Jeff Salzman

Current events through a developmental lens. Student & teacher of integral philosophy. The evolution of consciousness & culture is beautiful, not pretty.

[Jeff Salzman @DailyEvolver]

@bjamin999 @farzyness @grok What is their latest analysis

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

Van Gogh's letters were the naked voice of the human soul.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

“The claims you have made are hugely exaggerated”

David Bowie “You’ll see”

We are seeing, David and it is, something unimaginable.

We see better because we have visionaries that saw before us.

Have grace with those who see before we do.

[Jeff Salzman @DailyEvolver]

My conversation with Nomali Perera and Lee Mason on how taking multiple perspectives creates higher consciousness. Check it out! https://t.co/Z6wyFPgMhJ

[Van Jones @VanJones68]

Reposting my prayer for a free Iran, which I shared a few weeks ago.

Now war has begun. I don’t know how this will play out. Or how it will end.

Even so, I still pray for a free Iran — and for the Persian people to retake their rightful place under the sun. #FreeIran 💚🤍❤️

[Jeff Salzman @DailyEvolver]

2025 was Samsara's best year yet! Join Nomali Perera, Lee Mason and me as we look back at the beautiful-but-not-pretty growth in human consciousness and culture over the year.

Our full conversation is now live on Lee and Nomali's site, Practical Integral. For more on Integral Theory, see link in bio above.

Catching Up with Jeff Salzman to Close Out 2025! https://t.co/7sp3njTHe3 via @YouTube

[Maria Made in Cosmos ✨ @made_in_cosmos]

My grandparents grew up physically starving, did everything in their power for their children to have enough food.

My parents grew up starving for knowledge, and sacrificed a lot so that we get proper education.

My brothers & I grew up starving for emotional connection and feeling good in our bodies, so this is what we're figuring out for our kids.

Can't wait to see what my children are going to figure out for theirs 💗

[Jeff Salzman @DailyEvolver]

I feel bad that this makes sense to me ...

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

She actually sees herself as a 'therapist' for young men

[Stephanie Lepp @stephlepp]

Paraphrasing recent wise words from @jgreenhall:

'Learn how to listen to God and do what He tells you to do. Notice this is a categorical solution to the complexity of the meta-crisis. You can use your brain to think about it...turns out you need infinity. But Infinity is online, He wants to talk to you, so you just have to learn to listen. And then do it.'

Perhaps this represents the current difference between Jordan and Daniel. Link to the full interview in reply 👇

[Jeff Salzman @DailyEvolver]

Lovely integration ...

[Θωμᾶς del Vasto @Thomasdelvasto_]

I've been working with jhanas for a while now and trying to parse them into a Christian worldview

I went ahead and paraphrased some popular jhana instructions into language more familiar to a Christian approach. Link to the article, and the tweet I'm paraphrasing, in replies

[Tyler is finishing a book, slow to reply @TylerAlterman]

I suspect a lot of people are under the false assumption that mutual understanding is required for connection, and that this is severely limiting the set of people they can enjoy interacting with

[Jeff Salzman @DailyEvolver]

Nothing, we’re progressing forward the same ways we always have, by fighting and friending.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

What's something that is stopping humanity from progressing forward?

[Jeff Salzman @DailyEvolver]

I may not get there with you, but the post-ideological Integral Age is coming. Or, better, "omni-ideological".

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

Ideologies are the black holes of the human thought space. Their pull moves adherents past an event horizon that makes it impossible to consider ideas outside of the ideological frame.

[Jeff Salzman @DailyEvolver]

she's worth it!

[Stephanie Lepp @stephlepp]

I'm just gonna ask straight up: will you follow me? I'm ~600 followers away from 5,000. I'm here to expand hearts and minds. LET'S GET ME TO 5K 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

[Jeff Salzman @DailyEvolver]

@Philip_Goff Evolution

[Matthew D. Sacchet @MatthewSacchet]

What if advanced meditation is the next stage in human development?

The idea that human development doesn’t stop after adolescence is hardly new. What is new, and what’s emerging from our research at the Meditation Research Program, is a growing recognition that advanced meditation may begin to tap into a largely unexplored realm of cross-culturally valid, inherently human spiritual capacities.

Just as Lawrence Kohlberg proposed that moral development expands from self-centered concerns to broader spheres of empathy and justice, we argue that development through advanced meditation can help individuals outgrow self-referential beliefs and habits, and may even involve the proverbial death of one’s old self. While human development doesn’t unfold along a single axis, we suggest that meditative development follows a recognizable arc that can transform not only how we relate to suffering, but also how we care, connect, and show up in the world. Importantly, it does so through the emergence of spiritual capacities—often cultivated through meditation—that science is only beginning to scratch the surface of.

Some prominent meditation teachers have cautioned wholesale against the use of “meditation maps” to track meditative development. The concerns are understandable: maps can distract from direct experience, foster comparison or judgment, and create unhelpful goal-orientation.

In our new theoretical paper, my co-author Terje Sparby @terjesparby and I argue that meditation maps are not only valuable, but in some sense unavoidable. Used skillfully, they can:

---Offer an orienting overview of the terrain and trajectory of deep practice
---Inspire and motivate practitioners, especially through challenging or destabilizing phases
---Help identify and navigate developmental pitfalls with greater clarity and ease
---Provide a framework for integrating experiences and insights in ways that don’t rigidify them
---Enable comparative and cross-cultural analysis of different meditation maps

For many dedicated practitioners who feel alienated by traditional, often religious and even dogmatic frameworks, secular, psychologically-informed, and scientifically-validated meditation maps can provide meaningful orientation and much-needed support. They go well beyond health benefits and point toward deeper dimensions of human flourishing: What could it mean to live—and to mature—beyond our typical constraints, including existential fears, life crises, illness, and even death? These questions aren’t just of philosophical interest. They may bring with them profound scientific, cultural, and clinical implications that we are only beginning to glimpse on the horizon.

My colleagues and I are deeply grateful for reposts and sharing with others who may be interested. This work is made possible through the collaboration of our growing community of scientists, scholars, and practitioners around the world.

May this work benefit many 🙏

Link to paper in comments below 👇

[Jeff Salzman @DailyEvolver]

I agree, and think of it as the emerging Integral (post-postmoden) Stage of human development. https://t.co/k0fcuk7aW2

[Vivid Void @vividvoid]

Therapeutic Buddhism, or whatever we end up calling the mix of Indian philosophy & Western psychotherapy that is neither lineage-based nor atheistically abstracted from its original context, is metamodern. It fluidly moves between the traditional, modern & postmodern as needed

[Ashwin Sharma @Ashwinreads]

i remember reading something oscar wilde wrote about how the most serious people are also the shallowest because seriousness is nothing but a costume you can put on to appear like you have gravity and smartness when you have nothing interesting to say and when your ideas can’t stand on their own merit.

i felt attacked when i read this because throughout my 20s i would call myself a serious person.

instead, now im a bit older and a bit wiser i can see oscar was ofc right. playfulness, delight, wit, are almost always the hallmarks of someone with exceptional ability.

when i see people really engaged with ideas, they play with them like a child and they are just oblivious to how they look while they’re exploring them. you can’t help but see a glint in their eyes because play is how intelligence really works.

[AKIRA THE DON @akirathedon]

Thinking about yourself
Is the source of all unhappiness
And misery
Self obsession
Is the root of all unhappiness

ME IS A DISEASE 🪞🦠

With @naval

Out now