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Newsletter Nr. 596
Amsterdam, January 12th, 2015


DOES LOVE REALLY MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND? - Marc Gafni's paraphrasing or plagiarizing of Ken Wilber's pseudo-cosmology - FRANK VISSER

Now I couldn't care less who was first with developing these trains of thought—Wilber or Gafni—what I care most about is how useful or true or meaningful such a presentation is. Still, one wonders if Gafni has co-opted Wilber's phraseology for his own book, adding some characteristics of his own: the cosmos as Love Story. This is visible in phrases like "a boundary drops around them", "what drives this process?", "a mysterious force", "self-organization and self-transcendence" and "against all statistical probability". Of course, this is standard integral phraseology, and Wilber and Gafni worked closely together on preparing several Integral Spiritual Experience seminars, but it is still striking that these ideas are not credited, as far as I can see, in Your Unique Self[1].

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http://www.integralworld.net/visser93.html


EROS/POWER: LOVE UNDER THE SIGN OF INQUIRY - HILARY BRADBURY AND WILLIAM TORBERT

Our intention is to cultivate love under the sign of inquiry. By this we mean to practice inquiry in relationship where Eros and power intersect, that very place where hurts and disappointments are most keenly felt. Too often a screaming silence holds us captive at this very intersection where instead creativity, love, curiosity and openness could thrive. We therefore hope that more of us may practice relational inquiry, aiming toward mutual developmental transformation within ourselves and with one another. Eros, the creative, sensual, psychic life-force wants to be lived and liberated through and among us. Our offering here is part of the social evolution toward more deeply collaborative ways of living in support of collective flourishing.

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http://www.integralworld.net/torbert2.html