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Newsletter Nr. 1.479
Amsterdam, December 21, 2025


The Waters That Would Not Fall: Precipitation and the Dreaming Kosmos, The Dreaming Kosmos, Chapter 15 - Joseph Dillard

In the oldest telling of the Rig Veda, the world once stood under a strange tension. The waters were present, but they did not flow. They were gathered, compressed, held fast behind a great obstruction, Vrtra, the serpent of containment, whose coils bound the rivers in the sky and the veins of the earth alike. Nothing was broken. Nothing was missing. And yet life could not continue.

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The Precipitation of Dreams, The Cloud That Could No Longer Hold the Rain, The Dreaming Kosmos, Chapter 16 - Joseph Dillard

In Persian mythology, the Simurgh, ancestor of the Phoenix, does not rise because it chooses transformation. She rises because remaining as she is becomes impossible. When the burden of accumulated age, knowledge, and fire exceeds her capacity to hold form, she burns, dissolves, and precipitates anew. The fire is not punishment; it is release. Renewal is not intention; it is consequence.

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Spirit-in-Action or Explanatory Evasion?, Why the Wilber-Evolution Debate Refuses to Go Away - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

At first glance, this defense appears to dissolve the conflict. On closer inspection, however, it exposes a deeper ambiguity at the heart of Wilber's project—one that explains why the debate remains unresolved and, for many, deeply frustrating.

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