INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 644 Amsterdam, February 9th, 2017 INTEGRAL POLITICS AND THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SELF - JOE CORBETT Frank Visser raises a good point about Ken Wilber's integral political analysis when he says that Ken Wilber has a potentially valuable contribution to make in the field of political theory if he would expand and properly elaborate on the insight that conservatives all seem to be internalists whereas liberals all seem to be externalists, and that a balanced, integrated view would see the necessity of both perspectives in any political discussion. Moreover, in his piece on the election of Trump, Ken Wilber seems to think that Trump is a political self-correction for the over-valuation going back to the 60s the left has put on facts and external causes for the worlds problems, and that a necessary correction of the internal causes are now over-due with the sweeping into power of a post-factual far right and it's extreme internalist perspective. In short, we can see the emergence of Trump as a contemporary version of the return of the repressed shadow, the monstrosity of a failed integration of the lower levels of our collective self. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/corbett40.html WHITE CRANES AGAINST A BLACK SKY - The Ecstatic Visions of Sri Ramakrishna - A Chandian and Nietzschean Analysis - A Three-Part Study, Prologue - DAVID LANE I read about this incident many years ago in a biography of Indian saints that I happened upon in the graduate library at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and it has haunted me ever since. It describes a young Indian boy who falls into a state of ecstasy while walking in a village field in Bengal, India, during the mid part of the 19th century when all of sudden he sees a black rain cloud and then majestically a flock of white cranes flying in the sky. The juxtaposition of the two opposite colors was overwhelmingly beautiful. The very sight sent him into samadhi (divine ecstasy) and he fell unconscious. Later, this very boy would become world famous as Sri Ramakrishna. I have always wanted to tell this moving story in a short movie. After I finished the little film (included here), I became even more keenly interested in other visions that Ramakrishna had throughout his relatively short lifetime (he died at the age of 50). Having already read almost everything I could about Sri Ramakrishna, particularly the famous Gospel as recorded by Mahendranath Gupta and later translated into English by Swami Nikhilananda, I realized that there was something unique and profound about his insights, more so because he was not formally educated. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/lane119.html