Christine McDougall

Precession in this article is based on the principle of precession as defined by R. Buckminster Fuller —the effect of bodies in motion on other bodies in motion.

 The Sun and the Earth are both bodies in motion. Despite the 180 degree gravitational pull of the in-motion Sun upon the in-motion Earth, precession makes Earth orbit around the Sun in a direction that is at ninety degrees- i.e., at a right angle-to the direction of the Sun’s gravitational

Massimo Bellotto

1. The Context of Change

The so-called cold war between the two super powers which maintained leadership of the most developed countries took place for forty years in an implicit way, due to the mutual deterrence of atomic weapons that was based on the competing accumulation of scientific and technological know-how, on persuasion and building consensus. At the end of the 80s, with the waning of communist power and the prevalence of capitalistic-democratic power, world tensions shifted away …

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Bonnitta Roy and Jean Trudel

Part I:

Conception Aware The Relevant Situation: The 21^st Century’s Double Bind

A decade ago, Stuart Kaufmann (2000) made a bold claim for the 21^st century mindset, “The universe and the biosphere keep advancing into a persistent adjacent possible” (p 84).  For most of our human existence, the rate of advance was so slow that the concept of stability, rather than change, informed our …

Gary Hawke

As I have been developing the Integral Alive model, it appears that I am spending time feeling into the inquiry of—what does Integral mean. The more I have pursued this question, the more I began to realise that if I want to use the word Integral, then I better understand, not just what it means, but also in what circumstances I am using Integral.

In the past, I held with the idea that my Integral work sits in …

On Potential Repercussions of Mega Sports Events in Russia

Eugene Pustoshkin

I was deeply emotionally touched—up to tears—when I watched the footage of a dramatic episode that happened on June 22, 2011, where the contemporary sports legend and Brazilian football star Roberto Carlos, age 38, who currently plays at the Russian football club Anzhi and is the captain of the team, left the football pitch in Samara after a fan of the opposing team, Krylya Sovetov, threw a banana in …

How do Integral ARTISTS, Boomers, Gen X and Millennial Generations Impact City Values and Policy Development?

Marilyn Hamilton and Cherlynn Beck

Abstract

The generational wave is a supra-wave of human life patterns that embraces many of the waves normally considered in an Integral human development model. Embracing the waves of consciousness, values and capacity development in holons and social holons, the age cohort as defined by Strauss and Howe describes the archetypal characteristics of peers in generational cultures. According to …

Tim Takechi

At first glance, Molly Freed is no different than any other high school student. She studies hard, earns good grades, pays attention to her teachers, plays soccer and hopes to get into the college of her dreams. But once you get to know her, you will discover she is far from typical.

A senior at Chief Sealth International High School in Seattle, WA, in the spring of 2011 Molly brought the World Water Week festival to the Pacific …

Commentary on a Presentation on Spiritual Intelligence and Integral Theory given by Cindy Wigglesworth to the London Integral Salon and EnlightenNext, Wednesday 25^th May

Nicholas Shannon

Does it make sense to talk of “Spiritual Intelligence (SQ)”? And if it does, is SQ something that can be measured, and taught? Can we say that SQ is something that humans develop, and if so, could it be that it develops in humans in a series of stages? As someone who considers …