Consciousness-in-Action

Here’s a short video of Tal Ben-Shahar, Psychology Lecturer at Harvard University, posted on the Big Think blog on “Five Ways to Become Happier Today.” While I tend to believe that “happiness” is our original state, our “pre-existing condition” that gets messed with by some nasty thought viruses and other harsh environmental factors, this video is a reminder our how we might seek to restore some balance in harmony in our lives. A good transformative practice as we work toward integral personal and social liberation, too.

[This is a response to Integral Life’s recent blog post, “The Need for Men’s Liberation,” a summary of the talk between Dr. Warren Farrell and Ken Wilber “about power, oppression, and the urgent need for men to begin redefining their roles for today’s world” (accessed 25 feb 2010, http://integrallife.com/node/68177). In this response, I do not attempt to evaluate or critique Dr. Farrell’s work nor his dialogue with Wilber (especially since my multiple attempts to access the audio recording resulted only in an error message). Nonetheless, being familiar with both liberation and integral perspectives, and moreover, being committed to these, … Continue Reading

I am pleased to announce a major new phase for c-Integral and its unique transformative work for people in social justice and transformation movements.

For the past several years, c-Integral’s work has been to support a new kind of leader and to foster a new kind of leadership for social justice and transformation. This work has been based on the consciousness-in-action approach, which I developed from work in communities of struggle over the past twenty-plus years.

Beginning with the founding of the Institute for Latino Empowerment and later Ilé: Organizers for Consciousness-in-Action, this work focused on anti-oppression leadership development and

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Here is my first post in a while. And it really isn’t even written by me. I wish it was, because it is simply excellent. It was written by my friend, Ricardo Levins Morales, who besides being a gifted artist is also a committed labor activist, a brilliant thinker and a powerful writer — all at the service of advancing an out-of-the-box progressive perspective for liberation, social justice and transformation.

I don’t know if I would call Ricardo an “integral” thinker; I doubt he has even hear of integral theory, Ken Wilber, AQAL or any of it. (Unless, of course, he … Continue Reading

Henry A. Giroux’s important analysis on the “new racism,” or how clever white men like Gingrich and Limbaugh attempt to redefine and reframe racism in our times, is a must read for people grappling for deeper understanding of its complexities.

TRUTHOUT ORIGINAL
Judge Sonia Sotomayor and the New Racism: Getting Beyond the Politics of Denial

Thursday 04 June 2009

Judge Sonia Sotomayor with Senate Majority Leader

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