From: Integral World Sent: dinsdag 16 april 2013 14:54 To: Frank Visser Subject: Feynman's Flower Newsletter Nr. 443 Amsterdam, April 16th, 2013 FEYNMAN'S FLOWER - The Expansive View of Science,Why Physics Complements Aesthetics - David Lane and Andrea Diem-Lane In my science and religion classes at California State University, Long Beach and Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, I often hear complaints from some of my more devout religious students (usually Christian and usually fundamentalist) that science takes the mystery away from the universe and tends to leave only a depressing and materialist residue, where the beauty and majesty of life is reduced to a Darwinian struggle over differential reproductive successes. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/lane52.html THE CREATIVE ARTIST, THE REALITY ARGUMENT, AND THE CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION MOVEMENT - Elliot Benjamin In my previous three Integral World articles, I have described what I refer to as The Artistic Theory of Psychology and have given descriptions of how one may view mental disturbance from an artistic perspective, inclusive of the therapeutic benefits and enhancement of artistic creativity through humanistic education programs [1]. In this essay I would like to focus upon the severe challenges to the creative artist of what I refer to as The Reality Argument, and to then briefly view this in the wider context of Barbara Marx Hubbard's Conscious Evolution movement. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin51.html FROM THE ARCHIVES: =============== LEFT, RIGHT OR JUST PLAIN WRONG? - Politics in the integral movement - A consciously provocative polemic - Ray Harris What are the political ramifications of Ken Wilber's integral theory? What policy decisions should arise? What actions should integral proponents advise and commit to? How should integral thinkers vote? There is a problem with integral politics as described by Ken Wilber (and Don Beck). It is big on theory and slight on a political program. It is average on criticism and poor on recommendations. It is weak on analysis and absent in activism. What's going on? Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/harris14.html To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php