The Integral Stage Expanded Universe (ISEU)

Layman Pascal and Bruce Alderman offer some riffs and reflections on John Vervaeke, Gregg Henriques, and Christopher Mastropietro's excellent 12-part dialogos on the nature and function of the self, "The Elusive I."    What kind of language can mediate between objective models and subjective experiences of the self, between science and clinical practice?  What is the dance betw...

Layman welcomes Andrés Bernal, a lecturer at CUNY Queens College, to discuss Modern Monetary Theory -- how he became interested in it, its major claims, its main proponents and detractors, and what it would take to begin to put it in action.  Andrés discusses his work with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; the development and implementation of the Green New Deal; the potential for South American coun...

Layman, Bruce, and Gregg Henriques convene for part one of a long-form dialogue on the meaning and promise of a sacred or sophianic naturalism for our time.  In this first episode, they explore some provisional framings of sacred naturalism, from Integral and UTOK perspectives; the place of consciousness in a sacred naturalist account; the tree, coin, and garden elements of UTOK; the importan...

In this episode of the Integral Stage's F ire from Heaven series, Layman continues to explore the nature, significance, perils and possibilities of "spiritual transmission" -- this time with Waking Down in Mutuality teacher-transmitters, Saniel Bonder and Linda Groves-Bonder. http://www.sanielandlinda.com/

In this episode of The Future Faces of Spirit , Andrew Cohen joins Bruce Alderman & Layman Pascal for a trialogue on his pioneering efforts in developing an integrative, evolutionary spirituality that is responsive to the unique challenges of our times.   Andrew is candid about the successes and shortcomings of his earlier work with the EnlightenNext community, and focuses in our conversa...

Layman and Bruce enter into a trialogue on mandalas & mandalic thinking -- with contemporary syntheist philosopher, author & driving force between the Intellectual Deep Web, Alexander Bard.  This was an emergent topic from our original interview with Alexander for the Future Faces of Spirit series.  

To shake things up a little on The Integral Stage, we are dropping down a few chakras to explore all the ins and outs of awakened sexuality, conscious relationship, and sensuously embodied spiritual practice.  For the 9th episode of the Sexuality Series, sexuality and relationship coach, Pamela Joy, joins Layman Pascal to talk about desire & desire discrepancy; the importance of pleasure;...

The Integral Stage has done several interviews with Gregg Henriques (also Layman & Bruce have both been guests on Gregg's podcast) -- generally focusing on his model of psychology and his more general attempt to produce a unified theory of knowledge (UTOK).  This time Layman and Gregg sit down to explore the concept of interpersonal resonance, the deepening of human and emotional relation...

In this episode of the Integral Stage's "Future Faces of Spirit" series, Layman & Bruce sit down with Spanish transpersonal psychologist and participatory philosopher Jorge Ferrer to discuss altered states, entities, sexuality and methods for assimilating peak experiences. 

The Integral Stage's "Metapodcast" series focuses on podcasting podcaster, hosting hosting & exploring the people who are trying to bring forth higher, deeper & more transformative perspectives through online medium.  My first conversation with Jim Rutt (former CEO of Network Solutions, former chairman of the Santa Fe Institute) focused on his ban from facebook and the problems surrou...

This is from The Integral Stage's "Love the System" series -- devoted to what we call the Lower Right Quadrant.  That means algorithms, justice, collective intelligence, protocols, procedures, methods, networks, societies, voting systems, economics, etc.  In this episode Layman Pascal sits down with Brian Robertson the founder of the Holacracy protocol for redesigning workspaces and orga...

This is a brief promo we created for our YouTube channel, The Integral Stage, to mark its two-year anniversary, and now to launch also our new podcasting adventure!