LATEST FROM THE FIELD
Recent conversations, reflections, field notes, and practices from across the Inner Life ecosystem.
Conversations, reflections, field notes, and practices exploring embodied development, contemplative inquiry, martial cultivation, healing traditions, and lived transformation across the Inner Life ecosystem.
Stuart Olson Tai Chi Taoism Embodied Practice
In this Integral Being tribute episode, Mark V. Wiley revisits his conversation with the late Stuart Alve Olson on Tai Chi, Taoism, yielding, humility, aging, and the deep intelligence revealed through embodied practice.
What the Body Reveals Over Time
FIELD NOTES What the Body Reveals Over Time What sustained practice gradually reveals beneath visible movement by Mark V. Wiley There is a stage in training where the body begins revealing things the mind alone could never fully understand. In the beginning, most practice is external. We memorize sequences. We correct posture. We imitate mechanics
Kythe Heller — Poetry, Mysticism, and the Search for Living Truth
Poet and interdisciplinary artist Kythe Heller joins Integral Being for a profound conversation on poetry, mysticism, spiritual transformation, Sufism, art as praise, and the search for living truth through direct experience.
When Practice Stops Being Imitation
A reflective exploration of how embodied learning unfolds through contact, resonance, entrainment, internalization, and integration across martial arts, meditation, and internal cultivation traditions.
The Dao Is Everywhere
A reflection on Daoist thought, presence, and the natural self inspired by a conversation with Dr. Livia Kohn. Exploring how practice refines perception, softens the constructed self, and reveals that the Dao is not elsewhere, but already present within ordinary life.
Vast Emptiness
A rare contemplative essay by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee exploring mystical silence, emptiness, and the dissolution of the spiritual seeker after a lifetime of practice.
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