INTEGRAL BEING Dr. Livia Kohn Daoism, Practice, and the Reorganization of Experience This conversation with Livia Kohn offers a rare clarity: Daoism is not a system of belief, but a method of transformation grounded in lived experience. In this Integral Being conversation, Livia Kohn Daoism is explored not as philosophy, but as a lived, embodied […]
INTEGRAL BEING Santosh Krinsky Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, and the Evolution of Consciousness A Turning Point in a Prison Cell Sri Aurobindo evolution of consciousness is a framework for understanding the ongoing development of human awareness. It begins with a turning point—not in theory, but in direct experience. Sri Aurobindo did not begin as a mystic.
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.
