners and activists – are all looking for what it means to meet the call for transformative change. If we can bring in developmental psychology as one ...

Judge Judy, Evolution’s Warrior - Wielding ego to liberate ego from 2019-11-12T18:34:16

As the star of Judge Judy, Judith Sheindlin presides over the #1 show in US daytime television, where she rules on small-claims disputes drawn from real-life litigants across the country. Now in it...

Pioneering an Integral Spiritual Tradition - Conversation with Thomas McConkie, founder of Lower Lights from 2019-10-30T01:31:56

“While we can easily plateau in our adult development, we don’t have to. In fact, there seems to be no upper limit to how much we can grow. The latest stages of human development remain a Mystery w...

Syria, Impeachment and Some Integral Sparks - Highlights from the Live Wednesday Podcast from 2019-10-28T15:05:44

President Trump has given us a taste of his America-First foreign policy by withdrawing from Syria, and his Trump-First foreign policy by arm-twisting Ukraine for political dirt. In all of the chao...

How Republicans Justify Trump - Highlights from the Live Wednesday Podcast from 2019-10-25T16:25:53

The culture war heats up and President Trump is fighting with gloves off, trashing precedent, propriety — and apparently the Constitution. Liberals can’t fathom how conservatives have chosen ...

More on Greta and Climate - Highlights from The Daily Evolver Live from 2019-10-19T03:45:36

In this week’s episode, edited from the live webcast, I focused on listener response to my earlier podcast on Greta Thunberg and the environmental movement. Enjoy these highlights and tune in live ...

Considering Otto Scharmer’s “Axial Shift” political theory - With Dr. Keith Witt from 2019-10-11T23:22:49

Many integralists are fans of Otto Scharmer, MIT professor and developer of “Theory U”, a brilliant tool for activating higher stages of consciousness that has gained wide acceptance in organizatio...

Greta Thunberg: Climate Prophet and Scold from 2019-09-25T18:32:01

In this episode I share some thoughts on the evolutionary power of Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish climate activist, and her visit (via sailboat!) to the UN Climate Summit.

Trump vs the Twenty - The Democratic candidates fight to go to war from 2019-08-09T00:03:44

This week I examine the roster of Democratic contenders vying to unseat Donald Trump. It’s fascinating to watch them trying to create a larger public identity and harness the cultural forces they n...

The Avengers&Game of Thrones: Era-Defining Entertainment - Guest: Filmmaker Jason Lange from 2019-08-01T16:19:43

This summer marks the finales of two multi-chapter fantasy epics that have both reflected and shaped our evolving culture. HBO’s Game of Thrones presented its eighth season, earning a record-breaki...

Befriending Emotional Pain - Guest: Integral Psychotherapist Dr. Keith Witt from 2019-07-18T17:14:17

“We have to accept the reality that to one extent or another everyone has chronically amped-up distress, and a persistent negativity that generates confusing, distorted stories and emotional pain.”...

Grace and Grit: The Movie - Guest, Filmmaker Sebastian Siegel from 2019-06-28T16:16:26

Today’s guest, Sebastian Siegel, is the screenwriter and director of the upcoming movie, Grace and Grit. The film tells the true love story of iconic, Integral philosopher Ken Wilber and his wife T...

Encounter with My Bully - Peace in the valley? Not so fast… from 2019-06-18T17:33:40

My vision of a peaceful Colorado summer of slowed-down punditry and ramped-up gardening has been disturbed by a specter of menace entering the scene. While never reaching a crisis level, it has nev...

The First Church of Integral - Farewell to the Boulder Integral Center, 2007 - 2019 from 2019-06-04T21:29:15

By Jeff Salzman In September 2007, I along with partners Nomali Perera, Ross Hostetter and Jason Lange, co-founded Boulder Integral in a sweet old church in Boulder, Colorado. Four years later our ...

SEEING RED: From General Butt Naked to President Trump - The horizontal development of the warrior from 2019-05-24T22:12:20

Every first-tier worldview wants to dominate the world, and given a chance they will run roughshod over all who dissent. But as humanity grows (and we individual humans grow) each worldview has to ...

Social Justice and Self-Responsibility - Guest: Fleet Maull, Prison activist and author, Radical Responsibility from 2019-05-07T20:24:34

My guest, Fleet Maull, is a criminal justice activist and integralist who shares the story of his time in prison and the work it has inspired. In the 1980s Fleet was a contemplative psychology grad...

The Quadrant Lens: How to See Your Blind Spots - Conversation with Dr. Keith Witt from 2019-04-29T22:42:32

In this episode, I talk with Dr. Keith Witt about what he calls “the seductive power of quadrant absolutism,” riffing on the quadrant model (part of the AQAL Model) developed by integral philosophe...

Campaign Closeup: Marianne, Bernie and more Mayor Pete! - Guest: Corey DeVos, Editor-in-Chief, Integral Life from 2019-04-26T22:06

By Jeff Salzman The Democratic field for US president is taking shape fast. Today I have a freewheeling conversation with Corey DeVos of Integral Life about our impressions of the emerging landscap...

Diversity and Inclusion: Where We’re Growing - Guest: Diane Musho Hamilton from 2019-04-21T15:14:20

By Jeff Salzman From the earliest clans to today’s multicultural societies, we can see the circle of moral consideration that human beings and cultures have granted to others has increased, stage b...

The Spiritual Adventure of Psychedelics and Wilderness - Guest, Philosopher Steve McIntosh from 2019-04-12T22:42:21

In his classic book, Adventures of Ideas, Alfred North Whitehead describes the eros of the beautiful, the true, and the good. And to this list of intrinsic values he adds the idea of adventure, wit...

Mayor Pete’s X-Factor - Could it be Integral consciousness? from 2019-04-06T00:05:35

In less than three months, Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend Indiana, (population 102,000), has gone from political anonymity to the top tier of candidates in the Democratic race ...

Integral Meets the Intellectual Dark Web - Guest: David Fuller, founder, Rebel Wisdom from 2019-03-28T22:36:21

First of all, let me say that “intellectual dark web“ is the worst name I can imagine for a movement that seeks to illuminate our cultural moment. But, okay, nobody asked me and it appears they’re ...

The Beauty of Evolved Conflict - Guest: Dr. Keith Witt, Integral Psychotherapist from 2019-03-16T17:53:04

Nature is, as poet Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote, “red in tooth and claw.” Human nature is too, so far at least, but a counter-trend is emerging: as evolution progresses, conflict overall becomes less...

Dispatch from the Sexual Evolution - Reading the New York Times’ Sunday Review from 2019-03-12T23:34:20

This week I take a look at a recent issue of New York Times’ Sunday Review (2/24), where seven of eighteen articles focus on the real-time evolution of sex and gender relations. The Sunday Review i...

Experiments in Integral Dharma - Guest: Vince Horn, Co-founder of Buddhist Geeks from 2019-03-08T20:32:35

Today my guest is Vince Horn, integrally-informed Dharma teacher and co-founder of the popular podcast, Buddhist Geeks, who discusses how the Buddhist Dharma (teaching) and Sangha (community) are b...

Holacracy: A Killer App of Integral - Guest: Brian Robertson, founder, HolacracyOne from 2019-03-01T06:52:45

Every stage of human development creates radical new ways to organize work. The holy grail for today’s companies is to function so that everybody has a real chance to contribute their gifts. Instea...

Expressing the Heart of Motherhood - Guest, Brooke McNamara, poet and integral teacher from 2019-02-27T17:11:02

I invited Brooke McNamara to the Daily Evolver to talk about a project she is launching that I think represents a new way of building creative we-spaces. It’s a 6-week virtual course that provides ...

Taking Aliens Seriously - Guest: Sean Esbjorn-Hargens, Institute of Exo Studies from 2019-02-22T01:59:45

Is there intelligent life beyond Earth? Have alien beings contacted us? What do we make of the thousands of testimonials of human-alien contact, including from scientists, diplomats and astronauts?...

Movie Review: “They Shall Not Grow Old” - Jaunty, savage, then quiet on the western front from 2019-02-16T01:05:48

It has been a hundred years since humanity spun into the chaos of the First World War. Peter Jackson’s acclaimed new documentary, “They Shall Not Grow Old,” brings vivid new life to the experience ...

Growing into Childlike Love - The role of conscious regression in intimacy from 2019-02-11T17:21:19

For Valentine’s Day, integral couples therapist Tom Habib returns to share his insights into what he calls the “couples’ line of development.” In previous episodes he laid out the trajectory most c...

Progress and Chaos - The pendulum swings but the clock moves forward from 2019-02-09T22:27:52

The idea of human progress has been widely discredited since the wars and genocides of the mid-20th-century. But what if the 20th century also featured the largest (and largest percentage) of peopl...

Does Space Create Distance? - How expanding consciousness brings us closer to everything from 2019-02-01T18:35:09

Integral practitioners talk a lot about creating a more spacious consciousness, one that includes more of reality. To that end we do things like place people and cultures on maps. We tease apart di...

Is Masculinity Toxic? - Thoughts on the Gillette ad and new APA Guidelines from 2019-01-27T01:29:15

The culture wars heated up last week with two new skirmishes. One was the release of the American Psychological Association’s new Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men. The other ...

Angry and Vulgar - The fruits of incivility from 2019-01-10T18:28:30

Donald Trump’s coarseness has proven to be more powerful than most people thought possible. In act two of his presidency he is being met with reciprocal incivility from his opposition, exemplified ...

Awaken the Wisdom Body - Guest: Shane McDermott, Integral Coach from 2018-12-02T16:56:17

According to Shane McDermott, my guest today, the biggest challenge of being human is living in a body. At every stage of development we are in conflict with how we look, feel or function. Shane ap...

Light&Shadow at Higher Stages - Guest: Kim Barta, Developmental Psychotherapist from 2018-12-01T16:34:46

On the Daily Evolver we often explore the downsides of various stages of human development, such as warrior violence, traditional fundamentalism, modern materialsm and postmodern relativism. But wh...

Trump’s True Fantasy - And how it will make America greater from 2018-11-24T17:11:48

Donald Trump at midterm is poised to be one of the most consequential presidents in modern history. Not necessarily for his policies, many of them odious (like his character), but for leading a fro...

Post-Election Peptalk - Jeff consoles a dejected Dr. Keith from 2018-11-10T06:09:15

The morning after this week’s US midterm election I got a note from Dr. Keith Witt, my Shrink and the Pundit podcast partner, suggesting we do an episode on the voting results. “I’m a little let do...

More Than an Infomercial: What’s New at Integral Life from 2018-11-08T18:11

Today I’m joined by Corey DeVos, editor-in-chief of Integral Life. I invited him on because my job is highlighting the emergence of integral consciousness, and I have been really impressed with the...

The Integral Practice of Pizza - Authenticity and creativity meld in Ugly Delicious from Netflix from 2018-10-30T07:07:24

Celebrity chef David Chang’s irreverent new series on Netflix, Ugly Delicious, illuminates the developmental arc of some of the world’s favorite foods. Each of eight episodes highlights one dish or...

The Presence of the Future - Jean Gebser’s gift to Integral consciousness, with Jeremy Johnson from 2018-10-27T23:35:05

by Jeff Salzman Today I’m joined by one of our most impressive young integral thinkers, Jeremy Johnson. Jeremy is a scholar of the 20th century poet/philosopher Jean Gebser, and is currently presid...

America’s Mass Sensitivity Training - What we’re learning from Megyn Kelly and Dr. Phil from 2018-10-27T06:03:12

Another week of cultural evolution at warp speed was brought on by a real-life daytime TV drama. It started on Tuesday, with NBC morning host Megyn Kelly defending blackface as a Halloween costume ...

Forgiving Humanity - An evolutionary call for collective self-love from 2018-10-19T20:44:38

People often call me an optimist, a term I’ve never felt quite comfortable with. Is it optimistic to notice that humanity – and humans – fight our way forward? Is it optimistic to see that th...

The Higher Stages of Couple Love - Guest: Dr. Tom Habib from 2018-10-18T20:57:39

This is a sequel to last year’s popular Valentine episode featuring Dr. Tom Habib. An integrally-inspired clinical psychologist specializing in couples therapy, Tom has mapped what he calls the “co...

Real-Time Consciousness Raising - Listeners respond to Kavanaugh and #MeToo from 2018-10-15T16:01:39

The drama surrounding the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court is proving to be a seismic event in cultural and consciousness evolution. This week Jeff shares and reflects on lis...

Today’s Next-Stage Organizations - Guest: Frederic Laloux from 2018-10-04T23:09:31

Each stage of human development features a unique way of organizing work. From hunting and gathering, to agriculture, to industry, to the Information Age, each emergent represents a radical evoluti...

Judging Kavanaugh - by Jeff Salzman from 2018-10-03T00:12:06

The political firestorm surrounding the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court is a juicy case for an integral analysis. Today Jeff shares his insights into the testimony presente...

An Integral Understanding of Suicide - A conversation with Dr. Keith Witt from 2018-08-08T16:19:49

by Dr. Keith Witt Suicide has been in existence as long as self-aware consciousness has been in existence. The gift of self-aware consciousness included the capacity for humans to anticipate and un...

What’s Next in Human Relations - Jeff talks with Lloyd Fickett about The Collaborative Way from 2018-07-10T00:05:38

Today many pioneers of consciousness are experimenting with new ways for people to form more powerful, fulfilling relationships with each other. Some are focused on mutual spiritual growth while ot...

The Power to Serve - with Dr. Keith Witt from 2018-06-29T14:14:27

Dr. Keith talks to Jeff Salzman about Integral Life’s recent “Tap Your Power” event in Denver, CO, which featured exquisite teachings from himself, Ginny Whitelaw, Beena Sharma, and Ken Wilber on t...

The New Authoritarians: This is Progress? - Jeff visits Tom Steinenger on Germany’s Radio Evolve from 2018-05-31T21:50:20

Today I’m sharing my I my guest appearance on Radio Evolve, a German podcast hosted by Tom Steininger. We talked world politics, and focused on neoauthoritarian movements that are challenging...

Burning the Karmas of Jim Crow - The Power of America’s New Peace and Justice Memorial from 2018-05-25T23:14:22

Today we take a look at a significant new installation in the American cultural landscape: The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opened in Montgomery, Alabama on April 23. The museum m...

Notes From My Five-Day Fast - by Jeff Salzman from 2018-05-25T22:39:53

It seems that last week, during my “staycation,” I wandered my way into a five-day food fast. What started as a low-commitment experiment on Monday morning ended on Saturday with me in appreciation...

The Roots of Integral Theory - A Conversation with Steve McIntosh from 2018-05-23T06:45:59

In this episode integral philosopher Steve McIntosh takes us on a tour through the origins of integral theory, starting with Georg Friedrich Hegel, who first explained the mechanisms of evolution i...

When People–and Cultures–Grow Too Fast from 2018-05-11T22:36:50

It is an ironclad principle of human development: you can’t skip stages. Each stage of development builds upon the gains of the previous stages, and if the previous stages are not well installed th...

Postmodern Beauty: From Cirque To Seinfeld To Saatchi from 2018-05-10T16:26:07

In this episode Jeff takes a look at three towering examples of postmodern art, and how they can aesthetically “move us” forward. Cirque de Soleil – a thrilling display of surface without dep...

Helping Kids Grow Strong: A Conversation with Dr. Keith Witt from 2018-05-05T01:47:35

In this episode of The Shrink and Pundit, Dr Keith Witt talks with Jeff about how to better support children’s development. Dr. Keith argues that the healthy expression of a person’s type (th...

Postmodern Values We Can’t Evolve Without from 2018-05-03T19:33:06

Today Jeff is the guest for another in a series of “Integral Chats” with Stephen T Harper, creator of the What’s Your Theory podcast. In this conversation, Steve and Jeff discuss the enduring value...

How Do We Change Our Hearts and Minds? A Visit with Stephanie Lepp from 2018-05-02T18:40:59

Today Jeff talks with Stephanie Lepp, creator of one of his favorite new podcasts, Reckonings, which explores the evolutionarily-charged question: “how do we change our hearts and minds?” Stephanie...

What’s Emerging in Spiritual Practice: A Conversation with Diane Musho Hamilton from 2018-04-27T17:48:07

Today Jeff is joined by his dear friend and colleague Diane Musho Hamilton for a fascinating conversation about the changing nature of spiritual practice. Together they look at what is emerging in ...

Darwin on The Evolutionary Engine of Love: A Conversation with David Loye and Rianne Eisler from 2018-04-26T17:37:18

“Looking to Future Generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker, and we may expect that virtuous habits will grow stronger. In this case the struggle between ou...

Starfleet Values Are Integral Values from 2018-04-26T00:58:57

“Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.”Mr. Spock, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Today Jeff is joined by fellow integral nerds Cindy Wigglesworth and Corey deVos in this warmhearte...

The Boy Crisis: A conversation with Dr Warren Farrell from 2018-04-20T06:55:35

Today Jeff is joined by Dr. Warren Farrell, who has co-authored (with John Gray) a new book, The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It. The book illustrates how boys a...

Beyond Excellence in Sports: Flow by Choice Not Chance from 2018-04-19T06:13:56

Today Jeff talks with Scott Ford, author of Integral Consciousness in Sport: Unifying Body, Mind and Spirit Through Flow. Scott, an elite tennis coach for decades, is at the leading edge of thinkin...

New Structures to Drain the Swamp from 2018-04-14T01:18:10

Today Jeff visits with integralist Tom Curren, who has launched a new non-profit initiative with the goal to Change the Rules of the American political system. Tom has identified four structural pr...

The War Among Progressives from 2018-04-12T01:04:29

Today Jeff and Corey take a close look at an fascinating new article by Valerie Tarico, published on Alternet with the title “Here’s Why Some Progressives Are Tearing Each Other Apart”. In the arti...

Integral European Conference: A Preview from Bence Ganti from 2018-04-11T02:38:14

Today Jeff’s guest is Bence Ganti, the creator of the 3rd Integral European Conference, which will commence on May 22nd at the Azur Resort at Lake Balaton in Hungary. This third biennial conference...

Integral Liftoff–Listeners Share the View from Second Tier from 2018-04-05T22:33:58

The Integral stage of human development reveals a thrilling new view of reality. It starts at the Teal altitude where we are able to see and map the movement of evolution in history and in our own ...

The Care and Feeding of the Brain from 2018-03-30T16:06:26

Today integral psychotherapist Dr Keith Witt joins Jeff for a look at the human brain. Dr Keith shares new research about brain health and specific actions we can take to maintain cognitive capacit...

Trump’s War Cabinet Drops a Developmental Level from 2018-03-28T15:56:41

Today Jeff and Corey consider the choice of John Bolton to become Donald Trump’s national security advisor (replacing Gen. H.R. McMaster), as well as the promotion of Mike Pompeo to be Secretary of...

What Jordan Peterson (and His Fans and Foes) Can Learn from Integral Theory–PART 2 from 2018-03-23T20:27:06

Public intellectuals don’t get any hotter than Jordan Peterson. Virtually unknown 18 months ago, he has today amassed over a million subscribers to his YouTube channels and countless millions of vi...

What Jordan Peterson (and His Fans and Foes) Can Learn from Integral Theory–PART 1 from 2018-03-23T20:20:28

Public intellectuals don’t get any hotter than Jordan Peterson. Virtually unknown 18 months ago, he has today amassed over a million subscribers to his YouTube channels and countless millions of vi...

An Ethos for Revolutionaries: Terry Patten on Activism at the Integral Stage from 2018-03-17T03:32:56

Today Jeff talks with integral teacher Terry Patten about his latest book, A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries. Patten is pioneering a robust and dynamic new form of activism ...

From F#@king up to Waking Up: Chris Grosso on Addiction and Liberation from 2018-03-13T03:08:37

Today Jeff and Corey talk to integral author Chris Grosso about his new book, Dead Set on Living: Making the Difficult but Beautiful Journey from F#@king Up to Waking Up, which features a number of...

Ken Wilber on Practicing the Religion of Tomorrow from 2018-03-10T00:13:36

This week I am happy to share an interview with leading integral philosopher Ken Wilber where he discusses his new book, The Religion of Tomorrow: A Vision for the Future of the Great Traditions. K...

Elderhood–The Age of‘Life-Giving Joy’ from 2018-03-02T23:50:35

Today Jeff talks with John Mariner, who at the age of 78 is a practicing psychotherapist and writer focusing in the area of elderhood from an integral perspective. As John writes: There have always...

Can Virtual Reality Create a More Virtuous Reality? from 2018-02-28T23:30:13

In this episode Jeff talks with Corey DeVos of Integral Life about the exhilarating emergence of virtual reality technology and the far-reaching implications it has across the full spectrum of huma...

Peering into the Post-Privacy World from 2018-02-24T05:00:01

Today Jeff talks with integral psychotherapist Dr. Keith Witt about the arising of big data and its effect on our individual and collective psyches. They share their insights on the fascinating new...

The Black Panther: A Hero for Humanity from 2018-02-23T00:56:30

The Black Panther, Marvel Studios new blockbuster movie, is the story of a black superhero, written and directed by a black man, Ryan Coogler, with a largely black cast. The overt African lineage i...

Integral Eggheads (Try To) Watch the Olympics from 2018-02-20T04:09:10

Today Jeff and Corey take a look at the Olympics – anthropologically. They address: How the Olympics express multiple stages of human development Emergent sports that harmonize competition with inc...

The Roots of Mass Shootings from 2018-02-17T01:09:39

Is America’s rate of gun violence, which multiplies that of other developed countries, an immutable part of our character and culture? How do we respond to the steady news of mass shootings and the...

The Predictable Stages of Growth in Couples from 2018-02-15T00:38:30

Today, in honor of Valentine’s Day, Jeff talks with Dr. Tom Habib about the affairs of the heart. An integrally-inspired clinical psychologist specializing in couples therapy, Tom has mapped what h...

The Art of Evolving: What We Carry with Us, What We Leave Behind from 2018-02-13T01:13:49

Today Jeff and Corey respond to listener feedback, focused on how we evolve (both as individuals and as cultures) by “transcending and including” our previous stages of development. But, practicall...

How to be the hero of your own life story from 2018-02-10T00:57:09

Today we share Jeff’s guest appearance on the episode We can’t evolve without these traditional values from Steve Harper‘s “What’s Your Theory?“ webcast. Steve and Jeff explore the interior q...

The Beauty (and Baggage) of Traditionalism from 2018-02-09T00:22:38

Today, in a more theoretical turn, Jeff looks at key principles of Integral theory that illuminate the traditional stage of development (amber altitude) and how it arises both within human culture ...

Are We Seeing the End of American Football? from 2018-02-05T07:48:48

It was Super Bowl Sunday last week, America’s great secular holiday where the nation’s top two football teams go to battle to prove who is the ultimate champion. All the attention and hoopla do not...

A fix for immigration and infrastructure? from 2018-02-01T04:19:11

Today we look at President Trump’s State of the Union address, where he made opening moves toward a grand bargain to overhaul the U.S. immigration system and rebuild the nation’s infrastructure. Wh...

Ralph Ellison’s integral insight into race and culture from 2018-01-30T07:26:36

Today Jeff continues his ongoing conversation with Greg Thomas, an integral thinker who is pioneering a new way forward in race relations in the U.S. Greg advocates transcending the postmodern emph...

Star Wars: The Force Evolves from 2018-01-29T21:14:43

Star Wars is one of the most treasured film franchises in history, and one of the very few that is enjoyed by such a massive and cross-generational audience. The original trilogy is often collectiv...

A spiritual vision with evolution at its core: - Jeff talks to Byron Belitsos about Urantia from 2018-01-27T02:33:48

Imagine a world that is lit up with the loving intelligence of the Divine. Where spiritual practitioners realize their identity as evolving beings in an evolving kosmos, a kosmos that is teeming wi...

When the world’s largest investor wakes up - The power of green emergence in finance from 2018-01-26T01:26:42

In this episode we look at the continued emergence of postmodern consciousness (green altitude), using a current example from the U.S. financial sector. Last week Laurence D. Fink, founder and chie...

Trump’s first year - Worse than I hoped, better than I feared from 2018-01-23T21:59:43

Donald Trump has just completed the first year of the most unlikely, outrageous presidency in modern history. What do we make of it? In this episode Jeff looks at Trump’s impact on the exterior asp...

Is Integral arrogant? - Jeff responds to listeners from 2018-01-20T19:50:08

Today Jeff responds to Harry, a listener who offers a critique often heard within and about the integral world. Harry writes: There’s an unspoken, and unconscious, assumption that integral wa...

The #MeToo Reckoning - A conversation with Diane Musho Hamilton from 2018-01-18T17:39:18

Today Jeff welcomes his friend Diane Musho Hamilton to discuss the latest turnings in the #MeToo movement and the cultural education we’re all receiving regarding sex and power. Diane and Jeff look...

Renewing our faith in progress from 2018-01-16T22:59:55

Let’s welcome 2018 with the recognition that in terms of human flourishing – nutrition, health, lifespan, peace, freedom – we are living in the best of times. Acknowledging this fact is not to turn...

Growing Beyond Green - How the Limits of Postmodernity Point the Way to Integral Consciousness from 2018-01-11T02:29:38

A conversation with Doshin Michael Nelson, founder of Integral Zen. The upside of the Green postmodern stage of development is astonishing. After countless centuries of brutality, culminating in th...

The Evolution of Humanity–and Each Human–in One Chart from 2018-01-01T19:22:07

A key tenant of integral theory is that human consciousness evolves through observable stages of development. This chart lays out the basic sequence, using Ken Wilber’s brilliant AQAL model. It app...

Deepening Christmas - A conversation with Father John Forman from 2017-12-19T00:09:10

In this episode I talk with Corey deVos of Integral Life, and Episcopal priest Fr. John Forman about the message of Christmas and how we can enjoy a deeper experience of the season. Father John F...

New Senator in Alabama; New Thinking in Puerto Rico from 2017-12-16T01:05:50

In this episode Jeff looks at yesterday’s victory of Democrat Doug Jones over Republican Roy Moore in the special U.S. Senate election in Alabama. It is a vivid show of integral stage theory and re...

When a Cake is Too Gay from 2017-12-12T01:07:26

Today we look at the case, heard last week in the U.S. Supreme Court, of the Colorado baker who refuses to bake a cake for a gay couple’s wedding. The case pits competing American values of freedom...

The Shadow Side of Technology from 2017-12-09T00:48:58

The emergence of the internet and social media has been spectacularly fruitful for the evolution of humanity. They connect the world, put all information at our fingertips and provide endless oppor...

The Last Gasp of Late Stage Capitalism - An integral look at the new tax law from 2017-12-07T01:04:26

The rise of capitalism, starting a couple hundred years ago, has been a spectacularly positive development for humanity, creating enormous material wealth that raised billions of people out of pove...

The Future of Sex: More Fun, Less Creepy - Guest: Keith Witt, Psychotherapist from 2017-12-04T17:40:24

Jeff talks with Dr. Keith Witt about the great consciousness raising our culture is going through regarding sexual harassment. Dr Keith’s prescription for a healthier, safer future: more sex! He ad...

Artificial Intelligence vs. Artificial Consciousness - Guest: Michael Zimmerman, Philosophy of Technology from 2017-11-30T17:42:43

The hopes and fears surrounding the advent of artificial intelligence are fantastical, from Ray Kurzweil’s promise of spiritual machines to Elon Musk’s warnings of killer robots. And yes, some vers...

The Energetic Properties of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness - A conversation with Steve McIntosh from 2017-11-30T01:09:47

Steve McIntosh joins Jeff and Corey for an in-depth exploration into the energetic qualities of the three primary virtues of Goodness, Beauty, and Truth. Steve describes how these virtues can both ...

Are Women More Bound to be Good? from 2017-11-29T00:59:33

Today Jeff considers comments from “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski which imply that women have an extra responsibility to resist Donald Trump. He also quotes former first lady Michelle Obama ...

Ann Coulter’s Piece of the Truth: Critiquing Trump from the Right from 2017-11-28T01:02:20

Ann Coulter’s provocative personality often obscures two aspects of her that are far more important: she is a devoted Christian and committed nationalist. She thinks multiculturalism is dangerous a...

The Gift of Gratitude from 2017-11-17T05:36:52

Thanksgiving is such a wonderful holiday: few obligations, a nice dinner and a reminder to be grateful for life’s blessings – and the blessing of life itself! Gratitude is itself a practice i...

Cultivating an Integral American Identity from 2017-11-16T06:43:20

In this episode I reflect on a conversation Corey DeVos and I had with African American scholar Greg Thomas, where we explored what a more integral approach to race relations might look like. Greg ...

Roy Moore Wants to Date Your Daughter from 2017-11-15T06:54:33

American politics is riveted on bombshell accusations involving Judge Roy Moore, who is running for U.S. Senate from the state of Alabama. In a story reported in the Washington Post, he is accused ...

Beyond Race and Victimhood from 2017-11-14T01:24:04

Today we are joined by Greg Thomas, who has thought and written extensively on one of the most vexing conundrums in our culture: race relations. Greg attempts to chart a new course, one that includ...

Our Postmodern Personality from 2017-11-10T01:30:39

Most integralists are waist to neck deep in the postmodern world view, which we refer to as the Green altitude of development. Our emerging Integral sensibility chafes against the limits of Green, ...

Finding Greater Resilience in the Trump Era from 2017-11-09T01:40:18

Dr. Keith Witt talks to Jeff Salzman about the negative effects today’s polarized politics are having upon people’s psychological health, and the strategies you need to become more resilient — and ...

The Daily Evolver Q&A: Deep Listening, Helping People Grow, and Geopolitical Shades of Grey from 2017-11-08T01:20:40

Jeff and Corey answer some questions from our listeners in this special Q&A episode of The Daily Evolver. Comment #1 from Michael, who recommended that when we have difficult conversations with...

The Mean Green Fever Dream Climate Urgency vs Alarmism from 2017-11-02T06:02:30

Climate change is one of the most difficult and complex problems the globe is facing right now — one that requires a certain degree of development to even perceive, yet poses a potential existentia...

An Integral Response to Terror in the 21st Century from 2017-11-02T03:53:50

The end of ISIS as an occupying army is official with the fall of Raqqa, Syria two weeks ago. ISIS’s defeat was never in question: holy warriors led by God were never a match for the Goliath of mod...

The Art of Being Unique (But Not Special) from 2017-11-01T04:02:32

In this episode I take a look at a paradoxical move in vertical development: where we embrace our own radical uniqueness and express it in relation to other beings who are also utterly unique. It’s...

Mueller, Trump&Collusion: The Rule of Law Pushes Back from 2017-10-31T00:45:54

The gradual breakdown and reorganization of the prevailing world order–“the great release”–continues. In today’s Daily Evolver Jeff, Corey and Robb look at today’s groundbreaking headlines to expla...

Building Bridges: How to Talk to Trump Supporters from 2017-10-27T05:36:52

In the wake of the Trump election, many progressives are realizing that one way forward is to reach out to their political opponents, at least to establish a basic human connection. Today Jeff look...

The Witch and the Evolution of Horror from 2017-10-25T06:14:58

In this segment I review my new favorite horror film: “The Witch: A New England Folktale”. Created by young filmmaker Robert Eggers, it feels like something new in the genre, no only in how it was ...

How to Vote Integral from 2017-10-24T05:48:54

In a political system that is so polarized and seemingly rife with conflict between irreconcilable views, how do we make the best and most integrally-informed choices possible?

“DUNKIRK” Rescues Heroism From Postmodernity - And stands as a work of Integral art ... from 2017-10-19T00:16:36

In this episode I review the movie “Dunkirk”, a wonderful new film by Christopher Nolan which I offer for consideration as a work of lntegral art. As I say in the podcast (and accompanying transcr...

Trump-Sick? Try This. from 2017-10-18T06:25:46

In this segment I respond to a listener who makes a urgent request for relief from a bad case of “Trumpinosis” (fear and loathing of our President). I end the episode by sharing 15 minutes of a vid...

When Buddhists Go Bad: The Tragedy in Myanmar (And Why Development Trumps Doctrine) from 2017-10-17T06:20:56

If Buddhism is a religion of peace, what explains the ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, where the Rohingya Muslims minority is being killed and driven out by Buddhist militias, incited by Buddhist monks?

The Transpersonal Workout Less Pain, More Gain from 2017-10-16T06:10:37

The Transpersonal Workout — I think I have stumbled upon a way to transform my morning workout from something I dread and suffer through, to something that has become quite meaningful and rew...

Harvey Weinstein and the Fall of the Patriarchy from 2017-10-11T06:32:27

Male domination of women is nothing new. Though modernity and postmodernity seek to dismantled it, pockets of patriarchy continue to flourish in the strangest places, even liberal Hollywood. Till l...

The Republic Fights Back (And Even Some Republicans!) from 2017-10-11T03:46:06

In the wake of the Trump election, many progressives are realizing that one way forward is to reach out to their political opponents, at least to establish a basic human connection. Today Jeff look...

The Power of Mutual Awakening - My conversation with Patricia Albere from 2017-10-04T23:48:44

Hey Folks, Today I’d like to share a conversation I had with one of my favorite evolutionary teachers, Patricia Albere, about her beautiful new book: Evolutionary Relationships: Unleashing the Pow...

Donald Trump Has A Very Small Amygdala - New research into people who lack empathy, and how to deal with them from 2017-10-02T15:37:38

In this episode I attempt once again to plumb the shallows of Donald Trump's mind. I was spurred by an article in The Atlantic magazine about children who have been diagnosed with “callous and une...

The Morality of Meat from 2017-09-30T00:53:40

If God didn’t want us to eat animals, why did He make them out of meat?

Monkey Mind (And Other Kinds of Animal Intelligence) from 2017-09-29T01:03

How much consciousness do animals possess?

Do Rivers Have Rights? from 2017-09-18T01:07:04

Rivers are people, my friend. And they’ve lawyered up.

Is Climate Changing Us? - Hurricanes Harvey and Irma heat up the debate from 2017-09-15T17:43

This week the topic was obvious: Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, the dual storms that battered Texas and Florida in the last couple weeks. In this episode we look at how the climate debate has exace...

The 50,000 Year Culture War - My appearance on “What’s Your Theory?” podcast from 2017-09-11T16:48:17

In today’s episode I am the guest of Stephen T. Harper as he kicks off his new podcast, “What’s Your Theory?”, where he ...

Intimacy, Longevity, and Happiness from 2017-07-27T22:05:27

In this episode of Shrink and Pundit, integral psychotherapist Dr Keith Witt and I talk about how intimacy, longevity and happiness are programmed into the human genome, and accessible ...

The Trump Era, Month Five from 2017-06-26T18:40:34

In this podcast we’ve spliced together the audio from three Facebook Live videos I’ve done over the last couple weeks. I’m really liking these quickie videos as they are giving me a chance to comme...

Facilitating Vertical Development – A Conversation with Beena Sharma from 2017-06-17T00:03:47

In this podcast, Beena and I discuss what she and her team are learning about how adults grow through the predictable stages of adult development while still remaining true to their own journey. We...

Flying At Integral - A conversation with Jason Lange from 2017-06-08T18:56

In this episode I am the guest of my longtime friend and integral comrade, Jason Lange, on his new podcast Do The Evolution. We hit some juicy territory in our conversation so I’m sharing it with y...

Irritation as a Spiritual Practice–A conversation with Diane Musho Hamilton from 2017-05-06T16:43:42

Diane Musho Hamilton is at the forefront of one of the most significant spiritual emergents in contemporary culture: the realization of the power of our everyday relationships, even troubled ones, ...

Transforming Trauma Into Power–A two-part conversation with Dr. Keith Witt from 2017-04-04T23:21:30

Life is wounding. For some of us our wounds are inflicted in the form of major traumas such as a serious injury, painful divorce, career failure or act of abuse or violence. More often, however, we...

Can Globalists Be Nationalists? An interview with Steve McIntosh… from 2017-03-20T19:19:13

In this podcast I ask Integral philosopher Steve McIntosh a question on the mind of many integral practitioners: how do we relate to the nationalist passions that are arising in many developed coun...

The Bannon Doctrine: Demolition Ahead from 2017-03-11T00:46:07

Steve Bannon is Donald Trump’s favorite philosopher. Trump sometimes jokes that he doesn't know “whether Bannon is alt-right or alt-left,” but either way Bannon has given voice to the visceral impu...

Trump: the Anti-Green Backlash Begins - An interview with Ken Wilber from 2017-02-11T02:47:26

The Trump Presidency is an evolutionary correction for a culture whose leading edge “is in a 50-car pileup.” This is the thesis of Ken Wilber’s excellent new eBook, Listen

Pre-Truth, Post-Truth and Beyond - How Integral thinking helps us transcend the turmoil from 2017-02-02T20:59:05

Inaugurated with bogus crowd claims and tales of voter fraud, the post-truth presidency of Donald Trump is upon us. Trump lives in a Red “warrior” worldspace alive with apparitions, rum...

The Trump Era: Day 45–Prepare for Impact from 2016-12-22T16:53:10

Ok, folks, we’ve had 45 consecutive mornings of waking up and wrapping our heads around the fact that Donald J. Trump is going to be the next president of the United States of America. What do we k...

Self-Love: Feeling whole in our incompleteness from 2016-12-06T17:24:31

The Shrink and the Pundit is an ongoing discussion between Jeff and his longtime friend, Dr. Keith Witt, a leading Integral psychotherapist. In this podcast they explore the topic of se...

The Trump Era: Day 1|Three integrally-informed friends attempt to face reality from 2016-11-10T00:34:02

My colleagues Diane Hamilton and Terry Patten are here at my home, preparing for the Integral Living Room gathering which begins tomorrow. They arrived a day early, yesterday (November 8), so we co...

Trump the Terrible: an Integral Look at the Boy who Would be King from 2016-10-27T23:40:20

Defeat Trump! Not because he is a big alpha figure who would bust up the establishment. Not because he's vulgar. Not because lacks a coherent policy vision. Those things can actually be evolutiona...

Our Nutty and Fruitful Election–A conversation with Jeff Salzman, Diane Musho Hamilton&Terry Patten from 2016-10-13T05:31:50

This episode was recorded on Monday, October 10th, the day after the second Presidential debate (the debate preceded by Trump’s press conference with four women who accuse Bill and Hillary Clinton ...

Is the System Rigged? Yes, and it’s coming along nicely… from 2016-09-07T16:12:13

If there's one thing that people on both ends of the political spectrum can agree on, it's this: the system is rigged. But an integral view asks, “which system?” A historical survey reveals that ov...

The Democrats’ Integral Convention—And glimmers of hope on the right from 2016-08-05T03:42:20

Hey gang, I couldn't stay away another minute. There's just too much happening with this crazy, mixed up election. So here is a new Daily Evolver podcast I recorded over last couple days, to share ...

The practice of mutual awakening: a conversation with Patricia Albere from 2016-06-04T17:28:29

Sanders’amazing race • Policing Trump-speak • An unlikely source of Muslim rage from 2016-05-28T15:26:18

The practice of integrating God and Emptiness: a conversation with Steve McIntosh from 2016-05-21T19:11:11

Trump versus Clinton: the roller derby begins from 2016-05-15T20:16:32

Insect consciousness • Saving the elephants • The Witch: movie review • Plus, Trump’s the one! from 2016-05-07T23:44:57

The psychology of politics: a conversation with Dr. Keith Witt from 2016-05-04T22:18:56

Carl von Clausewitz famously said “war is the continuation of politics by other means.” From a developmental standpoint, Dr. Keith points out, it’s the other way around: politics is actually war by...

“I, my brother and my cousin against the stranger.”The soul of Saudi Arabia. Plus Bence Ganti on IEC 2016 from 2016-04-30T20:18:05

Jeff speaks with Bence Ganti about “Reinventing Europe”, IEC 2016 from 2016-04-29T21:20:47

First tier food fight: Red Trump to Green Sanders from 2016-04-23T21:13:56

Can integral theory solve climate change and save democracy? A conversation with Alan Watkins from 2016-04-15T23:13:28

In "Wicked and Wise", Alan and Ken use climate change as an example of a wicked problem. “Integral coherence”, or applying the integral map in a coherent fashion, is the essence of the solution. In...

The Warrior and the Man of Wisdom: Jeff and Dr. Keith on the nature of masculinity from 2016-04-09T18:43:31

Dr. Keith has been working with men for decades as a psychotherapist. When he talks about masculinity, he focuses on the Warrior archetype, and beyond that, what he calls the “Man of Wisdom”. The W...

The Mormon faith crisis: can integral thinking help? A conversation with author Thomas McConkie from 2016-03-26T16:57:15

Dr. Keith Witt on how to regulate anxiety from 2016-03-19T23:11:39

Steve McIntosh on polarity theory and a path forward in US politics, (plus Donald Trump!) from 2016-03-11T23:25:50

Validation for Einstein; Funeral for Scalia. Plus, America’s gun-love from 2016-02-21T00:49:33

Trumping the Republicans: Donald Trump projects red consciousness, but is that who he is? from 2016-02-20T08:58:38

With Donald Trump currently leading the Republican presidential field, the race is finally getting interesting. Few people think he will ultimately prevail, but Trump can absolutely affect the outc...

Integral political practice: How to endure Ted Cruz. Plus, the Mormon faith crisis from 2016-02-13T21:03:16

Integral sex therapy with Dr. Keith Witt from 2016-02-05T23:05:46

Bernie Sanders: Catalyzing the politics of Green from 2016-01-30T07:30:25

The soul of jazz part 2: A conversation with integral music critic Greg Thomas from 2016-01-22T05:11:50

Political correctness and the evolution of culture from 2016-01-18T05:55:05

There is political correctness, it turns out, at every stage of development, from the capitol crime of blasphemy at the traditional/amber stage to the prejudices and microaggressions you may not ev...

The soul of jazz part 1: A conversation with integral music critic Greg Thomas from 2016-01-05T22:01:07

The practice of miracles: A brief holiday message from Jeff from 2015-12-24T04:24:32

One of the blessings of an integral consciousness is the ability to embrace the gifts of earlier stages of development. In this short holiday message, Jeff encourages us to practice being enchanted...

From midlife crisis to a deeper sense of self, with Dr. Keith Witt from 2015-12-20T01:15:11

Terror and backlash in America: The San Bernardino attack and its effect on US politics from 2015-12-13T20:54:50

The integral guide to divorce, with Dr. Keith Witt from 2015-12-08T20:00:40

The higher divorce rate likely indicates our changing expectations of a primary partnership. We’re living twice as long as we did a hundred years ago, women have more power, and the standard of mar...

The practice of the marital love affair, with Dr. Keith Witt from 2015-11-29T05:20:36

In this conversation on marriage, Dr. Keith shares intimate insights on topics such as what questions to ask as you consider marriage, how to deal with conflict and infidelity, progressive bonding,...

The holy war on modernity: An integral analysis of the Paris attacks from 2015-11-22T01:10:10

Conversation with Amma Thanasanti: A celibate mendicant talks about sex and money from 2015-11-14T19:32:52

Towards a trans-rational theory of the soul from 2015-11-07T22:07:10

Is there any part of us that survives this life? Ken offers an argument for the affirmative, and Jeff shares how experimenting with that idea illuminates his own developmental path. Plus, the soul ...

Clinton, Carson, and the American political landscape from 2015-11-01T01:21:03

This week, the sudden animation of Hillary Clinton and the ascendency of Ben Carson, what their presence tells us about the deeper currents flowing under the surface of culture. Also, the poetry of...

The hidden power of political polarization: Relax, everybody, gridlock is a stage on the path from 2015-10-25T04:31:08

Jeff takes us on a brief tour of the history of polarization in the US as far back as the Revolutionary War, and describes the silver lining to the conflict and legislative gridlock. Also, Full Spe...

The emergence of the postmodern economy: An encore conversation with economic theorist Said Dawlabani from 2015-10-17T16:20:54

Today we’re reposting a conversation that I had last year with Said Dawlabani (author of MEMEnomics: The Next Generation Economic System) about integral economics. I think his ideas are more ...

The emergence of evolutionary spirituality: A conversation with Steve McIntosh - A conversation with integral philosopher Steve McIntosh from 2015-10-09T18:56:21

Steve McIntosh’s new book explores evolutionary spirituality as a distinct emergent that includes the great scientific truths of our age. In this conversation, Jeff and Steve discuss the nature of...

Is the Pope integral? from 2015-10-04T01:43:39

The drama and karma of refugees in Europe - How do postmodern cultures integrate premodern cultures? from 2015-09-27T06:14:21

The refugee crisis in Europe, Africa and the Middle East is testing the status quo between the so-called first, second and third worlds. Jeff looks at the policy arguments being made on the liberal...

Firsthand report from Hungary on the refugee crisis: A conversation with Bence Ganti - A conversation with Bence Ganti from 2015-09-27T05:45:13

Since Hungary is at the epicenter of the refugee crisis currently engulfing Europe, we called our friend Bence Ganti to get an integral, European perspective. In his conversation he highlights the ...

Polarities, personalities, and politics: How Trump is blowing up the calcified Republican psyche from 2015-09-19T23:43:44

After taking the summer off from the live show, Jeff dives into the Fall season with an analysis of the American political scene, currently dominated by The Donald, of course. Could he really be pr...

Jeff catches up with integral artist Stuart Davis from 2015-08-28T21:22:47

Stuart Davis has been on the integral scene since before there was an integral scene. His art and music spring from the rich realizations of integral theory with nary a line or a quadrant mentioned...

Thoughts on integral theory as a spiritual path from 2015-08-14T19:16:15

A while back the folks at the Integral Center here in Boulder asked me to deliver an integral sermon for a Sunday morning service they were conducting at the center. I was excited about the opportu...

Can we become more spiritually intelligent? from 2015-08-07T04:14:18

Today I’m sharing a conversation I had a couple years ago with my dear friend Cindy Wigglesworth, right when she released her really terrific and influential book SQ21: The 21 Skills of Spiritual I...

Cutting through postmodern malaise: A reprise of Jeff’s keynote from the What Next Conference from 2015-07-30T19:15:46

Seeing the positive trajectory of history not only creates a happier life, but also empowers us to be truly helpful in solving the problems and healing the suffering that persists, because we opera...

Spirituality and psychotherapy: Integrating the two great paths of development from 2015-07-22T16:07:34

This week, a gem from the archives: an early talk between Jeff and Dr. Keith Witt–part of a series that eventually became The Shrink and The Pundit. Dr. Keith Witt has been practicing psychot...

The sacred world to come: A conversation with Charles Eisenstein from 2015-07-12T01:47:24

This week we’re bringing you an episode from the archives: Jeff’s conversation with Charles Eisenstein, visionary, activist, and author of the books Sacred Economics, The Ascent of Humanity, and Th...

Ken Wilber on magic vs psychic from 2015-07-02T17:56:09

In the following excerpt Jeff asks Ken Wilber a question about magical thinking vs real psychic phenomena. Whether we’re talking about near-death experiences, precognitive dreams, telepathic ...

The paradox inside of elegance: Exploring the higher reaches of adult development with Rob McNamara from 2015-06-27T22:13:42

Elegance is the word that author and coach Rob McNamara uses to refer to the experience of higher, post-autonomous stages of development, or what we might call integral consciousness. Listen as he ...

Making the move to worldcentric consciousness: A conversation with Theo Horesh from 2015-06-19T20:23:48

Theo Horesh is a Boulder social entrepreneur, philosopher and a familiar face in the integral community. Last year Theo published a series of insightful essays on the Middle East, inspired by his t...

Turning destructive shadow into constructive shadow with Dr. Keith Witt from 2015-06-15T21:10:50

The willingness to look at the parts of ourselves that we can’t see -- or don’t want to see -- is a major milestone on the path of self-actualization. In this episode of The Shrink & The Pundi...

The evolutionary function of gay men is to make you fabulous - A Conversation with Raymond Rigoglioso from 2015-06-08T04:20:15

Whether they’ve been closeted or out, oppressed or honored, Raymond Rigoglioso wants us to know that gay men are, and have always been, a powerful evolutionary force in society--with distinct gifts...

The pop culture conveyer belt: How Judge Judy, Dr.Phil, Oprah and Don Draper grow us up from 2015-05-31T06:20:07

The Information Age is putting our evolution into overdrive, and you can see it throughout the ever-growing spectrum of worldwide popular culture. Free university classes, science blogs and TED Tal...

Integral environmentalism: Why the cure for development is more development - Why the cure for development is more development from 2015-05-17T19:03:10

In this podcast, Jeff looks at our relationship to the natural world and explores the significant new thinking around climate change and other environmental issues. He focuses on “An Ecomodernist M...

“Meditation for militants.”A conversation with Justin Miles from 2015-05-10T02:22:09

Jeff talks about integral activism with Justin Miles, founder of the Miles Center for Integral Living in Baltimore. Justin is a former member of the Black Panther party, Buddhist meditation teacher...

Protest and violence in Baltimore, an integral view from 2015-05-02T20:31:44

The long game of overcoming racism isn’t just a matter of how people are treated by the police or how the laws are written. The final piece happens in our hearts and minds. An integral take on the ...

What’s the deal with reptilian alien shape shifters? - And Other Things on the Minds of Listeners This Week from 2015-04-18T03:48:45

Is fundamentalism fundamental? How do we encourage development? And what’s up with the whole Illuminati, reptilian alien, shape shifting conspiracy anyway? Jeff responds to these and other question...

The Iran deal: Traditionalists vs. modernists on both sides from 2015-04-12T06:14:28

The traditionalists in Iran and in the US want to dig in their heels and fight the good fight. Meanwhile, the modernists are engaging with sanctions and diplomacy. Can this deal delay Iran’s progre...

Evolving toward God: The surprising next stage of spiritual development from 2015-04-05T19:46:16

Jeff investigates the return of a 2nd person relationship to Spirit. Steve McIntosh joins the conversation to talk about "evolutionary spirituality" as a dialectical step beyond the progressive spi...

How an integral spirituality can help evolve Islam; Jeff Salzman interviews Steve McIntosh from 2015-03-21T23:58:26

Islamic culture in the Middle East is entrenched in a dialectical antithesis with modernity. Building on the work of moderate Muslim intellectuals, McIntosh argues that the Islamic cultural reform ...

What depression is trying to tell us with Dr. Keith Witt from 2015-03-15T00:09:44

On this episode of The Shrink & The Pundit, Jeff and Dr. Keith talk about one of the oldest and most dreaded of human afflictions. They consider not just the suffering, but also the wisdom and ...

Integral sniper: A conversation with Navy SEAL Jake Bullock from 2015-03-08T07:54:14

How does an integrally informed Navy SEAL sniper relate to the job he has to do, and the people he must engage in war? What is it like to re-enter civilian society? Jeff got to ask these questions ...

The story of love: David Riordan on the integral inquiry into Christ from 2015-02-28T08:25

In advance of the Return to the Heart of Christ conference, Jeff and David Riordan of Integral Life talk about the questions that arise with an integral inquiry into Jesus’s life and teachings. Als...

Fifty shades of shadow work: What happens when integral gets kinky from 2015-02-22T17:24:46

Fifty Shades of Grey may be a terrible movie, but its popularity is indicative of a new friendliness in our culture towards the kink community, (formerly known as perverts). Jeff talks to New York ...

The banality of ISIS: Obama, the Inquisition and Medieval brutality in our time from 2015-02-14T19:03:51

    This week Jeff covers a range of topics, focusing on the controversy over Obama’s remarks about the historical sins of Christianity such as the Crusades, the Inquisition and slavery. ...

Conservatives evolve: how American Sniper and Fox News integrate liberal values from 2015-02-07T22:06:14

This week Jeff takes a look at the movie American Sniper and Fox News’ rising star Megyn Kelly, to make the case that conservative culture is evolving by taking on the best of green altitude values...

Obama leads from the front: an integral president promotes postmodern values to a modern nation from 2015-01-25T00:25:53

This weeks Jeff looks at President Obama’s annual “State of the Union” address to Congress. He makes the case that Obama is pushing for the developmental move from an Orange modern economy to a Gre...

Am I Charlie Hebdo? An integralist considers the events in Paris from 2015-01-18T07:19:57

In this week’s podcast Jeff explores the Muslim/Western fault lines exposed in the Charlie Hebdo massacre, where twelve people were killed in an attack on the satirical magazine by Muslim extremist...

So long turbulence, hello turbulence! An integralist greets the new year from 2015-01-09T23:42:34

2014 has been described as a turbulent year in the media, but there isn't really a turbulent-free option, is there? Is there anything about turbulence that is good? Also, Jeff answers a listener's ...

Critic meets advocate: Jeff interviews Frank Visser of Integral World from 2015-01-04T08:18:11

Frank Visser is arguably the chief critic of Ken Wilber, integral theory and the integral community as a whole. Based in Amsterdam, Frank is publisher of the website INTEGRAL WORLD: An Independent ...

More pain, less suffering from 2014-12-16T21:02:45

In this thirteen minute excerpt of a conversation from September, Jeff  speaks with Ken Wilber about the pain and suffering inherent in a human life, which begins with the nature of emergence itsel...

Dr. Keith on loving completely from 2014-12-03T02:10:16

In this episode of The Shrink & The Pundit, Dr. Keith reveals what he’s learned in over forty years as a psychotherapist about cultivating integral love relationships, what the shift to a...

Love is as real as a rock from 2014-11-25T21:21:16

This week Jeff looks at Interstellar, the new movie from Christopher Nolan that explores love as a force in the kosmos akin to the force of gravity. Bringing love to Earth, Jeff comments on the spi...

Gay pride, white privilege from 2014-11-16T04:46:33

This week Jeff looks at the process by which historically oppressed people, such as women, racial minorities and gays gain full acceptance in the culture. It’s not just a matter of changing laws, b...

The mother of First World problems: an integral look at capitalism from 2014-11-09T08:48:34

In this week’s podcast, recorded on election night in the U.S., we explore some thoughts on the big Republican gains in Congress and what might be next. Also, Jeff responds to Joe Corbett, a critic...

The perks of post-modernity from 2014-11-02T07:26:11

With all the attention on the war and pestilence within trailing-edge cultures around the world, it’s easy to miss what is happening on the leading edge, as developed cultures move deeper into post...

Ebola. How can we help? from 2014-10-26T06:48:01

This week Jeff takes a look at the Ebola crisis and how an integral view can help us relate and respond. He explores the function of fear and a time honored way that it can be transmuted into real ...

Dog and god: How we relate to animals, ideas, and each other at different stages of development from 2014-10-18T20:05:51

This week Jeff shares some evolutionary insights and encounters he had on his few weeks of hiatus. He starts with a personal story of his own development regarding communion with animals. He also e...

On human memory and trauma, with Dr. Keith Witt from 2014-10-05T19:33:53

Human beings are memory machines, for better or for worse. There is an autobiographical narrative that is alive inside all of us, and just as individual memories seem to create me, memories in the ...

The world according to Wilber from 2014-09-18T19:02:59

Ken Wilber is my hero. I mean that quite literally because Ken rescued me from a life of confusion, fear and frustration as I tried to make sense of our crazy, mixed up world. Ken’s insights organi...

The brutal&the sweet: Twee culture, the Obama Doctrine,&fractures in Ferguson from 2014-08-23T19:00:40

In a week that has featured an appalling display of the trailing edge of consciousness development -- the ISIS beheadings -- Jeff starts by highlighting a new, more encouraging emergent that is ari...

The next economy: A conversation with Szandra Köves from 2014-08-15T22:20:42

In the vision of a future economy the motto is to think globally and act locally. Eco-localization refers to local production and consumption imbued with an awareness of how one’s actions may impa...

The new autocrats from 2014-08-10T03:24:35

This week Jeff looks at a new model of autocratic modernity that is gaining traction particularly among developing countries with weak histories of democracy, such as Russia and China. With the eco...

Israel and Gaza–relating to the suffering of others from 2014-08-03T18:17:53

The many crises of the world, most prominently the war in Israel and Gaza, evoke important questions for those of us who are not directly involved. What can we do about the suffering? What are we s...

Plane crashes in Ukraine, rockets fly in Gaza from 2014-07-26T04:33:36

The two global hot spots this week are, once again, Ukraine, where Russian separatists have shot down a passenger jet from Amsterdam, killing 300 people, and Israel/Gaza, where longstanding tension...

As muslims move into modernity: A conversation with Aftab Omer from 2014-07-18T18:29:24

The struggle between the Muslim and Western worlds is not only a clash of civilizations, but also a clash of development. I had a good conversation on this subject with Dr. Aftab Omer, a sociologis...

From The Big Bang to Big Brother; The Evolution of Sex from 2014-07-13T18:46:33

Sex evolves like everything else, so what's next? This week Jeff looks at the amazing, creative, pervasive phenomena of sex and how it's evolving in all four quadrants. What are the roots of our se...

Brazil Plays, Ukraine Fights from 2014-07-04T22:06:27

In this week’s call Jeff explores the issue of cultural identity from an evolutionary point of view. He uses the examples of the World Cup and the story told about Brazil by the international media...

The End of Iraq? from 2014-06-27T20:36:13

This week Jeff focuses on the situation in Iraq, where the jihadi group ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham) has taken over the Sunni area of the country. Their aim is to install a medieval cal...

On the front lines of the postmodern revolution with Graham Hill from 2014-06-22T19:20:21

I met Graham back in the nineties when he ran a web design firm in Seattle. He’s always been on the emerging edge of culture and technology and is one of those people that has an integral min...

Lying as violence and truth as a practice, with Dr.Keith Witt from 2014-06-08T18:06:24

Lying is a subtle violence that we perpetrate against ourselves and others, and almost all psychotherapy is concerning where people lie to themselves about themselves. As we develop more self-aware...

Getting in the habit of evolution from 2014-05-04T22:01:15

Our left hemisphere learns new routines, but it is our right hemisphere where the habits are hardwired — and it changes slowly. The brain evolved to not give up habits that it has associated ...

Evolution In The Age of Ecocide from 2014-04-25T20:08:05

This week Jeff took a look at the emergence of some radical new Green ideas in the economic conversation, with an advanced peek at the influential new book “Capital in the 21st Century”, by Thomas ...

When Worldview Trumps Facts from 2014-04-19T22:25:20

This week Jeff takes a look at new research that reveals how worldview overrides evidence in determining one’s political perspective. He also explores the conservative view of the Russian/Ukraine s...

Finding a way through to love: Dr. Keith Witt on what makes a happy marriage from 2014-04-13T21:03:51

If it was just the genes talking we’d have serial marriages lasting on average four or five years, and we’d cheat on each other every chance we got.  ~Dr. Keith Witt Apparently we’re kind of cluele...

Conscious Capitalism And Corporate Personhood from 2014-04-05T03:30:50

THE DAILY EVOLVER LIVE EPISODE 88 This week I focused on a topic that is always front and center in the culture wars: the role of the public sector and the private sector in our lives, and the tens...

The downside of modernity and upside of millennials from 2014-03-15T19:38:17

I started the call this week by responding to a couple listeners who think I’ve gone a little soft on modernity (Orange altitude). The first, David O’Conner from Australia, critiqued me by saying, ...

The neurobiology of shadow from 2014-01-03T19:38:30

A CONVERSATION WITH DR. KEITH WITT (AUDIO) The “shadow” is a Jungian term that means the hidden aspects of our psyche that motivate us but that we are unaware of. For instance, we may experience an...

Thank you for seeing me: Debriefing The Integral Living Room from 2013-11-29T21:47:48

Dr. Keith Witt joined me and about 100 integralists from all over the world at The Integral Living Room gathering here in Boulder a few weeks ago, where we explored approaches to creating a higher-...

In the belly of the whale from 2013-11-10T21:22:42

A dialog on Joseph Campbell and the hero’s journey with Dr. Keith Witt Before I encountered the work of Ken Wilber, Joseph Campbell was lighting me up with his synthesis of the myths of all c...

Ought we be ashamed? from 2013-10-06T15:57:55

In this installment of  The Shrink & the Pundit, Dr. Keith Witt  and I discuss the emotional constellations of shame. As a therapist who has worked with thousands of clients, Keith has seen the...

How to have integral sex: Conversation with Dr. Keith Witt from 2013-07-20T18:37:16

This month my conversation with Brother Keith is on everybody’s favorite topic: sex.It turns out that Keith is indeed the Doctor of Love! Having counseled literally thousands of people on sex...

We’re goodness, truth and beauty machines from 2013-06-01T19:05:31

    My latest conversation with Dr. Keith Witt really gave me a lift! In evolutionary circles we often hear how the human brain is wired for hypervigilance. Natural selection favors peopl...