EP 208 — Dr. Keith Witt: Integral Wisdom

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Paul Chek

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 166 minutes

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Summary

You’ve heard Paul talk a lot about the work of Ken Wilber and how it has influenced his life and career as a teacher and healer.

Dr. Keith Witt returns the podcast to discuss the state of American life in the post COVID-19 era and how we can begin to heal and grow by embracing more integrative approaches inspired by Wilber and others in this mindful Living 4D conversation.

Learn more about Keith’s work at his website where you can enroll in his FREE Art and Science of Relationships course which includes a copy of his book, The Attuned Family, and 12 weeks of videos full of spiritual, personal and relationship tips for a great life.

Show Notes

American industry keeps people just healthy enough to be dependent on them. (9:52)
Human behavior falls into two categories: Solutions or drama. (14:57)
The dialectic of progress. (22:37)
Everyone has this superpower. (30:02)
A volatile mix of politics, emotional challenges and personality disorders. (41:11)
Dos and don’ts with guns. (55:37)
The lack of cognitive dissonance creates so much unnecessary suffering. (1:05:07)
Do you learn through trauma or resilience? (1:16:18)
How shadow work helps at an individual, unconscious level. (1:28:36)
Authoritative versus authoritarian parenting. (1:47:06)
Do kids need a little shame in their lives? (1:53:04)
Recognizing your child’s inner wisdom. (2:02:03)
Life inside the Four Quadrants, according to Ken Wilber. (2:06:50)
The value of working with spirit guides. (2:19:11)
A preview of Keith’s next book. (2:23:53)
Do these mindfulness practices along with Keith. (2:30:46)

Resources

The work of Suzanne Cook-Grueter, Robert Kagan, Alex Grey and Dr. Dan Siegel
Mattias Desmet discusses mass-formation psychosis on YouTube
Lisa Miller discusses her book The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life on YouTube
Beena Sharma describes Polarity Wisdom on YouTube
The Gift of Shame by Dr. Keith Witt

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Transcript

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0:00.0	that the conformanceist worldviews, for instance, do not see.
0:03.4	They don't have that inter-cognitive dissidents that
0:06.6	I'm ignoring science in the interest of listening to, I don't know, my pastor.
0:11.2	A rational, an unhealthy version of a rational worldview is, well I'm winning, so I'm fine, because it is its own reward. But now healthy rational, rational, very different.
0:24.0	Healthy rational says, yeah, it's good to win,
0:26.6	but it's also you can learn from losing.
0:29.1	And by the way, healthy, there's healthy conformative too.
0:32.0	We don't have enough healthy
0:34.1	conformity in this country in that we don't have a set of shared values that
0:39.2	everybody goes yeah for instance, honesty.
0:42.6	And we all agree that you should tell the truth and if you don't,
0:48.0	you shouldn't be trusted as much as people who do.
0:51.4	Welcome to Living 4D with Paul Check.
0:55.0	Today's guest is Dr Keith Witt.
0:58.0	As well as being a licensed psychologist,
1:00.0	Dr Witt is a teacher and author of eight books including loving completely, shadow light and
1:06.4	integral mindfulness.
1:08.3	His books, Waking Up and Sessions, were two of the first books on integrally informed psychotherapy.
1:14.8	In presentations and classes around the world, Keith has explored love, therapy, interpersonal
1:20.5	relationships and development from multiple perspectives, weaving
1:24.2	neuroscience, integral theory, wisdom traditions and numerous forms of psychotherapy
1:29.8	into a coherent cosmology of love and healing.
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