Note: I wrote this introductory piece in the days leading up to the Emerge Gathering in Austin, Texas. Daniel Schmachtenberger proposed framing the conference around the question of a “third attractor,” while Jeremy Lent clarified this attractor involves the creation of an ecological civilization. My readers might appreciate some of the themes cohering below. This…
April/May 2022 – Otherlands, Other Futures, and Complex Thinking
Here are a few books that have “stuck” with me lately, or rather that I am sticking with for their themes on embodying ecological thought, deep time, and planetary complexity.
World of Wisdom chat with Amit Paul
I recently had the pleasure of joining Amit Paul for a conversation on World of Wisdom podcast. Listen to, “”Gebser, Development, Liminality, Relationality and Why it’s Crucial to Decenter Progress.”
Three Theses on Liminality: On Thresholds, Interregnums, and Coyolxuahqui
We inhabit the present: this liminal, interim reality where old identities and subjectivities are unspooling. Yet, simultaneously, there is an invitation to remake ourselves and our world, or better yet remake ourselves in relationship with the world.
24. Mutations, Imagination, Futurability
I’m tempted to describe it as a kind of “evolutionary triptych” for consciousness efflorescence. Tempted.
23. The Web of Meaning with Jeremy Lent
In episode 23 of Mutations, I talk with Jeremy Lent about his new book: The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe. Lent’s newest work proposes an integrated worldview very much in the philosophical spirit of the scholars and teachers we explore on Mutations (integral philosophy, theory,…
A Gebserian Note on the Word “Map”
There’s a diminutive, crumpled-in-the-back-pocket, food stained and salt sprayed sensual richness to this word’s history that intuitively feels of some import to us.
Notes on Designing Aperspectival Containers
This piece is an interesting permaculture/regenerative take on the 1969 Eames “Design Diagram.” I was initially struck by how it resembles the Calabi-Yau manifold I often use to illustrate the relational wholeness of Jean Gebser’s consciousness structures (archaic through integral). Many of us in the Mutations community are, in some way, working with design. We’re…
Notes in Transit
En route from New York to Tampa Bay. It was great to (finally) reconnect with my family and friends after 1.5 years of lockdown. A homecoming! New York has changed, and hasn’t. The same, but different; intermingling melancholy and triumph. Refitted subways. Towering cyberpunk architecture completed during lockdown’s interlude. Masks and sanitizer kiosks and outdoor…
Appearances: Recent, Rumored and Forthcoming
2021 has kept me busy! I’m sharing a brief note about recent appearances and what’s coming next. First: high weirdness. Artist, musician, filmmaker, podcast host and longtime integralist Stuart Davis had me on his show, Aliens and Artists for a proper metaphysical conversation on non-human intelligences. I guess I’m coming out of my weird closet….