Sr. Bonnitta Roy has started an online educational venture called The Magellan Course. She's begun posting videos in the series. I found them really interesting.
For those who don't know, Bonnitta is one of the most pioneering of thinkers in the integral world. If you are into really working the yoga of the mind, I recommend these two pieces: here and here. As Br. TJ would say, they are black diamond (maybe even double black diamond) in nature.
The first video lays out a large sweeping context of the differences between the modern, the postmodern, and the post-postmodern world. The post-postmodern world is built strongly around notions of integration and synthetic thinking. She covers the differences between modernism, postmodernism, and post-postmodernism through a variety of lenses: what view each holds, how each constructs meaning, how each establishes knowledge, etc.
The themes Bonnitta highlights as indicative of the post-postmdern turn are, I believe, really evident at Beams. This is really at the heart of what we are attempting: synthesis, integration, enactment, and planet-centric forms of thinking and being.
Bonnitta is establishing the groundwork for both appreciating the post-postmodern integrative, synthetic turn and also pointing towards the creation/exploration of new territories beyond even the integrative post-postmodern (hence the Magellan metaphor) into what she calls aperspectival modes of thinking and being. Another term for them would be post-dialectical. It's a point Bonnitta is trying to call out in my own writing--to move beyond over-relying on dialectics (see her comments to this piece of mine on this point). Bonnitta helps me push my own development in this area.
Enjoy.
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Update I: Bonus video...the first that explains the overall framework of the Magellan course.
