Thomas Steininger in dialogue with Geoff Fitch

The integral movement has been a defining factor in the attempt to create a culture that is deeply aware of the inner dimensions of human experience. This movement, which has been grounded in the work of philosopher Ken Wilber, has changed in many ways in the recent years. Some people say that integral had its peak after the turn off the new century. Since then, many have observed a broadening and diversification of the integral movemen. Some even speak of today as a “post-integral moment.”

Geoff Fitch is cofounder of integral Pacific. He has lived through the many developments of integral. In his upcoming course about Cultivating Emergence, he speaks about his own findings in this soul journey. Geoff Fitch emphasizes a new focus on collective wisdom and the important development of a trans-individuated culture.

In this week’s Radio evolve, Dr. Thomas Steininger speaks with Geoff Fitch about about where integral thinking and doing is moving in the midst of a civilizational crisis.

Thomas Steininger in dialogue with Louise Marra

Can we re-root in nature? Louise Marra, author of ReRoot: The nature of change for a system of trees, starts this conversation in a very particular way. Introducing herself, she speaks of the mountain that is behind her, the river next to her, and the trees close to her. Louise Marra is from New Zealand. Some of her ancestors are Mauri. Some of her ancestors are European colonizers. Responding to her introduction, Thomas Steininger speaks of his own place: the Taunus Mountains that are next to his office in Frankfurt, the Main River, and the little stream that is flowing through his village. All of a sudden, this conversation became not just a conversation between two people. It became a conversation between two places on the opposite sides of our Earth: New Zealand and Europe, Auckland and Frankfurt, mountains, cities, rivers and landscapes.

In this dialogue. Louise Marra leads us into a deepening of our understanding how our experience on Earth is usually one of separation and aloneness. Opening up to this abundance of our relationships reveals a powerful and culture-changing possibility for experiencing ourselves as humans. We can become again a part of all the living relationships of this planet. How we can do this is the subject of her book, ReRoot, and the online courses around her work.

This week in Radio evolve, Dr. Thomas Steininger speaks with Louise Marra about our more-than-human relationships.

Thomas Steininger in dialogue with George Pór

Over the last few weeks, many of us have become more aware of how powerful artificial intelligence has become. Many have played with the Chatbot, ChatGPT and are surprised, even stunned, by how this machine is able to deliver intelligent and precise answers to seemingly all aspects of reality. Will we be soon overpowered by AI?

For several decades, George Pór has been researching the potential of human collective wisdom--the kind of wisdom that emerges when we come together in open-hearted and open-minded dialogical fields. Wisdom is a human capacity. Pór sees the potential of a different future, where our potential for collective wisdom and the AI potential for knowledge can be brought together and something that George Pór calls "hybrid wisdom".

This week in Radio evolve, Thomas Steininger speaks with George Pór about collective wisdom and ChatGPT.

Thomas Steininger in dialogue with Ria Baeck

Over the past couple of decades a new wave of consciousness practices has been emerging around the world. They focus on what you could call We Space, dialogue, conscious relating, transparent communication and more. In fact, the emergent dialogue work developed within evolve is part of this surge of new practices.

One remarkable practice form that is gaining attention and respect around the globe is the practice of collective presencing developed by Ria Baeck. So what does collective presencing mean? In this dialogue of dialogues, Ria Back opens up the practice and the foundations of the work that she developed.

Thomas Steininger in dialogue with Mary Adams

These times are times for action. The climate catastrophe needs our full attention. Many people claim that activism is more important right now than any engagement for some “spiritual” transformation of consciousness and culture. Others are concerned that an exclusive focus on activism will miss the mark of what really has to change.

Mary Adams has devoted her entire life to the spiritual search, to awaken consciousness and transform culture. Now she is gluing her hand to the pavement the middle of British highways. She is deliberately taking actions that have led her to a cell in an English prison. Soon, she will be brought before the Court and tried.

Mary is convinced that, in these times, such radical actions are a way to live and spread the transformation of consciousness that we need. She shares her own story about the impact of Gandhian nonviolent resistance on her own consciousness. She also discusses the consciousness of the people she works together with as well as the consciousness of the people on the so-called “other side,” such as police officers, court clerks, and journalists.

In this week on Radio evolve, Mary Adams shares with Thomas Steininger how her activism is not only necessary but also part of the spiritual change we need.

The emotional domain is the gateway to the heart. To become a wholehearted human being, we have to be able to include the full range of our emotional responses, including the pain and difficulty of our lives. Diane Musho Hamilton, teacher of Zen, mediator and meditator, calls this kind of development, emotional maturity or emotional literacy. It involves our willingness to feel, to become awake to our emotional states, and at the same time, a complete willingness to let feeling subside or go, when it no longer serves.

Our troubled times need our emotional maturity, our capacity to feel, to be there for each other and for life itself.

This week on Radio evolve, Dr. Thomas Steininger talks with Diane Musho Hamilton about emotional maturity. (Diane will start an online course on emotional maturity on February 14th.)