With Integral Life, meta-theorist Nicholas Hedlund introduces a powerful new synthesis of Integral Theory and Critical Realism, a framework he calls Visionary Realism, which he frames as an evolutionary response to the Metacrisis itself: a way to reconnect with truth, align with reality, and rediscover the sacred at the very heart of being.

Nicholas Hedlund, PhD This article, published in the Zygon journal of science and religion, proposes visionary realism as a philosophical...

Brandon Nørgaard, Nicholas Hedlund, PhD, Claudia Meglin We live in a world marked by a multitude of deep and overlapping global crises....

Visionary Realism and the Emergence of a Eudaimonistic Society: Metatheory in a Time of Metacrisis

Critical Realism (CR) is an integrative metatheory founded in the 1970s by the British philosopher Roy Bhaskar

This book, split across two volumes, is a follow-up and companion to Metatheory for the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2016).

Metatheory for the 21st Century is one of the many exciting results of over four years of in-depth engagement between two communities

Founder of Eudaimonia Institute, Nicholas Hedlund & Sean Esbjörn-Hargens on Deep Transformation Podcast discuss the metacrisis