INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 598 Amsterdam, January 24th, 2015 ANDREW COHEN'S APOLOGY - Ex-student/Author Marlowe Sand Responds - ELLIOT BENJAMIN I had not intended to write any more essays about Andrew Cohen, as I thought I had put closure on my thoughts about whether Cohen's May, 2015 apology was “truly sincere, manipulative, or other”. However, about a month ago I received a request from William Yenner that one of Cohen's ex-students, who recently wrote a book about her experiences with Cohen, would like to get into correspondence with me, as she appreciated my Integral World essays about Andrew Cohen. I didn't think too much about this, but soon after I agreed to the request, I became acquainted with Marlowe Sand (a pseudonym), who sent me her book: Paradise and Promises: Chronicles of My Life with a Self-Declared, Modern-day Buddha in the hopes that I would write a review of her book. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin79.html THE PANDIT: STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF THE SAT-GURU - The Influence of Adi Da Samraj on the First Books of Ken Wilber - BRAD REYNOLDS The integral pandit Ken Wilber listed Sat-Guru Adi Da Samraj's first three books (published in 1972, 1973, 1974) in his first book The Spectrum of Consciousness (published in 1977). Along with his second book, this phase is now what scholars and students know as Wilber/Phase-1 or Phase-1 writings, so-named because they still make the “pre/trans fallacy,” one of Wilber's later great insights. In Wilber's second book, No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth (published in 1979), also a Phase-1 book, he referenced Adi Da's Conscious Exercise and the Transcendental Sun (first edition published in 1974), as well as the Sat-Guru's magnum opus aptly titled The Enlightenment of the Whole Body (published in 1978). Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/reynolds1.html