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Newsletter Nr. 1.242
Amsterdam, October 4, 2024


CONTEXTUALIZING INTEGRAL THEORY - JAN KRIKKE

Indian spiritual philosophy played a key role in the birth of the New Age Movement and in Ken Wilber's Integral Theory. New Age "mainstreamed" Indian practices like yoga and meditation, and Wilber integrated Indian spirituality in his philosophical framework. But in "translating" India's spiritual traditions for a Western audience and taking it out of its cultural environment, New Age and Ken Wilber "decontextualized" India's spiritual tradition. Which raises the question: What is the original Indian context or environment in which its spiritual traditions developed? A session with ChatGPT offers to following observations.

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