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The Daily Evolver What Really Helps? The Kosmo-centric ViewHey 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 includes) the world-centric view of green postmodernity. Also the evolution of empathy, the role of meditation, Sam Harris’s “presentism” error and more. Enjoy the episode! Jeff Salzman Jeff Salzman – The Daily Evolver Ankur Delight – 10,000 Heroes TWO WAYS TO JOIN ME LIVE: Fireside Chats with the Integral Life Practice Community First and Third Wedn...

2023-10-2642 min

This Week in the News, w/ Ankur Delight Archives - The Daily Evolver What Really Helps? The Kosmo-centric ViewHey 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 includes) the world-centric view of green postmodernity. Also the evolution of empathy, the role of meditation, Sam Harris’s “presentism” error and more. Enjoy the episode! Jeff Salzman Jeff Salzman – The Daily Evolver Ankur Delight – 10,000 Heroes TWO WAYS TO JOIN ME LIVE: Fireside Chats with the Integral Life Practice Community First and Third Wedn...

2023-10-2642 min

default Archives - The Daily Evolver What Really Helps? The Kosmo-centric ViewHey 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 includes) the world-centric view of green postmodernity. Also the evolution of empathy, the role of meditation, Sam Harris’s “presentism” error and more. Enjoy the episode! Jeff Salzman Jeff Salzman – The Daily Evolver Ankur Delight – 10,000 Heroes TWO WAYS TO JOIN ME LIVE: Fireside Chats with the Integral Life Practice Community First and Third Wedn...

2023-10-2642 min

The Daily Evolver American Grievance and GratitudeThis 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 podcast Jeff Salzman – The Daily Evolver podcast Lee Mead’s Anthem (for a taste of integral patriotism)

2023-07-0721 min

default Archives - The Daily Evolver American Grievance and GratitudeThis 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 podcast Jeff Salzman – The Daily Evolver podcast Lee Mead’s Anthem (for a taste of integral patriotism)

2023-07-0721 min

default Archives - The Daily Evolver Not Your Grandfather’s Nazis - The Role and Prospects for Ukraine’s Right Wing, with Jeff Salzman and Ankur DelightIn 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 Podcast Ankur Delight – 10,000 Heroes podcast

2023-06-1421 min

The Daily Evolver Not Your Grandfather’s Nazis - The Role and Prospects for Ukraine’s Right Wing, with Jeff Salzman and Ankur DelightIn 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 Podcast Ankur Delight – 10,000 Heroes podcast

2023-06-1421 min

The Daily Evolver Peter Zeihan And The Missing Piece In Public DiscourseHey 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 compelling narratives about our world that include economics, demography, geography, politics and history. He gives me a far more integrated understanding of a variety of issues from the Russia / Ukraine war to the workings of the drug cartels, to “Is it Oklahoma’s time to shine?” Yet, as with so many contemporary thinkers, his analysis misses the core value...

2023-04-2846 min

The Daily Evolver Chatbot’s Paean to Integral & Trump Goes to CourtThis 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 to write a poem expressing Ken Wilber’s developmental stages. The result (below) is mind-blowing. How is it possible for a machine to create three verses that capture the essence of developmental theory so well? Mind-blowing, yes, but is it beautiful? Can it be beautiful when it was written by a machine? Welcome to humanity’s next stage of understanding itself and our place in the cosmos. ALSO...

2023-04-1753 min

The Daily Evolver What Integral Brings to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - Guest: Diane Musho HamiltonThe 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 regarding race, gender and identity in American institutions. My guest today is Diane Musho Hamilton, who has been on the front lines of the DEI movement for over two decades, starting as a diversity trainer in the Utah Supreme Court. Diane is also a transmitted Zen teacher in the White Plum Tradition, and a highly respected leader in the integral community. Diane’s specialty is working with groups under stress, of wh...

2023-04-0844 min

default Archives - The Daily Evolver Green Art, Stage Debate, Ukraine/Russia - Fireside Chats with Jeff SalzmanHey 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 maybe the spiral is spiked Traditionalism’s hot war on modernity in Ukraine Ghosts: an integrally-flavored tv comedy! This episode is recorded from the live “Fireside Chat” I do twice a month (1st and 3rd Wednesdays) for Integral Life. Join us live if you can this coming Wednesday the 29th at 1 PT, 4ET. Integral Life is building an impressive community of...

2023-03-2552 min

The Daily Evolver Green Art, Stage Debate, Ukraine/Russia - Fireside Chats with Jeff SalzmanHey 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 maybe the spiral is spiked Traditionalism’s hot war on modernity in Ukraine Ghosts: an integrally-flavored tv comedy! This episode is recorded from the live “Fireside Chat” I do twice a month (1st and 3rd Wednesdays) for Integral Life. Join us live if you can this coming Wednesday the 29th at 1 PT, 4ET. Integral Life is building an impressive community of integral practitioners, and you can check out all the...

2023-03-2552 min

The Daily Evolver AVATAR, BROS AND OUR SKIN - Where Woke Goes Right and WrongIn 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: Avatar: The Way of Water – James Cameron’s latest movie in his great green myth of Pandora, a pristine planet attacked by modernity (and a few pre-trans fallacies). Bros – A gay romantic comedy produced by Judd Apatow, where the triumph of queer ideology is a moral imperative. Our Skin: A First Conversation About Race – A picture book for preschoolers that shows how we would live in a world without regard f...

2023-01-2136 min

The Daily Evolver Elon Musk: Spiral Wizard? - An Integral Take on the Multi-Dimensional ManIn 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 in contention in our culture: Traditional (order and conformity), Modern (secular and rational), Postmodern (sensitive and egalitarian). They all have goodness, truth and beauty to offer, and they all hate each other. Most people live in one worldview, can function adequately in another, and polarize against the third. If you can embrace the polarization and inhabit all three, then you are entering the next emerging worl...

2023-01-0643 min

The Daily Evolver 2022: An Integral ReviewHey 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 me to share my thoughts at the end of another year in the human adventure. The integral lens reveals a fundamental force in cultural development: the struggle between worldviews. In 2022 we saw this struggle play out in a geopolitical context, with the events in Ukraine, China and Iran. We saw it within our culture through the battles over covid, gender and...

2022-12-281h 11

The Daily Evolver A Post-Progressive Approach to Climate Change - Guest: Steve McIntosh, President, The Institute for Cultural EvolutionThis 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 our collective response to the climate crisis. Steve argues that the progressive agenda on climate needs an upgrade: “Preserving the health of our natural environment is crucial for our collective well-being, which is why we can no longer indulge in the idealistic fantasy that America’s economy and energy systems can be immediately and radically transformed. Some prominent progressive voices are calling for the overthrow of capitalism, but this...

2022-06-0140 min

The Daily Evolver ARMED INSANITY: Getting real about guns and criminalityThis 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 shooting will heighten a social pain-point – unstable young men equipped with weapons of war – sufficiently to transcend political polarities. In this episode I ponder: America’s enneatype, frontier culture, “traditionalism with guns” Integrating the MSNBC and FOX News worldviews Recognizing budding criminality Matthew Yglesias’s positivity blowback How about the first part of the second amendment? The ever-widening circle of moral consideration What our grandchildren will know Bl...

2022-05-2629 min

The Daily Evolver Frances Fukuyama: Trajectory Without Teleology - What’s driving the “long arc of history”?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 criticized (somewhat unfairly, as I’ll explain) in light of the rise of 21st Century autocracies, especially China and Russia. In his new book, Liberalism and its Discontents, Fukuyama updates his argument, which he sums up in his recent feature article in the Wall Street Journal: “The Long Arc of Political Progress: A democratic world order is not the inexorable outcome of historical forces, but even amid setbacks...

2022-05-1334 min

The Daily Evolver Illuminating Our Stage Structures - Guest: Developmental Psychotherapist Kim BartaSometimes 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 of my guest today, developmental psychotherapist Kim Barta. He discusses his approach to personal growth, which is based on the STAGES Model of Development created by well-known developmental theorist Terri O’Fallon (who is also Kim’s sister.). Using psychotherapeutic practices, shadow work and meditation, Kim has devised a comprehensive system of self-exploration with stopovers at every stage of development, designed to bring the...

2022-04-3046 min

The Daily Evolver APOCALYPSE ALWAYS - Doom, Post-Doom and BeyondThis 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 civilization as we know it is already well underway, is unstoppable, and will be felt by us here in Comfortable Land through disruption of many kinds in the not-too-distant future.” Post-doomers find meaning in surrendering to this inevitable doom, much as a hospice patient might find peace – even joy – in the acceptance of their death. Or that their loved ones might find in reconciliation and mourning. I’m not...

2022-04-2226 min

The Daily Evolver Integral Oratorio Debuts in London - Steve Banks on “Blue Pearl: A One World Oratorio”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 Pearl: A One World Oratorio and it will be performed for the first time in London next month. Blue Pearl is itself a fascinating example of integral consciousness arising in an established art form. In its structure it is a classical oratorio, defined as a “large-scale musical work for orchestra and voices, typically a narrative on a religious theme, performed without the use of co...

2022-04-1458 min

The Daily Evolver David Fuller, Wise Rebel - A revealing visit with the founder of Rebel WisdomToday 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, and has built it into a significant, integrally-informed cultural player, managing to thread the needle between – and beyond – the warring ideologies of traditionalism and progressivism. David shares his journey of development and how it led to the creation of Rebel Wisdom. He describes how the platform has itself evolved, morphing beyond its initial association with Jordan Peterson, who has gone hard anti-left. Rebel Wisdom has moved forwar...

2022-04-0856 min

The Daily Evolver Trauma to transcendence - Using life’s wounds to growIn 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 writing a book on the subject and has mined various psychotherapeutic modalities to create an integral approach to using trauma as a portal to health and higher consciousness. In our wide-ranging conversation we address: Trauma and resilience as forms of memory * The differences – and similarities – between ongoing trauma and “major event” traumas such as accidents, violence and illness * Trauma through human history...

2022-03-311h 01

The Daily Evolver Gender Fluidity: Fruitful and FanaticThe 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 the context of the stage transformations of sex and gender through history, and even get a little personal. I hope you enjoy the episode! – Jeff Salzman

2022-03-2529 min

The Daily Evolver Emergence Appears as Regression and Decadence - The developmental delusion we all shareVladimir 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 democracies as weak and depleted. So did Hitler and the Japanese before World War II. It’s an old pattern that we can trace back to the warriors of old, who had contempt for the budding traditionalists beating their swords into plowshares. Over time, however, the emerging stage wins, not only because it brings on new capabilities (traditional order, modern rationality, postmodern sensitivity) but also because every stage cont...

2022-03-1835 min

The Daily Evolver “Why do I care more about people who look and think like me?” - Listeners reflect on the war in UkraineI’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 consciousness are arising “simultaneously”. 5:34 – The shocking strangeness of premodernity and its challenge to modern culture. 15:13 – “The world, even Russians, seem to be more unified and sensitized to the abhorrence of war.” 17:20 – “Why do I care more about people who look and think like me?” The challenge of moral growth. Thanks for listening – you can write me at jeff@dailyevolver.com, or leave a voicemail here. – Jeff Salzman

2022-03-1424 min

The Daily Evolver Terry Patten, An Integral Life - Diane Musho Hamilton and I remember our beloved brother, and 20 years of Integral historyToday 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 Integral community, and Diane and I had the privilege to teach and work with him for nearly 20 years. As Diane recounts, Terry was “the consummate integralist”, awake to his own mind, body and spirit, and dedicated to the wellbeing of all: family, friends and the world at large. I think of him as Integral’s “Zorba the Greek”, whose warmth, laugh and sheer ecstatic t...

2022-01-0743 min

The Daily Evolver 2022: New Culture Arising - Infinite dots and ways to connect themHere 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 biggest dangers, and the challenge of the millions of stories people tell about all of it. Enjoy and here’s to a bright 2021! – Jeff Salzman

2021-12-3130 min

The Daily Evolver Spielberg‘s West Side Story: An Integral MasterpieceIn 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 into our own, his West Side Story expresses colliding worlds with deep sympathy and goodwill to all. And the sheer cinematic transmission! From the iconic opening, with its call-and-response whistle echoing through the tenements of New York City, the film’s every moment is lit with the sparkle of humanity. It exudes the passion of youth, the grittiness of street life, and the deep liquid spac...

2021-12-2130 min

The Daily Evolver Preview: The Dawn of Everything - A New History of HumanityOn 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 has got to go.” Now, apparently, we have the whole book version! “The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity,” by anthropologist David Graeber and archaeologist David Wengrow makes a similar case, aiming, as the New York Times writes, “to upend the narrative of social evolution.” Several listeners have written for my opinions about the book. I have kept up with David Gr...

2021-11-2732 min

The Daily Evolver Bite Size: Experiencing Integral – 20 minutes - Letters from Second TierJeff Salzman considers the question, what is it like to experience integral consciousness? How does one feel, relate and function differently? Also, letters from listeners.

2021-10-2820 min

The Daily Evolver Post-Progressivism Meets Academic Philosophy - Guest: David Storey, Professor of Philosophy, Boston CollegeWelcome 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 Storey, a professor of philosophy from Boston College. David discovered integral thinking outside of academia, as did most of us, but is now bringing its principles to bear on his teaching. Whether the subject is history, religion or the emerging ethics of environmentalism, David’s focus is on helping his students to learn how to communicate across worldviews. David, Steve, and I co...

2021-10-081h 22

The Daily Evolver Bite Size: When Simone Biles Stepped Aside - Simone Biles exemplifies new attitudes to work Preview: When Simone Biles Stepped AsideCatch the full episode on the Post-Progressive Post Welcome to “This Week in the New York Times,” a new podcast with Jeff Salzman on the Post-Progressive Post! In this new live program, Jeff Salzman gives his unique post-progressive take on the news and opinion of the day. Tune in to find out how the emerging post-progressive perspective can help make sense of our hyper-polarized culture and politics, and more importantly, show us the way forward out of it! This Week in the New York Times is li...

2021-09-0706 min

The Daily Evolver Progress Denialism: Getting us NowhereBill 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 blindness, except what you can’t see is that your dorm room in 2021 is better than the South before the Civil War.” In this episode, I map the idea of progress in our culture. Maher’s comments were widely praised in the mainstream media, from Morning Joe Scarborough on MSNBC (center left) to Peggy Noonan at the Wall Street Journal (center right). Together these represen...

2021-07-1618 min

The Daily Evolver The Meaning of It All - An integral look at grief and lossIn 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 death, but also goodness and beauty? Throughout history, humanity has come up with many different and often conflicting answers to these questions. Early humans perceived a spirit world where the ancestors were present and available. Traditional cultures posited a transcendent reality – Godhead or Nirvana – with death as an opportunity for liberation from evil and suffering. Modernity deconstructed religion and spirit bu...

2021-05-1947 min

The Daily Evolver Psychedelics go Mainstream + John McWhorter & Bill Maher on RacePart 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 significant move in the evolution of human consciousness. Part 2: I play excerpts from a fascinating conversation between John McWhorter and Bill Maher on race relations, and imagine how an understanding of developmental theory would have improved it. Here’s to another week in cultural evolution! ~ Jeff Salzman

2021-05-1533 min

The Daily Evolver Our Hearts in Boulder, ColoradoTypically 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. As a longtime friend and colleague of Jeff’s, I was moved to use his words to create the video below, which […] The post Our Hearts in Boulder, Colorado appeared first on The Daily Evolver.

2021-03-2505 min

The Daily Evolver The Next Economy with Pia Malaney - Senior Economist at the Institute for New Economic ThinkingIn 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 concerning globalism and nationalism, wealth distribution, the future of work, model economies, the culture war between MAGAstan vs WOKEstan, and why Joe Biden gets us from the fire into the frying pan. Hope you enjoy the episode! – Jeff Salzman Pia Malaney is Co-Founder and Director of The Center for Innovation, Growth and Society and Senior Economist at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. Her own pr...

2021-02-191h 01

The Daily Evolver Gen Z at Second Tier - Guests: Gary Sheng and Zoë Jenkins of Civics UnpluggedInspiring+++ 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 inspiring and hopeful. I was imagining that Jeff and Steve may have felt like proud parents! These young people “get it.” – Mary Reese Folger In this episode, Steve McIntosh and I visit with two young leaders, Gary Sheng and Zoë Jenkins, who are activating higher consciousness in Generation Z through their organization Civics Unplugged. Civics Unplugged is a community of Gen Z leaders committed to strengthening democracy through civic entrepreneurship in the U.S. and around t...

2021-01-301h 03

The Daily Evolver Gen Z at Second Tier - Guests: Gary Sheng and Zoë Jenkins of Civics Unplugged 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 inspiring and hopeful. I was imagining that Jeff and Steve may have felt like proud parents! These young people “get it.” – Mary Reese Folger In this episode, Steve McIntosh and I visit with two young leaders, Gary Sheng and Zoë Jenkins, who are activating higher consciousness in Generation Z through their organization Civics Unplugged. Civics Unplugged is a community of Gen Z leaders committed to strengthening democracy through civic entrepreneurship in the U.S. and...

2021-01-301h 03

The Daily Evolver PUKE HIM OUT! - Mean Red Trump is Poison 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 for the future. It feels good to smile again. – Cee Gee Last Wednesday we saw a mob assault the US Capitol Building in an attempt to stop the certification of November’s presidential election. Five people have died. This insurrection was incited by a sitting president of the United States – whose flags then waved from the broken windows beneath the Rotunda. As these astonishin...

2021-01-1153 min

The Daily Evolver PUKE HIM OUT! - Mean Red Trump is PoisonThank 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 for the future. It feels good to smile again. – Cee Gee Last Wednesday we saw a mob assault the US Capitol Building in an attempt to stop the certification of November’s presidential election. Five people have died. This insurrection was incited by a sitting president of the United States – whose flags then waved from the broken windows beneath the Rotunda. As these astonishing events have sunk in over the past few days, ther...

2021-01-1153 min

The Daily Evolver PUKE HIM OUT! - Mean Red Trump is PoisonThank 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 for the future. It feels good to smile again. – Cee Gee Last Wednesday we saw a mob assault the US Capitol Building in an attempt to stop the certification of November’s presidential election. Five people have died. This insurrection was incited by a sitting president of the United States – whose flags then waved from the broken windows beneath the Rotunda. As these astonishing events have sunk in over the past few days, ther...

2021-01-1153 min

The Daily Evolver The Light and Shadow of Integral Consciousness - Guest: Nomali Perera, Integral Coach, Facilitator, TrainerExcellent nuanced conversation. – Daniel Schulman Never heard anybody articulate so beautifully the differences between integral self and holistic self; although hearing explained so succinctly, it felt like home. Like many kensho moments when it opens us to a deeper understanding that we can never close again. Thank you. Yellow is still trying to understand and let go, teal accepts. – Steven Webb Great conversation in the transition from one tier to the next. The clear appreciation of the seminal work of Clare Graves, Don Beck and Chris Cowan is wonderful. Thanks to Jeff Salzman and Nomali Perera. 1:09: 26, well invested! – Albert Klamt What a...

2021-01-011h 09

The Daily Evolver The Light and Shadow of Integral Consciousness - Guest: Nomali Perera, Integral Coach, Facilitator, Trainer Excellent nuanced conversation. – Daniel Schulman Never heard anybody articulate so beautifully the differences between integral self and holistic self; although hearing explained so succinctly, it felt like home. Like many kensho moments when it opens us to a deeper understanding that we can never close again. Thank you. Yellow is still trying to understand and let go, teal accepts. – Steven Webb Great conversation in the transition from one tier to the next. The clear appreciation of the seminal work of Clare Graves, Don Beck and Chris Cowan is wonderful. Thanks to Jeff Salzman and Nomali Perera. 1:09: 26, well invested! – Albert Klamt What a...

2021-01-011h 09

The Daily Evolver Letters from Listeners and My Favorite ThingsI 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, trads or pomos? Responses to my critique of the famous “toast scene” in the movie Five Easy Pieces. (18:39) How can the mythic impulse in religion be integrated? (22:55) My ebullient resilience, and how to capture integral in four bullet points (26:25) My products of the year, decade and millennium so far (34:40) Gratitude to the Integral movement’s leading light Let me know what YOU think! Write to me at...

2020-12-2449 min

The Daily Evolver The Evangelical Schism - “Jericho politics” causes Christians to chooseIn 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 earlier this month featuring evangelical leaders (and Alex Jones), and the backlash it has caused with others in the movement. 21:25 – How mainstream punditry is seeking to explain the seeming paradox of Trump-loving Christians. 35:50 – Bill Bryson and Jack Nicholson demonstrate why the hatred of the left still unites traditional conservatives – and why we deserve it. I hope you enjoy the episode! Announcement: The Institute for Cultural Evolution...

2020-12-2149 min

The Daily Evolver A Call To Further Becoming for Women Over 50 - Guest: Sue BrightmanIn 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 consciousness being pioneered by women who are now entering – and thriving – in elderhood. Based on 100 interviews with women age 50 – 70+, Sue shares 10 themes that capture the emerging essence of this creative, exciting and spiritually-rich stage of life. I hope you enjoy the episode! – Jeff Salzman

2020-12-1656 min

The Daily Evolver When the Left Goes Right - Conspiracies and Trump-love among spiritual progressives. Guests: Jason Lange and Nomali Perera 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 email from my old pal Jason Lange with the question: “What’s your pulse on all the ‘conspirituality’ out there?” I’d never heard the term “conspirituality”, but I understood what he meant when he described “the weird convergence I’m seeing of ‘spiritual’ friends going hard right, Trump, even QAnon.” What an interesting phenomenon! I’ve seen some of it myself, even in the integral world. Is it a reaction against the recent er...

2020-10-211h 07

The Daily Evolver Integral Life Practice Comes to Life! - Live sessions with leading teachers. Guest: Corey DeVosHey 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 the best practices of spiritual, psychological, interpersonal and cognitive development. Integral Life has brought together dozens of deeply-experienced Practice Leaders to provide live, daily guided ILP practice sessions that you can experience from the privacy of your own living room. Check it out here. But being integralists and old pals, Corey and I couldn’t stop our conversation there, so we also took on our mostly-concurring integral interpretations of tod...

2020-10-131h 07

The Daily Evolver My Spiral Unfolding So Far - Jeff Salzman with Nomali Perera and Lee Mason of Practical IntegralIn 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 friends: Nomali Perera, with whom I’ve worked on many integral projects since 2004, and Lee Mason, whom I’ve come to know more recently. Nomali and Lee are both coaches, facilitators and teachers in the integral arena, and have teamed up to create a series of offerings called Practical Integral. In addition to this interview, they asked me to join them in pro...

2020-08-071h 09

The Daily Evolver Judging Kavanaugh - by Jeff SalzmanThe 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 presented to the Senate Judiciary Committee by both Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, the woman accusing him of attacking her as a teenager. He considers: How do we process two perspectives that are in diametric opposition? Why and how we should “take it personally.” How to navigate the predictable political polarization. The cultural forces at play in this case and how they are moving us forward. You can access the vide...

2018-10-0336 min

default Archives - The Daily Evolver Our Nutty and Fruitful Election – A conversation with Jeff Salzman, Diane Musho Hamilton & Terry PattenI had a terrific gabfest with my Integral besties Diane Musho Hamilton and Terry Patten about the Clinton-Trump campaign. I’m sharing it with you here. We recorded ourselves 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 of abuse). Here’s some of what we talked about: Is Trump degrading our culture? The painful karma of being the first female presidential candidate, and how Hillary is handling it. What about the third party option? The gift of Trump...

2016-10-1300 min

The Daily Evolver Our Nutty and Fruitful Election – A conversation with Jeff Salzman, Diane Musho Hamilton & Terry PattenThis 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 of abuse). In it Jeff chats with Integral besties Diane Musho Hamilton and Terry Patten and test drives his theory that this campaign, as appalling as it is, is a powerful engine of cultural evolution and is moving us to a more intelligent and humane place.

2016-10-1353 min

The Daily Evolver Our Nutty and Fruitful Election – A conversation with Jeff Salzman, Diane Musho Hamilton & Terry PattenI had a terrific gabfest with my Integral besties Diane Musho Hamilton and Terry Patten about the Clinton-Trump campaign. I’m sharing it with you here. We recorded ourselves 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 of abuse). Here’s some of what we talked about: Is Trump degrading our culture? The painful karma of being the first female presidential candidate, and how Hillary is handling it. What about the third party option? The gift of Trump...

2016-10-1300 min

The Daily Evolver Sanders’ amazing race • Policing Trump-speak • An unlikely source of Muslim rage Jeff begins this episode with a heartfelt reminder of just how valuable integral theory is for opening our hearts and understanding our world. It helps us to see and accommodate more of reality, to make sense of competing worldviews and conflicting truth claims. “All schools of human wisdom find their place in the bigger integral view,” he says. Jeff invited special guest Theo Horesh on to the show to talk about candidate Bernie Sanders and the progressive movement he’s leading. Theo is an integrally-informed author and thought leader who’s been a political activist since the days of...

2016-05-281h 05

default Archives - The Daily Evolver Sanders’ amazing race • Policing Trump-speak • An unlikely source of Muslim rage Jeff begins this episode with a heartfelt reminder of just how valuable integral theory is for opening our hearts and understanding our world. It helps us to see and accommodate more of reality, to make sense of competing worldviews and conflicting truth claims. “All schools of human wisdom find their place in the bigger integral view,” he says. Jeff invited special guest Theo Horesh on to the show to talk about candidate Bernie Sanders and the progressive movement he’s leading. Theo is an integrally-informed author and thought leader who’s been a political activist since the days of...

2016-05-281h 05

The Daily Evolver Insect consciousness • Saving the elephants • The Witch: movie review • Plus, Trump’s the one! As humans evolve we are able to empathize with more and more life forms, beginning with other people and eventually extending to other species that may be very different from us–from elephants to insects. Officially as of this week we can now add insects to the mix of living creatures that are conscious. –Jeff Salzman Jeff talks about new research into the interiors of tiny critters and explores the idea that consciousness is an irreducible aspect of reality. The Wilberian notion that consciousness extends all the way up and all the way down, from huma...

2016-05-0855 min

default Archives - The Daily Evolver Insect consciousness • Saving the elephants • The Witch: movie review • Plus, Trump’s the one! As humans evolve we are able to empathize with more and more life forms, beginning with other people and eventually extending to other species that may be very different from us–from elephants to insects. Officially as of this week we can now add insects to the mix of living creatures that are conscious. –Jeff Salzman Jeff talks about new research into the interiors of tiny critters and explores the idea that consciousness is an irreducible aspect of reality. The Wilberian notion that consciousness extends all the way up and all the way down, from huma...

2016-05-0855 min

The Daily Evolver The psychology of politics: a conversation with Dr. Keith Witt A good leader has to be working the whole spiral. – Jeff Salzman Carl von Clausewitz famously said “war is the continuation of politics by other means.” From a developmental standpoint, Dr. Keith points out, it’s actually the other way around: politics is war by other means. The 1800 election between Adams and Jefferson was the first ever peaceful transition of power in a democracy. Since then, instead of waging war against those we disagree with, we wage political campaigns, (which is a huge improvement though we sometimes have to hold our noses to participate). In this epi...

2016-05-0559 min

default Archives - The Daily Evolver The psychology of politics: a conversation with Dr. Keith Witt A good leader has to be working the whole spiral. – Jeff Salzman Carl von Clausewitz famously said “war is the continuation of politics by other means.” From a developmental standpoint, Dr. Keith points out, it’s actually the other way around: politics is war by other means. The 1800 election between Adams and Jefferson was the first ever peaceful transition of power in a democracy. Since then, instead of waging war against those we disagree with, we wage political campaigns, (which is a huge improvement though we sometimes have to hold our noses to participate). In this epi...

2016-05-0559 min

default Archives - The Daily Evolver “I, my brother and my cousin against the stranger.” The soul of Saudi Arabia. Plus Bence Ganti on IEC 2016 In this week’s Daily Evolver live Jeff takes an in-depth look at the beautiful and mysterious desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which he refers to as “our Arab frenemy”. President Obama spent several days there last week—his 4th visit, more than any sitting president. Saudi Arabia has officially been an ally to the US since 1933. They’re our biggest customer in terms of arms sales, and we rely heavily on their oil. And yet, recent legislation would provide U.S. citizens with recourse to sue Saudi Arabia for culpability in the September 11 attacks (Obama says he’ll veto...

2016-04-3058 min

The Daily Evolver “I, my brother and my cousin against the stranger.” The soul of Saudi Arabia. Plus Bence Ganti on IEC 2016 In this week’s Daily Evolver live Jeff takes an in-depth look at the beautiful and mysterious desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which he refers to as “our Arab frenemy”. President Obama spent several days there last week—his 4th visit, more than any sitting president. Saudi Arabia has officially been an ally to the US since 1933. They’re our biggest customer in terms of arms sales, and we rely heavily on their oil. And yet, recent legislation would provide U.S. citizens with recourse to sue Saudi Arabia for culpability in the September 11 attacks (Obama says he’ll veto...

2016-04-3058 min

default Archives - The Daily Evolver First tier food fight: Red Trump to Green Sanders Jeff often talks about how politics offers us opportunities to do integral practice, because politics has a lot of juice. “It really reaches down to our lower strata of development, down to our power and security chakras, which determine how we see the world,” he says. Interestingly, and perhaps for the first time ever, we have presidential candidates whose developmental centers-of-gravity span four entire stages of development. Hence, they each speak to different parts of ourselves. Trump, for instance, has classic Red (warrior) tendencies. Red is chaotic, unpredictable, and often sees the world as divided into...

2016-04-231h 02

The Daily Evolver First tier food fight: Red Trump to Green Sanders Jeff often talks about how politics offers us opportunities to do integral practice, because politics has a lot of juice. “It really reaches down to our lower strata of development, down to our power and security chakras, which determine how we see the world,” he says. Interestingly, and perhaps for the first time ever, we have presidential candidates whose developmental centers-of-gravity span four entire stages of development. Hence, they each speak to different parts of ourselves. Trump, for instance, has classic Red (warrior) tendencies. Red is chaotic, unpredictable, and often sees the world as divided into...

2016-04-231h 02

default Archives - The Daily Evolver Can integral theory solve climate change and save democracy? A conversation with Alan Watkins A few years ago Alan Watkins noticed, while watching a news story about a global crisis, that he kept hearing about the same problems over and over again. “Why is it that these problems are intractable?” he asked himself. Thus was born Wicked and Wise: How to Solve the World’s Toughest Problems, which he co-wrote with Ken Wilber. Many [business leaders] are beginning to realize that there is something else other than quarterly profit, there’s something else other than returns to shareholder, there’s something else other than just growth and the relentless pursuit of...

2016-04-1652 min

The Daily Evolver Can integral theory solve climate change and save democracy? A conversation with Alan Watkins A few years ago Alan Watkins noticed, while watching a news story about a global crisis, that he kept hearing about the same problems over and over again. “Why is it that these problems are intractable?” he asked himself. Thus was born Wicked and Wise: How to Solve the World’s Toughest Problems, which he co-wrote with Ken Wilber. Many [business leaders] are beginning to realize that there is something else other than quarterly profit, there’s something else other than returns to shareholder, there’s something else other than just growth and the relentless pursuit of...

2016-04-1652 min

default Archives - The Daily Evolver The Mormon faith crisis: can integral thinking help? A conversation with author Thomas McConkie Activity in the Mormon church seems to be declining – particularly in the West – and Thomas McConkie is witnessing what he calls a “faith crisis.” Many people are questioning the stories being passed down to them, especially Millennials, who are effortlessly modern or even postmodern. Gold plates with Egyptian writing on them? Lost tribes of Israel in the Americas? Where is the proof? (And what about the sexism, racism and homophobia?) click for more info Thomas, who was born and raised in the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City and comes from pioneer...

2016-03-2648 min

The Daily Evolver The Mormon faith crisis: can integral thinking help? A conversation with author Thomas McConkie Activity in the Mormon church seems to be declining – particularly in the West – and Thomas McConkie is witnessing what he calls a “faith crisis.” Many people are questioning the stories being passed down to them, especially Millennials, who are effortlessly modern or even postmodern. Gold plates with Egyptian writing on them? Lost tribes of Israel in the Americas? Where is the proof? (And what about the sexism, racism and homophobia?) click for more info Thomas, who was born and raised in the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City and comes from pioneer...

2016-03-2648 min

The Daily Evolver Bernie Sanders: Catalyzing the politics of Green Bernie Sanders started his campaign to be the Democratic nominee for president back in April, “as a 74-year old rumpled, grumpy, self-described old school democratic socialist,” says Jeff. “Today he has included and transcended those qualities to transform himself into a sleek political populist taking on a system that he sees as rigged against the people.” Jeff puts Bernie’s extraordinary rise into a larger evolutionary context that includes culture, politics and economics. He draws on the work of integral economist Said Dawlabani to describe the way value systems of different developmental stages oscillate between a focus on the ind...

2016-01-3041 min

The Daily Evolver Political correctness and the evolution of culture Green sensitivity makes us worthy of becoming integral. ~Clare Graves Obama’s integral manifesto Jeff begins the podcast with a few observations about Obama’s final State of the Union address, where the President invited us to look not just at the next year, but further “to the next ten years and beyond.” And to see that the key feature of our journey is change, change which is influenced by the actions we take. Obama then sets up America’s challenges, as he sees them, in a series of polarities: how do we broaden op...

2016-01-1800 min

The Daily Evolver The soul of jazz part 1: A conversation with integral music critic Greg ThomasBy Jeff Salzman I’ve long enjoyed music critic Greg Thomas's insightful posts on Integral Life, where he write about jazz. Not that I like jazz music. Truth is, I've always found jazz to be annoying. I can't tap my foot to it. I can't sing it in the shower. Like a lot of artforms, when we don't understand them, jazz has shown up to me as noise. Of course like all good integral practitioners, I want to turn toward the object of my annoyance. I know it's not the fault of jazz that I...

2016-01-051h 07

The Daily Evolver The practice of miracles: A brief holiday message from Jeff 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, once again, by the beauty and goodness of the world. All Life asks of us is that we wake up, become who we are, and express our wisdom and virtue into the world. ~Jeff Salzman Send your questions and comments for the show to jeff@dailyevolver.com. Record a voice memo on your smartphone or use the Speakpipe button on DailyEvolver.com.

2015-12-2409 min

The Daily Evolver Terror and backlash in America: The San Bernardino attack and its effect on US politics In a world in which there are no mess-free options, says Jeff, “I’m so happy to have an evolutionary view” when trying to make sense of things like the killings in San Bernardino, the first terror attack on American soil with the fingerprints of ISIS. While it’s objectively true that violent deaths in the U.S. (and the world) are declining steadily, public shootings have become horrifyingly common here (26 mass shootings just during Obama’s two terms in office). These create a special kind of anxiety and terror, one that we are evolutionarily programmed to pay outsized attention...

2015-12-1350 min

The Daily Evolver The holy war on modernity: An integral analysis of the Paris attacks The recent terror attacks in Paris brought to light, once again, the difficulty in reconciling the values of modern, secular societies like France and premodern societies such as those in much of the Arab world.This relationship is complicated by the past sins of the West, from the Crusades all the way up to the wars after 9/11, which, Jeff explains, “took the lid off Iraq, which has put the Muslim world in arrested development and even in a functional regression since”. It may be tricky to claim the moral high ground when you’ve been alternately toppling and pr...

2015-11-2259 min

The Daily Evolver Clinton, Carson, and the American political landscape This week Jeff talks about the sudden animation of Hillary Clinton, both in the recent Democratic debate and in the eleven-hour grilling by the Republicans on the House Benghazi committee.”I want to know who took our boring old school marm Hillary away and replaced her with this sparkling, confident, fluid and flowing woman,” says Jeff. Perhaps Hillary needs to be facing down an enemy for us to remember what we like about her. On the other side of the political spectrum there’s the ascendency of Dr. Ben Carson, the supremely mellow African-American neurosurgeon who recently surpas...

2015-11-011h 00

The Daily Evolver The hidden power of political polarization: Relax, everybody, gridlock is a stage on the path A recent Pew Research study demonstrates that the US hasn’t been this politically polarized for 150 years. …ideological thinking is now much more closely aligned with partisanship than in the past. As a result, ideological overlap between the two parties has diminished: Today, 92% of Republicans are to the right of the median Democrat, and 94% of Democrats are to the left of the median Republican. But there is a silver lining to the legislative gridlock. The tension and friction that arise out of the ideological rifts between the left and the right is a tremendous creative force that...

2015-10-251h 03

The Daily Evolver Protest and violence in Baltimore, an integral viewOn the surface, the story of the unrest in Baltimore recently is a familiar story about police brutality and racism. But the glowing embers of civil unrest that were fanned into flames last week by Freddie Gray’s death is likely a systemic problem in America whose karma can be traced back to slavery. And more recently, four decades of middle class and working class jobs leaving American cities and the economic devastation that’s caused. In West Baltimore, where Gray lived and was arrested, more than half of people between 16 and 64 are unemployed. In this podcast, Jeff...

2015-05-0252 min

The Daily Evolver The Iran deal: Traditionalists vs. modernists on both sidesAs the P5+1 reached the outline of a deal with Iran to roll back its nuclear program in exchange for lifting sanctions, modernists (orange altitude) celebrated in the US and in the streets of Tehran. Traditionalists (amber altitude), on both sides, warned that the other couldn’t be trusted. As Dr. Phil points out to heartbroken lovers trying to reconcile, you may not be able to trust the other to do what they say, but you can trust them to be who they are. In this podcast Jeff points out that governments have evolved into greater complexity an...

2015-04-1200 min

The Daily Evolver How an integral spirituality can help evolve Islam; Jeff Salzman interviews Steve McIntoshLook at the Perfect One At the Circle’s Center: He Spins and Whirls like a Golden Compass, Beyond all that is Rational, To show this dear world That Everything, Everything in Existence Does point to God. ~From “A Golden Compass”, by Hafiz The bloody, incendiary conflict between the modern world and radical Islamism has captured the world’s attention, and Steve McIntosh’s new paper for the Institute for Cultural Evolution (ICE) shines an integral light on this challenge. Fostering Evolution in Islamic Culture is a good example of just how...

2015-03-2234 min

The Daily Evolver Critic meets advocate: Jeff interviews Frank Visser of Integral WorldFrank 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 Forum for a Critical Discussion of the Integral Philosophy of Ken Wilber which hosts over a thousand essays by mostly dissenting voices in the integral scene. Contrast this to Jeff Salzman and his work with the Daily Evolver. Jeff is an unabashed Wilberian and self-described integral evangelist who “sees the animating power of evolution, inside and out.” Frank and Jeff spoke by phone before the holid...

2015-01-0442 min

The Daily Evolver Dr. Keith on loving completelyIn 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 2nd tier “love operating system” looks and feels like, and how you go about teaching couples to love completely. Everything is relationship. Only a small sliver of our brains has to do with our sense of individual self—we’re designed to be social, to interact. We’re designed to love. Our development depends upon it. And yet, it isn’t always easy. Loft...

2014-12-0350 min

The Daily Evolver On human memory and trauma, with Dr. Keith WittHuman 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 morphogenetic field create the collective culture of my family, my society. You could say that the universe is essentially memory and we are each part of a long line that is re-membering our species anew. Our ancestors are alive within us, as is a great longing to re-member where we came from, in the kosmic sense. Dr. Keith says these morphogenetic...

2014-10-0556 min