I've been thinking quite a lot of the technological world and emerging interrelated networks, and how this applies in a power and political sense to spiritual communities, and more importantly to integral communities. The last ten years, with the rise of Linux, the term "open source" has become known. This is the idea that written software that is open and viewable by all, is able to be easily fixed and improved upon by any person who has the requisite desire, skill, and persistence. In this case, all knowledge is in a sense, "shallow" - open to all who invest the time and energy. I've alway thought that the term "open source" is (or should be) a beautiful term for spiritual knowledge. For example, the bookstore in Marin is called "Open Secret" - alluding to the fact that the supposed "secret" of enlightenment is open to all. There are many other examples of this, of course... The other trend in technology (well, at least it used to be a trend - this is in debate now, given the tech crash of 2000, and the resulting consolidation) is that in modern work is that there is a lot of "flattening" in the decision making process - i.e. that there is less and less of a hierarchical overlay, top down structure, but more and more, functionally independent and overlapping ciricles of execution that get things done without a large "guiding hand", so to speak. You can see this in the statistics of more and more independent contractors, people working from their homes, etc. What does this have to do with spirituality, politics, etc?   more »

I am a member of Meetup.com, and check monthly the groups that I belong to - which are the SF groups for BFL, Ken Wilber, and Yoga.  

I've gone to a meetup for Ken Wilber - the trouble is, of the 7  "RSVP's", none had shown up except for me and one other fellow! 

Now the two of us had a nice talk, I must say - but since then, I keep checking, and the RSVP has been zero for the succeeding meets. 

I'm also looking at Yahoo Groups - there still exists a group devoted to Integral, but no new message there for quite awhile. 

This got me looking at some of the flaws of early online social networking programs., and looking at various other tools.

I'm thinking of being more active in this, and either starting a new meetup in the SFBay, specifically for integral practice - or perhaps even attempting to get the SF Ken Wilber group to convert.  But before becoming an organizer, and then paying for the year, for that functionality , I thought I would ask the question here, for the small number of people that read this blog.  Any interest in this in San Francisco specifically?  Any other resources one would know about? 

The email is up in the right corner, under the search bar, if there are any suggestions!

Reader adrenalin was gracious enough to post as a comment, a very elegant poem, and I reproduced it below, as adrenalin's own post, which I encourage any readers out there to read.  Thanks again.

While I am still getting this blog up to speed, the feature of "honored guest" will become more prominent, as I learn more and more the capabilities of this blogging software.  This particular site isn't my personal site (purposely very little of "me" is featured, outside of my take on integral subjects) but much more devoted to pragmatic integral practice, and various insightful perceptions, comments, loves and inspirations on this passionate journey of the heart and mind.