90 Sits in 90 Days: The iEvolve Meditation Challenge!

It’s official…I’m in!
Gearing up for the 90 day meditation challenge in just three days…Originally, I was going to do a private 90 day challenge for myself as a way to re-energize and re-fuel my practice, my life, basically all of it Consistency has been an issue for me as of late and I [...]

The Five Meanings of Spirituality

As the Arabian proverb points out, ‘It is not the road ahead that wears you out – it is the grain of sand in your shoe.” This grain of sand in our ethereal shoes is one word that remains the single most confused topic of conversation to date – Spirituality.  Any serious discussion of spirituality [...]

McZen: A Double Satori with Cheese

Buddhist Geeks
Listen to audio dialogue here: McZen: A Double Satori with Cheese
Running Time: 18:20
Hosted by:
Ryan Oelke , Vince Horn
Guests:
Kelly Sosan Bearer , Duff McDuffee
This is an experimental dialogue called Geeks of the Round Table. In this
session we speak with two young Buddhist practitioners in a round-table
format about Brad Warner’s criticisms of the Big Mind process, [...]

The 1-2-3 of Koans: Working Koans Through the Three Perspectives

What is a koan anyway? Literally, a koan is a “public document or legal precedent “. In the Zen tradition, a koan is a statement, question, anecdote, or dialogue that cannot be understood or resolved intellectually. A koan is not a riddle or a puzzle meant to boggle the mind. It has a most definitive [...]

What is Shadow?

Anyone who has seriously committed themselves to or even dabbled with a spiritual practice knows that no amount of practice changes our experience of family during the holidays. Why is that? One of the great contributions of Western modernity to the understanding of self are the insights into the shadow. Freud was definitely mistaken on [...]

What is Integral?

The Integral map is a comprehensive approach to human growth and development, developed by philosopher Ken Wilber, that lays out all that the various world cultures have to tell us about human potential- spiritual growth, psychological growth, social and cultural growth. The Integral map uses all the known systems and models of human growth and [...]

Towards an Integral Treatment Methodology for Schizophrenia

The treatment of schizophrenia has been largely divided into two opposing viewpoints: the medical model, and the biopsychosocial model. The medical model treats schizophrenic symptomology with anti-psychotic medications. The biopsychosocial model is a more holistic approach that considers the physical, psychological, and social functioning of the individual. These two approaches are both accurate but partial [...]

The 3-2-1 Shadow Process

In this practice we begin the process of re-owning our shadow. We’ll FACE our shadow in 3rd-person; we’ll TALK to our shadow in a 2nd-person dialogue; and we’ll BE our shadow in 1st-person. Face it, Talk to it, Be it…It’s that simple.
To Practice The 3-2-1 Process
1. Choose an experience in your life that you want [...]

Why Does Spirituality Need Integral?

Spirituality is a complex, confusing, and polarizing force in the world. With so many different definitions of the word, we can barely even begin to start the conversation. Some equate spirituality with mysticism as described by the great philosophers; but with the infiltration of New Age concepts of spirituality, many are not sure what the [...]

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