Integral Institute is a community of scholars and practitioners dedicated to developing, articulating, and living a worldview that draws upon the full spectrum of human inquiry and insight.
In a world where we are confronted with a meta-crisis in all quadrants of reality, inner and outer, personal and collective, and facing existential and catastrophic risks, we need a story big enough to hold the whole.
Originally developed by Ken Wilber, Integral Theory is an inclusive philosophical framework, or “metatheory,” that draws upon the key insights of the world's greatest knowledge traditions.
From science to the arts, to philosophy, psychology, religion, and more, by drawing on all truths and perspectives, the Integral thinker brings new depth, clarity and compassion to every level of human endeavor — from unlocking individual potential to finding new approaches to global-scale problems.
The mission of the Institute is to assist people and organizations along integral, comprehensive, balanced, and sustainable lines in order to dramatically improve the quality of life on this planet.
Integral Institute's core belief is that by helping individuals, companies, organizations, governments, NGOs, and communities to hold a broader and more complex perspective, they can more effectively chart their courses and make wiser and saner decisions today and in the future; develop successful, breakthrough strategies to help solve their problems; and more successfully mobilize their resources to implement desired solutions.
How can we integrate the best of the world's philosophical and religious traditions to articulate a vision that is big enough to hold the whole, and unite us into a coherent vision for the future of humanity?
Can a machine think? Can it understand? Could it be conscious? And what happens to a civilization that builds ever more powerful thinking machines faster than it deepens the wisdom to guide them? We reflect on Ken's perspective on machine intelligence, articulated over nearly five decades — consciousness, machine intelligence, where we are, and where we're going.
Explore the Series →A pseudonym created for enabling ongoing collaborative authorship — articulating a shared universal Story of Value for global intimacy and global coordination.
“Old stories have broken down, and no shared 'grammar of value' remains. What is required is nothing less than a 'New Story of Value' — grounded in 'First Principles and First Values' of Cosmos — that can orient humanity in this time between worlds, and time between stories. Articulating this Story of Value and downloading it into the source code of culture, in response to existential risk — either the death of humanity or the death of our humanity — is the overwhelming moral imperative of our time.”
Here we feature some of the most compelling dialogues that Ken has recorded over the past decades.
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