From: Integral World [newsletter@integralworld.net] Sent: maandag 2 juni 2008 9:08 To: f.visser3@chello.nl Subject: [personal] Integral Politics Video INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 241 Amsterdam, June 2nd, 2008 WILBER WATCH BLOG: "Integral Politics, Integral Political Party, Integral Political Science" http://wilberwatch.blogspot.com/ INTEGRAL "THIRD WAY" POLITICS - Ken Wilber Ken Wilber reflects in this You Tube video on the difficultly, if not impossibility of getting an integral Presidential candidate elected, given the scarcity of integral people in the population. He also muses on the necessity to reform the US two-party system and how that would change the political landscape considerably. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/index.html WE WILL SOON OPEN A KEN WILBER VIDEO SECTION ON INTEGRAL WORLD! PRIMAL SPIRITUALITY AND THE PHYLO/ONTO FALLACY - Steven Taylor Many theorists – including Freud, Habermas and Wilber - have suggested that there are strong parallels between ontogeny and phylogeny, and that the development of the human species has followed the same basic pattern as the development of the individual from birth to adulthood. I discuss this view in relation to archaeological and anthropological knowledge of the world's 'primal peoples'. I look at the spiritual, moral and social development of primal peoples and find that, in almost every instance, they are more advanced than these theorists suggest, possessing characteristics which only occur – ontogenetically – at the higher 'fulcrums' of development. I argue that Wilber's spectrum model cannot be applied to species development and suggest the basis of a new (non-ontogenetic) model of phylogeny. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/taylor.html If you know other people interested in this Integral World 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/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UPDATE your email address or UNSUBSCRIBE, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/login.php