From: "Integral World" To: Subject: Who's Truth? Date: dinsdag 9 oktober 2012 22:37 INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 417 Amsterdam, October 9th, 2012 WHO'S TRUTH? WHICH TETHERING? - A Reply to “The Projective Arc” - JEFF MEYERHOFF I advocate dispensing with the focus on knowing Ultimate Reality and focusing instead upon what's more important: Does my mystical or other practice cause me to relieve more suffering for myself and others? Am I becoming a better person? Our focus on mystical knowing should be beholden to whether we are practicing right action. Ethics trumps epistemology. A mystical pragmatism. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/meyerhoff15.html THE THEOLOGICAL ECHO CHAMBER When Religious Tethering Becomes a Numinous Noose DAVID CHRISTOPHER LANE AND ANDREA DIEM-LANE Yes, we can quite appreciate that to Meyerhoff “ethics trumps epistemology,” but it doesn’t follow that such a statement is somehow a universal or objective factoid which necessitates that “our focus should be beholden to whether we are practicing right action.” It is a nice sentiment and one for which we have sympathy, but it doesn’t rationally follow that mysticism (which to be clear represents a wide assortment of varying practices and injunctions and moral imperatives) must culminate in one particular “should.” Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/lane37.html To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UNSUBSCRIBE, update your account by logging in. For explanation, see: http://www.integralworld.net/nl_faq.html ----- Geen virus gevonden in dit bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 2012.0.2221 / Virusdatabase: 2441/5317 - datum van uitgifte: 10/08/12