From: Integral World [newsletter@integralworld.net]
Sent: zondag 4 januari 2009 22:51
To: f.visser3@chello.nl
Subject: [personal] Dimensions of Experience

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Newsletter Nr. 262
Amsterdam, January 4th, 2009


Best wishes for all Integral World readers for 2009!

2009 sees the bicentenary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the 
publication of his seminal work, ‘On the Origin of Species’. Hopefully Ken Wilber 
will flesh out his notions on evolution this year.


Andy Smith has self-published his book THE DIMENSIONS OF EXPERIENCE and requested 
to put live a new version of the first chapter of that book, published on Integral 
World some time ago:


THE DIMENSIONS OF EXPERIENCE, CHAPTER ONE: HOW HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF - Andrew Smith

Nothing seems to separate us so clearly from other forms of life on earth than our 
consciousness, yet perhaps nothing so connects us, either. Much of what we are conscious 
of—those hopes and dreams, as well as ideas, concepts, visions, the past, the future, 
the possible, the impossible, and most of all, our knowledge of being conscious—we completely 
share with no other animals on earth. Yet the simple fact that we are conscious, that we 
experience anything at all, is by no means unique to us. Some bold thinkers would argue 
that consciousness in this sense is universal. 

Read more:
http://www.integralworld.net/smith27.html


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