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VISSER / CHATGPT THE LEFT-RIGHT DIVIDE: A Universal Political Polarity?	LUNA ASTROLOGY AND KEN WILBER'S INTEGRAL APPROACH
DILLARD / CHATGPT FOUR APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING EVOLUTION, The Dreaming Kosmos, Chapter 7	DILLARD / CHATGPT ADDRESSING THE CHALLENGE OF AI, A Continuing Dialogue with Visser and May
VISSER / CHATGPT THE DEATH BLOW TO ASTROLOGY: The Problem of Precession	DILLARD / CHATGPT INTEGRAL QUADRANTS IN A QUANTUM CONTEXT
VISSER / CHATGPT THE MYTHIC REHABILITATION OF ASTROLOGY	VISSER / CHATGPT DOES WILBER MERELY RESTATE THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM?
VISSER / CHATGPT SYNCHRONICITY AS THE LAST DEFENSE OF ASTROLOGY, Why Even Archetypal Astrology Cannot Be Made to Work	MAY / GEMINI AI AS SYMBIONT OR PARASITE?, Continuing Visser's and Dillard's Explorations of AI

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1. VISSER / CHATGPT SYNCHRONICITY AS THE LAST DEFENSE OF ASTROLOGY, Why Even Archetypal Astrology Cannot Be Made to Work	6. VISSER / CHATGPT THE DEATH BLOW TO ASTROLOGY: The Problem of Precession
2. VISSER / CHATGPT WHAT WAS THERE BEFORE THERE WAS ANYTHING?, And Why Invoking Information Doesn't Save God	7. VISSER / CHATGPT THE ONGOING ENIGMA OF CONSCIOUSNESS
3. VISSER / CHATGPT KEN WILBER AND THE PERSISTENCE OF METAPHYSICAL LANGUAGE	8. VISSER / CHATGPT THE BRAIN AS RECEIVER?, Why Dan Brown's Nonlocal Consciousness Theory Fails
4. VISSER / CHATGPT DONALD HOFFMAN'S LEAP FROM PERCEPTION TO IDEALISM, Why evolutionary illusionism doesn't justify a cosmic mind	9. VISSER / CHATGPT ISRAEL AND THE APARTHEID ACCUSATION: Amnesty's Claim and the Global Reaction
5. VISSER / CHATGPT FROM RENAISSANCE LIGHT TO MODERN STAGNATION: The Lost Brilliance of Islamic Thought	10. VISSER / CHATGPT DEBUNKING THE GENOCIDE ALLEGATIONS, Summary of the BESA Counter-Argument
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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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LANE WILBER AND THE MISUNDERSTANDING OF EVOLUTION	HEMSELL KEN WILBER AND SRI AUROBINDO: A Critical Perspective
VISSER BIG HISTORY AND INTEGRAL THEORY: Bill Bryson Meets Ken Wilber	VISSER WILBER VS. COYNE: On The Conflict Between Science and Religion and the (Im)possibility of a Resolution
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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