From: Integral World [frank.visser@eurorscg.nl] Sent: maandag 17 juli 2006 17:34 To: f.visser3@chello.nl Subject: [personal] How We Develop to the Non-Dual (test) INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 158 Amsterdam, July 18, 2006 AETERNUM PER TEMPORE: HOW WE DEVELOP TO THE NON-DUAL Andy Smith replies extensively to a blog posting by "Broken Yogi" on Non-dualism: "Evolution or development is one of our most important and indispensable concepts. Though its modern form originated with Darwin's theory, which has been called the central organizing principle of biology, today it is widely applied to phenomena in the social as well as the natural sciences. We speak of individuals, societies, and all manner of social institutions growing, developing or evolving. A natural question to ask is, where does it all end? Is there anything that can't be understood as a developmental process? In a recent blog that I highly recommend to readers at this site, Conrad Goehausen draws a line at spirituality, and specifically at a non-dual understanding of spirituality. “Non-dualism,” he insists, “is not a developmental process.” Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/smith25.html ON KEN WILBER'S INTEGRAL INSTITUTE: AN EXPERIENTIAL ANALYSIS Elliot Benjamin offers his experiential analysis of II as a potential cult: "There have been a number of people who have expressed serious concerns and misgivings regarding the cult dangers of philosopher Ken Wilber's Integral Institute. These criticisms have generally focused upon Wilber's harsh comments regarding scholars who disagree with his philosophical opinions. This has become increasingly more evident with the development of the Integral Institute website and especially Ken Wilber's private website... [i]t appears that with the launching and development of Integral Institute over the past few years, there is now sufficient reason to examine both the asserted guru characteristics of Ken Wilber as well as cult dangers of Integral Institute. Since my tri-perspective analysis is based primarily upon my own experience, a crucial component for me is my private encounter with Ken Wilber in his Denver apartment in November, 2003." Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin.html THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PEER PRODUCTION Michel Bauwens explores integral thinkers beyond the Wilber horizon: "The purpose of the essay is to describe first of all an all-important ' total social fact': the emergence of the peer to peer relational dynamic at work in distributed networks, which we contend, is the emerging new hegemonic organizational and technical infrastructure of humankind. And second, to examine whether a 'integral' approach, our name for a family of approaches which includes Roy Bhaskar, can help us understand us this new trend, which is crucial for contemporary emancipation. We will apply a broad integral/intersubjective approach, in order to understand the precise nature of the peer to peer relational dynamic, and conclude on its potential for social change and human emancipation." Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/bauwens3.html If you know other people interested in this IW Newsletter, please forward this mail to them. Thanks. To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/index.html?newsletter.html To go to the Newsletter Archive, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/index.html?newsletter.html To UNSUBSCRIBE from this Integral World Newsletter, click here: http://frank.e-marketing.eurorscg.net/afmelden.php?a=aa&e=jwsokal@yahoo.com&id=0&m=15 ======================================== 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 ========================================