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1. VISSER / CHATGPT WHAT IF KEN WILBER WOULD BE ACTIVE ON SOCIAL MEDIA?, A Satirical-But-Insightful Thought Experiment	6. LANE THE GURU WHO WOULDN'T QUIT, Andrew Cohen Emerges from his Downfall
2. VISSER / GROK 3 THE INTEGRAL IMPACT FACTOR, How Much Influence Does Wilber Have in Academia?	7. LANE THE SHADOW OF A GOD-MAN, Exposing Sathya Sai Baba
3. DILLARD DO RUSSIA/UKRAINE, ISRAEL/PALESTINE EVEN MATTER?, Why should Integralists be concerned about these issues?	8. VISSER / CHATGPT FROM REDUCTIONISM TO EMERGENTISM, Evaluating Brendan Graham Dempsey's "Religion"
4. VISSER / GROK 3 FROM ATOMS TO SHAKESPEARE, The Driven Dance of Evolution	9. VISSER / CHATGPT KEN WILBER AND THE WINDING-UP UNIVERSE, A Case Study in Metaphysical Overreach
5. ABRAMSON / GEMINI A META-THEORETICAL ASSESSMENT OF FUNCTORIAL EROS: Bridging Evo-Devo, Category Theory, and the Critique of Frank Visser	10. VISSER / CHATGPT THE SEARCH FOR A, 'BIG WHOLENESS', Review of Ken Wilber's Finding Radical Wholeness
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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
MEYERHOFF SIX CRITICISMS OF WILBER'S INTEGRAL THEORY	FALK BALD NARCISSISM [On the Wyatt Earp Episode]
CARLSON INTEGRAL IDEOLOGY: An Ideological Genealogy of Integral Theory and Practice	VISSER MY CRITICAL ESSAYS ON KEN WILBER

Ideology and inflation: the shadow of integral movement: Interview with Frank Visser by Maxim Korman

Bald Ambition: A Critique of Ken Wilber's Theory of Everything

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