From: Integral World [newsletter@integralworld.net]
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Subject: [personal] Integral Post-Metaphysics

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Newsletter Nr. 242
Amsterdam, June 9th, 2008


WILBER WATCH BLOG: "Integral Politics, Integral Political Party, 
Integral Political Science"
http://wilberwatch.blogspot.com/


COMMENTS ON KEN WILBER'S POST-METAPHYSICAL RELATIVISM - Magnus Riisager

In this essay I will comment on some of the features of the integral 
post-metaphysics that Ken Wilber outlines in his book Integral Spirituality – 
A Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World from 2006. 
I will focus on the second appendix to the book, which is entitled 'Integral 
Post-Metaphysics'. 

I do not intend to conclude anything with this essay, but I hope I have 
showed that some of the features of Ken Wilber's integral post-metaphysics 
are not wholly unproblematic. In my reading, Wilber hasn't clarified his 
commitments to absolute relativism, and his use of mystical/meditative 
experiences as grounding of beliefs about or knowledge of Kosmos and Spirit 
should be scrutinized. Furthermore, I personally have a hard time finding 
the proper integral aspect of Wilber's integral post-metaphysics, if integral 
post-metaphysics only consists in a combination of absolute relativism and 
certain metaphysical postulates. Where is the actual integration?  

Read more:
http://www.integralworld.net/riisager2.html


KEN WILBER VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE

We have openened a Ken Wilber Videos section on Integral World, which collects 
all video's currently on YouTube, such as:

- Ken Wilber Stops His Brain Waves 
- Consciousness 
- Integral "Third Way" Politics 
- Bodhisattvas in Hell 
- Spirituality and the 3 Strands of Deep Science 
- Ken Wilber Videos: Increased Consciousness, Decreased Suffering 
- The Spirituality of Tomorrow 
- Anchoring I Amness 
- Love Until It Hurts 
- Ken Wilber On Seeking Enlightenment 
- Descartes: Reviving the West's Greatest Vedantist 

... and many more...

Read more:
http://www.integralworld.net/videos.html


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