From: f.visser3@chello.nl Sent: maandag 3 april 2006 9:12 To: f.visser3@chello.nl Subject: [personal] Integral World Newsletter: The Many Faces of Islam INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST ========= http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 147. Amsterdam, April 2, 2006 THE MANY FACES OF ISLAM Ray Harris has submitted a new essay on islam. He writes: "I have argued in previous articles that Islam presents a unique challenge to the integral community and to progressive forces in general. In the past I have concentrated on some specific issues; the question of Islam as a religion of violence and the specific response to the cartoon controversy. People who have corresponded with me about these articles have indicated a need for a more comprehensive overview that places these issues in context. This article attempts to explain the tapestry that is Islam with the specific aim of helping the integral community determine which Muslim voices represent orthodox Islam, moderate Islam and progressive Islam." He concludes: "Hope lies in building a progressive Islam from within. We must do all in our power to support progressive forces, not turn our back on them in a failed understanding of what progressive Islam is." Read more... http://www.integralworld.net/index.html?harris23.html THE INTERSUBJECTIVE MEDITATOR Andy Smith sent in his reflections on a preview version of "Integral Spirituality", which is/was available from IntegralSpiritualCenter.org. He writes: "Ken Wilber's soon to be published Integral Spirituality incorporates many of his latest ideas, including Spiral Dynamics, Integral Methodological Pluralism and Integral Postmetaphysics, into his well-known four-quadrant model. His major aim is to make the subjective, and more particularly religion and the spiritual, academically respectable, by integrating them with a postmodern understanding of intersubjectivity. However, I think this integration comes at the cost of seriously misrepresenting the nature of higher consciousness. Read More... http://www.integralworld.net/index.html?smith21.html 03/27/06: Mark Edwards' essay "Meyerhoff, Wilber and the Post-formal Stages" has been added to the Reading Room. If you know other people interested in this IW Newsletter, please forward this mail to them. Thanks. To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/index.html?newsletter.html To UNSUBSCRIBE or read the Newsletter Archive, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/index.html?newsletter.html ============= Frank Visser, Waterpoortweg 279, 1051 pv, Amsterdam Author of: Ken Wilber: Thought as Passion SUNY 2003 Read all about Ken Wilber : http://www.integralworld.net =============