From: Integral World [f.visser3@chello.nl] Sent: zaterdag 31 maart 2007 15:45 To: f.visser3@chello.nl Subject: [personal] Integral Religious Studies INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 189 Amsterdam, March 31, 2007 WILBER WATCH BLOG: "AQAL Journal" http://wilberwatch.blogspot.com/ This week we pre-publish a chapter from a book Dustin DiPerna wrote and sent in for recommendation. Next week there will be no newsletter for I will be hiking in the Mallorca mountains! INTRODUCTION TO INTEGRAL RELIGIOUS STUDIES - AN INFINITE LADDER - Dustin DiPerna. As a birthright, each and everyone of us has the inherent capacity to develop through the spectrum of conscious proposed in this chapter. All of us find ourselves in a situation that deserves both reverence and gratitude. No longer must one wait until death to live in a heaven or paradise. If there truly is to be a heaven on earth, one place it rests is in both the realization and stabilization of these higher levels of development. As Christ proclaimed “The Kingdom of Heaven is within you”. “Enlightenment,” as some Buddhist and Hindus demand, “is within the reach of every human being in this very lifetime.” This chapter describes five stages of Religious Orientation. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/diperna01.html FINAL REPLY TO MEYERHOFF - Ray Harris I'm not sure how much further this stoush between Meyerhoff and myself can usefully go, nor am I sure how many are really interested anyway. So to end my side of the debate let me finish with these few remarks. Meyerhoff wonders why my replies have been so quick. I'm fortunate to be currently writing full time (this won't last), otherwise it might very well take weeks. Meyerhoff links the speed of my replies to what he implies is sloppy scholarship and my negligence in quoting 'scholarly' sources. My reply to this is simple; you don't set the rules of the debate Meyerhoff. My original article was a response to a request by Frank to make a comment on the Middle East. I chose an informal 'opinion piece' style. I suppose I could have been more 'academic', but Frank was happy to accept it as it was. As far as I'm aware Frank has no specific editorial or style guidelines so there was no obligation on me to quote academic sources or play by Meyerhoff's debate rules. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/harris35.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/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UPDATE your email address or UNSUBSCRIBE, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/login.php To go to the Newsletter Archive, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/newsletter.html