INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 576 Amsterdam, July 5th, 2015 INTEGRAL STUDIES AND ACADEMIA - Barriers and Gateways - JEFF MEYERHOFF Integral Studies is at the margins of academia. In order for it to survive and thrive as a mode of knowledge, integral studies will have to, at the very least, be considered worthy of mainstream academic debate. The barriers to becoming worthy of debate are great, but there are currents within academia that are heading in an integral direction and could, if joined, be a gateway to greater legitimacy. The difficulties that the leading integral theorist, Ken Wilber, would face were he to be considered by academics is offered as an instructive example. I describe some barriers for integral studies to academic entry and suggest some gateways to academic consideration. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/meyerhoff17.html AN INTEGRAL VIEW OF ISLAMIC JIHAD AND WORLD REVOLUTION - JOE CORBETT Recently declassified documents reveal that Osama bin Laden had an interesting stash of reading material on his bookshelf at the compound where he was killed.[1] Among the books found were two of Noam Chomsky's books, Manufacturing Consent and Hegemony or Survival, including books by Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, Michael Scheuer, Imperial Hubris, William Blum, Rogue State, and Manly Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, among others. In other words, the attacks on 9-11 were probably more critically informed and inspired than by the juvenile fantasy of 72 virgins waiting in heaven. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/corbett33.html RE-ORIENTING WILBER - The Significance of a Proper Understanding of the Individual-Social Relationship - ANDY SMITH This post is in response to “bmj”, who read one of my articles critiquing Wilber, An IMP Runs Amok, and offered some criticisms regarding the treatment of individuals vs. societies. I think “bmj”'s comments apply more to Wilber's AQAL scheme than to my single-scale model of holarchy, but the distinction between the two models was not emphasized, and in any case, the question of the relationship of individuals to societies—which is the heart of “bmj”'s critique—is a key one distinguishing my model from Wilber's. I think “bmj” has made some important points about this relationship which deserve further discussion, so I'm going to respond briefly to each of his six main points. Then I will go into somewhat more detail in regard to “bmj”'s final assertion, that the holarchy model provides no “re-orienting insight”. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/smith55.html