Van: "Integral World" Aan: Onderwerp: Sheldrake's Reply Datum: zaterdag 14 december 2013 14:07 INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 479 Amsterdam, December 14th, 2013 MORPHOGENETIC FIELDS - Reply to Frank Visser - RUPERT SHELDRAKE I read Frank Visser's essay “Rupert Sheldrake and the Evo-Devo Revolution” with much interest. I agree with him that evolutionary developmental biology is a major step forward and, like him, I'm fascinated by the discoveries that researchers in this field have made. I discuss them in the 3rd edition of A New Science of Life (2009; Icon Books, London; published in the United States under the title Morphic Resonance, Inner Traditions Int., Rochester, VT) and also in the 2nd edition of The Presence of the Past (2011; Icon Books, London; Inner Traditions Int., Rochester, VT). Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/sheldrake.html YOU ARE PROBABILITY - Exploring the Universe as a Mathematical Superstructure - DAVID LANE AND ANDREA DIEM-LANE Just think of your father’s sperm as a starting off point. A usual male produces about 100 million sperm per ejaculation. Only one of those sperm will survive the arduous journey to its terminal apex. How many sperm does a male produce in, say, an 80-year life span? No precise count is possible, since it varies with each individual, but one can roughly estimate the number to be around 500 billion or perhaps more impressive sounding as a ˝ trillion. If your own father had five children, this would mean that just in terms of sperm, you are a 1 in a 100 billion winner! Couple this with the rarity of your mother’s egg (of the nearly half million follicles where only about 400 or so will become viable) and the very fact that you are alive reading this essay is beyond any moneyed lottery you will ever enter. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/lane64.html SOCIAL SCIENTISTS ON KEN WILBER'S INTEGRAL PSYCHOLOGY - ZOLTAN BRYS (ED.) A critical essay on Ken Wilber's book titled Integral psychology: Consciousness, spirit, psychology, therapy (2000) had been published early 2013 in the Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health. Though it is somewhat unusual to criticize a book more than ten years old, the authors believe that the recent psychotherapeutic interpretations (Ingersoll & Zeitler, Forman, Marquis) makes their critical paper relevant. It also might be questionable if based on only one book, Wilber's contribution to spiritual psychology can be evaluated (e.g. Wilber recently just wrote about semiotics, which in many way interconnects with psychology via psycholingusitics.) Yet as the critical essay addresses many fundamental elements of Wilber's ideology, it might be worth to share its basics thoughts along with the criticism the critical article received so far. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/brys1.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