Mark Edwards and Bruce Alderman explore Jean-Pierre Faye's "Horseshoe Theory," which reveals that political extremes curve toward each other when they abandon democratic norms, explaining why some voters support both Trump and AOC as anti-establishment alternatives. The discussion introduces meta-theoretical tools including Roy Bhaskar's concept of "demi-reality," Bruno Latour's analysis of "modal confusion," and the possibility of "post-conventional coalitions" that transcend left-right pola...| Integral Life
Carter Phipps explores how psychedelics, postmodern values, and the reawakening of consciousness are reshaping the cultural landscape and laying the groundwork for an integral future. Arguing that we must embrace — and responsibly guide — the weirdness of this transitional moment, he calls for a worldview that integrates science, spirituality, and the deep interior dimensions of human experience. This post was originally published on Integral Life.| Integral Life
IAM scholars Brandon Norgaard, Nicholas Hedlund, PhD, and Claudia Meglin provide a sweeping (albeit provisional) cartography of emergent frameworks rooted in an “Integrative Worldview“—ranging from metamodernism and integral theory to systems science, process philosophy, and critical realism—that are converging around a shared impulse to address the root causes of our civilizational predicament. This post was originally published on Integral Life.| Integral Life
by Megan K. Stack in The New York Times...It’s not that our government is using the surveillance infrastructure in the same manner as China. It’s that, as f ...| omega.ngo
by Kyle Dickman in Los Alamos National Laboratory...For a variety of reasons, government support for big science has been eroding since then. Now, AI is sta ...| omega.ngo
by Dark Matter Labs on Medium...Many-to-Many is designed for groups who want to collaborate to solve complex challenges but require new ideas about value, o ...| omega.ngo
Nick Hedlund introduces Visionary Realism, a synthesis of Integral Theory and Critical Realism that addresses the root causes of our global Metacrisis. Rather than offering surface-level solutions, he invites us to align with the deeper structure of reality through aletheic resonance — a participatory, reverent way of knowing that may be key to the emergence of a new kind of human.| Integral Life
In this wide-ranging conversation, Terri O’Fallon and Keith Martin-Smith explore how human development unfolds through increasingly complex relationships with time, from infancy’s timelessness to the transpersonal awareness of timelessness beyond time. They examine how cultural evolution is accelerating, why recurring societal crises reflect developmental recursions, and how future leadership must integrate ethical maturity, shadow work, and a multi-generational vision.| Integral Life
Keith Martin-Smith offers a bold, developmental critique of modern DEI, tracing its evolution from fairness-based policy to postmodern orthodoxy. He explores how inclusion can become exclusion when empathy gives way to ideology—and outlines how DEI might survive by embracing complexity, dissent, and shared humanity.| Integral Life
by Zak Doffman in Forbes...In the last year we have seen one Gmail/Workspace AI upgrade after another. This won’t stop. And so it will become ever more impo ...| omega.ngo
From Vox...innovators, thinkers & changemakers working to make the future a better place.| omega.ngo
From IFRC Solferino Academy...As we reach the midpoint of Strategy 2030, we are entering a new humanitarian era. A complex mass of emerging trends is changi ...| omega.ngo
David and Keith explore how individuals intersect between different vertical developmental stages (Amber, Orange, Green) and cultural value stacks (traditional, modern, and progressive) in order to make meaning and navigate complex electoral decisions, with a specific focus on the 2024 U.S. election, unpacking the interplay between cognitive development, cultural alignment, and systemic factors in understanding the diverse rationales behind people's voting behavior.| Integral Life
by Jennifer Doudna in Wired.com...The genome-editing technology can be supercharged by artificial intelligence—and the results are already being felt.| omega.ngo
by Eric Topol in Ground Truths....A Counter to the Hype and Some Misleading Claims| omega.ngo
Sean Illing of The Gray Area interviews Yuval Noah Harari...If the internet age has anything like an ideology, it's that more information and more data ...| omega.ngo
by Ethan Mollick in One Useful Thing...With continued advancements in model architecture and training techniques, we're approaching a new frontier in A ...| omega.ngo
The image of a plane slamming into the WTC is a horrible illustration of the class of two worldviews that underlies the current war on terrorism.| Probe Ministries
by Kate O'Flaherty in The Guardian...Apple is about to launch a ChatGPT-powered version of Siri as part of a suite of AI features in iOS 18. Will this ...| omega.ngo
Danish Refugee Council writes in Global Displacement Forecast 2024...The fighting that has torn across Sudan since 15 April 2023 has turned the country into ...| omega.ngo
by Azeem Azhar in Exponential View...While he doesn’t say it explicitly, it seems that Eric expects the next two years to be faster and more turbulent than ...| omega.ngo
Kamala’s VP pick could not be more hard-core left: We now know that Kamala has picked Tim Walz to be her Vice-Presidential running mate. This…| CultureWatch
Some thoughts on the Republican Convention: I might be a bit premature here. Only three of the four-day Republican National Convention in Milwaukee has come…| CultureWatch
by Adam Tooze in Chartbook....As the World Migration Report for 2024 confirms, the Mexico-US border is by some margin the largest single corridor of country ...| omega.ngo
We are ALL theocrats: God rules. God reigns. God is Lord over all. He is the eternal king. If affirming these realities makes me a…| CultureWatch
First published as “Nature Is a Jazz Band, Not a Machine” by Institute of Art and Ideas | News on July 30, 2021. From genetic engineering to geoengineering, we treat nature as though it’s a machine. This view of nature is deeply embedded in Western thought, but it’s a fundamental misconception with potentially disastrous consequences. … Continue reading Nature Is Not a Machine—We Treat It So at Our Peril| Patterns of Meaning
Like all self-organized, adaptive systems, society moves in nonlinear ways. Even as our civilization unravels, a new ecological worldview is spreading globally. Will it become powerful enough to avert a cataclysm? None of us knows. Perhaps the Great Transition to an ecological civilization is already under way, but we can’t see it because we’re in … Continue reading The Future Is Not a Spectator Sport| Patterns of Meaning