Andrew Shorrock. The Transpersonal in Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counselling.

Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Andrew Shorrock offers us a brief—somewhat over 200 pages—yet informative canter through the highways and byways of transpersonal psychology, Ken Wilber’s intellectual home until he launched his own ‘Integral’ movement in the mid- to late-90s (though Ken backdates his actual exit from the transpersonal scene to 1983).

So we have major early figures, including William James, Richard Maurice Bucke— author of Cosmic Consciousness—and Everlyn …

The gift we hold within is for the others we meet without.

Introduction

This much I know to be true, the easiest way to cripple a person for life is to make them blind to their greatest potentials. And regrettably, the easiest way to become this crippling force is to neglect your own emerging potential. Without an intention aimed at the full actualization of our own potential and the potentials of those we would lead leadership pursuits will always fall

The last issue of Integral Leadership Review contained a review of my book, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution, by Matthew Kalman. Although Mr. Kalman had a variety of complimentary things to say about my work, towards the end of the review he became quite negative and even cynical. Interestingly, I expected that my entry into the marketplace of ideas would be a bruising experience, but except for Mr. Kalman’s, all of my reviews have been extremely positive.

Lawrence E. Harrison. The Central Liberal Truth: How Politics Can Change a Culture and Save It from Itself. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, 272 pages)

This is a great read if you’re interested in the role culture can play in enabling—or slowing—human development, along with how leaders can work to promote progressive cultural changes in this often-neglected Lower Left of Ken Wilber’s quadrants.

“Leadership matters: that Singapore is among the most affluent and least corrupt countries in the …