Van: "Integral World" Aan: Onderwerp: On Trivedi Datum: woensdag 22 januari 2014 11:48 INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 486 Amsterdam, January 22th, 2014 THE PATCHWORK CLOAK OF INTEGRAL THEORY - Ken Wilber's Central Blind-Spot - Julian Walker Something funny happened on the way to realizing the “Integral vision”: I read more on the various subjects in which Wilber had piqued my interest: philosophy of mind, neuroscience, psychology in general, evolutionary biology. In so doing, I began to see some problems that recast my opinion of his work as a whole. There was always a sinking feeling in my gut about his involvement with controversial and by all accounts abusive and narcissistic gurus, Adi Da Samraj and Andrew Cohen, but when in 2010 Wilber endorsed another guru named Trivedi I was dumbfounded. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/walker1.html WE ALL WANNA CHANGE THE WORLD - A Scientific Analysis of the Claims of Mahendra Kumar Trivedi - Andrew P. Smith There is no attempt in the paper to explain the results in terms of current scientific theory—on the contrary, the authors seem to think the fact that no theory can possibly explain them is some kind of recommendation: “These results cannot be explained by current theories of science, and indicate a potency in Mr.Trivedi's energy…” Yet if he is claiming physical effects, there has to be a link somewhere with physical theory, and even a minimal theory base is lacking. No attempt even to recognize, let alone engage with, these issues is made in the paper. It's basically just, this is what we found, believe it or not. I understand this is a preliminary study, but given how radical this finding is, it demands a far more thorough analysis even before publishing. The paper reads more like a quick-and-dirty study that can be referenced to prop up Trivedi's grandiose claims. It's very telling that he is apparently making claims in all kinds of other fields—materials science and agriculture, for example—rather than taking the scientifically far more astute approach of focusing on a single phenomenon and exhaustively studying it. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/smith46.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