Van: "Integral World" Aan: Onderwerp: History of Integral World 2 Datum: zondag 10 maart 2013 22:45 Newsletter Nr. 438 Amsterdam, March 10th, 2013 A BRIEF HISTORY OF INTEGRAL WORLD Part II: Carving a Niche in the Integral Landscape FRANK VISSER Some years ago, I took stock of the work done on Integral World in "A Brief History of Integral World" (published May 2007). This essay charted the course of this website since its inception in 1997, from a Wilber fan-site promoting his books to a forum of Wilber critics, that published medium to large sized essays of integral reflection... Since 2007, over 500 essays have been posted on Integral World, and new authors have entered the scene of integral criticism. In this essay, we'll try to put them in some perspective and we will try to identify some of the major trends. This can only be a sample of many, many contributions, freely submitted to Integral World. Just as I feared that Integral World would not survive the demise of Ray Harris, Mark Edwards and Andy Smith—who had each contributed over thirty lengthy essays to the Reading Room—it was unclear what direction the integral field would go after Wilber had tried to separate the sheep from the goats in his Wyatt Earp blog postings. This fear turned out to be ungrounded. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser54.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