Finding Radical Wholeness – with Ken Wilber

Integral theorist, writer and philosopher Ken Wilber joins me to talk about the meaning of life, woke culture, culture wars, the spiritual conveyer belt, “waking up” vs “growing up”, how to raise your level of development, “spiritual but not religious”, Plato, Voodoo, Russell Brand, Jordan Peterson, the meaning crisis, intelligences, therapy and shadow, Esalen Institute, weight-lifting, mindfulness, non-duality, his own satori, tantra, what he’s gotten wrong over the years, Grace and Grit, and his election prediction. A wonderful snapshot of his work.

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Ken Wilber, a visionary thinker of inspired genius, is the developer of an “integral theory of everything” that embraces the truths of all the world’s great spiritual, scientific, and philosophical traditions. He is the most widely translated academic writer in America, with 25 books translated into some 30 foreign languages. Ken Wilber currently lives in Denver, Colorado, and is still active as a philosopher, author, and teacher, with all of his major publications still in print.

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✅Who is Mark Walsh?

“Mr. Embodiment” is the author of "Embodiment", "The Body in Coaching and Training", and "Embodied Meditation". He hosts "The Embodiment Podcast" (over 1 million downloads), and led "The Embodiment Conference" (1000 teachers, 500,000 delegates). Seeing a theme yet?

He founded the "Embodied Facilitator Course", and has trained over 2000 embodiment coaches in over 40 other countries (some of which will even let him back in).

Mark gained an honours in psychology (despite being an alcoholic at the time), and has taught widely in the corporate world where he pretended to be a grown up for years, including with blue-chip companies (e.g. Google, Unilever, Shell, Axa, L’Oreal) whom he charged wayyyy too much as they made him wear a suit.

He has also upset… sorry, taught… many yogis, NGOs, police officers and several militaries.

Mark has worked in war zones, and entertained over 50,000 children. He has headlined International Coach Federation events, taught at universities, lived with the circus in Ethiopia, founded the Sane Ukraine project, wowed celebrities and kissed a princess.

Mark is an aikido black belt, and also has 25 years of experience of other martial arts, with yoga, bodywork, improv comedy, conscious dance and meditation.

Embodiment is his obsession, life’s work, and frankly at this point he couldn’t get a job doing anything else. He dances like your dad at a wedding and offends pirates with his swearing.

He is now tired of writing in the third person.

Explore his work:

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[integralstanley]

Embracing radical wholeness can be a beautiful and uplifting thing. I continue to pray for the day when even Ken Wilber's Integral Life Corporation and their associates begin to integrate some decent human ethics into their activities. 🙏

[EugenePustoshkin]

Just finished watching the interview to the end. Mark, you seem to have great resonance with Ken, one of the best among all the interviewers/conversants (Raquel Torrent also does amazing job in that regard). The conversation went smoothly. Thank you for your work, and please invite Ken again, many times! Also, Ken was spot on about the elections. I am so happy that his view of our world’s current mess is very sober.

[EugenePustoshkin]

It is so nice to see Colin (Bigelow) in the beginning of the interview. 12 years ago we (Dmitry Baranov and I) invited him and Clint Fuhs to Moscow, it was one of the best Integral events I have ever attended / co-created.

[flygirl]

It's so cool to see that one of the brightest brains on the planet ALSO struggles with technology- just as I do- love the "I didn't touch anything" - I just said that yesterday with my work computer LOL -- Thanks for the Video 💙

[jefriv]

The Embodiment Channel replied to my earlier comment saying: “The cultural turn towards wokeism is well documented and well defined by others. Wilber see it in terms of adult development and the “meme green meme”.” I tried replying to this comment, but my reply kept disappearing; so here is my reply:

You say wokeism is well-documented and well-defined”? Well, here’s some of that documentation:
From an ABC News article: “What Does Woke' Mean and Why are Some Conservatives Using It?” The subtitle of the article states that: “The definition of "woke" changes depending on who you ask.” By Kiara Alfonseca, January 23, 2024.
Here’s NPR reporter Domenico Montanaro, in a transcript from a podcast entitled “What does the word 'woke' really mean, and where does it come from?”, JULY 19, 2023
“Modern Black activism and the Black Lives Matter movement used it widely as a rallying cry. At other times, the seriousness of the word has been diluted, used facetiously and ironically on social media. And now the word has been co-opted as a political slogan on the right…”
“Republicans on the campaign trail are using it as something of a catchall to criticize anything on the progressive side of the political spectrum they don't like, whether it's teaching about racism in schools or gender transition policies or even books and libraries they deem inappropriate.”
And a more rigorous attempt to define wokeism from Devina Ayona, at FISIP Dept. of International Relations. Here are the first two of her three characterizations of wokeism:
“(1) a lack of academic literature using “wokeism” as their keyword; (2) political quarrels over the meaning of “wokeism””
“A Preliminary Overview of “Wokeism”: Three Major Issues for IR Research”, Sep 1, 2023
Like most concepts that become political footballs wokeism, despite or because it’s being used a lot, can have a wide variety of meanings. That’s why a serious discussion of it would need to define it. Something you nor Wilber do.
This lapse on Wilber’s part reveals a central fault of Wilber’s grandiose intellectual system building: it is long on academic jargon and short on scholarly and empirical reality.

[danielvermeulen]

Trump represent red/blue
Musk represent orange
Kennedy represent green
Tulsi represent yellow/turquoise

[sochade]

THIS is what Ken says is crazy about our era???!!

Wokeness: the quality of being alert to and concerned about social injustice and discrimination.