From: Integral World [frank.visser@eurorscg.nl]
Sent: maandag 25 september 2006 21:42
To: f.visser3@chello.nl
Subject: [personal] The War on Terror 

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Newsletter Nr. 165
Amsterdam, September 26, 2006



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NEW ESSAYS
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KEN WILBER AND SRI AUROBINDO: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE

A few years agao, Rod Hemsell, a well known Aurobindo scholar, 
wrote an essay comparing Wilber and Sri Aurobindo:
"Ken Wilber's work now spans two decades, from The Atman Project 
(1980), to A Theory of Everything (2001), and it includes some 20 
books. In most of these books Sri Aurobindo's work, especially The 
Life Divine and The Synthesis of Yoga, are referenced, and his 
language of integral transformation and spiritual evolution is 
frequently used. It seems to many, in fact, that Wilber has done 
an outstanding job of incorporating Sri Aurobindo's ideas in a 
way that makes them accessible to a very large audience. For 
Wilber is widely read in America today, and Sri Aurobindo's 
books are not even published in this country. 

But it is rather extraordinary at the same time, that in all 
those thousands of pages, there is hardly a page all together 
of direct quotes from Sri Aurobindo, very little that is direct 
commentary on his work, and the references are usually to a 
list of names, among which Sri Aurobindo is included." 


Read more:
http://www.integralworld.net/hemsell.html


FROM THE ARCHIVE
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THE WAR ON TERROR: SOME INTEGRAL REFLECTIONS

Mark Edwards gave his view on terrorism back in 2004, comparing 
the War on Terror with the War on Drugs:
"Integral analyses of social events often focus solely on developmental 
levels as the primary generators of worldviews. With regard to the 
topic of international conflict and terrorism, for example, there is 
much discussion of the confrontation between mythic (blue) worldviews, 
feudalist (red) worldviews, pluralist (green) worldviews, the ethnocentric 
views of traditional (red/blue) cultures and the need for yellow 
(post-postmodern) leaders and so on. Explaining conflict and social 
events through the use of these levels is an important contribution 
of Integral approaches to social theory but our preoccupation with 
the worldviews of levels hides a central issue. Worldviews are not 
solely or even primarily generated out of levels. They are first 
and foremost associated with the epistemological dimensions through 
which those levels emerge – the quadrant dimensions that describe 
developmental emergence at all levels." 

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Author of: Ken Wilber: Thought as Passion SUNY 2003

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