INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 906 Amsterdam, October 22nd, 2020 RE-UNITING THE ONE AND THE MANY - or Learning to BE INTEGRAL, Part One - BRAD REYNOLDS I find it somewhat humorous that the on-going debate between myself, Frank Visser and David Lane, here on Integral World, in many ways epitomizes the great dualistic fracture that has penetrated Western philosophy since its most ancient days in Greece: idealism versus materialism, mysticism versus empiricism. Personified in the towering figures of Plato and Aristotle, who have influenced every Western philosopher, including many scientists, for nearly twenty-five centuries, and even the esoteric theology of the most populous religions on the planet, Christianity and Islam, our debate on Integral World seems to fall within the limits of this primary dualistic split. Or at least it seems to me. It is what we could call an argument over the “two faces” of the One Divine: The One and the Many. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/reynolds29.html RE-UNITING THE ONE AND THE MANY - or Learning to BE INTEGRAL, Part Two - BRAD REYNOLDS In the great Renaissance painter Raphael Sanzio's (1483-1520) famous and magnificent painting, The School of Athens, created during the High Renaissance on the walls of the Stanza della Segnatura of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel, located in the heart of Rome (down the hallway from Michelangelo's famous ceiling), there are pictured two of the greatest philosophers in the Western world, Plato and Aristotle. This undisputed masterpiece of rational perspective shows the Academy alive with a sea of ancient philosophers and inquisitive scientists engaged in intellectual activities and lively discussions. The vanishing point takes the eye directly to the central standing figures portrayed with upright yet opposing bodily gestures, looking at one another. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/reynolds30.html