Dear friends,

Worldviews prefigure futures. And philosophies prefigure worldviews. So, since the beginning of the Institute of Applied Metatheory a few years ago, we have been committed to convening a home for the philosophy building, meta-studies, and integrative metatheory development we believe is necessary to underlabor on behalf of the rise of an integrative worldview this century. To that end, I am very excited to announce Integration: The Journal of Big Picture Theory and Practice, a new academic journal dedicated to this mission.

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I am joined by Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Hedlund and Managing Editor Brendan Graham Dempsey in hope that Integration can become home for a new integrative knowledge society in which the next chapter of rigorous integrative metatheories might emerge, one of the key components of a strategy I outlined in A Sociology of Big Pictures.

To do so, in addition to the journal and new knowledge society, IAM has recently initiated a new, private online knowledge network, begun sponsoring scholarly symposia around the world, and will be producing a new, dedicated podcast featuring Integration scholars and their work.

I encourage you to visit the website for the journal, which is now inviting papers for its inaugural issue, with areas of particular interest that include:

1. Developing Frameworks for Analysis and Integration of Knowledge
2. Evolution Across Scales
3. Complexity and Systems Approaches
4. Transformations in Worldview
5. Cultural Shifts in the 21st Century
6. Technology, AI, and Collective Intelligence
7. Science, Religion, and Ultimate Concern
8. Responses to the Global Metacrisis
9. Practices for Integration
10. Applications of Big-Picture Frameworks

The tragic irony of entering what I’ve called the Transformation Age on the back of a civilizational metacrisis is that it’s truly an exciting time to be doing the kind of work we do. When worldviews break down and cast us headlong into times of great peril, philosophy becomes essential to help us make better sense of our world and to yield the shifts in our frames and suppositions that enable new futures.

Thank you for being such an important part of the global community working to do so.

Warm loving regards,

Robb