Subject: Wilber on "The Clash of Civilizations" Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 00:25:38 +0200 From: Frank Visser To: f.visser3@chello.nl WILBER FRIENDS MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.worldofkenwilber.com Amsterdam, September 22, 2001 Hi Wilber Friend, Don Beck's response to the attacks on the WTC buildings, "The Global Great Divide", has attracted a record number of 1.000 visitors in a couple of days. Dutch television is preparing a (second) programme about the current world situation, in which I have been invited to represent the integral/spiral view. To provide more background to the complex issues of today, I have now posted, with permission, several paragraphs from Wilber's "A Theory of Everything" concerning S. Huntington's "The Clash of Civilizations". Wilber comments: "Samuel Huntington's analysis [is] extremely useful. For "underneath" the worldcentric, postconventional, orange and green memes, there lie the roots and foundations of the various ethnocentric civilizations (including our own). Although many of these ethnocentric civilizations contain worldcentric ideals, nonetheless the masses of people in each civilization remain heavily in the purple, red, blue (and more rarely, orange) waves of consciousness unfolding. Huntington's analysis gives nine of these huge civilization blocks: Western, Latin American, African, Islamic, Sinic, Hindu, Orthodox, Buddhist, and Japanese. These are the horizontal tectonic plates, as it were, of human culture, and taking them into account is absolutely crucial. These plates, Huntington persuasively argues, are some of the primary motivators in international politics, commerce, war, and diplomacy. " Read on at: http://www.worldofkenwilber.com (Reading Room and top link on homepage). Stay tuned! Frank -- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Frank Visser, Waterpoortweg 279, 1051 PV A'dam, Netherlands Pay a visit to my homepage: http://members.ams.chello.nl/f.visser3 Read all about Ken Wilber: http://www.worldofkenwilber.com xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx