Integral Naked Videos on YouTube

Here is a list of all the Integral Naked videos currently posted on YouTube, with links and descriptions; they can be viewed for free. Please feel free to post these links and descriptions – in whole or part - to other pods or forums, or send them in email, to whoever you think would be interested. I plan to start discussion threads on a lot of these in the IIzaadz pod (forum) as time allows. I love that this material is available to anyone free of charge, and hope that it will draw more attention to the wealth of material available on the Integral Institute websites.

It would be interesting if integrally-oriented people with opposing views or differences of opinion posted their own video pieces on YouTube, and I would also point out that posting samples of animated DVD's or other such products there is a great way to draw attention to one's work.

We asked Ken to do a short 10-minute commentary on these various meditative states and the corresponding brain-wave patterns that are shown on the EEG machine in the video. Ken enters four meditative states (nirvikalpa closed eyes, nirvikalpa open eyes, sahaj, and mantra-savikalpa), each of which has a very distinctive brain-wave pattern. In his commentary, Ken emphasizes that the patterns shown on this machine may or may not be typical, but they do emphasize that profound consciousness states can be evoked at will, and these show immediate correlation in brain-wave patterns.

If nothing else, seeing somebody's brainwaves flatline in about 4 seconds is a sight not easily forgotten! It also explains why we once heard Ken's girlfriend say, upon delivering news that she thought might not be happily received, “Now, um, honey, make your brain waves go to zero….”

More seriously, as Ken often says, “If you want to know God, you've got to get your brain out of the way first. It's just one big stupid filter….”

Please see the Integral Naked website for more information.

The Stuart Davis Show – Episode 1 – Genpo Roshi

The Stuart Davis Show – Episode 2 – Featuring Aja Bell Davis

The Stuart Davis Show - Episode 3

You may already be familiar with the many antics of Stuart Davis, regular guest host of Integral Naked and one of the integral scene's most prominent artists, with eleven full-length albums under his belt. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world have already been exposed (often without consent) to Stuart's infectious personality, exemplified by his earlier forays into film making which became the notorious StuCam series. Well, the Kosmic Jester is at it again, taking on his most ambitious and controversial project yet—one which is guaranteed to entertain, enlighten, and occasionally nauseate you—a one-man episodic talk show, written, produced, performed, and edited by Stuart himself.

Descartes: Reviving the West's Greatest Modern Vedantist

René Descartes' famous phrase, “Cogito, ergo sum”—“I think, therefore I am”—is thought by postmodern theory to be the essence of the modern West's anti-body, anti-earth, phallologocentric imperialistic bent. In this clip, Ken explains how the postmodern critique of Cartesian dualism only gets the story half-right, ignoring the profound contribution of a philosopher who actually linked consciousness and being in a manner as profound as the greatest causal sages, East or West.

Ken Wilber – Love Until It Hurts

In “Love Until It Hurts,” Ken discusses the nature of women's spiritual practice and suggests some of the important ways that it differs from men's.

Taste the Love in Food

Following the April 2005 Integral Consciousness seminar, Chef Eric Giesbrecht of Calgary, Alberta brought his culinary expertise to an evening with the Integral Institute staff, sharing the results of his own exploration into the nature of “Integral Cuisine.”
From a five-year odyssey through Integral Theory and applying that theory to both food and his life, Chef Giesbrecht looks into the significance of cooking as not only a way to nourish the body but a way of bringing people together.

Drawdown

DRAWDOWN is a single channel video piece directed by Phoenix Perry in collaboration with Arnold Steiner and sound by Brian Jackson (Infinite Volume) completed in 2004 for the Reline DVD compilation.

Drawdown: the process by which the dominant species in an ecosystem uses up the surrounding resources faster than they can be replaced.

Drawdown explores the relationship between man, machine, environment and the culture of greed in the world. Looking at the body as both a polluted system and a vehicle for enlightenment, we see the human form as an evolving machine empty of meaning in and of itself. In this context, the delusions of ego and self-importance become clear.

Drawdown suggests we look beyond our own selfish desire to see the vast beauty and abundance of the world around us.

As we look for the basic meaning of human existence amidst a technological culture, we must question if our technologies aid human evolution or accelerates the process of extinction. The answer immediately reveals the state of the human consciousness each man crafts into the world.

Saul Williams – Coded Language

Saul recently came through town for a spoken-word performance at the University of Colorado in Boulder, in support of his recent book The Dead Emcee Scrolls. We were fortunate enough to be able to capture the evening on video, so that we could share with you all. Enjoy!

The Mystic Heart – Part 1 – The Supreme Identity

The Mystic Heart - Part 2 – A Likely Story

The Mystic Heart – Part 3 – Intellectual Illumination

The Mystic Heart – Part 4 – All Reality In One Moment

The Mystic Heart – Part 5 – Psychosis or Mystical State?

The Mystic Heart – Part 6 – Picking a Path

The Mystic Heart – Part 7 – Out of the Self, Into the Light

In this dialogue series, Brother Wayne Teasdale and Ken Wilber discuss the advent of an integral mysticism in the postmodern world. Reflecting on their own spiritual experiences, the relation of science to spirituality, the lives of the great inter-spiritual pioneers, and how youth culture is revitalizing the mystical traditions, Brother Wayne and Ken show how an integral perspective can bring the revelations of mysticism into everyday life. In so doing, we learn to give fullest expression—as parents and professionals, students and seekers—to the Mystic Heart in each of us.

If, as historian Arnold Toynbee put it, the introduction of Buddhism into the West “may well prove to be the most important event of the 20th century,” we might also argue that the re-discovery of the contemplative roots of Christianity will be equally important. And as we enter the 21st century, it stands to reason that the recognition of a common mystical ground between Buddhism, Christianity, and the other World Religions will be the most important event of all.

Ken Wilber – Erogenous Zones of Life, Light and Emptiness

How to make love with all three bodies! No, we aren't talking about a threeway (though that's not necessarily out of the question…) Here Ken Wilber talks about what it means to fuck with your physical body (Life) your subtle body (Light) and your causal body (Emptiness). So pour yourself a glass of wine, throw on some Barry White, and enjoy ;-)

Fred Kofman – Being, Consciousness, Bliss

Kofman explains that Integral Consciousness is not a place at which you can arrive. Rather, it is climbing a ladder that is made of the very place for which you are reaching.

Tami Simon – Mixing Business and Pleasure

At the recent Integral Institute seminar on Integral Business, Tami Simon and Ken Wilber held a dialogue for an intimate audience of seminar participants and guests.

Tami Simon is the founder of Sounds True, North America's largest publisher of spoken word spiritual teachings, a business which models itself as both “mission-driven and profit-driven,” honoring “authenticity, open communication, and creativity.” In this clip, Tami speaks about running an integral business in the real world, from spirit to the bottom line.

David Deida – A Seminar of Sexual Yoga – Sexuality As Art

In this clip, Deida polls the audience on their sexual realizations, then sends them into hysterics as he pantomimes a handful of hilariously imbalanced sexual personas. He then respectfully ruminates on the therapeutic deficiencies of the great Ramana Maharshi, before making the counterintuitive claim that the world's greatest artists touch us so deeply BECAUSE of their imbalance! Enjoy….

David Deida – A Seminar of Sexual Yoga – Function, Form and Glow

In this introduction clip, Deida explains the difference between Therapy, Yoga, and Spiritual Practice as they pertain to sexuality. While Therapy deals with “function,” and Spiritual Practice with “glow,” Deida sets the stage for a discussion of the actual “flow” of Yogic energy, to be the focus of subsequent clips.

Ken Wilber – Spirituality and the 3 Strands of Deep Science

The three strands of deep science—injunction, apprehension, confirmation—give us a reliable methodology for learning about both the world without and the world within. Want to know what the moons of Jupiter look like? Look through a telescope. Want to know what satori is? Sit down and count your breaths. While you're at it, have a couple friends do the same thing, and then compare notes. After all, if your experience of satori involves becoming one with a jelly donut, you, um, might want to see if that happened to anyone else….

The Most Conflict Ridden Turf in the Known Universe

Three civilizations, three levels of development, and one shared mindset: everyone else is wrong. Such is the tinder in the inferno of suffering that is the Middle East today….

Stuart Davis and Ed Kowalczyk

Stuart Davis, Ed Kowalczyk (of the band Live), and Ken recently held a conference to explore Art and Integral Life Practice. What followed was an afternoon of vibrant discussion and electrifying performances.

The following clip is a duet with Stuart and Eddie performing the Stuart Davis song, “Smoke”— which he originally wrote with Eddie in mind.

What is Integral Psychotherapy?

This clip, featuring Jeff Soulen, was recorded during a recent Integral Psychotherapy seminar in May 2006.

Stuart Davis – Universe Communion

In July of 2005, Stuart headlined the closing weekend of the famous Penny Lane in Boulder.

Stuart Davis and Saul Williams – April Showers, April Tears

From Stuart:

“One of the great pleasures of working on this new album was collaborating with Saul Williams. Saul is a long time inspiration, truly one of the greatest geniuses of hip hop, or any genre of creativity. Ever since I got his CD Amethyst Rock Star my life and art have been enriched by his unsurpassed vision and craft. I've been lucky enough to become friends with him too, and when I asked him to be a guest on this new album, he took a day off, came to the studio, and not only provided the backing vocals on Easter (which fucking ROCK), but he also wrote a poem, on the spot for me to use as an intro. That poem, which he wrote in the studio, sitting in front of the sound board on a yellow legal pad, listening to four bars of Easter loop over and over to lock him into the vibe -that poem- became April Showers, April Tears, and it is the companion piece to Easter. On the CD, it proceeds it directly, and is an extension of it. It really gave me the chills being there with Saul as he wrote, and then recorded it on the spot. It's pure magic on the album, and it was one of the high lights of my year. Can't thank him enough for that. Here it is, but you really need to hear it as rendered by Saul. Which you will, when you get the CD.”

Saul Williams – Children of the Night

At an “Integral Art” weekend at Ken's Boulder house in 2003, 20 integral artists and thinkers gathered to discuss art and spirituality. After an opening discussion on the nature and practice of integral art, the participants flowed into a series of spontaneous performances, where Saul graced us with this….

Ken Wilber – Anchoring I-Amness

Following a powerful Big Mind session led by Genpo Roshi, Ken uses the integral framework to help contextualize the group's collective state of everpresent consciousness. Having such an integral map allows for a spirituality which fully acknowledges the presence of states, stages, and shadows, lending towards a truly cutting-edge and comprehensive spirituality, the likes of which has never before in the history of the world been possible–until now.

Crazy Wisdom Bob

Emilio is funny, and God wants you to laugh. So just watch this….

Re: Integral Naked Videos on YouTube

Integral Politics on YouTube   (The following is cross-posted from Ken's Blog.)
March 29, 2007 09:51

(posted by Corey W. deVos) 

An extraordinary 18-minute video of Ken describing an Integral approach to politics has been uploaded to the Integral Naked YouTube channel.  Click here to check it out!

(link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQRUu_4W2j8) 

In this clip, Diane Hamilton asks Ken: “What do you think of the Republican convention?”

Ken responded by giving an overview of what a truly integral politics might look like, and used that to compare and contrast with the Democratic and Republican conventions, both of which are less-than-integral. We think that this summary is brilliant, insightful, deadly serious, and wickedly funny, all at once. But by all accounts it is an extraordinary account of why all politics today are considerably less-than-integral, along with certain features that almost certainly would have to be included in the future in any truly integral politics.

In this synopsis, Ken focuses on three items that all political theories have attempted to address but none have managed to fully integrate. These are the tension between (1) the individual and the collective; (2) the source of the cause of human suffering: is the individual primarily to blame or is the society primarily to blame?; and (3) the different levels of development that the different political parties tend to represent: any truly integral politics would include and represent all of them, and yet how on earth do you do that?

Due to time considerations, Ken did not discuss two other equally important ingredients in any integral politics.

1: In representational democracies, people have a right to be at whatever stage of development they are at, and generally speaking, within free speech, a right to express the values of whatever stage they are at. Traditional-fundamentalist (blue) has a right to be traditional, modernist (orange) has a right to be modernist, postmodernist (green) has a right to be postmodernist, and so on. This is generally modified in practice, to the extent that the center of gravity of a culture will tend to impose its values on others, especially if they are first-tier (or less-than-integral) values. Nonetheless, in democratic societies, there's a general background understanding that people have a right to be, and a right to express, whatever stage they are or whatever belief system they possess.

2: They do not, however, have a right to act on those beliefs. This is generally handled in representative democracies by a separation of public and private, and by a similar if more specific principle of the separation of church and state. This means that, for example, in the privacy of my blue-meme mind, I am free to believe that Jesus Christ is my personal savior and that nobody achieves salvation without a belief in Jesus. In public behavior, however, I am not allowed to burn at the stake somebody who disagrees with me. In terms of integral psychology, this means in the interior of an individual (i.e., the upper left), the person can believe whatever they like; but in their public behavior (i.e., the upper right), they must behave according to laws drawn from a worldcentric or higher level of development (lower left), or else they are charged with civil or criminal behavior and removed from society if necessary (lower right).

This separation of church and state, or more generally what Max Weber called the differentiation of the values spheres, is one of the great and enduring contributions of the Western enlightenment, a contribution almost entirely misunderstood by extreme postmodernists, who in fact are operating under its protection while bitterly condemning it.

(The most common version of this is the aggressive attempt to reduce “I” and “It” to “We,' or the attempt to reduce art and science to a social construction, which can therefore be deconstructed. As it turns out, this reductionism presumes precisely what it denies, but then, deconstructive postmodernism has been little without its performative contradictions.)

A truly integral politics exists nowhere on the planet at this time, principally because not enough individuals have emerged at the integral levels of consciousness, and hence no governments anywhere have integral representatives as members (except rarely and by accident). Its principal challenge is to create some form of governance that allows each stage to be itself within the constraints of not harming others (i.e., to let red be red, and blue be blue, and orange be orange, and green be green, etc-precisely because, as we saw, this is a right in virtually all free societies), and yet to govern from the highest, widest, deepest, and most encompassing levels of development emerged to date (starting at yellow). Most representative democracies do this anyway, except their center of gravity is not yet fully integral, and they do it implicitly, not explicitly.

For a further discussion of Integral politics that includes all five factors, please see A Theory of Everything, where, in a series of endnotes, Ken pursues these issues.

And for a similar take on Integral Politics by Ken, check out this audio clip, previously featured on KW.com.