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Newsletter Nr. 1.478
Amsterdam, December 20, 2025


Which Will We Encounter First: Extraterrestrial Intelligence or a Wilberian Reply on Evolution? - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

The question, then, is not merely humorous. It is methodological. Which event is more probable: first contact with ET, or a detailed Wilberian reckoning with mainstream evolutionary biology and its critics?

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The Spirit That Never Acts, Why Wilber's 'Spirit of Evolution' Explains Nothing - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Ken Wilber's Sex, Ecology, Spirituality carries one of the most programmatic subtitles in contemporary spiritual philosophy: The Spirit of Evolution. It is not a casual flourish. It announces an ambition—to reinterpret the entire evolutionary story as the self-unfolding of Spirit itself. 

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The Return of the Pre/Trans Fallacy, How Integral Theory Fell Victim to Its Own Diagnostic Tool - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Joseph Dillard's recent observation sharpens this irony to a point. His claim is not that Integral Theory is wrong because it is spiritual, mystical, or transpersonal. His claim is that Wilber and many of his defenders fail Wilber's own tests—and that this failure is structural, not accidental.

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