Nourishing Destiny

Do more with your ideas.

In this course the student will gain an understanding of evolutionary theory as it forms the context for the development of integral medicine. This is an evolving class and is not provided for PDA credit. These links are provided to bring people up to speed on the theory, context, science, and values behind the teaching I'm giving here. At present, this "Course" is not being given for PDA points.

• I. The History of Evolutionary Thought

  • A Brief History of Evolutionary Spirituality

    Three centuries of progressive thinkers reveal that evolution has always been a fundamentally spiritual concept. “Has creation a final goal? And if so, why was it not reached at once? Why was the consummation not realized from the beginning? To these questions there is but one answer: Because God is Life, and not merely Being.” F.W.J. Schelling, 1809

  • The Never-Ending Upward Quest,

    Don Beck Bio & resources I think I'm beginning to see people as colors! Having just immersed myself for the past three months in Spiral Dynamics—an incisive and far—reaching theory of human development—I can say without exaggeration that Spiral Dynamics is, indeed, one of the major breakthroughs in mapping and managing complexity—that complexity being us. Our diverse worldviews, our beliefs, our very identities, represented by eight "memes," or value systems, which apply as much to individuals as to entire cultures. And, as I am discovering, this dynamic spiral-shaped model of human consciousness, with its hierarchy of color-coded memes, is literally coloring my perception.

  • The REAL Evolution Debate

    Everything you always wanted to know about evolution but the mass media wouldn’t tell you.

• II. The Green Meme and Pluralism

  • Breaking the Rules

    Does radical transformation break the unwritten rules of our postmodern spiritual culture? In this dialogue between guru and pandit, spiritual teacher and founder of What Is Enlightenment? Andrew Cohen and integral philosopher Ken Wilber take a piercing look at the contemporary spiritual scene and ask us how serious we are about really changing. And, in fact, change itself defines the cutting-edge spirituality that they explored in our last issue where this new WIE feature made its debut. In that issue, these two pioneers explored the unorthodox conclusion that they each had come to: the bold claim that enlightenment is evolving. They discussed how the deep spiritual recognition of nonduality—the union of emptiness and form—takes on a new significance in light of the knowledge that the world of form is itself changing, ever-complexifying, forward-moving, and increasingly conscious.