INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 742 Amsterdam, November 13th, 2018 BEYOND MATERIALISM - Why science needs a spiritual perspective to make sense of the world - STEVE TAYLOR Secular western culture is dominated by a belief system which in its own way is just as dogmatic and irrational as a religion. This is the belief system of materialism, which holds that matter is the primary reality of the universe, and that anything that appears to be non-physical - such as the mind, our thoughts, consciousness, or even life itself - is physical in origin, or can be explained in physical terms. This belief system is so pervasive and taken-for-granted that we may not even be aware that it exists - in the same way that, say, for the peasants of medieval Europe, the belief system of Christianity was so deeply embedded into their lives that they might not have been aware of it. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/taylor7.html