This section of the website features audio interviews of Steve McIntosh. The series of interviews below are by Carter Phipps of What Is Enlightenment? Magazine. These interviews are provided here through the kind permission of the magazine’s excellent interview website, WIE Unbound. Other audio interviews of Steve can be heard on the linked third-party websites at the bottom of this page:

What Is Enlightenment? Interviews:

Interview #7: Bringing an Integral Perspective to the White House
(recorded in March, 2008)
In this presentation, Steve explains that the most useful tool any politician or government official can bring to the table will be an understanding of the dynamics of consciousness and culture that are at play below the surface of every issue they face. Steve describes in detail how the President could apply an integral perspective to the two most pressing challenges that we're faced with today—renewable energy and international relations.

2 Minute Sample Clip

MP3 Audio File (44 minutes)




Steve McIntosh and Carter Phipps: "The Rise of the Integral Worldview", recorded at EnlightenNext's New York City Center on January 30, 2008
In this presentation, Steve and Carter discuss "integral basics" with a lively Manhattan crowd. Special thanks to the wonderful folks at EnlightenNext New York for creating a wonderful event.

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MP3 Audio File Part 1 (62 minutes)


MP3 Audio File Part 2 (57 minutes)


Interview #5: Integral Politics and Global Governance
This fifth interview explores the concept of global governance from an integral point of view. Part one delves into the worldcentric morality that underpins Steve's concept of the evolutionary goal of world federation, and discusses some of the practical manifestations of that perspective. In part two, Carter and Steve discuss the current situation in Iraq and then explore the ways such foreign policy failures might be better addressed by a sophisticated and truly integral global government.

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MP3 Audio File Part 1 (31 minutes)


MP3 Audio File Part 2 (29 minutes)


Interview #4: Applied Integralism
This fourth interview explores what it means to practice and apply the integral way of seeing and acting to solve myriad problems, both local and global. Steve elaborates on how the enlarged understanding of “value metabolism” provided by the integral worldview illuminates our opportunities to live-out the new truths of integralism and serve others in the process.

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MP3 Audio File Part 1 (23 minutes)


MP3 Audio File Part 2 (36 minutes)


Interview #3: Birth of the Integral Worldview
In this third installment of WIE’s Integralist series, Carter and Steve talk about the historical, cultural, and philosophical development of integral thought, including the work of its founders: Hegel, Bergson, Whitehead, Teilhard, and Wilber.

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MP3 Audio File Part 1 (28 minutes)


MP3 Audio File Part 2 (37 minutes)


Interview #2: Stages of Development
In this second interview Steve explains the first five stages in the Gravesian spiral of development. Moving up the spiral, from archaic to postmodern consciousness, the conversation includes a discussion of current events, such as Islamic extremism.

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MP3 Audio File Part 1 (46 minutes)


MP3 Audio File Part 2 (27 minutes)


Interview #1: The Integralist View
In this first in a series of conversations, Steve McIntosh speaks about his personal history and the experiences that led him to embrace the integral worldview.

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MP3 Audio File (46 minutes)




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