From: Integral World [newsletter@integralworld.net] Sent: zondag 1 maart 2009 13:59 To: f.visser3@chello.nl Subject: [personal] The Magic of Esalen INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 269 Amsterdam, March 1st, 2009 THE MAGIC OF ESALEN - Hugh & Kaye Martin Esalen is like a bustling harbor, filled with ships of all shapes and sizes, some setting out for strange and exotic ports of call, others waiting eagerly for someone like us to commission them for voyages to parts unknown. Let’s explore this harbor – its barnacle-encrusted wharfs and piers, its strident sounds and pungent smells, its colorful collection of barefoot sailors in striped jerseys, starchy officers in dress uniform, and keen-eyed merchants gripping their top hats in the breeze, while scooting around bales of cotton and heaps of coal. Out in the harbor, we see big merchant sailing vessels sagging deep in the water under heavy cargoes, bristling men-of-war with polished cannon glinting off the water, little dories bobbing with each passing wave. All you need for any voyage you want to take -- to the island across the bay or to the remote islands of the Pacific, to comforting and familiar memories or to frontiers of Human Potential – it’s all right here, folks. It’s Esalen! Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/martin08.html CONCSCIOUSNESS, PARAPSYCHOLOGY AND EVOLUTION - Elliot Benjamin Essentially the difference of opinion between Lane and Smith can be summarized as Smith advocating that there are states of meditation and higher consciousness that are beyond our present and foreseeable knowledge of science to explain, and Lane claiming that Smith is being narrow minded and unaware in regard to what science has already accomplished and may likely accomplish in the near future regarding our understanding of meditation and higher consciousness. From my own perspective, I can see the value in the points of view and arguments of both Lane and Smith, and in this scenario I appreciate the original integral vision of Ken Wilber in finding the “truths” in what appears at first glance to be very conflicting arguments. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin16.html 02/23/09: The essay "On Religious and Scientific Agendas" by Andy Smith has been added to the Reading Room. 02/22/09: The esssay "The magic of Esalen" by Hugh & Kaye Martin has been added to the Reading Room. 02/19/09: The essay "Consciousness, Meditation and a Higher State" by David Lane has been added to the Reading Room. 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