INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 601 Amsterdam, Febrary 15th, 2015 WHAT IS ‘INTEGRAL’? - MARTY KELLER Over the course of the past two years I have begun paddling to more islands in the integral archipelago. It started with conversations with Jeff Salzman at the Integral Institute’s Daily Evolver, morphed into a year-long dialogue with Layman Pascal on integral politics on the Institute’s web site, went on to a reconnection with my old Log Cabin colleague Rich Tafel, now a senior fellow at Steve McIntosh’s Institute for Cultural Evolution, and finally leading to a handful of Facebook pages dedicated to various integral expressions. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/keller3.html THE SPIRAL OF AN ‘INTEGRAL’ DELUSION - JOE CORBETT One often hears within integral circles of the developmental oscillation between individual and collectivist orientations, so that, for instance, whereas modernity is characterized by an individual achievement ethos, postmodernity is characterized by a collectivist ethos, and therefore post-postmoden integral being and consciousness will be characterized once again by a more integrated individualist ethos, presumably one in which each individual becomes an innovative entrepreneur leading the way in a brave new world of John Galtian self-sufficiency and superhuman individualism. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/corbett37.html YOUR GOD IS DEAD, BUT MINE STILL LIVES - ANDREA DIEM-LANE In the latter part of the 19th century when Nietzsche proclaimed that "God is Dead," he believed that future generations would suffer immeasurably from God's premature funeral. Why? Because without such a God (without such an Ultimate Meaning or Concern) humans would have to stare reality in the face and discover that there was no purpose ultimately to human existence. Humans are the expendable result of blind evolutionary processes and, as such, have no ontological status in the grand scheme of things. As Nietzsche argued, without God we are left with nihilism, which is another way of saying that without Ultimate Meaning we are left with no meaning at all. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/diem-lane16.html