From: Integral World [frank.visser@eurorscg.nl]
Sent: woensdag 25 oktober 2006 0:11
To: Frank Visser
Subject: [personal] Three Models of Immortality

INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST
===========================
http://www.integralworld.net


Newsletter Nr. 169
Amsterdam, October 25, 2006



WILBER WATCH BLOG: 
http://wilberwatch.blogspot.com/

"SIMPLY TOO MUCH..."



THREE MODELS OF IMMORTALITY - Frank Visser

"The question of life after death is intimately connected to the question of human nature. 
For if we are nothing but a physical body, there is no way we could possibly survive the 
death of this body. But if we are something more than a body, then life after death could 
be the continued existence of this 'something'. And if this 'something' is in itself rather 
complex, then of course our picture of life after death would change likewise from a vague 
idea that 'something of us must live on' to a detailed theory of post-mortem states of 
consciousness. In this chapter we will try to unravel the many different views on life 
after death that mankind has held in the course of history and assess their credibility. 
Next, we will sketch a view of immortality that is in harmony with the traditional view 
of human nature and reality discussed in the preceding chapters." 


Read more:
http://www.integralworld.net/visser-ss-04.html


INTEGRAL SPIRITUALITY - OVERVIEW AND SOME CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS  - Hyatt Carter

Hyatt Carter sent me his thoughts on Integral Spirituality. Carter hosts the website 
"A Prismatic Spirituality of Process", inspired by the works of A.N.
Whitehead:
"Wilber's primary pejorative, or put-down word, is monological, a term which basically 
means “not dialogical—or not intersubjective, not contextual, not constructivist, not 
understanding the constitutive nature of cultural backgrounds—basically, not recognizing 
zones #2 and #4.” By my count he uses this word no fewer than 61 times in the text of 
Integral Spirituality. Wilber claims, in this and also in previous books, that Whitehead's 
metaphysics is monological, but nothing could be further from the truth. "

Read more:
http://www.integralworld.net/carter01.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=f.visser3@chello.nl&id=9132&m=29



========================================

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

========================================