Steve McIntosh - Developmental Politics | Elevating Consciousness Podcast #7

Steve McIntosh is a political philosopher, lawyer, entrepreneur, and leader in the Integral space. He is the author of 5 books including Evolutions Purpose, The Presence of the Infinite, and most recently Developmental Politics - a book that details how America can grow into a better version of itself. He is the president and the co-founder of The Institute for Cultural evolution, a think tank that focuses on the cultural roots of America’s challenges. In this episode, we speak about the culture war, resolving political conflict with values integration, evolution as a spiritual teaching, and the importance of transcendence.

[Links & Resources]

The Cultural Creatives by Paul H. Ray
Spiral Dynamics by Don Beck and Christopher Cowan -

[Show Notes]

0:00 - Intro
3:18 - How Steve got into developmental thinking and decided to use it to better understand politics
21:17 - How culture evolves (the 3 major worldviews clashing in American politics)
35:44 - The interaction of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis in culture
42:17 - The four major political positions (beyond left and right)
48:32 - Resolving political conflict with values integration
52:28 - Why Steve is optimistic about a cultural synthesis
55:13 - Why Donald Trump was elected
58:05 - Steve uses the values integration process on an ongoing political issue
107:55 - Evolution as a spiritual teaching
1:16:05 - The Importance of Transcendence
1:28:37 - What’s next for Steve McIntosh?

[richardewarren]

Excellent and insightful, positive and realistic. We can, and should, fairly ask: 'Is apocalypse really necessary?' Steve employs philosophy as it should be, to unite and reconcile the facts of science with the insights of spirituality, the emerging, but not inimical, twin elements of modernity. The current global situation is not beyond repair and we can say that the world is not at its end for humanity, IF we embrace acquired wisdom, choose goodness, and don't give up in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges!