INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 682 Amsterdam, October 17th, 2017 CORBETT'S AQAL CUBE - The Dark AQAL - JOE CORBETT I think there is great merit in converting the AQAL square into an AQAL cube. But rather than reinventing the wheel, or the Kosmic Mandala, with a whole new and confusing set of terminology, we can leave the existing AQAL intact as it is and add a single z-axis designating the manifest and unmanifest realms. Thusly, four new quadrants are opened-up with matching terminology, only with the prefix of unmanifest body, unmanifest mind, unmanifest collective subjectivity (soul), and unmanifest collective objectivity (spirit). This new quadrant realm is not some fanciful extra that complicates and overwhelms the AQAL square with redundancy and confusion, but rather is vital in order to understand the underlying forces that help to generate and evolve the phenomena in the manifest AQAL square. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/corbett50.html THE DISAPPOINTING BUDDHA - Understanding the Vicarious Nature of Spiritual Hero Worship - Learning the Deeper Lesson from Ken Wilber's The Atman Project - DAVID LANE AND ANDREA DIEM-LANE When I first read Ken Wilber's The Atman Project back in 1980, I was deeply impressed with his thesis that we are “attempting to find Spirit in ways that prevent it and force substitute gratifications.” Of course, one could replace “Spirit” with any higher ideal that requires discipline or sacrifice, since the modus operandi is the same: instead of doing the hard work ourselves, we look for exterior symbols that can do the heavy lifting. Simply put, we are lazy and we would rather project our desire on to some person or object and let them do the necessary requirements than actually do the deep reflection within our own beings. The glitch in this process, however, is that it ultimately doesn't work. The idealized Icon, when closely analyzed, fails to live up to our heightened expectations. Our chosen Buddhas, Christs, Babas, Gurus, end up forever disappointing us, since like the statues we have made of them in the past, they invariably have feet of clay. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/lane131.html