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Jeff Salzman

Jeff Salzman

ICE Director

Jeff Salzman has worked in adult education and transformation for thirty years. He is co-founder of CareerTrack Training, professional development company he and his partner built into an international organization producing over 3000 seminars annually and employing over 300 people.

For three years Jeff worked side by side with Ken Wilber developing the Integral Institute, an international center for integral theory and application. A long time spiritual practitioner in many traditions, he has a Masters Degree in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism from Naropa University.

Jeff spent the last few years as co-founder and teacher at Boulder Integral, now The Integral Center. These days he travels, teaches and comments about current events on Integral Life and on his blog The Daily Evolver.

Find The Daily Evolver Page on Facebook, and follow him on Twitter, @DailyEvolver.

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    The Daily EvolverThe Daily Evolver analyzes news and current events from an integral perspective.

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    I offer commentary on current events based on the premise that human consciousness and culture are evolving. And that evolution is beautiful but not pretty.

    Jeff Salzman

    We evolved to desire sugar because it was a good source of energy, and relatively scarce. But when we learned to mass-produce it, our love for it suddenly went from asset to liability. The same is now true of information. Our curiosity, which once focused us, now distracts us.

    We have been running for 10 years exploring #spiraldynamics #integralpolitics in news and culture! Some kinds words here from #Kenwilber and others! #dailyevolver https://www.dailyevolver.com/2021/03/ten-years-of-the-daily-evolver/

    Today's episode is all about empathy, the "good green" vibes we all need! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_SKw6o7wVU #JeffSalzman #DailyEvolver #empathy #JoeBiden #Twinsthenewtrend

    This guy is one of our best young integral thinkers (not self-identified, bit still …) Turns out that he’s a musician, too. Very meta, very teal vibe. Love it!

    Before you adopt a dog you might want to consider whether it is the kind of dog who might DIVE ON THE BIGGEST RAT YOU'VE EVER SEEN AND REFUSE TO DROP IT FOR FIVE MINUTES WHILE YOU SCREAM ON PROSPECT PARK WEST

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    Steve McIntosh & Jeff Salzman visit with two young leaders, Gary Sheng & Zoë Jenkins, who are activating higher consciousness in Generation Z through their organization Civics Unplugged.#CivicsUnplugged #GarySheng #ZoëJenkins #JeffSalzman #SteveMcIntosh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q0gFqJ6vFY

    I’m excited to announce my new 9-week online course on post-progressive politics. It’s being produced in partnership with The Aligned Center: https://thealignedcenter.com/institute/becoming-part-of-the-solution/

    At last we turn the page on an ugly chapter in our history. While Biden faces difficult challenges, and while his presidency will inevitably have shortcomings, I’m rooting for his success. Biden is poised to take the first steps toward the higher cultural ground our nation needs.

    https://www.dailyevolver.com/2021/01/leading-leaders-to-higher-ground/ If you are interested in executive leader development or leadership in general, here's a great episode just for that! Enjoy!

    My article just published in Integral Leadership Review: "Why Centrism Fails and How to Overcome Hyperpolarization"
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Character Development Exercise


What Does “Transcendence” Mean?

“Transcendence” or “the transcendent” generally refers to the people and things that are ultimately more important than yourself or your perceived self-interest. For example, that which is transcendent for you could include: Your family, humanity, your deepest convictions, the environment, God, Oneness, your country, animals, freedom, adventure, art, science, a better world, or anything you consider authentically “higher.” Your personal ideals of transcendence are grounded in the people and things that you’re dedicated to, and might even lay down your life for, if it became necessary. Your ideals of transcendence therefore help define your life’s higher purposes.

The word transcendence is used in this exercise as an umbrella term that is friendly to both spiritual and secular notions of transcendent higher purposes. In other words, you don’t have to be religious to recognize the significance of transcendent ideals. Our attraction to a greater good that lies beyond ourselves—our ceaseless striving to serve something higher and create something better—is a fundamental part of what makes us human.

The connection between your ideals of transcendence, your virtues, and your basic moral obligations—to self, to others, and to the transcendent—is illustrated by the graphic below. The specific virtues shown in this graphic are the 7 fundamental virtues, but the specific 7 virtues you choose in this exercise may differ from these classical 7.

Virtues Obligations

For more on virtues and their relationship with transcendence, see the book Developmental Politics, by this exercise’s author, Steve McIntosh.