This is the third in our series of interviews with integral thinker Steve McIntosh. To listen to the whole series, click on the links below:

The Integralist View
Stages of Development
Applied Integralism
An Integral Look at Global Governance

When speaking about the history of integral philosophy, Hegel, Bergson, Whitehead, Aurobindo, Teilhard, Gebser, and Wilber comprise the A-list of names most often cited as the creators and significant contributors to this powerful theory of consciousness and all-encompassing evolutionary worldview. In this third installment in our series, Steve McIntosh speaks with WIE's Carter Phipps about the historical, cultural, and philosophical development of integral thought. Beginning with the first emergence of a truly integral view in the work of the great nineteenth-century German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel, McIntosh tracks its slow disappearance and brilliant reemergence 150 years later with the work of Henri Bergson and Alfred North Whitehead; and then further with Sri Aurobindo, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jean Gebser; and continuing today in the work of Ken Wilber. McIntosh manages to cover huge swaths of cultural history, philosophical exegesis, and personal commentary without ever losing sight of the golden thread running through it all: the miraculous emergence and ongoing evolution of consciousness in the awakening human being—and its potential to shape our lives and our culture into more holistic, creative, and integrated forms.

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