How can we help those who are demonstrating and dying on the streets? I think that what we are already doing — paying rapt attention — is the most powerful thing Americans can do to empower Iran’s popular uprising. If the USA is preceived to be attempting to interfere, we …
Archives for June 2009
Iran 2009 — A New Kind of Revolution (3)
Integral Perspectives on Iran's Cultural Divide In Integral terms, the demonstrators can be distinguished from the regime’s supporters by cultural qualities relating to states, stages, and relationships to shadow. High states are part of the ethos both of the demonstrators …
Iran 2009 — A New Kind of Revolution (2)
The uprising is fragmented. Its unity only concerns outrage against the clumsiness of the vote fraud. Ali Laranjani’s public statement questioning the vote tally was very mild, and buried in a series of denunciations of foreign powers for their public statements condemning the …
Iran 2009 — A New Kind of Revolution (1)
An Overview of the Transformative Events of June 2009 I think the events we have been seeing this month —June 2009 — represent a seismic shift, a great exclamation point in the punctuated evolution of the Islamic Republic. It is not just a political shift. This week of …
Integral In Iran – 2009
In spring 2007 I visited Iran as a member of a citizen’s diplomacy delegation. The day after we arrived in Tehran, our meetings with former President Khatami, Grand Ayatollah Saanei, peace activist Emmadin Baghi, and Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi were abruptly cancelled. Our …
Growing Equals Serving
Practice unites our two impulses (1) to awaken & self-actualize, and (2) to "make a positive difference" in the larger world. Neither are possible without the other. From Stockholm, Sweden …
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