ABOUT THE SHOW
Why these conversations
Dialogues at the Living Edge gathers thinkers, practitioners, and teachers working at the edges of human development. If you want to play a role in making this world a better place, you are in the right place. Here you will be challenged to think, sense, and live in new ways, and invited into deep explorations of what it means to be human. The meaning crisis of our time is rooted in the spell of fracture — the belief that we are fundamentally broken. These conversations are designed to invoke the great mystery of being human and carry us into the edges of human potential, where we might discover the unbroken heart and new ways to become-with the world.
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Three conversations to begin with
If you are new to Alexander's work, start with these
01
Latest Waves of Human Flourishing
Building on Terri O’Fallon’s STAGES model, Alexander and host Keith Martin-Smith on the Integral Life podcast, explore how meaning-making evolves across six distinct person perspectives.
02
Becoming with the World
With Jeremy Johnson
On Jean Gebser, the integral imagination, and the planetary turn in consciousness.
03
The Transformative Power of the Unthinkable
Alexander Love is interviewed by Joel Monk at Coaches Rising, where he speaks about the transformative experience of his father’s murder and how it shaped his life and his teachings.
MORE EPISODES
The full archive
FEATURED CONVERSATIONS ELSEWHERE
Where Alexander has been a guest
A selection of conversations on other shows.
THE INTEGRAL STAGE
Who's Afraid of Integral Postmetaphysics?
With Layman Pascal
A wide-ranging dialogue on postmetaphysical thought and the integral project.
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THE INTEGRAL STAGE
Who's Afraid of Integral Postmetaphysics?
With Layman Pascal
A wide-ranging dialogue on postmetaphysical thought and the integral project.
Watch / Listen
THE INTEGRAL STAGE
Who's Afraid of Integral Postmetaphysics?
With Layman Pascal
A wide-ranging dialogue on postmetaphysical thought and the integral project.
Watch / Listen
FEATURED CONVERSATIONS ELSEWHERE
Where Alexander has been a guest
A selection of conversations on other shows.
INTEGRAL STAGE
A Post-Tragic Worldview
With Layman Pascal
Layman sits down with Alexander Love to explore the roots and contours of a post-tragic worldview.
INTEGRAL LIFE
The Highest Stages of Human Flourishing
With Keith Martin-Smith
An exploration of how meaning-making evolves across six distinct person perspectives, each with its own epistemological frame, relationship to space and time, and capacity for self-reflection.
COACHES RISING
The Transformative Power of the Unthinkable
With Joel Monk
In this very special conversation with Alexander Love we speak about the transformative experience of his father’s murder and how it shaped his life and his teachings.
What is Soul?
With Tucker Walsh & Ari Nazem
What is soul, really? Not as a theological concept or a developmental framework, but as something you feel, in your body, in a room, in a piece of music that breaks you open?
INTEGRAL LIFE
Cracking the Code of Human Development
With Keith Martin-Smith
A deep dive deep into Terri O'Fallon's revolutionary Stages model, a developmental framework that cuts through the noise of content to reveal the underlying structure of how consciousness evolves.
THE FORREST WILSON EXPERIENCE
The Lumina Process
With Forrest Wilson
In this episode, Forrest is joined by many-time guest Alexander Love to explore The Lumina Process - Alexander's integrative modality for parts work, shadow work, and embodied transformation.
THE INTEGRAL STAGE
Who's Afraid of Integral Postmetaphysics?
With Layman Pascal
A wide-ranging dialogue on postmetaphysical thought and the integral project.
SCOTT SCHWENK
Compassion, Complexity, and a Call to Wholeness
With Scott Schwenk
On grief, the alchemy of healing, and loving what is hard to love.
INTEGRAL LIFE
When Pain becomes Sacred
With Kimberly Lafferty
From loss and projection to shadow work and devotion, this excerpt follows Alexander Love as he reorients his practice around one quiet realization: love didn’t arrive; it was remembered.
COACHES RISING
Working with Laters Stages of Development
With Joel Monk
We explore working with the evolutionary impulse in coaching, the ascending and descending streams of growth, the journey through developmental levels, and working with late Subtle and early MetAware clients.
COACHES RISING
An Eastern Approach to Working with Shadow
With Joel Monk
We explore how non-Anglo paradigms can influence the world of coaching, diving deep into the 5 primordial gestures, the wisdom of shadow, qualities of being and how we can work skillfully with parts.
INTEGRAL LIFE
Integral Life: Best of 2025
With Corey DeVos
2025 wasn’t just chaotic. It was disruptive, disorienting, and occasionally disturbing. This is a guided orientation through some of the most important conversations Integral Life hosted this year.
PORTALS OF PERCEPTION
What is Healing? #1
With Aviv Shahar
In the first of a series, Alexander, Lonny Jarrett and Aviv Shahar explore the question, "What is healing?"
PORTALS OF PERCEPTION
What is Healing? #2 A New Togethering
With Aviv Shahar
Alexander and Veronica sit down with Aviv Shahar and explore how healing and transformation begins in the special ecology or space created between people who share respect and value for what each life represents.
PORTALS OF PERCEPTION
What is Healing? #3
With Aviv Shahar
Aviv Shahar is joined by Lonny Jarrett, Alexander Love, Randine Anderson Lewis, and Lorie Eve Dechar. They explore further into the realms of light and shadow and healing with a group of Portals friends who bring an amazing depth and breath of experience as practitioners, authors, and teachers.
THE FORREST WILSON EXPERIENCE
Losing your father early in Life
Forrest Wilson
In this episode, Forrest Wilson Alexander explore what it is like to lose our fathers at a young age.
THE FORREST WILSON EXPERIENCE
Protector Parts
With Forrest Wilson
Alexander and Forrest explore Protector Parts, Wholeness, and Creating from Soul.
UTOK CONFERENCE
Science, Wisdom & God
With Layman Pascal
Check out panelists Jeremy Johnson, Bonnita Roy, Germaine Marvel, and Alexander Love as they explore the age old question, what is God.
ILLUMINATING LIFE
Evoking the Intimacy of Developmental Wholeness
With Tucker Walsh
Geoff Fitch, Tucker Walsh, and Alexander explore how we can illuminate new ways of orienting towards adult ego development, including its ethical implications, and how it can be a doorway into deeper intimacy and connection with and as loving Wholeness.
THE LIMINAL CAFE
Episode .9
With Layman Pascal
Layman sits down with Alexander Love for a rich conversation about his life and healing journey, love and forgiveness, creativity, integral and Taoist thought, and a book he is working on on what he calls the five evolutionary gestures.
COACHES RISING
The Unfolding Self & Dimensions of Wholeness
With Joel Monk
Lorie Dechar, Veronica and Alexander Love explore emerging perspectives on adult development in the current paradigm of cultural change, various perspectives on wholeness and fragmentation.
