Van: "Integral World" Aan: Onderwerp: Near Death Experiences Datum: donderdag 6 februari 2014 16:06 INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 489 Amsterdam, February 6th, 2014 THE MATERIAL BASIS OF NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES - Exploring the Patricia Churchland and the Alex Tsakiris Controversy - David Christopher Lane and Andrea Diem-Lane Early in the morning of January 30, 2014, I became aware of a recent interview of Patricia Smith Churchland, the renowned neurophilosopher, which was conducted via telephone by Alex Tsakiris which was posted on his website Skeptiko.com under the tabloid like headline: DR. PATRICIA CHURCHLAND SANDBAGGED BY NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE QUESTIONS. Since I have been aware of Professor Churchland's ideas since the early 1980s when she first arrived at UCSD (along with her equally respected philosopher-husband Paul) where I was also teaching and doing work on my Ph.D., I was intrigued to find out precisely how she got "sandbagged.? Interestingly, that very morning I also noticed that the interview had gone somewhat viral, as I received several letters and postings from various parts of the globe directing me to the interview and lambasting Churchland for her responses to Tsakiris. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/lane67.html THE ENSOULING OF COMMUNITY AND THE EMERGENT SPIRIT OF SOCIETY - Joe Corbett The spirit of society as a collective Buddha will require more than just the self-organizing tendency toward increasing complexity between the parts of a technologically distributed system of actors and institutions. It will require real human beings to make the inter-subjective bonds of soulful compassion and mutual understanding through empathy. Realizing the power and wealth of the Buddha among and between us will require a deep connection to one another, an unbreakable bond of love and trust that now only our closest relationships can give us within the competitive system of capitalism. The next evolutionary emergence of society, of spirit in history, will require the re-ensouling of society itself based on the realization and practice of our deepest humanity in a shared commons. The next stage of human evolution will require no less than a participatory spirituality with socialist dimensions. Anything less will surely doom spirit to a godless and terminal unfolding. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/corbett19.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