The Integral Stage: AUTHOR SERIES

Layman Pascal is joined by Lonny Jarrett to discuss his new book, Deepening Perspectives on Chinese Medicine.  The conversation is rich and wide ranging, touching on Lonny's early fascination with the Chinese classics as a child, and his concurrent educational journeys in Western science and medicine, Chinese medicine and martial arts,  and entheogenic experimentation and the contemplative arts.  Together they explore Western and Eastern conceptions of health, the importance of care for the body and its organ systems in cultivating integral development, the nature of chi and the chakra system, the potential emergence of a truly integral, world medicine that integrates the strengths of East and West, and much more.  Lonny is recognized worldwide as a leading practitioner, author, scholar and teacher of East Asian medicine. Throughout his career he has been devoted to advancing the practice of this medicine.  Lonny has been practicing Acupuncture and Herbology in Stockbridge, Massachusetts since 1986. He holds Master’s Degrees in Neurobiology (University of Michigan) and Acupuncture (Traditional Acupuncture Institute) and  studied Contemporary Pulse Diagnosis with Dr. Leon Hammer for 10 years.

https://www.spiritpathpress.com/

Layman Pascal sits down with spiritual teacher and author, Nikola Anandamali Ristic, to discuss his newly published book, Spirit X. Together they explore some of the unique gifts of integral metatheory for contemporary spirituality; Nikola's spiritual heroes and inspirations; spirit accelerated, acknowledged, and embodied; the importance of embodiment and social engagement; the role of nature mysticism; the relevance of transmission for spiritual realization; the dance of enaction and discovery; the end of seeking, and much more.

https://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Spirituality-Global-Digital-Principles/dp/0578790173

Layman Pascal talks with Brad Kershner about his new book, Understanding Educational Complexity: Integrating Practices and Perspectives for 21st Century Leadership.  They discuss the limitations of current educational reform movements; the challenges of education in the 21st century; navigating the meta-crisis; balancing complexity and simplicity; best practices for fostering holistic development in students, teachers, and administrators; practicing presence; awakening inquiry and a problem- (or edge-) seeking orientation; and much more.

https://brill.com/view/title/58222?language=en

Layman Pascal talks with Theo Horesh about his new book, The Fascism This Time.  Theo reflects on the similarities of the rightwing populist movements sweeping the globe to earlier fascist uprisings, and explores together with Layman the integral ways we might understand their emergence and respond to the deep challenges to modern democracy that they represent.

https://www.amazon.com/Fascism-this-Time-Global-Democracy/dp/0578732939

Layman Pascal meets with integral philosopher and author, Steve McIntosh, to discuss his new book, Developmental Politics, and especially to take a deep dive into Steve's notions of value energy and the dynamics of worldview evolution and political change.  Steve McIntosh, J.D. is a leader in the integral philosophy movement and author of Developmental Politics—How America Can Grow Into a Better Version of Itself (Paragon House, 2020). He is president and cofounder of the Institute for Cultural Evolution think tank, which focuses on the cultural roots of America’s political problems.  Steve is also coauthor, with John Mackey and Carter Phipps, of the forthcoming book: Conscious Leadership—Elevating Humanity Through Business (Penguin/Portfolio, September 2020). He has authored three previous books on integral philosophy: The Presence of the Infinite (Quest, 2015), Evolution’s Purpose (Select Books, 2012), and Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Paragon House, 2007)

https://www.stevemcintosh.com/books/developmental-politics/

Layman is joined by Sean Kelly to discuss his new book, Becoming Gaia.  They take a deep dive into the themes of the book, discussing the possibilities of considering Gaia not only as a hyperobject, but a hypersubject; the nature of the ecological and other crises confronting us at this time; the notion of planetary shamanism and the initiatory threshold our planetary crisis represents; the key ideas of Complex Thought; the gaianthropocene and the emergence of Axial Age 2.0; how to speak to children and others about the potential losses we confront; the paradoxical nature of time; the conceptual resources and gifts offered to our time by Nietzsche, Hegel, Morin, Bhaskar, and Wilber; and much more.  Sean Kelly received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Ottawa in 1988. Before coming to CIIS, he taught religious studies at the University of Windsor, the University of Ottawa, and Carleton University (Canada). He is the author of Coming Home: The Birth and Transformation of the Planetary Era and Individuation and the Absolute: Hegel, Jung, and the Path toward Wholeness. Sean is also co-editor, with Donald Rothberg, of Ken Wilber in Dialogue: Conversations with Leading Transpersonal Thinkers and co-translator, with Roger Lapointe, of French thinker Edgar Morin's book, Homeland Earth: A manifesto for the New Millennium. Along with his academic work, Sean has trained intensively in the Chinese internal arts (taiji, bagua, and xingyi) and has been teaching taiji since 1990. Along with his abiding interest in the work of Jung, Hegel, and Morin, his current research areas include the evolution of consciousness, integral ecologies, and transpersonal and integral theory.

https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Gaia-Threshold-Planetary-Initiation/dp/1947544284

Layman Pascal talks with integral psychotherapist Mark Forman about his new book, The Monster's Journey.  Through the archetype of the monster's journey, Mark offers a modern twist on the monomyth of the hero's journey, and recounts the path of transformation out of deep childhood trauma.  The Monster's Journey.

https://www.amazon.com/Monsters-Journey-Trauma-Connection/dp/B08DC5VTRR