INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 845 Amsterdam, April 8th, 2020 THE MAGIC WAND OF SELF-ORGANIZATION - Ken Wilber Meets Neil Shubin - FRANK VISSER Neil Shubin, an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer, is known for his co-discovery of the Tiktaalik roseae fossil, the fish-with-legs that forms the "missing link" between fish and all land animals. Some evolution critics say evolutionary theory has no predictive power. Well, Shubin figured that this remarkable fossil simply had to exist and was most likely to be found in rocks of a certain age (375 million years ago, a period called late Devonian) and several areas of the globe (he chose Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada). And guess what, after several attempts, described in his first book Your Inner Fish (2008), he found it. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser165.html EMPTY ZEN: 24 KOANS - DAVID LANE My first encounter with Zen was when I was quite young. I happened upon Alan Watts' eminently readable, even if idiosyncratic, introduction to the subject entitled The Way of Zen (1957), which inspired me with the no-nonsense approach to spiritual practice. It eschewed linear ways of thinking for a more experienced based approach via Zazen, or sitting meditation. Later I became enamored with the famous Haiku poet Matsuo Bashô (1644–1694) whose laconic poetry struck a cord within me about eliminating the mind of clutter and seeing, hearing, and smelling nature as it arises without too many preconceptions. Later when I was in my twenties I became friends with Herb Joseph who traveled to Japan in the early 1960s to formally practice Zazen under a Zen Master. He spoke of its intense rigor and routine. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/lane228.html