Van: "Integral World" Aan: Onderwerp: Going Within Datum: zondag 7 april 2013 20:52 Newsletter Nr. 442 Amsterdam, April 7th, 2013 THE CREATIVE ARTIST, HUMANISTIC EDUCATION AND MENTAL DISTURBANCE - ELLIOT BENJAMIN I can remember back to the very first essay I ever wrote for myself, in April of 1975: The Natural Dimension and Society [1]. At that time I had had quite a taste of the then fascinating to me religion of Scientology [2], and I had recently left behind a vivid mathematics teaching experience in a Black ghetto high school in Houston, Texas. I asked myself if natural learning is something that a child would want to experience if this child were totally free to choose it for him/herself. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin50.html THE SCIENCE OF GOING WITHIN - Part I: Exploring the Neurobiological Basis of Shabd Yoga Meditation - ANDREA DIEM LANE, PH.D. AND DAVID CHRISTOPHER LANE, PH.D. According to adepts and serious students of shabd yoga, one of the first signs that the meditation technique is working is the distinct feeling of numbness in the lower extremities. This is coupled with a sense of conscious withdrawal where one oftentimes intuits that something profound is about to occur, such as entry into a new and luminous state of awareness. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/diem-lane11.html FROM THE ARCHIVES: =============== 'FROM DIRT TO DIVINITY' - Ken Wilber's pre-Darwinian Understanding of Evolution - FRANK VISSER Imagine an early Christian philosopher in Alexandria objecting to the new theory that the Earth is round. He would say "Then how come we don't fall off the Earth?". In fact, science does explain this by saying that the mass of the Earth is so large, that we are attracted to the earth's surface—as we, in turn, ever so slightly attract the Earth. What is more, there is not really any up or down in the universe. So it's not that Down Under people walk with their heads down, we all do at times, or actually none of us do. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser37.html To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php