Van: Integral World [newsletter@integralworld.net] Verzonden: zondag 27 november 2011 19:33 Aan: f.visser3@upcmail.nl Onderwerp: [personal] Radical Atheism INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 380 Amsterdam, November 27th, 2011 RADICAL ATHEISM AND NEW SPIRITUALITY Where the New Atheists Go Wrong but Why You Should Still Be an Atheist GREGORY DESILET The tide of media celebrities in the first decade of the new century carried a wave of secular pundits referred to as the new atheists who were provoked, as they might say, into doing more than proclaiming their atheism. Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris are the most prominent voices among these atheists-turned-religious-critics. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/desilet5.html KEN WILBER (PHILOSOPHER-KING) In Search of Spiritual Domination of the Fittest JOE CORBETT In the past I have been critical of Ken Wilber's omission of Justice as a seminal categorical dimension of the AQAL matrix (LR quadrant), as he has consistently not only not given it even a second rate consideration to the so- called 'big three' of truth, beauty, and goodness, but he has completely erased it as a consideration at all from the integral agenda. This silent omission (slight of hand? misdirection? suppression?) is a clear sign that a shadow force is at work in the subconscious of Ken Wilber and his inner circle of devotees. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/corbett9.html INTEGRAL THEOLOGY GIORGIO PIACENZA CABRERA Because I'm interested in the integration of the esoteric and mystical understandings of the world's religions, I'm interested in Rabbi Isaac Luria's "Tzimtzum" (Klein, 2000). It is an idea that approximately means “contraction” and that tries to reconcile the Bible, Jewish mystical exegesis and tradition, Aristotelianism and Platonism. I also think that –in today's interconnected world- the Semitic idea of "Creation" and the more Easterner idea of "Emanation" (like for Plotinus) can be and need to be harmonized. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/piacenza11.html To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UNSUBSCRIBE, update your account by logging in. For explanation, see: http://www.integralworld.net/nl_faq.html