This site has been recognized by Holon News.  I am pleased that this site has been recognized, as a "Staff Pick", in the bookmarks.

I've been writing this Integral Practice for going on three years (2 and 1/2?), so it is nice to know that people are getting some use from it. 

I said at the beginning, about this site - I write as a fan, as an enthusiast, as an analyst, not as an expert.

As such, sometimes posts here are mediocre, but sometimes, posts here are very well thought out - maybe even have a bit o' wisdom in them. 

At least, I hope so!

There has been a recent wave of popularity over The Secret - witness the features of The Secret on Oprah.

Also, look at this interview with James Ray over at Steve Pavlina's place.

Notice some of the language used on The Secret's webpage:


This is The Secret to everything - the secret to unlimited joy, health, money, relationships, love, youth: everything you have ever wanted.

Wow, that's a pretty good secret!   

I truly think the vendors of this secret need to go over to Iraq, and start teaching "the secret" to people in Iraq.

It sure looks like they could do with some "umlimited joy, health, money, relationships, love, youth".

Somehow though, I don't see The Secret team on a plane to Iraq to share the wealth, anytime in the immediate future.

Do you?


Despite the snark above, clearly, there is truth to the "law of attraction".  There is truth to "creating your own destiny", and making a difference in the world, that inspires and encourages others:

Whereas the fifth wave is still characterized by dichotomized, either/or thinking, the sixth vision-logic wave is integral-aperspectival: the individual can simultaneously hold multiple, apparently contradictory perspectives in his attention and, through synthesis and integration, can conceptualize networks of interactions among the various perspectives . In this wave, existential concerns characterize the self, which Wilber has labeled the centaur.

And, if you can take new perspectives, you can envision newer possibilities, you hve the potential to EMBODY those potentials - walk the talk for that you envision.

Notably, the prerational magical thinking, does have some cause and effect - meaning, if you engage in some magic, lots of times STUFF HAPPENS.    It isn't a bad idea to become skilled in working with the archaic/magical dimension of life and self, as the rational self oftentimes does not notice these influences.

But I don't believe that this is one's highest self, merely another version of New Age Marketing in new dress.  It can be a version of pathology,  if taken to the extreme.