Van:	Integral World [newsletter@integralworld.net]
Verzonden:	maandag 18 januari 2010 9:15
Aan:	f.visser3@chello.nl
Onderwerp:	[personal] Soul Survival

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Newsletter Nr. 309
Amsterdam, January 18th, 2010


INTEGRATED METAPHYSICAL REFLECTIONS - Elliot Benjamin

I found Frank Visser's recent Integral World article New Light on the Near-
Death Experience?, to be interesting and provocative. Visser focused upon the 
near-death experience research of Pim van Lommel, and included a description 
of skeptics and believers regarding parapsychology that he referred to 
respectively as “hawks” and “doves.” Visser characterized himself as a “dove 
who is very much interested in what hawks come up with.” I can relate well to 
Frank's self-characterization, although I am probably somewhat closer to the 
center than he is. In this article I would like to offer some of my own 
reflections on these metaphysical issues, based upon my recent experiences at 
a Soul Survival workshop at the holistic retreat center Omega in New York 
State, in which I was able to gain first-hand experiences with some of the 
foremost celebrity spokespeople in the world in the areas of near-death 
experience, past-life regression, mediumship, and mysticism: respectively 
Raymond Moody, Brian Weiss, John Holland, and Joan Borysenko.

Read more:
http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin22.html


FURTHER REFLECTIONS ON COMPLEXITY - Gregory Desilet

Obama's decision may indeed be the best course of action given the stakes and 
the forces and variables involved.Jeff Meyerhoff, in his recent response 
"Transcending Complexity and the Pakistani Bomb" to my comments on his 
Integral World piece titled “The Personal, the Political and the Integral,” 
makes several notable points—some of which I disagree with but which are 
nevertheless worthy of response. I'd like to note how much I appreciate his 
style, tone, respect, and insight when responding to other's comments and the 
example I see him providing—which I shall try to emulate—when engaged in 
argument and discussion with others with whom he may disagree. In the current 
highly polarized political climate in the United States, it's refreshing to 
see Meyerhoff's approach. 

Read more:
http://www.integralworld.net/desilet4.html


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