Dear TOK List,

  If you have the time and inclination, here is a well-done interview of Ken Wilber talking about Jordan Peterson, the diversity movements’ strengths and challenges, and his vision of consciousness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDjCnFvz11A

  During the interview, he refers to his “color” model of the levels of ego development (i.e., you will hear him discuss “amber,” “orange,” and “green” levels). It is attached. Also, I should note that my dear friend and TOK Society member Prof. Andre Marquis is an expert on integral theory and especially its connection and application to psychotherapy. Andre is a leader in the Unified Psychotherapy Movement and authored two blogs about integral theory on my Theory of Knowledge PT blog:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/theory-knowledge/201510/positioning-our-knowledge-in-four-quadrants

http://integralworld.net/henriques2.html

  Finally, I came across an interesting exemplar of the Culture Wars today, in this NY Times essay on “drag queen story time”:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/opinion/conservatives-culture-trump.html

Given Peter Limberg’s discussion of the distinction between Culture War 1. 0 v. 2.0, it was interesting to analyze the dispute as a “new version” of the old 1.0 Culture War. Note that Wilber’s discussion of Peterson versus the Postmodern Left is a great analysis of one of the most important fronts on the Culture War 2.0 landscape.

Fascinating world out there!

Best,
G