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VISSER / CHATGPT WHY CRITICIZE INTEGRAL THEORY?, A Preface for the Sincere Reader	VISSER / CHATGPT TOWARD A PLURALISTIC INTEGRALISM, Mapping the New Landscape of Meta-Theoretical Thought
VISSER / CHATGPT IS INTEGRAL THEORY A GOOD METATHEORY?, How to Decide and How It Compares to Alternatives	VISSER / CHATGPT WHITEHEAD, WILBER, AND THE FALLACY OF COSMIC CREATIVITY
VISSER / CHATGPT VISION-LOGIC AND THE LIMITS OF KNOWING, Why Mystical Evolution Isn't a Deeper Science	VISSER / CHATGPT MCGILCHRIST AND THE RE-ENCHANTMENT OF THE BRAIN, Between Neuroscience and Metaphysics
VISSER / CHATGPT “America First”, From Isolationism to Global Hegemony	VISSER / CHATGPT KEN WILBER VS. CHARLES DARWIN, Spiritual Assimilation and Scientific Misunderstanding
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1. VISSER / CHATGPT KEN WILBER'S EVOLUTIONARY VISION, A Category Of His Own?	6. VISSER / CHATGPT WHEN EROS BACKS TRUMP, A Critique of Ken Wilber's Political Metaphysics
2. VISSER / CHATGPT EROS IN THE GAPS, Ken Wilber's Metaphysical Misreading of Evolution	7. VISSER / CHATGPT "A Mirror He Couldn't Face", Ken Wilber's Wyatt Earp Blog and the Pathologizing of Critique
3. VISSER / CHATGPT SPIRIT WITHOUT A CAUSE, TRADITIONALISM, Neo-Traditionalism, and the Science of Evolution	8. VISSER / CHATGPT THE DEATH OF DIALOGUE IN INTEGRAL CULTURE, On Spiritual Defensiveness, Intellectual Censorship, and the Limits of Wilberian Discourse
4. VISSER / CHATGPT MYSTICISM AS METAPHYSICS, When Inner Certainty Becomes Outer Dogma	9. VISSER / CHATGPT REBRANDING THE SUPERNATURAL: CAN SCIENCE REALLY ABSORB SPIRIT?, A Critical Response to Bobby Azarian's "Meta-Naturalism"
5. VISSER / CHATGPT KEN WILBER VS. CHARLES DARWIN, Spiritual Assimilation and Scientific Misunderstanding	10. VISSER / CHATGPT The Grand Cosmic Peekaboo, Spirit Plays Hide and Seek (With Itself)
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VISSER BIG HISTORY AND INTEGRAL THEORY: Bill Bryson Meets Ken Wilber	VISSER THE WILD WEST WILBER REPORT: Looking back on the Wyatt Earp Episode (2006)
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FALK WILBER AND BOHM: An Analysis of the Problems with Ken Wilber's 'Refutations' of David Bohm's Ideas	MEYERHOFF DISMISSAL VS. DEBATE: A Reply to Ken Wilber's Audio Rebuttal
MEYERHOFF SIX CRITICISMS OF WILBER'S INTEGRAL THEORY	FALK BALD NARCISSISM [On the Wyatt Earp Episode]
CARLSON INTEGRAL IDEOLOGY: An Ideological Genealogy of Integral Theory and Practice	VISSER MY CRITICAL ESSAYS ON KEN WILBER

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