INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 744 Amsterdam, December 5th, 2018 BEYOND BELIEF - When Science Becomes A Religion (A response to Lane and Visser) - STEVE TAYLOR I am grateful for David Lane's extended responses ["Understanding Matter" and "It's a Matter of Focus"] to my essay 'Beyond Materialism.' In this piece, I would like to further explore one of my central criticisms of Lane's perspective, which I don't believe he has adequately addressed. This is my point that materialism is a metaphysical system, which in some ways is little different from a religious belief system. Some of my points will also be directed towards Frank Visser's response essay ('Spiritual Science is a Contradiction in Terms.') Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/taylor9.html MORPHIC VOODOO? - Alternative Medicine and Scientific Evidence A Reflection on Rolf Sattler's ‘Beyond Materialist Science’ - DAVID LANE Rolf Sattler's recent essay, "Beyond Materialist Science", is chock full of interesting ideas, not the least of which is on the controversial issue of alternative medicines. Sattler discusses the ancient Chinese idea of qi or ch'i, which though it can be translated as “air” or “breath” or even “smell,” has become widely understood among certain advocates as “life force” or “life energy.” Now, ironically, given the more literal translation of ch'i as “air,” which is something quite physical, certain practitioners, as Sattler himself suggests, believe that it implies a “non-material life-force.” Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/lane151.html