Stuart Davis: Integral Artist

Stuart Davis is an integral Artist, I learned of his music thanks to the great audiobook Kosmic Consciousness by Ken Wilber featuring the amazing track 'ladder'. You can download some free songs here. I absolutely love the track 'Swim'.

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The song ladder is a great right-brain description of Integral Theory.


Stuart Davis: Ladder (live)

I've got brains like antique floors
I built each one on the one before
I use all three but they don't agree

One of them wants to love you
Another one would love to club you
I guess my old natures move like glaciers

Chorus:
The fish became a lizard
The shrew became an ape
Will the ape become an angel?
The higher that we climb
The more the ladder sways

I'm the bastard child the one who got
the head of Einstein and the soul of Pol Pot
there's no compassion but I can split the atom

Better give me a microscope for a different eye
Better give me a telescope for the inward sky
and a ladder leading up from Eden

The fish became a lizard
The shrew became an ape
Will the ape become an angel?
The higher that we climb
The more the ladder sways

If Ramana Maharshi came from clay
there's more to evolution than a little DNA!

Cut off the moorings to the inward ark
Aiming it into a question mark

The fish became a lizard
The shrew became an ape
will the ape become a Mother Teresa?
She came from clay
There's more to evolution than a little DNA


Stuart Davis: Swim (live)
download album version from Stuart's site here

The only reason that it's scary getting old
is people treat you like you're too big to hold
and you still feel just like a kid

You call my bluff when I pretend to be at peace
You take the water that I finally release
Close your mouth, open your arms

That is why I reach for you so much
I think I'm drowning until we touch
Life is an ocean we fall in
When you hold me I can swim

In this hospital the beds are made of steel
and metal instruments are all some people feel
What you need is something soft against your skin

So you don't have to pretend to be at peace
I'll take the water that you finally release
Close your mouth, open your arms

That is why you reach for me so much
You think you're drowning until we touch
Death is an ocean we fall in
I will hold you while you swim

Ken Wilber's Integral Theories

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