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Newsletter Nr. 1.450
Amsterdam, November 17, 2025


The Three Faces of God — or the Projection of Metaphysics onto Nature?s - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Ken Wilber's notion of the Three Faces of God was meant as a unifying framework. He presents it as a corrective to the fragmentation of spirituality: science sees only the third-person cosmos; devotional traditions privilege second-person relationship; contemplative mysticism dissolves into first-person identity.
Thus, according to Wilber, there aren't multiple metaphysical truths—only multiple perspectives on the same ultimate reality. It sounds inclusive, elegant—and suspiciously too convenient.

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https://www.integralworld.net/visser665.html

The Fifth Force That Explains Nothing - Ken Wilber's Eros and the Failure of Metaphysical Evolution - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Brad Reynolds' response is lengthy, confident, and rhetorically polished—but it functions less as a rebuttal and more as a reframing maneuver. Instead of engaging the central criticism—that Wilber attributes evolutionary directionality to a metaphysical principle (Eros) presented as a quasi-force—Reynolds attempts to relocate the discussion to a different epistemic playing field where Wilber can never be wrong and critique can never be legitimate.

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https://www.integralworld.net/visser666.html