From: "Integral World" To: Subject: The Feynman Delusion Date: zondag 26 augustus 2012 22:36 INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 414 Amsterdam, August 26th, 2012 THE FEYNMAN DELUSION - The True Cause of Ecological Devastation and Worldwide Economic Collapse - DON SALMON I think it's obvious to any Integral World reader that I think physicalism is a faith-based, unfalsifiable, bizarre, non-empirical, dogmatic belief system which is impeding progress in virtually all areas of science, particularly neuroscience, but in evolutionary biology and physics as well. 'The scheme [science] has built up of the evolution not only of this rich and vast and variegated material world, but of life and consciousness and mind and their workings... is an irrational magic more baffling than any the most mystic imagination could conceive.' —Sri Aurobindo Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/salmon14.html THE WHEN AND WHERE OF GOD: The Middle East, the Big Question, and the Star Key - Mike McDermott In the whole universe of events, none is more wonderful than the birth of wonder, none more curious than the nascence of curiosity itself, nothing to compare with the dawning of consciousness in the ancient dark and the gradual extension of psychic life and illumination throughout a cosmos that before had only been. An eternity of blindly acting, transforming, unconscious existence, assuming at length, through the birth of sense and intellect, without loss or break of continuity, the abiding form of fleeting time. Discrimination, as the proverb rightly teaches, is the beginning of mind. The first psychic product of that initial psychic act is numerical: to discriminate is to produce two, the simplest possible example of multiplicity. The discovery, or better the invention, better still the production, best of all the creation, of multiplicity with its correlate of number, is, therefore, the most primitive achievement or manifestation of mind . . . Let us, then, trust the arithmetic instinct as fundamental and, for instruments of thought that shall not fail, repair at once to the domain of number. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/pdf/mcdermott-3a.pdf 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 -----