INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 844 Amsterdam, March 27th, 2020 THE DEADLY DUO - Trump and the Coronavirus - ELLIOT BENJAMIN I have repeatedly conveyed in my Integral World essays the past few years my belief that President Trump has continuously been putting the United States as well as the rest of the world in serious danger. But what I focused upon specifically was the destruction of the environment and nuclear annihilation. From my perspective, the United States has been led by a narcissistic, egocentric, paranoid, deceitful, racist, ignorant individual without any sense of human compassion. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin105.html BLISS LAND - Glimpses of Cosmic Consciousness - DAVID LANE When my youngest son, Kelly, was four he used to ask the most intriguing and surprisingly mature philosophical questions. The one query, however, that made me think the deepest and the one that he cared most about concerned death and the afterlife. Kelly wanted to know what happened when we died. I had a number of options before me on how to respond. There was the materialist response which at first hearing sounds the harshest: “you become fertilizer.” Then there is the more clichéd reply, usually invoked by those belonging to Christianity or Islam, “good boys go to heaven or paradise.” Of course, there is always the most honest rejoinder: “nobody actually knows.” Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/lane227.html