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Tag: Integral Theory

Ordeal-ology: Let’s Start Figuring Out Optimal Suckiness

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  • Layman Pascal
| 3 Nov 2025 Banner, Features Essays, Philosophy Integral Theory, Metamodernism, antifragility, eustress, intentional suffering, personal transformation, shamanism, stress

In a world obsessed with comfort, Ordeal-ology explores why we crave ordeal and apocalypse. From The Walking Dead to ancient shamanic rites, the essay asks how deliberate difficulty might restore our resilience, creativity, and meaning. Through psychology, philosophy, and myth, it calls for a new “ordealology”—a practical wisdom of constructive distress.

Is People Really Evolving?

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  • Layman Pascal
| 2 May 2024 Banner, Features Essays, Philosophy, Spirituality Conscious Evolution, GameB, Heidegger, Integral Theory, Integralism, Marshall McLuhan, Metamodernism, liminal web, myth of progress

Bodies of light? Telepathy? Breathing underwater? Exciting ideas from sci-fi & free range mysticism suggest extraordinary physical mutations. Why not? Questioning the assumptions of various evolutionary worldviews…

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