I see yesterday that on the KW blog, there was reposted a commentary about the war in Iraq - the piece originally dates from 2003. I thought it would be useful - for myself at least - to critique this piece. Note - this is going to get long, as I've spent some time in the analysis below: So here goes - First off, it is interesting to note that the post contains two separate issues - and conflates them, to a degree - the attack on 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq. The connecting tissue for this conflation is this post is ABOUT Iraq, yet posted on 9/11.    more »

Had a very good Ken Wilber MeetUp yesterday.  (Funny enough,  the topic ended up being "self-development" in various areas, with only a loose association to Ken Wilber).

What was fascinating was the  type of open-source  bull session that we had.  We took 6 different areas of life, and discussed people's experiences of skill, competency, experience, in those areas.

Simply by doing this, every person (we had about 11) was "litup" by at least one area of life, shared a great book/story, and was able to engage meaningfully with the rest of the group.  This encouragement of pooled knowledge, was a lot of fun. (As were some of the wry, and wise, stories.)

By the end, everyone was fairly loose, engaged, and contributing - which is all one can really ask, I think.