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European culture dominated the world in the last 500 years. European enlightenment is a cultural achievement with a lot of light but also many shadows that became in recent years more obvious for many people around the globe.

Agota Eva Ruzsa does not come from one of the main European colonial powers. She comes from Hungary, where she works as a wisdomweaver.

As a creative member of Club of Budapest and an educator on dialogue at the Universities in Budapest/ Hungary, she knows of the wounds and shadows of Europes complex history and heritage. She has specialized in developing capacities to facilitate systemic and transformative dialogues working for many years with Peter Senge and Otto Scharmer and their processes of social presencing. How attune to something like a cosmic Intelligence, so that we may co-create collective and heal our cultural shadows. Thomas Steininger talks with Agota Eva Ruzsa about healing the shadows of Europe.

European culture dominated the world in the last 500 years. European enlightenment is a cultural achievement with a lot of light but also many shadows that became in recent years more obvious for many people around the globe.

Agota Eva Ruzsa does not come from one of the main European colonial powers. She comes from Hungary, where she works as a wisdomweaver.

As a creative member of Club of Budapest and an educator on dialogue at the Universities in Budapest/ Hungary, she knows of the wounds and shadows of Europes complex history and heritage. She has specialized in developing capacities to facilitate systemic and transformative dialogues working for many years with Peter Senge and Otto Scharmer and their processes of social presencing. How attune to something like a cosmic Intelligence, so that we may co-create collective and heal our cultural shadows. Thomas Steininger talks with Agota Eva Ruzsa about healing the shadows of Europe.

European culture dominated the world in the last 500 years. European enlightenment is a cultural achievement with a lot of light but also many shadows that became in recent years more obvious for many people around the globe.

Agota Eva Ruzsa does not come from one of the main European colonial powers. She comes from Hungary, where she works as a wisdomweaver.

As a creative member of Club of Budapest and an educator on dialogue at the Universities in Budapest/ Hungary, she knows of the wounds and shadows of Europes complex history and heritage. She has specialized in developing capacities to facilitate systemic and transformative dialogues working for many years with Peter Senge and Otto Scharmer and their processes of social presencing. How attune to something like a cosmic Intelligence, so that we may co-create collective and heal our cultural shadows. Thomas Steininger talks with Agota Eva Ruzsa about healing the shadows of Europe.

Our Western paradigm, which is the perspective of the Western Enlightenment, has penetrated nearly every part of the globe in the last 200 years. While its best aspects relate to rationality, human rights, individuation, and democracy, this way of seeing the world has also catalyzed a process of alienation. Nature became an object — or even just a useful economic resource. Whatever doesn’t fit into a scientistic, constructed, material world does not exist. However, in the last decades, there has been a surprising renaissance of ancient indigenous wisdom from all corners of the world. Perhaps, in dialogue with these original cultures that have not been exposed in the same way to our modernist world, there is a new integration possible — an integration of different worlds.

Francois Demange grew up in Paris, France. He has a degree in Anthropology, and has lived for many years with indigenous people in Peru, where he became introduced to a different cosmology and initiated into the shamanic art of healing. As Francois became an internationally respected shaman in the Shipibo tradition of Peru and the Dakota tradition of the North American plains, he became himself something like a bridge between the indigenous and the modern worlds

This week on Radio evolve, Thomas Steininger talks with Francois Demange about the the renaissance of indigenous wisdom and its contribution to the 21st century.

Neoliberal rationality — the thinking the holds together the dangerous liaison between capitalism and politics — remakes everything and everyone in the image of homo oeconomicus. What happens when, out of this rationality, the fundamental elements of democracy are placed in a context where the economy rules? In her book, Undoing the Demos, Wendy Brown, professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley, explains how democracy itself is in danger under such a regime. The demos, the „rule of the people,“ she notes, disintegrates into bits of human capital; concerns with justice bow to the mandates of growth rates, credit ratings, and investment climates; liberty submits to the imperative of human capital appreciation; equality dissolves into market competition; and popular sovereignty grows incoherent. Liberal democratic practices may not survive these neoliberal transformations. And any radical dreams for democracy may not survive either.

Wendy Brown makes clear that for democracy to have a future, we must fight for it and develop new ways of thinking to support our hopes for a liberal and humanistic justice, liberty, and equality.

This week on Radio evolve, Thomas Steininger meets Wendy Brown in a conversation about rescuing our deeper values from economic rationality.

Jeremy Johnson, a rising voice among integral thinkers, has a passion for the work of Jean Gebser. Gebser, the German/Swiss philosopher who died in 1973, is one of those thinkers whose work is more known than his name. He may, in fact, have been the first thinker to coin the term „Integral Consciousness,“ predicting its emergence 70 years ago. He also traced the development of archaic, mythic, and mental consciousness, which he called „mutations of consiousness,“ in a different, sometimes more thought-provoking way than the popular integral thinking of our time. Jeremy Johnson, who heads the American Jean Gebser society, sees in this prescient thinker a voice for the future. In his own books and podcasts, Jeremy explores Gebser’s particular contribution to our future. Jean Gebser, according to Jeremy, allows us to think about the young and troublesome 21st Century in a surprising and profound way.

This week in Radio evolve, Thomas Steininger speaks with Jeremy Johnson about Jean Gebser as an integral thinker for the 21st Century.

Jeremy Johnson, a rising voice among integral thinkers, has a passion for the work of Jean Gebser. Gebser, the German/Swiss philosopher who died in 1973, is one of those thinkers whose work is more known than his name. He may, in fact, have been the first thinker to coin the term „Integral Consciousness,“ predicting its emergence 70 years ago. He also traced the development of archaic, mythic, and mental consciousness, which he called „mutations of consiousness,“ in a different, sometimes more thought-provoking way than the popular integral thinking of our time. Jeremy Johnson, who heads the American Jean Gebser society, sees in this prescient thinker a voice for the future. In his own books and podcasts, Jeremy explores Gebser’s particular contribution to our future. Jean Gebser, according to Jeremy, allows us to think about the young and troublesome 21st Century in a surprising and profound way.

This week in Radio evolve, Thomas Steininger speaks with Jeremy Johnson about Jean Gebser as an integral thinker for the 21st Century.

Philosophy often seems to be a subject that floats above our heads and lacks relevance to our daily lives. For the anthropologist and philosopher Thomas de Zengotita, philosophical understanding is urgent. Today, he observes, the cultural conflicts that we are in the midst of are directly related to a rather obscure set of philosophical arguments that can be grouped under the heading “postmodernism.” Zengotita would go so far as to say that the conflicts of our times center on the strengths and weaknesses of postmodernism. Postmodernism, for example, argues that truth is relative, depending on one’s perspective. Is it the fault of postmodern philosophy, then, that so many people so easily dismiss news as fake and no longer believe that there is truth at all? Or could postmodernity have anticipated the new media reality that we all are living in, where we all become performers in a a big global contest for attention?

For the past few decades, Zengotita has been working and writing to find a way beyond postmodernism. Long before Facebook, he wrote Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It, anticipating by a decade the downside of our mediated social reality. His latest book — for the hardcore philosopher — is Postmodern Theory and Progressive Politics: Toward a New Humanism, which will be published by Palgrave in 2019.

In Radio evolve this week, Thomas Steininger speaks with Thomas de Zengotita about the deeper challenges of our time that we have to face if want to find a way beyond relativism to something like a new universal humanism.

Philosophy often seems to be a subject that floats above our heads and lacks relevance to our daily lives. For the anthropologist and philosopher Thomas de Zengotita, philosophical understanding is urgent. Today, he observes, the cultural conflicts that we are in the midst of are directly related to a rather obscure set of philosophical arguments that can be grouped under the heading “postmodernism.” Zengotita would go so far as to say that the conflicts of our times center on the strengths and weaknesses of postmodernism. Postmodernism, for example, argues that truth is relative, depending on one’s perspective. Is it the fault of postmodern philosophy, then, that so many people so easily dismiss news as fake and no longer believe that there is truth at all? Or could postmodernity have anticipated the new media reality that we all are living in, where we all become performers in a a big global contest for attention?

For the past few decades, Zengotita has been working and writing to find a way beyond postmodernism. Long before Facebook, he wrote Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It, anticipating by a decade the downside of our mediated social reality. His latest book — for the hardcore philosopher — is Postmodern Theory and Progressive Politics: Toward a New Humanism, which will be published by Palgrave in 2019.

In Radio evolve this week, Thomas Steininger speaks with Thomas de Zengotita about the deeper challenges of our time that we have to face if want to find a way beyond relativism to something like a new universal humanism.

Intimate relationships often seem to be the most difficult place to show up and grow up. This is something that Tom Habib knows well. A clinical psychologist specializing in couple’s therapy, Tom is a pioneer in using an integral lens to explore and understand intimate relationships. He has written about the “Couple’s Line of Development” and presented on his work at the Integral Theory and the Integral European Conferences. He has appeared on the Daily Evolver with Jeff Salzman and on the Wisdom Factory.

For this special broadcast, Thomas Steininger, Radio evolve’s host, will be joined by his life and teaching partner, Elizabeth Debold. Together they will explore with Tom Habib the conflicts and potentials of the couple as a form of We practice. Elizabeth is a developmental psychologist specializing in gender development, and is the founder of One World in Dialogue.

Join us on Radio evolve this week as Thomas Steininger hosts Tom Habib and Elizabeth Debold for what is sure to be a provocative and revealing exploration of the consciousness dynamics of intimate relationships.