Notes Introduction 1. Mirra Alfassa was the longtime spiritual guide and partner of the twentieth -century sage Sri Aurobindo, and is commonly referred to as “the Mother.” She is quoted here in Allan Combs’ Consciousness Explained Better, 135. 2. In The Weather Makers, Tim Flannery suggests that even if all carbon emissions were to cease now, results would not be evident for another 75 years. Needless to say, this does not bode well. Other thinkers on this topic are more sanguine, while sharing the sense of urgency for action. Lester Brown, for example , in Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization outlines a number of strategies that he believes would ensure sustainability. The philosopher Ken Wilber and spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen engage in an interesting dialogue on humanity’s prospects for survival in EnlightenNext magazine, June 2011. 3. R. Buckminster Fuller, Utopia or Oblivion. 4. In addition to the commentary to this effect one will likely find from most major spiritual teachers, see also Edmund Bourne, Global Shift; Peter Russell , Waking Up in Time; Hardin Tibbs’ vision as reported in Ross Robertson, “Dreams of an Eco-Spiritual Futurist”; Jean Houston’s chapter “Jump Time Is Now” and Barbara Marx Hubbard’s chapter “A Vision for Humanity,” in The Mystery of 2012: Predictions, Prophecies and Possibilities. 5. Ken Wilber, “Introduction to Integral Theory and Practice,” 1. 6. Ibid., 1, 3. 7. Perhaps the most comprehensive account in support of this is George Lewis’ A Power Stronger Than Itself. See also Peter Westbrook’s, The Flute in Jazz: Window on World Music. 8. The transcend and include principle is found in much of Wilber’s writing ; see for example Wilber, “Introduction to Integral Theory and Practice,” Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, and Integral Spirituality. 9. See, for example, Jenny Boyd, Musicians in Tune; Lewis Porter, John Coltrane: His Life and Music; Paul Berliner, Thinking in Jazz; and David Borgo, Sync or Swarm: Improvising Music in a Complex Age, for discussion of this point. 10. Robert O’Meally, “Introductory Notes,” in Uptown Conversation, 1. 415 416 Notes to Introduction 11. This comment is attributed to Woodrow Wilson and is frequently invoked as a rallying cry against, as well as a barb, at the entrenchment of conventional education. 12. I go into this in Ed Sarath, Music Theory Through Improvisation: A New Approach to Musicianship Training. 13. John Sloboda has written extensively on this orientation; see his “Composition and Improvisation,” The Musical Mind, 102, 14. Ibid. Also see David Elliott, Music Matters. 15. See, for example, Terese Volk, Music, Education, and Multiculturalism. 16. Ed Sarath, “A New Look at Improvisation,” Journal of Music Theory. 17. This is the Integral Basic Musicianship, Jazz 220-221 course sequence, offered for second-year music majors at the University of Michigan School of Music. 18. Sarath, “A New Look at Improvisation.” 19. See Mirabai Bush for a good synopsis of this initiative in her foreword to the 2005 issue of Teachers College Record devoted to Contemplative Education. Also, see Ed Sarath, “Meditation, Creativity, and Consciousness: Charting Future Terrain within Higher Education,” in the same issue. 20. See Jensine Andresen, “Meditation Meets Behavioral Medicine,” Journal of Consciousness Studies. 21. These comments were forwarded by email to the full music faculty listserve. 22. See Robert Forman, Grassroots Spirituality. He also formed an organization called The Forge predicated on trans-traditional spiritual principles, http:// www.theforge.org. 23. An exception to this is those individuals who live in monasteries or ashrams in which total immersion in a given pathway is not only appropriate, it epitomizes spiritual engagement along the ascetic pathway. 24. Wilber in his Integral Spirituality, 114, quotes Traleg Rinpoche on this point. 25. While there may be some similarity here with Noam Chomsky’s idea of deep linguistic structures, he does not argue for these as originating in transcendent dimensions of consciousness. 26. See Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Celebrating Perfection in Education, 150. 27. Phillip Goldberg, American Veda: How Indian Spirituality Changed the West. 28. Emerson is quoted in ibid., 36. In other words, with some forms of Buddhism as a possible exception, Taoists, Jews, Christians, Muslims, Native American, shamans and practitioners from other spiritual lineages might just as readily make this statement. 29. Wilber stresses the nonduality premise, but it is not highly prevalent in much integral literature, including many articles in the Integral Journal of Theory and Practice. 30. Reported in John S. Hagelin et al., “Effects of Group Practice of the Transcendental Meditation Program on Preventing Violent Crime...