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Newsletter Nr. 642	
Amsterdam, February 5st, 2017


A CRITIQUE OF PERENNIALISM - Problems with Enlightenment, Gurus, and Meditation - GARY STOGSDILL

Perennial philosophy, also called perennial psychology or simply perennialism, is grounded in the generous belief that all human attempts toward a deeper understanding of the mysteries of life, including religions and other wisdom traditions, are ultimately the same path. In its naïve version, perennialism teaches that “all religions say the same thing,” which is clearly an overreach according to what the scriptures actually say. In its more thoughtful versions, perennialism teaches a range of perspectives including “all religions reflect a shared human need,” “mystical experiences reveal the same deeper reality,” and “the spiritual goal of human life is the same for all.”

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THE MISSING NUANCE - Ken Wilber, Chroma Casting, and Google Searches - A Four-Part Critique, Part Three - DAVID LANE

First, no one university is exactly the same as another and each of them have a large number of divisions—ranging from the sciences to the humanities—with their own departments. So to be clear, do the engineering departments claim “truth itself is the single greatest oppressive force in the history of humankind.” Do business departments? Do physics or chemistry departments? Do agricultural departments? Do biology departments? Do mathematics departments?
Of course not. So who really is the boogieman in the University that is wreaking such havoc on the world? Philosophy departments? English departments? Sociology departments? Well, even here, as any student or professor knows there are wide variances of ideas and opinions. There is nothing uniform in any of these departments; much less some universal acclamation that proclaims to all and sundry, “no truth” exists! Why does Wilber sink to such categorical nonsense?

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