The Integral Stage Expanded Universe (ISEU) AUTHOR SERIES - "A Brief History of God" w/ Nish Dubashia
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Feb 23, 2026 Nish Dubashia, author and co-founder of Evolving Nexus, traces how humanity's spiritual ideas shifted from nature spirits to cosmic consciousness. He explores deep versus surface structures in religion. He discusses love evolving across stages, roles of shamans and priests, entheogens in religious origins, modernity’s impact, fundamentalism, and the need for a new integrative spirituality.
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Health Judgments Depend On Your Stage
- Judgments about health/pathology are stage-relative; we inevitably evaluate earlier and later systems from our own developmental context.
- Nish warns against assuming an Archimedean vantage and urges contextual awareness when calling traditions healthy or pathological.
Developmental Models Ground Value Judgments
- Developmental models let us make tentative cross-cultural judgments: higher stages can hold more perspectives, so some practices (e.g., gender equality) are more integrative and thus preferable.
- Nish uses Spiral Dynamics to justify making values-based comparisons while acknowledging contextual limits.
Modernity Forced Religions To Rationalize
- Modernity pushed religions into apologetics and liberal reinterpretation to remain credible to science, producing movements that harmonize faith with Darwinian and empirical knowledge.
- Nish points to liberal religious strands that reconcile scripture with evolution as examples of modern influence.
