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 happy to finally be able to share a very positive review of my book appearing in Integral Review: A Transdisciplinary and Transcultural Journal for New Thought, Research, and Praxis, an online, peer-reviewed journal. Written by Bonnitta Roy, IR editor and integral theorist, this review was completed and shared with me earlier in the year. Now that the issue has been published, I am able to share it with you all. [Unfortunately, the mistake concerning my last names was not corrected.]

So, please check it out, … Continue Reading

I don’t know how this Dervish didn’t drop from all his twirling, anymore than I know how I’ve managed to remain steady upon my return from the gathering of Integral practitioners in Istanbul and the spiritual retreat of organizers of Color in New York. But here I am, back home in Puerto Rico, reflecting on the past two weeks.

Integral Without Borders, a gathering of international and community development workers applying integral theory to their efforts, was indeed a wonderful event. As I mentioned in my previous post, there were people … Continue Reading