INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net WILBER WATCH BLOG ================= http://wilberwatch.blogspot.com Newsletter Nr. 149. Amsterdam, April 23, 2006 POSTMODERN SPIRITUALITY German social scientist and philosopher Roland Benedikter sent us two essays summarizing his fifteen years of study and teaching on the subject of postmodern spirituality. Many well-known postmodern philosophers were looking for a spiritual dimension in their later years. However, Benedikter concludes: "Maybe we should not call it “Postmodern Spirituality” at all. Maybe we should call it a prelude to a new Spirituality for the global civil society, coming out of postmodernism. Maybe we should call it a pre-eminent spirituality or a proto-spirituality emerging under postmodern conditions. Not less, not more." Read more... http://www.integralworld.net/index.html?benedikter1.html WHAT'S WORTHY OF INCLUSION? Jeff Meyerhoff replies to Mark Edwards paper "Meyerhoff, Wilber and the Post-formal Stages" posted earlier on this website, in which he criticized Meyerhoff's approach and conclusions. Meyerhoff concedes some minor points, but adds: "it is not authority or status or credentials that determine what's right, but the strength of the better argument. Upon reflection, investigation and the incorporation of Edwards' good points, I think my arguments carry the day." He points to recent evidence from the field of postformal stages of development, concluding: "...there are fundamental questions regarding the character of the stage, whether it is superior to the formal stage and whether there is a postformal stage at all. In addition, whatever, if anything, is agreed upon within postformal studies is not valid for that reason. Consensus is not enough." Read More... http://www.integralworld.net/index.html?meyerhoff3.html 04/23/06: A German translation by HaPe Lin of Ray Harris' essay on sexuology 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 ========================================