90 Days of ILP

Corey from kenwilber.com just alerted me to this buried audio dialogue of Ken and Sean Hargens discussing Bald Ambition author Jeff Meyerhoff's six main criticisms of Sex, Spirituality, Ecology. Enjoy....

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Welp, my buddy Ryan Parks from the men's ILP group (a.k.a. "Man Night") has started blogging on Zaadz. Check out the run-down of his status with his own modules here.  And with that in mind, I think it's time I ran through my own. To wit:

Shadow = Bullshit? -- Lately I've been wondering if the whole rationale behind doing psychodynamic work really does hold water. Ken presents a compelling case in his forthcoming Integral Spirituality, but critic Andrew Smith has some interesting alternative views on that in his essay "The Intersubjective Meditator". Since psychological health is usually not a pressing concern for me, I often take it for granted. Which is the point of Shadow though: you can't see it. I'll try to revisit this for myself soon....

Spirit in Open Moments -- The last few weeks have been riddled by visiting friends, food poisoning, travel, and all-nighters for work, so my 8am wake-up time has been thrown yet again into chaos and I haven't been meditating much. The deeper issue, though, is that I don't feel like I've been connecting to the essential nature of life in general, via contemplative practices or others. Diane Hamilton once told me the best reason for practice was simply to create "open space". As I get neck-deep in my work once again, I'll have to keep that in mind.

 Body Body Bo-Body -- Here I'm doing better: I've swam in the pool every day since coming to Phoenix, and in general I'm trying to eat better and get a lot more water in my system. Speaking of which, I've got to stop drinking tap water.

Framework,  Framework, Everywhere -- Some people confuse this with "theory" and I do too. On the theory side, I'm regularly reading Integral World and trying to keep up with Integral Naked content as it gets posted (easier said than done). On the more practice side, today I realized I really have to master this Get a Feel For AQAL gold-star practice if I'm going to be able to teach it to customers and others. Word.

 Sorry for the self-serving status check. If you got something out of it -- AWESOME! And if not, well, I'll see you in a day or two...

 

Sorry to shill for the day job, but IU just launched four new certification programs through JFKU and Fielding. Click here to visit the PS-designed home page. Word.

So Integral Naked editor Casey and I are in Phoenix this week to attend a seminar co-presented by Holosync dude Bill Harris entitled "How to Think Like a Marketer II". Needless to say, we low-rent dot-com scrubs feel a bit out of place in this environment of sales pros and marketing whizzes, but we'll try and see if we can play the part of "2.0 innovators/kids" as best we can. Not sure to what extent the seminar will cover blogs, blog marketing, and cheap blog marketing stunts, but that's not really the reason I'm here.

The reason I'm here is to add weapons to my arsenal as a person trying to make an honest living through the provision of usefully authentic goods and services. ILP, I believe, is one of these (otherwise I wouldn't have ruined my health for two months helping to put the thing together), but I have many other ideas in this vein. The question is: is it an oxymoron to ever gain affluence by providing something that people need? To make a buck pimping a personal development product -- is this honest? The Scientific American doesn't think so (hat tip: MD). But we'll see...

UPDATE: 2 hours into the seminar-- this thing is great! If you want to pick up some "orange meme" money magnet skills, these guys are the bomb. Word.