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Newsletter Nr. 1.451
Amsterdam, November 18, 2025


Liberated from Ideology: Why a Secular Perspective Feels Expansive, Not Nihilistic - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

In discussions with followers of various spiritual traditions, I am often accused of harboring a “flatland” materialism—a reductionist worldview that, by their lights, leaves little room for mystery, purpose, or transcendence. Sometimes the charge is paired with the label of nihilism, implying a moral or existential vacuum in which life has no significance beyond the material. 
Yet this accusation misses the lived reality of my own perspective. Far from experiencing life as empty or constrained, I find a profound sense of liberation in a secular, naturalistic worldview—a freedom from preordained ideologies rather than a loss of depth or meaning.

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https://www.integralworld.net/visser667.html

Between Seeing and Thinking: A Skeptical Meditation on Metaphysics - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Metaphysics often begins innocently enough: with simple observations, close to experience, uncontaminated by doctrine. Before the grand systems, before cosmologies and hierarchies of planes, there is the basic human fact: we are aware. We see the world of things—tables, trees, streets, bodies. We also observe the flow of thoughts—memories, worries, interpretations, fantasies. And then, with some introspective attention, something still more subtle becomes clear: there is an implicit sense of the one who knows, the silent witness to both the world and the contents of the mind.

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https://www.integralworld.net/visser668.html