Episode 1.25, Sean Kelly, California Institute of Integral Studies

This week’s episode of Spotlights features Sean Kelly, professor of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He discusses his new book, Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation (Integral Imprint, 2021). He describes the interlocking emergencies of climate change, mass extinction, and planetary apartheid in terms of a collective near-death experience (NDE). He and Sam Mickey talk about the ecological, philosophical, and spiritual implications of this critical moment in human and Earth evolution.