INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 593 Amsterdam, November 30th, 2015 TOWARD AN INTEGRATIVE SCIENTIFIC AND WORLD PHILOSOPHY - Conjectures about Inter-Reality Contacts Incipiently Applicable to Paranormal Phenomena and to Physically Detectable Extraterrestrial "Close Encounter" Events - GIORGIO PIACENZA I'm not a physicist or a PhD philosopher. Only a passionate, gradual acquirer of a wide range of plausible explanatory ideas that may be understood in an integrated manner upon discovering their deeper common patterns under a variety of theories converging under highly inclusive coherent meta theories. I think humanity needs this kind of approach to truly find out more specifically how it is that we are all meaningfully related. This understanding is necessary to build a planetary cultural agreement helping us to gain exopolitical status as a respectable, unified civilization that protects its own planet. If we move towards a more unified understanding of classical and 'anomalous' experiences, quantum mechanics, consciousness, cosmological structure and metaphysics, including how might “paranormal” events and even extraterrestrials manifest in our classical, common sense reality, our understanding of who we are would encompass much more. We would have a more complete idea of what exists, what is possible and how it all (including us) fits together. We would not need to act from a sense of disconnection and lack. We would not need to act from a sense of disconnection and lack spelling into a "win-lose" mentality that taken into political expression is destroying the environment, ourselves and other forms of life. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/piacenza39.html PARTICIPATORY THOUGHT HAS NO EMPEROR AND NO ABSOLUTE - A Further Response to Abramson - GLENN HARTELIUS Abramson has answered the current paper (Hartelius, 2015) with a response entitled, “The Emperor's New Clothes: Ferrer Isn't Wearing Any—Participatory is Perennial”. This brief further rejoinder to Abramson will consider which pieces of discussion appear to be settled, which remain, and which are somewhat new. It will also review what Ferrer has meant by his use of the term Mystery and how this differs radically from a perennialist ultimate or absolute. Abramson begins with comments about the images that were employed to illustrate certain points in my response. While I consider these among its least important aspects, it is unfortunate that Abramson seems to have taken these as characterizations of himself; this is not the case. I have compared Wilber's protestations at having his work identified as perennialist with Clinton's denial that he had sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky; I have compared the significance of Murti's absolutist perspectives with that of climate deniers; I characterized as “disingenuous, almost to the point of dishonesty,” Wilber's incredulity when his shift of the status of his Kosmic habits “almost entirely” to the upper left quadrant was noted, given that this statement was quoted directly from Wilber's own most recent major book. On reflection, these comparisons seem fair; yet none of these is a characterization of Abramson. His responses are most appreciated. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/hartelius2.html