For those of you who have not had an account on Integral Naked, or read any of Ken Wilber’s books, you can get a taste by checking out a small number of Ken Wilber videos on Google Video.

About a year ago Yuki and I attended the I-WET event in San Francisco where we learned that the color descriptions used in Integral circles to discuss stages of development, as appropriated from Spiral Dynamics, were being replaced. The new colors are seen in the following compairative chart, and were first published in Ken Wilber’s [...]

Aesthetics and the Renaissance
Final Paper - Botticelli’s Primavera
Spring 2005
W. Thomas Grové
The Primavera, a masterpiece by Botticelli, is a quintessential illustration of the Neo-Platonic revival of the Renaissance. It is a beautiful image that incorporates and embodies many of the Renaissance themes; love in all of its forms, reason, harmonics, and non-dual direct spiritual realization [...]

BACKDROP:

Many people spend a large amount of their leisure time playing video games.
Games, due to their immersive nature, can potentially be a more powerful form of media than film, literature, or television. By powerful I mean the capacity to effect the user on a physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, or social level.
Many games are unoriginal, uninspired, [...]

This was an email that I sent to my family after September 11th:
I am far from home, working hard every day on my documentary, having computer problems, and am not doing as much Zen/kung fu training as I'd like to, due to the fact that I'm exhausted. Yuki has said that she's not sure [...]

Confucianism and Taoism
Midterm Paper
W. Thomas Grové
Autumn 1999
Sincerity is one of the most important traits that a sentient being should display. This concept is at the core of Confucianism and, in a perfect world, the core of any religious (or should I say social language) system. In an even more perfect world, sincerity would be displayed [...]