From: Integral World [frank.visser@eurorscg.nl]
Sent: dinsdag 8 augustus 2006 0:03
To: f.visser3@chello.nl
Subject: [personal] Open Letter to the Integral Community

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Newsletter Nr. 161
Amsterdam, August 8, 2006



WILBER WATCH BLOG: "INTEGRAL WITHOUT HYPE"
http://wilberwatch.blogspot.com/


OPEN LETTER TO THE INTEGRAL COMMUNITY

Jeff Arnold sent me his personal and considered response to the 
Whyat Earp episode, in the form of an Open Letter:
"This letter was prompted by Ken's "Wyatt Earpy" posts and all of 
the subsequent  posting and blogging in the integral world to date (8/7/06.) 
The reason for me to add my voice to all that has already been written, 
is to give some feedback from the "rank-and-file." I am not a published 
writer or blogger or contributor to any websites.  I am 57 years old and 
have been active in the spiritual community for the past 37 years. 
For the past 3+ years I have been a member of an integral studies group 
which began as – and still is – a Ken Wilber "Meetup"
group. I consider myself an open-minded reader, and I do check in at 
Frank Visser's "Integral World" every now and then..." 

Read more:
http://www.integralworld.net/arnold.html


MY TAKE ON WILBER-5

As a heads up of my review of "Integral Spirituality", here are some of 
my preliminary thoughts:
"In the yet to be published book Integral Spirituality, and in various 
online postings of the past couple of years, Wilber has summarized his 
post-metaphysical view[1], generally called “Wilber-5”. This phase can 
be understood as an attempt to shed any attachments to the perennialist 
word view, which postulates a series of ontological levels of being, or 
worlds. Since knowledge of these worlds can only be speculative, the 
argument runs, modernity and postmodernity will dismiss them as metaphysics 
in the bad sense of the word (not based on experience). But Wilber claims 
his post-metaphysical reconstruction can salvage the essence of the 
primordial traditions, without their ontological baggage."  

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Frank Visser, Waterpoortweg 279, 1051 pv, Amsterdam

Author of: Ken Wilber: Thought as Passion SUNY 2003

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