Empty Spaces: an 80-minute musical meditation by dj rekluse (Corey deVos). Featuring Alex Grey, Ken Wilber, Sally Kempton, and Alan Watts. A soundtrack for Dark Nights. Liberation upon hearing.

Empty Spaces: A Musical Meditation

In this essay, originally included in The Collected Works of Ken Wilber: Volume IV, Ken offers an in-depth description of each of the major state-stages of meditative practice—ranging from psychic absorption, to subtle illumination, to causal transcendence, to the ultimate nondual embrace of Form and Emptiness.

Stages of Meditation: An Interview With Ken Wilber

In this chapter from No Boundary (Kindle, iBooks), Ken Wilber explores the intrinsic dualism of the mind, offering a simple but cogent way to "transcend the pairs" and discover the nondual heart of the Always Already....

Half of It: A Union of Opposites

In this essay, originally written in 1997 and included in One Taste: Daily Reflections on Integral Spirituality (Kindle, iBooks), Ken begins by explaining why an all-knowing, all powerful God would ever want to create a universe to begin with. He then describes an approach to spirituality anchored in direct experience rather than belief or dogma—experience that can be best cultivated through a genuinely integral approach to spiritual practice.

A Ticket to Athens: Looking Through the Lens of Contemplation

Click here to view the Integral Life newsletter for December 2011 ....

The board of directors of the Center for World Spirituality recently made a public statement, conveying their support for Marc Gafni as a leader and teacher in the Center.

Earlier, in a post on the Integral Life website, I have commented on the situation that developed several months ago in the blogosphere.

I acknowledged in that post that Marc, like most great spiritual teachers and pundits, has great gifts as well as human complexity. I pointed out that everyone must make up their own mind as to whether they want to work with Marc, or to be his student.

I am writing to share that, for myself, I have made up my mind. I am rejoining the Wisdom Council of the Center for World Spirituality, to which I invited many of my colleagues to participate....

Click here to view the Integral Life Newsletter for November 2011....

Click here to view the Integral Life Newsletter for October 2011....

Click here to view the Integral Life Newsletter for September, 2011

Listen as Ken, Andrew, and Marc each offer a 20-minute overview of several important facets of creativity, including:

- The universal creativity that drives the engines of evolution from the Big Bang to this present moment.
- The connection between creativity and spiritual practice.
- Creativity as a moral and ethical imperative.
- The ever-changing cultural roles of art and artistry.
- The feeling of ecstatic urgency we experience when we fully step into our own personal creative drive.
- The need to reclaim creativity from its current social, cultural, and spiritual exile.
- How silly Andrew's mustache would look on Ken's face....