Van: "Integral World" Aan: Onderwerp: Ken Wilber's Eye Datum: zondag 28 juli 2013 16:27 Newsletter Nr. 459 Amsterdam, July 28th, 2013 KEN WILBER'S EYE - Exploring the Dangers of Theological Reifications - DAVID LANE While Wilber’s argument from a phenomenological perspective makes eminently good sense, the danger in his approach is that he tends to fall prey to premature reifications when he uses such words as “Buddha nature or Spirit” as if such terms have already been universally accepted by all and sundry . . . which they have not. Moreover, he tends to confuse experience with its causation-reality, forgetting in the process of how easy it is for anyone to be deceived or duped by how certain phenomena are produced. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/lane60.html THE SHADOW OF SOCIETY - and its Evolutionary Discontents - JOE CORBETT If we are to focus on what is ultimately the cause of the current world crisis and how we can begin to resolve it we must look at how modern power and money has been able to systematically skew and distort the development of the world in favor of the fossil fuel based energy civilization of the modern corporate-military-police-state. This model of modern development worked very well, always for the elites, but for a good deal of non-elites as well, especially in the West, for several hundred years of global capitalist development. If their ever was an historical example of how the dark side of the human shadow (greed, gluttony, vanity, violence, etc.) contributes to the advancement of civilization, modern capitalism is it. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/corbett15.html To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UNSUBSCRIBE, update your account by logging in. For explanation, see: http://www.integralworld.net/nl_faq.html