Corey W. deVos

What might be a ✨synthesis✨ perspective on free speech? As in, not Left nor Right, but an integration of the best of both. For one humble answer to that question, listen to my recent conversation with the brilliant @CoreyWdeVos of @IntegralLife: synthesismedia.org/p/interview-fa…

Yeah, these Epstein drops are bad, but it’s not like he kicked a tail-light or something.

Today’s NY Times is about the Transformation Age—a time of structural morphogenesis—the Metacrisis, and the Great Release all in one. Here’s a primer, then the article.

@johnnymaga Lmao you just put a checkers piece on the chessboard and said “checkmate”.

After being snubbed by the Nobel Committee for the last decade, Trump just received the FIFA Peace Prize in front of an audience of a billion people. Checkmate. 🔥

@davmcleod Beautiful said my friend. And yes, having this capacity for perspective taking is incredibly rewarding, allowing you to open or close the aperture to make this moment as big — or as focused — as you want it to be. Say more about "scaffold and structure"?

@CoreyWdeVos Truly amazing how rewarding taking of perspectives opens you up to the glory of God. I was lost in wilderness for 48 years, 'til small touch of suffering opened me to hold perspective I needed to realize difference of scaffold and structure and the non-dualistic nature of God.🙏🏻

How big is your god?

These mini-mindfulness meditations by Ken Wilber are just fantastic.

Walk the boundary between “us” and “them,” feel both love and loathing arise, then rest as pure I-AMness until the heart expands to include everyone. Learn the full method in Full Spectrum Mindfulness: integrl.link/5yru9zad #FullSpectrumMindfulness #BigLove #IntegralLife

This 2-minute practice shows you how to make the urge for instant gratification into an object of your mindful awareness, in order to loosen identification with it and reclaim your freedom. Save 40-50% off Ken Wilber's Full Spectrum Mindfulness! integrl.link/4dx3744j

I am a never Trumper precisely because I'm conservative. I distrust grand narratives and social holisms. I believe deeply in the fundamental fallibility of human nature and that society needs strong, values-centered guardrails. I believe in natural hierarchies (though not static ones). I think power should generally be pushed down to the smallest unit of social action, often the individual, family and community. I believe we live in a morally real universe. I believe in incremental change rooted in local, contextual judgments based on the prudence of lived experience and tradition. I believe custom and institutional memory mostly trump values engineering. I believe incentives and means matter far more than outcomes and ends, and are also less dangerous. I believe mostly in a realist view of politics as interests in terms of power. I believe in society-stabilizing structures. I believe in rigorously-regulated national borders. I believe society is an organic totality and that duty grounds citizenship. Finally, like all true conservatives I am very wary of mobs and popular passions as being the ground for the rise of tyranny. I've read a lot of the conservative political philosophical canon—Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hume, Adams, Hobbes, Burke, Hegel, Smith, de Tocqueville, Kirk, Kendall, Hayek, Strauss, Scruton, Deneen et al.— and believe I have a workable understanding of its claims and commitments. I could go on, but I'm pretty comfortable in my self-understanding as a sophisticated conservative. In my view, it is evident that classically-liberal conservatives clearly see when a demagogue is leveraging the passions of mobs to engage in a norm-destroying, values-eroding project of radical revolution, who is inciting a Jacobin-like storming of the Bastille, rather than work through the rule of law, the temperance of custom and norms, the modeling of virtue, and who labors fiercely to keep the national fabric whole and intact. It is clear when he is making the government A Totality, an all-powerful purveyor of fear and submission across media, business, academia, finance, and law, while also discarding Federalism in order to bring smaller units of political sovereignty to heel. He is almost a perfect living embodiment of everything that the Founders were at extreme pains to warn us against, that they attempted to design a system to guard against, and every serious conservative of the modern era militated against. But I'm a sophisticated conservative. Because I see each of the qualities of conservatism above also each enmeshed in and thereby qualified by polarities that are also dialectical, contextual at higher octaves, necessarily integrative, and epistemically relative and developmental. As I argued in my integrative metatheory of conservatism, it can be understood as 1) an ontogenetic structure arising largely from the agrarian stage of sociocultural evolution, and this structure can be honored but must also be transcended—as it was in the US Constitution, 2) a transcendental typology as one-half of the Eros & Agape polarity, so it must always be harmonized with progressive Eros, and 3) a particular typology as one-half of a neurobiological polarity between threat detection versus openness-flexibility brain structures—stabilizers vs innovators—and so always must be harmonized with those members of our society who would push us forward into new frontiers. So conservatism only represents half of what a well-functioning society actually requires to function, and even then conservatism itself cannot be understood only in its Traditional-Agrarian register, it also needs to be expressed and defended in its Modern, Postmodern and Integrative registers, too. As does progressivism. And each have to be prevented from engaging in the pathological extremes at each of those structural-worldview levels: for conservatism, we cannot allow a theocratic state; we cannot allow financial capital to dictate the terms of the polis; we cannot allow demagogues to use epistemic anarchy to incapacitate society from making moral judgments. For progressivism, we cannot allow ideological totalitarianism; we cannot allow context-blind, abstract-rational technocracy; we cannot allow a narcissism of the oppressed. And yet we've allowed all of these, and few see how they co-arise and energize each other, all while those who are profiting from them continue to fuel them in any way possible. We can do better, and every attempt I make at offering perspectives on X is an attempt to take either an integrative view that helps people break out of the false consciousness and demi-realities they're swimming in, or take a contrary position to one of the specific worldview pathologies above. Only my followers can decide if I'm being helpful or not. If I'm not, someone should unfollow me and find someone else whose views are more valuable to them.

@WhittleUtters And finally, if by “globalism” you mean Alex Jones-type “deep state” or “new world order”, I can only chuckle, sigh, and silently wish we that we had even a fraction of that kind of power and influence in the world 😂

@WhittleUtters If by “globalism” you mean “globalization”, increasing interdependence of markets and societies across the planet, integral is very different. Integral is a theory-of-all-theories, not an economic system, though all economic systems can be analyzed through integral metatheory.

The script is writing itself.

Only a matter of time before people see that Charlie Kirk was a tragic victim of the metacrisis. The FBI now believes Tyler Robinson was motivated by "nihilistic violent extremism." The meaning crisis, one of five major forces of the metacrisis, is nearly synonymous w nihilism.

1/ What does it really mean to be whole? #KenWilber explores the five distinct yet interconnected paths to wholeness, offering a roadmap to becoming fully human. 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=fvJz-w…

The culture war demands that we pick a side. But the sides are often a polarity — opposing values that give each other meaning. We don't pick one, but hold both in dynamic equilibrium. E.g.: ▫️Rights & Responsibilities ▫️Tradition & Progress ▫️Choice & Life H/t @CoreyWdeVos:

@CoreyWdeVos -Darth Vader

There is a furnace of primordial creativity within each of us, and it is the very same creative force and flow that makes the earth, the sun, and the stars in the sky.

I got to see this with my own eyes, and I feel forever changed because of it.