A Tale of Two Philosophies
In the age of Trump,
Me Too,
and Black Lives Matter
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Photo essay on the aftermath of May 30, 2020 demonstrations in La Mesa, CA against police brutality.
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Christianity, Neoliberalism,
& Right-Wing Populism:
A Faustian Bargain
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Exploring the incompatability between modern conservative Chrsitianity and the New Testament's central Christian values and ideals.
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RADIANCE:
How Integral Lifework
Restores Societal
and Ecological Harmony
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A discussion of deeper structures and patterns that drive societal and ecological harmony, and how we can begin to address those in answer to our current existential crisis.
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The S.A.P. Hypothesis:
Restoring Prosocial Society
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What is at the root of the fracturing of modern society? And what can we do to repair it? The S.A.P. hypothesis aims to identify the primary factors involved, and various avenues to initiate healing.
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| How Socialist Contributions to Civil Society Saved Capitalism from Itself
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This essay attempts to end our collective amnesia around the positive influences of soclialism on civil society over the past two centuries, and how socialism itself came about in response to the horrific conditions of capitalist enterprise during the industrial revolution.
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Private Property
As Violence
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Why Proprietarian Systems are Incompatible with the Non-Aggression Principle (NAP).
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The Underlying Causes of Left vs. Right
Dysfunction
in U.S. Politics
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What's at the core of sociopolitical polarization in the U.S. - and why Americans have become so easy to manipulate.
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| The Problem of Virtual
Causality
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Examining a corrosive troika of misattributed, masked and forced causality that perpetuates and maximizes human suffering in the context of current technology, complexity and political economy.
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| Reframing
Profit
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Changing what profit
incentivizes - away from antisocial and destructive behavior toward prosocial and civically constructive behavior - in a
Level 7 political economy.
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| Sector Theory 1.0 - Todd's
Take on Epistemology
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Building on constructive integralism to formalize some inputs and processing streams for "knowing" (and, ultimately, being), so that we can identify helpful multidialectical synthesis and integration, and avoid unhelpful exclusionary bias.
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| Articles of Transformation
for a Level 7 Political Economy
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Detailed objectives, action plan and philosophy for transforming crony capitalism, plutocracy and corrupted civic institutions into a more egalitarian, democratic, distributed, and community-centric minarchy. This is a January, 2019 PDF capture of the full website, with supportive links and documents, at www.level-7.org. (Please Note: this is a 13Mbyte file)
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| The Goldilocks
Zone of Integral Liberty
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A proposed method for
differentiating verifiable free will from countervailing illusions
of freedom.
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| Managing
Complexity with Constructive Integralism
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A proposed model for
understanding, embracing and managing an ever-evolving sphere of
exponential complexity.
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| A Mystic's
Call to Action
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Ways to deepen and mature spiritual
practice - and create effective and sustainable personal activism - within
the framework of Integral Lifework.
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Art, Spirit &
Consciousness
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Exploring the relationship between spirituality, art and consciousness, and what this relationship means for the artist, appreciators of art and the artistic process.
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| Spirituality for Skeptics
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What is the value of spirituality? How can we begin to explore this concept if we doubt there is a spiritual dimension of self? This article is a philosophical and practical approach to self-nourishing habits that could be described as "spiritual," but which at the same time address many kinds of skepticism about religion and spirituality in general. Here spiritual practice is defined as an easily accessible component of holistic wellness, an interior discipline that incorporates three general principles rather than specific doctrines or beliefs.
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| A Road to Empathy
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Empathy is a powerful gateway to kindness and compassion. In the modern age, however, a number of influences have collided to undermine the natural development of empathy. This article explores an integral approach to overcoming these influences and revitalizing a felt sense of empathy in ourselves and society as a whole.
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| Compassion &
Codependence
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This article proposes that compassion and codependence are actually opposites, directly antagonizing and interfering with each other. However, because they do share some superficial characteristics, they can be confused with each other by even the most caring and well-intentioned people. Within the framework of Integral Lifework, this article explores a number of ways to identify each mode of being, and then transform codependent responses into more compassionate ones.
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| Escaping
the Failures of Capitalism
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A brief overview of the failures of modern state capitalism, a proposed design for a more inclusive and egalitarian alternative, and a five-pronged approach to making that alternative a reality. For those already familiar with
Political Economy and the Unitive Principle, this expands on those ideas and adds more specific goals for immediate
activism.
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| Sex
at Dawn: The Fallacies of Simulated Science
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An overview of "the seven
deadly SIMS" of modern pseudo-science, as exemplified in the book Sex
at Dawn.
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| Growing Beyond an
Egocentric Worldview
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An examination of moral maturity,
and how it can be understood and expressed on a global scale, and
particularly in relationship to the events of 9/11.
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| Integral Communication
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Some perspectives and tools for
constructive inclusive, effective, integral communication.
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| Functional
Intelligence
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A pragmatic approach to
multidimensional intelligence, where such intelligence is defined
primarily by our ability to align intentions and outcomes with personal
values.
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The
Stupefaction
of Human Experience
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How the modern world is
relentlessly eradicating the breadth and depth of human experience.
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