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Newsletter Nr. 356
Amsterdam, April 26th, 2011


TOWARDS A POST-WILBERIAN, CRITICAL INTEGRAL THEORY - Why It is Not Necessary 
to Read Past Page Five in Sex, Ecology, Spirituality - DANIEL GUSTAV ANDERSON

In a recent essay, Toby Rogers describes the cognitive dissonance of adhering 
earnestly to the doctrines presented in Sex, Ecology, Spirituality while 
engaging with conflicting evidence from the natural sciences. If SES is the 
greatest spiritual masterpiece in the history of world civilization, as Rogers 
professes and as the book's final chapter seems to proclaim, then how is it 
possible for simple materialism to kick the tortoises out from under the 
Wilberian Kosmos?

This is possible because of the way Wilber structured his argument. It is 
structured badly. This is the real reason why SES is taken seriously by true 
believers, but has not been warmly accepted by the academy, not because of 
some “mean green meme” living in fear of True Depth. No: it is because 
Wilber's argument is based on faulty premises. Here is the first and most 
foundational example.

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