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Newsletter Nr. 1.449
Amsterdam, November 16, 2025


Science And Metaphysics, Does Ken Wilber Want To Have It Both Ways? - Jan Krikke / ChatGPT

Short answer: Yes—Wilber does want to have it both ways, but not in the simplistic sense critics often assume. He wants an integrative worldview in which science and metaphysics address different dimensions of the same reality. However, this creates tensions and ambiguities that you have identified correctly.

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https://www.integralworld.net/krikke23.html

Integration or Conflation? A Scholarly Critique of Wilber's Science-Religion Synthesis - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

The central issue is not that Wilber includes spirituality in philosophical discourse, but that he treats spiritual metaphysics as an explanatory engine for empirical phenomena—especially evolution, cosmology, and consciousness—without meeting the evidentiary and methodological standards of the scientific disciplines he invokes.
A series of 10 essays reflecting on this dark period of integral history.

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https://www.integralworld.net/visser663.html

Toward a Responsible Integration of Science and Religion: Lessons from the Wilber Experiment - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

This follow-up essay explores a more disciplined path: one that respects epistemic diversity without collapsing domains, and one that treats both science and religion as evolving, self-correcting enterprises rather than frozen bodies of doctrine.

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https://www.integralworld.net/visser664.html