Integral Being featured image of Felix De Haas teaching Chinese medicine and internal cultivation, with acupuncture needles and traditional medical imagery representing perception, palpation, and Daoist practice.

Felix De Haas Integral Being

A deep conversation with Felix De Haas exploring Chinese medicine, Daoist internal cultivation, Japanese acupuncture, palpation, qi, meditation, and the role of presence within healing practice.

Alex Dong What Actually Changes Through Long Practice of Tai Chi

Authentic Tai Chi Training

INTEGRAL BEING The Real Mechanics of Tai Chi with Sifu Alex DongAuthentic Tai Chi training, internal structure, breath, and the transformation that emerges through long practice In this Integral Being dialogue, Mark Wiley speaks with Alex Dong about authentic Tai Chi training and what genuine internal practice develops over time. The conversation explores structure, breath,

Guru Yogi Shivan Kalaripayattu training

Guru Yogi Shivan Kalaripayattu

Guru Yogi Shivan explores Kalaripayattu as a path of embodied discipline, integrating breath, marma, and inner development.

Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri Integral Being Discussion

Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri on Presence & Ego: A Deeper Inquiry

INTEGRAL BEING Presence Beyond Spiritual Identity with Shaykh Fadhlalla HaeriA deep inquiry into ego, reduction, and the limits of accumulation on the spiritual path This conversation with Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri explores presence, ego, and the limits of the spiritual path. Rather than accumulation, it points toward a process of reduction—of returning to what is already

Dr. Baffour Jan on Integral Being

Dr. Baffour Jan on Balance Before Insight

Dr. Baffour Jan presents a direct and experiential model of human transformation rooted in balance.
What if transformation does not begin with the mind… but with the body?

Acarya Vimalananda Avadhuta on Integral Being

Ananda Marga: The Path of Bliss

Ananda Marga Path of Bliss explained through a 3-part Integral Being conversation exploring meditation, tantra, and human transformation.

Livia Kohn on Integral Being

Livia Kohn on Daoist Practice

INTEGRAL BEING Daoist Cultivation and Human Transformation with Dr. Livia KohnDaoism, embodied practice, and the reorganization of experience through lived cultivation In this Integral Being conversation, Mark Wiley speaks with Dr. Livia Kohn about Daoism as a lived and embodied path of transformation. The dialogue explores practice, cultivation, and the reorganization of human experience through

Santosh Krinsky on Integral Being

Sri Aurobindo Evolution of Consciousness

INTEGRAL BEING Sri Aurobindo and the Evolution of Consciousness with Santosh KrinskyConsciousness, transformation, Savitri, and the next stage of human development In this Integral Being dialogue, Mark Wiley speaks with Santosh Krinsky about Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, and the evolution of consciousness as a living process of human transformation. The conversation explores spiritual development through direct

Mike Faff on Integral Being

You Do Not See the World — You See Your Interpretation of It

There is something both unsettling and clarifying in the realization that we may never encounter the world directly. In my conversation with psychologist Mike Faff, this becomes difficult to ignore: what we take to be reality is not perception—but interpretation. The senses do not reveal truth. They deliver information. What follows is construction—shaped by belief, reinforced through repetition, and often formed long before conscious awareness. At its core, perception is interpretation.