From: "Integral World" To: Subject: Open Letter to KW Date: maandag 7 mei 2012 22:35 INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 399 Amsterdam, May 7th, 2012 OPEN LETTER TO KEN WILBER AND INTEGRAL TEACHERS - On boundaries, mechanism of conscious evolution, perennial philosophy and experiential approach to integralism - OLEG LINETSKY First of all I would like to express my deep love and gratitude for the light of wisdom you bring and your incomparable contribution for the good of sentient beings. Your works had a great impact on my own life, for which I am very grateful to you. On my journey through the pages of your books I experienced a true divine joy. In this letter I would like to illuminate a side of the Integral Approach (IA) which up until now remained in the darkness, i.e. boundaries. Just like any other objects inside the quadrants, boundaries are objects that can be felt and realized, so they cannot be ignored and left outside the integral map. There are boundaries, even though also illusory for the non-dual witness. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/linetsky4.html A WIDER PERSPECTIVE ON EVOLUTION - Does The Persistence Of Bacteria, Frogs and Fish Mean That There Is No Overall Direction to Evolution? - JOHN STEWART In two recent essays, Frank Visser (Some Paradoxes of Evolution) and Andrew Smith (Evolution's Quiver) argue that evolution lacks any overall direction. Visser and Smith observe that significant groups of organisms do not appear to have evolved in any general direction for millions and in some cases billions of years. Bacteria are the most obvious example: they have continued to exist as relatively simple, single-celled organisms in huge numbers across a wide variety of environments for well over 3 billion years. Other examples include the many species of frogs and fish that do not seem to have evolved in any particular direction for millions of years. In this essay I will set out to demonstrate that the apparent absence of sustained directional evolution in many groups does not imply a lack of overall direction. I will show that if we stand further back from the history of life on Earth so that we can see past, present and future evolution as a whole, and if we take into account large-scale processes that have begun to emerge recently and that are likely to continue strongly into the future, we will see an unmistakable overall direction. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/jstewart2.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 ----- Geen virus gevonden in dit bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 2012.0.2171 / Virusdatabase: 2425/4983 - datum van uitgifte: 05/07/12