From: Integral World [newsletter@integralworld.net] Sent: zondag 21 december 2008 12:27 To: f.visser3@chello.nl Subject: [personal] Reflections on Adi Da Samraj INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 261 Amsterdam, December 21th, 2008 Since Avatar Adi Da Samraj died November 27th, we republish Andy Smith's essay on Adi Da's philosophy posted on Integral World in 2001: IS GOD IN THE GARBAGE? A CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF ADI DA'S PHILOSOPHY - Andy Smith Of all the men and women claiming to be gurus who emerged in the West in the1960s and 1970s, none has evoked a wider range of feelings, opinions and interpretation than Franklin Jones, at that time known as Bubba Free John. Indeed, he may go down in the history of spiritual seekers as one of the most controversial figures of all time. Man of a thousand names—I believe Adi Da is the current one—he was once considered by many (and still is by some) to be the most highly evolved or realized person on the planet. As evidence for that, his supporters point not simply to the dozen of self-published books in which he claimed to lay out a radical new teaching, but the magnetic effect his immediate presence had on his followers, some of whom—like Ken Wilber and Alan Watts—were and are highly sophisticated scholars and seekers themselves. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/smith12.html EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON METATHEORY AND THEORY - Call for Papers for a 2010 Special Issue of Integral Review - Steve Wallis & Mark Edwards In the same sense that data can be understood as “theory laden,” we can also understand theory to be “metatheory laden.” By understanding one, we gain insight into the other. The goal of this Special Issue is to encourage critical reflection on the writings of metatheorists and to enable significant contributions to the growing discourse on metatheory – including but not limited to conversations on the creation, structure, change, testing, and application of theory. This Special Issue asks contributors to submit papers that will extend and deepen our understanding of metatheory and theory. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/wallis-edwards.html If you know other people interested in this Integral World Newsletter, please forward this mail to them. Thanks. To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UPDATE your email address or UNSUBSCRIBE, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/login.php