Steve McIntosh

Among the many uses of integral philosophy, its most promising application is in the realm of politics. This is especially true of the hyperpolarized condition of politics in the U.S., where the growing intensity of America’s culture war now threatens the foundations of its democracy. Even though Donald Trump is no longer president, American culture and politics remain starkly and bitterly divided. Hyperpolarization, however, is not a problem that can be solved under America’s current cultural conditions. The …

Irina Kopaneva, Pamela Shockley-Zalabak, Sherwyn Morreale

Irina Kopaneva

Pamela Shockley-Zalabak

Sherwyn Morreale 

There is much agreement that these are troubling times, characterized by high levels of distrust of many if not most U.S. leaders and institutions.  Indeed, political scientists and other observers of the national scene have noted that over time trust in the U.S. government has waned and never returned to the high-trust levels of the 1950s and 1960s (Keele, 2007).  Likewise, a review of literature on building trust …

Michael Wicker

Michael Wicker

The pandemic and the subsequent isolation that so many have experienced has caused unprecedented interruptions in the lives of people. No more is this as true as it is in the working lives of people, people who may have been forced not only to live in isolation from most of the world but also to work in at least physical isolation from their coworkers and clientele.  

Certainly this is a negative and undesirable situation, but it is …

David L. Nickel

David L. Nickel

Today, colleges and universities face existential challenges. With declining enrollment pools, constraints on public funding, and increasing questions about whether the high costs for college are ‘worth it’, effective leadership in higher education is more essential than ever before. In these challenging times, it is not just leaders and leadership that are needed, but highly effective leaders and leadership to help institutions of higher learning both survive and thrive. But what is highly effective …

Said E. Dawlabani

Those who are familiar with Clare W. Graves’ work, know him as the academic behind a more popular conception known as Spiral Dynamics. The theory and the book with the same name were introduced to the world by Don E. Beck, PhD and Christopher C. Cowan in 1996.  While their model preserves much of Graves’ lifelong work on values and change, it’s subsequent interpretations over the decades has watered down the science behind the original conception and silenced …

Dr Robin Lincoln Wood

Robin Lincoln Wood

It is always a pleasure to review and comment on Said Dawlabani’s work. He brings a meticulous approach to detail and the science that underpins the fields of psychology, economics and anthropology which is refreshing in this era of instant, unverifiable opinions and ungrounded speculations. It is worth reading Said’s article all the way through, to grasp how he intertwines observations and findings in several fields with the three decades of research conducted …