INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 773 Amsterdam, May 24th, 2019 CONVEYOR BELT OR ESCALATOR GOING DOWN - What Drives the Cosmos at the Deepest Level? - FRANK VISSER In this brief essay I want to highlight a discrepancy between Ken Wilber's view of the cosmos and the scientifically received view. On numerous occasions Wilber has expressed his amazement and even irritation with the view that the universe is running down.[2] According to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the cosmos attempts to move in the direction of an equilibrium, in which nothing of interest can happen anymore. Contrary to this, Wilber insists that "simple observation" teaches us there is an upward movement in the cosmos, from atoms and molecules to human beings and beyond. He even quotes sources from chaos and complexity science to support his conviction that "the physical universe actually has an inherent tendency to create order." Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser140.html A BRIEF KOSMIC HISTORY OF INVOLUTION AND EVOLUTION - A love letter to Ken Wilber via Sri Aurobindo and David Bohm - JOE CORBETT In order to fully understand the structure and nature of Consciousness, we need to go all the way back to before the Big Bang. Before the Big Bang there was Nothing, or No-thing. No manifestation, no dualities, and no existence in the material realm at all. The only thing we might say did exist was the potentia for manifestation and physical reality, the vast infinite landscape of possible quantum fluctuations that could emerge as inflationary pockets (like the innumerable opening eyes of Spirit), each with their own set of minimal parameters (perceptual constraints) that were undifferentiated (or unified) into a single non-dual Source of all yet to come. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/corbett61.html