Some good advice, if you are anything like me, and like to be somewhat versed in a few different areas.  Especially as an integral practice is about balance (which I agree with), it's still important in the area of work, to stay disciplined in the areas of your competencies.

The French-language weekly news magazine Le Nouvel Observateur has announced it's picks for the greatest 25 thinkers in the world today.  

Since list this is dealing strictly with philosopher/social type thinkers, I thought it would be worthwhile to post here - mainly, because of a lot of Wilber's source materials don't include some of these thinkers.  Since we are going for the "transcend and include" mode, I thought it would be worthwhile to link it here.

This is the type of thing, that it would be really really beneficial, to have task forces on, to see if/how they mesh with the integral project.  From what people out there know, are these type of research projects going on at CIIS, or ITP, or Naropa? 

Today, I have little time, and actually, less real interest in this, even though I have a philosophy degree.  In the past, my mind LOVED reading any phenomenological philosophy.  I read and wrote on Habermas, Merleau-Ponty, Sarte, and Heidegger, and Hegel.

But,  one, only the smartest (and again, I am average) can go on to get PhD's and teach, two, too much "mind-yness" for me, interferes with clear awareness (perhaps it shouldn't but I can only speak my experience), and three, technical related work fills up my mind at the moment.

But tell you what - in the interest of open source integralism, I am going to find the time to write something up on Alex Honneth, and post it to Integral Visioning, since currently this is the best place for it. 

Anyone at CIIS, Noetic Institute, etc - can't you guys join integral visioning, or some similar open source community that accepts papers, and make as part of a required course, that at least one paper must be submitted to an open source (and searchable) group repository?  Create your own, if necessary.  time to pool the brainpower of multiple universities interested in integralism, with the open source community tools that now exist.

Note again - projects like this might be happening at Integral Institute, we'll see when it opens to the public.  (freakin frakkin stupid beta-tester lockout grumble grumble..)