Van: "Integral World" Aan: Onderwerp: On Syria Datum: dinsdag 24 september 2013 21:48 INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 466 Amsterdam, September 24th, 2013 SYRIA WAR OR DIPLOMACY - An Integral Solution? - ELLIOT BENJAMIN However, I still don't think that dropping bombs is the answer. The repercussions of this kind of military action against Syria could involve nightmares that have been continuously described all over the internet, and therefore I won't describe them further here. But at the same time, I believe Obama's military threat was a crucial component in this very complicated integral story. Perhaps the moral is that all the diverse integral components were necessary to make this soup digestible. And I hope and pray that this soup will stay digestible. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin56.html ACCEPTING EXOPOLITICS IN THE INTEGRAL THEORY COMMUNITY - Beyond Pre-Integral 'Sovereignty' Biases? - GIORGIO PIACENZA As a species we are indeed developing new capacities of understanding and of relating with "reality" along with an integral awareness that orderly/hierarchically integrates our individuality (our part-ness) to a planetary but kosmically interconnected whole beckoning us (the planetary-kosmocentric civilization). By enough people choosing to develop into this calling the human species itself will earn its planetary-level SOVEREIGNTY before the very real, already amply verified reality of extraterrestrial civilizations already visiting us (themselves expressing their own integral planetary consciousness but perhaps with a complex history following a service to self or a service to others orientation) Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/piacenza33.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