INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 571 Amsterdam, June 8th, 2015 A REBUTTAL TO MORTEN TOLBOLL'S “THE FASCISM OF THEOSOPHY” - Referenced in “A Critique of Ken Wilber and his Integral Method” - PIERRE WOUTERS I seldom take issue with criticisms addressed to theosophical teachings because the majority of them are often the result either of misunderstanding, misrepresentation, a lack of research, often malice and at times outright stupidity. Nowadays one can sit all day in front of the computer and make it a lifelong endeavor to peruse the internet wasting time trying to debunk every single one of those criticisms, a rather time-consuming job and ultimately fruitless. However…sometimes an exception needs to be made, especially when this criticism is presumably widely read and presented under such a heavy-handed title as “The Fascism of…” and the author—in this particular instance—Mr. Morton Tolboll is accompanied by an academic title (Mr. Tolboll apparently holds an M.A. in philosophy and a minor in psychology), the status of which one would expect to represent a minimum of academic objectivity and the ability to do some thorough research into a field that is anything but lacking in its requisite literature. On a side note, H.P. Blavatsky (the foremost representative of the philosophy of Theosophy) has written over ten thousand pages in her lifetime, suffice it to say that there is no lack of material to be researched. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/wouters1.html