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Newsletter Nr. 619
Amsterdam, August 2nd, 2016


THE ANTIDOTE FOR US PRESIDENT TRUMP - ELLIOT BENJAMIN

I was moved by the Democratic National Convention, which I had been glued to recently for four consecutive nights: from Bill Clinton to Bernie Sanders to Michelle Obama to Joe Biden to Michael Bloomberg to Barack Obama and finally to Hillary Clinton; from a young woman with disabilities to muslim parents who lost their son in battle defending his US colleagues to a patriotic four star general concerned about a possible Trump presidency. As Hillary Clinton echoed: “love trumps hate” and as Michelle Obama nobly affirmed: “when they go low we go high.” It all was inspirational to me, appealing to my own tenuous idealism to still believe in the “goodness” of human beings. Yes the message to me is that love, courage, compassion, and empathy can win over hate, fear, greed, and discrimination.

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http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin84.html


KEN WILBER VS JOHN HERON - How a very early (1999) and certainly one of the most important challenges against Ken Wilber's nondual view of the Divine went wrong - OLIVER GRIEBEL

Lately, my good Facebook friend Tim Saunders, British theologian gentleman and teacher, in a post on his personal Facebook account, asked integral philosopher Steve McIntosh and me to comment on the God view of the transpersonal psychologist John Heron. What a shame! I, who am proud of my supposedly wide reading in spiritual philosophy, had never even heard about this person. Therefore, I looked at the link http://www.human-inquiry.com/psfar.pdf Tim had given me, which was Heron's 2006 book Participatory Spirituality — A Farewell to Authoritarian Religion, and immediately realized that this man was sketching something quite similar to what I myself have tried to do in my 2009 book Der ganzheitliche Gott (that means: The holistic or integral God). It is the idea of a complementary polarity between God and the beings inside of Him. 

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http://www.integralworld.net/griebel2.html