Van: Integral World [newsletter@integralworld.net] Verzonden: maandag 13 september 2010 17:41 Aan: f.visser3@chello.nl Onderwerp: [personal] Beyond Mind INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 331 Amsterdam, September 13th, 2010 THE TRANSRELIGIOUS FALLACY IN WILBER’S WRITINGS - AND ITS RELATION WITH WILBER’S “PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION” AND VIEWS - Elias Capriles Wilber (1998, p. 318) has noted that: Chögyam Trungpa (1988) pointed out in Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, as did Huston Smith (1976) in Forgotten Truth, that the great wisdom traditions without exception—from the shamanic to the Vedantic, in the East as well as the West—maintain that reality consists of at least three great realms: earth, human and sky, correlated with body, mind and spirit (gross, subtle and causal), and these are further correlated with the three great states of human consciousness: waking (gross, body), dream (subtle, mind) and deep sleep (causal, spirit). This is an instance of what here I will call the “transreligious fallacy,” which lies in ascribing views, practices and other elements of one spiritual tradition, to other traditions in which they simply do not fit. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/capriles1.html An ADDTHIS button has been placed at the top-left of the homepage, so you can send this site to your social neworks friends easily. If you know other people interested in this Integral World 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