Van: "Integral World" Aan: Onderwerp: Shaving Salmon Datum: zondag 13 juli 2014 20:41 INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 513 Amsterdam, July 13th, 2014 ‘SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE ON’ - Reply to Salmon - FRANK VISSER In several essays and comments on Integral World Don Salmon, starting with his "Shaving Science with Ockham's Razor", has argued that there is something deeply wrong with the dominant scientific worldview. It thinks it covers all of reality, when in fact it deals only with what can be perceived by the senses and measured quantitatively. Contrary to the naive belief that science deals with an objective reality, which exists independently from us, Salmon argues that all we know about reality is mediated through our own consciousness. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser71.html WHY CAN’T RABBITS TURN INTO ROLLER COASTERS? - A Response to Elliot Benjamin’s “Who Shaves the Barber?” - DON SALMON Benjamin and I have been having some conversations by email, and we’ve given each other permission to quote from the conversations. We just had a very nice exchange about his last essay. He wanted me to comment on Bertrand Russell’s “Who Shaves the Barber?” paradox (it wasn’t really Russell’s but related to a paradox Russell concocted using set theory). I explained that there really wasn’t any parallel, because the barber paradox deals with real, observable entities (barbers, bearded men) whereas physicalism deals entirely with non-material, supernatural (“super” if you think of “natural” as sensory” and conceptualized created entities like “matter”, “energy”, “dead space” and “unconscious time” as supernatural) mind-constructed conceptualizations, which of course can’t possibly exist in the form that the fundamaterialist catechism adheres to. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/salmon18.html OPEN LETTER TO SOME TRUTH SEEKERS - MEL PATRICK When we really practice spirituality and thus consider to have a spiritual life, understood that spiritual and daily life are not any more distinguishable, it’s not possible to lose ourselves with many meditative techniques, with conceptual if not purely theoretical or dogmatic knowledge and teachings, with metaphysical commentaries coming from different traditions, books and thoughts which will sooner or later contradict each other. We must be able to instantly get back to the basics and have very simple rules and practices, if not only one, that allow the mind to settle down quickly and eventually fade away until the great liberation, that is to say Self-realization, happens spontaneously by itself. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/patrick1.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