INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 686 Amsterdam, November 11, 2017 IS XI JINPING THE CAPTAIN PLANET, THE WORLD HAS BEEN WAITING FOR? - KNUT K. WIMBERGER Thanks to a post in our Green Initiatives wechat group earlier this month my attention was drawn—in a search for a positive narrative for humanity's future—to Captain Planet, a US animation series, I didn't even know it existed. Since our daughter is recently into drawing comics I looked it up and want to share here some thoughts on globalism and nationalism in an era when our post WWII world order is clearly dissolving and a new one seem to be emerging. I will elaborate further down on the recent decisions of the US administration to pull out of several international organizations, most importantly UNESCO, and the significance of the upcoming 19th Chinese Party Congress; and I will analyze if Xi Jinping will be our 21st century super hero Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/wimberger2.html DARK AQAL AND SYNCHRONISTIC DYNAMICS IN TRANS-DARWINIAN EVOLUTION - JOE CORBETT Here's an absurdity if I ever heard one, or an anomaly, really. In the worldview of scientific reductionist materialism, 96 percent of the universe (dark matter and dark energy) has no significant influence on the evolution of life. That is quite literally like saying the economy, politics, and culture have no influence on our mind and perceptions of the world, which is very absurd indeed. We could justifiably call those who held such beliefs either mind-body reductionists, hopelessly and pathetically short-sighted, or simply insane. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/corbett53.html