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Newsletter Nr. 899
Amsterdam, October 1st, 2020


CATEGORY ERRORS GALORE! - or Being Blind to the Integral Vision - BRAD REYNOLDS

Science—it can be said from an integral perspective—is God's Way for human beings to explain the mechanical procedures and structures in the relative, conditional universe. Or, maybe better, science is Ultimate Reality's tool for the intellectual understanding of our world. However, it dramatically leaves out another important mode of knowledge (and wisdom) available to human beings: the spiritual or mystical mode of knowing. The INTEGRAL View maintains that ALL the modes of knowing or knowledge acquisition are important in order to be fully human and to be adequately conversant with our full spectrum of possibilities.

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BLINDED BY THE LIGHT - Reply to Brad Reynolds - FRANK VISSER

Brad Reynolds and I have been busy exchanging essays about how to interpret Wilber's stance on evolution for some time now. Seeing his most recent contribution "Category errors galore!", it is clear to me that we have come to a dead end. He claims that Integral World authors deny the reality of Spirit because they have succumbed to the philosphy of scientism or scientific materialism. None of us will be convinced by the other's arguments.
What do we actually disagree, and agree on?

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http://www.integralworld.net/visser188.html