Interview with Terry Patten from his Beyond Awakening Series
“Understanding Evolution’s Purpose”
(Recorded in August, 2012, Beyond Awakening)
In this interview Steve discusses his book Evolution’s Purpose, as well as the new political think tank he is starting with Carter Phipps and others. The interview is an hour in length followed by audience questions.
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EnlightenNext Interviews
The series of interviews below are by Andrew Cohen and Carter Phipps, leaders of EnlightenNext. Taken together, the first six interviews provide an introductory workshop on integral philosophy.
EnlightenNext Interviews: Interview #1: The Integralist View
(Recorded in 2007)
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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Interview #2: Stages of Development
(Recorded in 2007)
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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Interview #3: Birth of the Integral Worldview
(Recorded in 2007)
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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Interview #4: Applied Integralism
(Recorded in 2007)
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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Interview #5: Integral Politics and Global Governance
(Recorded in 2007)
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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Interview #6: Steve McIntosh and Carter Phipps: “The Rise of the Integral Worldview”
(Recorded in 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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Interview #7: Steve’s Non-Denominational Relationship to Jesus of Nazareth
(Recorded in March, 2011)
In this brief interview with spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen, Steve describes his affinity for the teachings of Jesus. Although he does not identify himself as a member of any organized religion, Steve has been greatly inspired by the life and teachings of Jesus, as he explains in this interview. The interview itself is part of a series of similar interviews conducted by Cohen in 2011, which included a wide variety of authors and teachers speaking about their respective spiritual masters.
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