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VISSER / CHATGPT THE GATE CLOSED TOO SOON: Ken Wilber's Fateful Decision to Stop Responding to Critics	KRIKKE / CHATGPT WHY INTEGRAL CAN, AND CAN'T, PLAY A GLOBAL ROLE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

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2. VISSER / CHATGPT From Siberia to Mexico with Love: Why Ken Wilber's Cartoon Version of Evolution Doesn't Survive Contact with Actual Science	7. VISSER / CHATGPT Pan-Interiorism in Context: Between Idealism, Panpsychism, and Teleological Metaphysics
3. VISSER / CHATGPT Astrology and Synchronicity: Why Jung's Escape Hatch Doesn't Work	8. VISSER / GROK Where Whitehead and Wilber Part Ways, A Final Reckoning
4. VISSER / GROK The Integral Echo Chamber: Decades of Evolution Misinformation and the Hope for Change	9. VISSER / CHATGPT The Return Of The Old Argument: A Critical Examination Of God
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FRANK VISSER’S ESSAYS

VISSER A MORE ADEQUATE SPECTRUM OF COLORS?, A Comparison of color terminology in chakra-psychology, Integral Theory and Spiral Dynamics	VISSER WILBER OR TRUTH? How to Get Rid of Your Wilber Complex
VISSER BIG HISTORY AND INTEGRAL THEORY: Bill Bryson Meets Ken Wilber	VISSER THE WILD WEST WILBER REPORT: Looking back on the Wyatt Earp Episode (2006)
VISSER OUR DNA AS PROOF FOR GOD'S EXISTENCE? Review of Perry Marshall's "Evolution 2.0: Breaking the Deadlock Between Darwin and Design"	VISSER 'EQUILIBRIUM IS DEATH': Energy, Entropy, Evolution and the Paradox of Life's Complexity
VISSER "FROM DIRT TO DIVINITY": Ken Wilber's pre-Darwinian Understanding of Evolution	VISSER A SELF-HELP GUIDE FOR DEMOCRATS, Review of Ken Wilber's "Trump and a Post-Truth World"
VISSER WHY KEN WILBER IS WRONG ABOUT EVOLUTION, And Ignores the Evidence For It (Two Academic Papers, 2010, 2020	VISSER INTEGRAL THEORY AND COSMIC EVOLUTION: A Naturalistic Approach

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FALK WILBER AND BOHM: An Analysis of the Problems with Ken Wilber's 'Refutations' of David Bohm's Ideas	MEYERHOFF DISMISSAL VS. DEBATE: A Reply to Ken Wilber's Audio Rebuttal
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CARLSON INTEGRAL IDEOLOGY: An Ideological Genealogy of Integral Theory and Practice	VISSER MY CRITICAL ESSAYS ON KEN WILBER

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