Integral Life has launched its long-awaited beta site after more than 13 months of development.  Dedicated to serving the core Integral Life member community as well as people new to integral living, the platform is designed to facilitate personal awareness and growth at all levels of expertise and knowledge of integral theory and practice.  It does so through a new content approach that allows people to learn about the integral approach, apply it to every area of human interaction, awaken new capacities through personal practices and to share their perspectives with the broader global community. 

The site development required 7 terabytes of content processing and incorporates over 1,000 media elements in an easy-to-find format that encourages active perspective-taking and self-reflection.  "We really think that this beta launch is just the beginning of a robust and evolutionary platform that, through its unique content, community and perspective-sharing capability, can enable growth, awareness, and connection amongst our global integral community," said Robb Smith, Chairman and CEO of Integral Life, Inc.  "Whether one attends global crisis conferences, reads the morning newspaper, or just stops a moment to reflect on the harried pace of modern living, it is obvious why an integral life is increasingly the life people want to lead: one that is able to integrate all the complexity, leave nothing out, but is not ideological, religious, or dogmatic.  This is fundamentally a community of people who want to deeply and authentically be free and fully human."

Ken Wilber, the leading integral philosopher and the figurehead of the integral movement, commented on the launch.  "Integral Life has gotten it right, recognizing that integral metatheory is an approach for healing the longstanding fragmentation propagated by diverse approaches to knowledge-gathering and human endeavor.  But they also recognize that integral is a stage of human development that seeks not only to integrate this diversity but also seeks to live from the freedom and fullness it engenders.  By Integral Life enabling the integral community and its many experts to publish their findings at the frontier of this movement, everyone stands to gain from the richness of the wisdom and relevance of this theory in practice."

The Company expects to be in a beta test period through the rest of 2008, though it is accepting new members and will be deploying new community features and content programming indefinitely.