INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 683 Amsterdam, October 20th, 2017 KEN WILBER ON TRIAL - Buddhist Organization Sues Ken Wilber for Fraud and Other Charges - FRANK VISSER An Anglo-Spanish Buddhist organization called The International Buddhist Ethics Committee (IBEC) recently published a "Judgment on Case Ken Wilber".[1] Since most of the "evidence" used in this "judgment" is based on essays published on Integral World, this website and its webmaster are implicated in this legal affair. In a sense, I should be grateful that this Buddhist organization has found the material on this website of value. On the other hand, as much as I am in favor of strong criticism of all things integral—if only to challenge it and strengthen its case—a legal setting such as this doesn't seem to be the most appropriate arena to find truth. Rational debate should do. This is not to deny ethical considerations regarding Ken Wilber and his work are called for. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser110.html THE JUNGIAN AQAL AND THE SELF-TRANSFORMING KOSMOS - The Dark AQAL - JOE CORBETT There are many authors who can be critiqued for being unclear, incomplete, or wrong in how they have articulated their ideas and models, and such critique is generally how those ideas and models are improved and advanced in the course of history. Ken Wilber is among those authors, but so too is Carl Jung, and here I will critique and modify his model of the four ego functions and their corresponding dispositions or attitudes by using an AQAL framework to bring clarity and an expanded horizon to Jung's thinking. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/corbett51.html