Van: "Integral World" Aan: Onderwerp: Crazy Wisdom Datum: zondag 1 september 2013 21:44 INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 465 Amsterdam, September 1st, 2013 CRAZY WISDOM, BUDDHA NATURE AND THE GURU - BARCLAY POWERS Recently I saw a statement by a Chinese Zen master who said the purpose of both sudden and gradual enlightenment is to understand Buddha nature. The goal of this article is to explore the meditation theory of consciousness evolution, and the dramatic conflict between the rational worldview and narrative paradigm descriptions of reality. Essentially, three fields - psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience - have emerged in the last century, which have more or less resulted in a bizarre reductionist narrative in which the human brain is regarded as self. Now there are exceptions to this supposed rational worldview, which scientism has given us, such as transpersonal psychology and contemplative neuroscience, but we have been sold an academic and media based narrative in which Western mechanistic science has proven both theistic and nontheistic spiritual traditions to be largely based on superstitious myth. The idea that many of the world's religions may be based on a fundamental truth that can be explained by science has not yet emerged in the 21st century. The question that arises when seeking a clear, scientific, rational non-psychological explanation of Buddha nature is shocking. Is there a lost structure of enlightened consciousness within all human beings, which completely shatters the postmodern scientific narrative that underlies the supposed rational worldview? Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/powers12.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