From: Integral World [newsletter@integralworld.net] Sent: maandag 19 januari 2009 8:36 To: f.visser3@chello.nl Subject: [personal] Integral Nondualism INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 263 Amsterdam, January 19th, 2009 INTEGRAL NONDUALISM - Daniel Sleeth In recent years, spiritual metaphysics has come under considerable criticism, from charges of abstraction and reification to claims of being mere wispy, ephemeral epiphenomenon (see Dennett, 1991; Ferrer, 2002; McLaren, 2007). The ego is thought to be an abstraction simply because it is not “experience-near” (Arlow, 1991; Meissner, 2000). But this orientation to the ego, or any other psychic structure, has serious limitations, based on a false premise. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/sleeth1.html TTHE STATE OF INTEGRAL PHILOSOPHY & SCIENCE - Zakariyya Ishaq Five years ago when I began my study of the modern Integral Spirituality and Science, it was a vibrant, dynamic collage of ideas, meeting the best of the east with the best of the western spiritual tradition of independent inquiry. Today it may become, or at best it is becoming, consumed by two western postmodern traditions that will inevitably consume Integral Spirituality into the morass of pedestrian thought where soon it will be an afterthought only spoken about in Wikipedia with other stillborn cults, and post-modern philosophies going nowhere. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/ishaq9.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