Everyone Is Right

Robert McNaughton is an engineer by training who went to Naropa for music and contemplative psychology, and has followed AI for more than twenty years from two seats at once — cognitive science and contemplative practice. He and Keith Martin-Smith work through what right relationship with a technology nobody designed actually asks of us: the risks worth naming precisely, the ones we invent when we are frightened, and the human capacities that just became the scarce resource. Watch the full discussion here: https://integrallife.com/experience/what-ai-wants-from-us/

JP Jakonen, integral scholar, coach, and author of Already Home, blends Ken Wilber's Integral view with Zen and Fourth Way practice. He recounts awakening stories and why waking up is just the start. They dig into shadow work that follows insight, practical coaching tools, handling triggers and repair, and the lost art of bringing joy and play into living-awake.

A deep take on whether AI is eroding our capacity to dream and imagine. The conversation probes AI-written critique, how overuse can atrophy memory and creativity, and tensions between relational imagination and Western individualism. It questions broad claims about tech 'empires,' weighs modernity's mixed legacy, and advocates conscious participation with AI rather than fear or worship.

Chad Bennett, a Zen priest and former psychotherapist who founded Mitra to cultivate spiritual friendship, guides a live inquiry practice. Short guided meditations explore earth-body nonduality and cosmic unfoldment. Conversations probe integrating awakening with shadow work, avoiding reifying parts, and building peer practices and small-group companionship for deep, embodied integration.

Dr. John Churchill, psychologist, author and Chinese medicine practitioner who founded Planetary Dharma, joins to explore big-picture shifts. They map the metacrisis through developmental lenses, mythic and contemplative frames, and the rise of heart-mind capacities. Conversation touches on technology, AI-driven disruption, building sacred-secular cultural infrastructures, and scaling compassionate, meta-aware social systems.

Part 1: Origins: — The Day It All Came Together by Integral Life

A deep dive into how developmental transitions can go awry, producing fixation, addiction, avoidance, and spiritual shadow. The discussion explores psychic and causal inflation, the risks of mistaking profound states for personal powers or divinity, and why these problems are often misunderstood. It also considers meditation and direct, first-person spirituality beyond institutional religion.

Part 1: How the Hierarchy Within Can Heal the Hierarchy Without by Integral Life

Part 1: The Timeless Love of Ken and Treya by Integral Life

Immigration and the Dangers of Political Tribalism by Integral Life