Intimations of Super Integral

Phenomena is Gross, Subtle, Causal, & Nondual. Your deepening awareness of such phenomena moves you through horizontal state-stages. As you dip into such phenomena in peak experiences you become more stabilized in those places. Post-enlightenment state stages may be possible. Personally, I would refer to these as a deepening of non-dual or a further refinement & integration of previous state-stages. For example, a deeper emboidment of non-dual or an utter tantric embrace of all state-stages in a Totality such as the Tibetan Buddhist term Svabhavikakaya or Vedanta's Turiyatita. This is the horizontal axis of enlightenment.

Your intepretation of these realizations depends on your structure-stage of cognitive development. This realization itself requires an ability to take a 6th person or higher perspective & full enlightenment is being one with all phenomena that is arising in this moment AND being able to take as high a developmental perspective as exists at this moment. Being able to see all of the ways of taking perspective possible right now. This is the vertical axis of enlightenment.

May all See.

Love that Burns, Death that Reveals

Artwork by Andrew Gonzalez

Can’t fight this perpetual perishing any more
Don’t even want things to be like they were before
My face is gathering enough lines to be a roadmap
And my body is clearly more than just a soul-trap
Can’t right this sinking ship
Don’t even want a longer-floating trip
My hands no longer obediently bail
Avoiding death is the surest way to fail
Can’t relight these worn-out candles
Don’t even want to retread my sandals
My heart keeps seeing endless emptiness
And keeps breaking open to hold just this
Can’t ignite what’s gone to ashes
Don’t even want to redo my crashes
My dying flesh brightens as it ages
Freedom keeps on singing in its cages
Can’t fight this endless dying any more
Don’t even want what I wanted before
My hands reach out then return
The circle at last able to freely burn
It was by this that we were haunted
This was what we secretly wanted
And it is to this that we must bow
Deeply fully and exactly now

Poem by Robert Augustus Masters

I wish you could recieve all of the Love that fills my Heart. I wish you could see the Beauty everywhere in everything. Especially in You. Especially in me. This body longs to be held before it perishes. It longs for human touch. This soul wants to be seen. It longs to be witnessed and to shine its light for you.

Gently, Gently I lay my head in the lap of my Mother & melt. My strength is my Heart. My weapon is Love. My stead is the Earth. My soul the Kosmos.

I am here.

A Confluence of Levels & Lines, Switch-Points & Fulcrums

Wilber/Colmes Lattice

Development is a tricky business & maps can take us only so far. Integral Theory is a bracelet I wear & not a collar around my neck. As I lead ILP workshops & help people with practice & get down & dirty with relationships & karma, the more I can see my own Shadow & lack of development in certain areas. High development along the horzontal state-stage axis is one thing, perspective taking & cognitive development another; but I am arrested in my emotional/affective line. My emotions flare up & I revert to child like reactions & overwhelming pain, fear of abandonment, loneliness & alienation. The Waking Down in Mutuality work helps, & therapy helps. It's a slow process as awakened Consciousness clammers it's way down into the depths, turning over every rock & spreading light into each & every dark corner. & the Great Relief comes in being with the Totality of existance; Relative, Absolute, Paradox, & Trinity. Trust in Being..... Trust in Being.....Trust in Being.
Amen

The Soul of New York

I have been struck recently by the magnitude of possibility that is New York. It is somewhat of a mystery why I ended up here & am excited to work with this magnificent locale that is New York. I have made a 3 year commitment to work & play - building a Integral Community Center with the Heart of America. More to come.......

God Bless America

In the Trenches

Nice G.I.'s



Imagine being in World War 1. Maybe you were there? Cold, hungary, dead Friends, absent loved ones, & scarry as fuck others with automatic weapons & bullets are flying past your face.

Read The Development of a Jihadist's Mind

This is life. But not all of it. There is also stark naked anadorned Love holding all of us in this & every moment no matter how far away She feels. & that Love is a Secret.

But right now, I'm in the fucking, goddamn trenches & bullets are flying. Feels that way anyhow. I'm not going to sugar-coat it with plattitudes of positive thinking & idealism. Die in every moment. Die to ideas. Die to hope. What's left? That my friend is the Great Cosmic Joke. But, it is also paradoxically tantrically integrated to the Real Everyday Human Hero. That my friend, is none other than You.

Now,
who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

Artwork by Scott Snibbe

Heaven is a body,
Energy unfurling.
I am a circle.
I can't stop breathing.
Mysterious other I can never know,
Dark & separate,
She beacons.
Illusions all about me,
Filling the circuits.
Only.
Only.

A Call Out to the Integral Evolutionary Siddhas

Artwork by Alex Grey

"I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules or controls, borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you."

Neo

Hey Joe Perez :)! What do you mean by Involution? Can you define the term?
Hey Ken, buddy:) ! Has Involution been thrown out as "The Myth of the Given"? Does it still fit into your map? ?What? are the Metaphysical assumptions that are still left? Eros?

I seem to be crossing a threshold. It seems high time that we start these dialogues. Come on now, Andrew, let's get into some serious cr8ive friction. 51% :)! Heh. Heh.

I seriously love you guys. So fucking inspiring!

So let's push that edge! Let's dive deep into the Heart of that Amrita Nadi & the AQAL matrix.

Andrew, Why are you not a part of Integral Spiritual Center?
Ken, What is this study about the relation between stages of development ( structuralism) & meditation & how it moves you two stages you keep refering to?

I saw this show yesterday about how the center of our galaxy is a super massive black hole & that it was responsible for the stars being formed. What does that mean?

Stayed tuned for Integral Evolution in real-time @ vjohnbaker.com & biospiritech.com. Coming soon to a Kosmic Address near U!

I'm coming to interview you awesome teachers for the sake of us all :). For the NEXT generation of teachers & seekers. FOR US!

My Heart shoots out rays to the Bodisattvas & Absolute Bodhichitta prevails.

My Praxis will be recorded.

Sorry if this post is hard to understand....... I'm just in a playful mood of spontenaiety of sorts & well..... It could be that glass of Wine. :).

My Being rests in the Secret Intention.

May beings rest in the Secret Intention.

All is offered.

Thank God for my girlfriend. MWahhhhh!