From: Integral World NL [frank.visser@eurorscg.nl] Sent: zondag 15 oktober 2006 0:12 To: Frank Visser Subject: [personal] Spiritual Narcissism INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 168 Amsterdam, October 15, 2006 WILBER WATCH BLOG: http://wilberwatch.blogspot.com/ SPIRITUAL NARICISSISM - V. Gunnar Larsson "In the beginning of the eighties Chogyam Trungpa wrote an excellent book, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, which has become a classic. Since then we know that most of so-called spirituality, East and West, is just that: spiritual materialism, the feeling/thought that if I do this or that Iīll get, achieve or ad something to myself as an individual. Today it goes hand in hand with consumerism, the core belief of modern society and international capitalism. Now itīs time for an new Trungpa to write a book on an other but related subject, i.e. SPIRITUAL NARCISSISM which has become an accepted phenomenon in some spiritual circles in the West, especially in the US. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/larsson.html SPHERES UPON SPHERES... - Frank Visser "In their view of the world, human beings make a distinction between that which we can know, and that which we cannot know, between the rational and the irrational, between that which can be understood and that which remains a mystery, between the sacred and the profane. Modern science, philosophy and religion in general agree on the location of the dividing line between the knowable and the unknowable, as we will see. In the traditional worldview this dividing line is drawn elsewhere. Because of this, it enlarges our knowledge of the world enormously. The world as such is said to consist of many worlds or spheres. When many spheres are believed in, the question arises as to the nature of the dividing lines between these spheres. Are they absolute, or only gradual? Some are seen as more important than others. In this chapter, we will focus on these dividing lines." Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser-ss-03.html If you know other people interested in this IW Newsletter, please forward this mail to them. Thanks. To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/index.html?newsletter.html To go to the Newsletter Archive, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/index.html?newsletter.html To UNSUBSCRIBE from this Integral World Newsletter, click here: http://frank.e-marketing.eurorscg.net/afmelden.php?a=aa&e=f.visser3@chello.nl&id=9132&m=28 ======================================== Frank Visser, Waterpoortweg 279, 1051 pv, Amsterdam Author of: Ken Wilber: Thought as Passion SUNY 2003 Read all about Ken Wilber : http://www.integralworld.net ========================================