Van: "Integral World" Aan: Onderwerp: Mind and Cosmos Datum: woensdag 23 april 2014 23:06 INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 501 Amsterdam, April 23rd, 2014 BIASED TOWARD THE MARVELOUS? - Integral Reflections on Thomas Nagel's Mind and Cosmos - FRANK VISSER Philosopher Thomas Nagel's latest book Mind and Cosmos—ominously sub-titled "Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False"—invites reflections and comparisons from an integral perspective, given the similarity of this views with Ken Wilber's integral philosophy. Both defend the irreducibility of subjectivity against the materialist philosophy of mind which equates mind and brain. Both are very skeptical of the validity or at least the completeness of evolutionary theory to explain the marvelous complexities of Nature. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser68.html THE EDGAR CAYCE KOAN - Psychic Unknowingness and Our Amaurotic Tendencies - DAVID LANE I appreciated Elliot Benjamin's agnostic purview as outlined in his recent article ["Agnosticism and Fundamentalist Mediumship"], particularly his acceptance of alternative viewpoints concerning how mediums garner information. I found the unnamed “President's” pointed rejoinder to Benjamin (where he snidely queries, “do you think that everything Edgar Cayce said in his readings was just his imagination?”) to be not only silly, but also more of a rhetorical boomerang than he might have realized. Why? Because a close analysis of the Cayce readings that was conducted by K. Paul Johnson, a sympathetic scholar who was encouraged in his research by A.R.E., didn't find anything of a truly paranormal nature. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/lane73.html AGNOSTICISM AND FUNDAMENTALIST MEDIUMSHIP - ELLIOT BENJAMIN I recently decided to cancel my membership in an organization that sponsors conferences regarding “afterlife research,” in which a few years ago I had attended some conferences and gave talks pertaining to my agnostic experiential afterlife research with mediums (see my dissertation/book in [3]). I will leave this organization unnamed to preserve anonymity, but my reasons for deciding to cancel my membership are directly related to a change in the leadership of this organization that has resulted in their belief that “the afterlife has been proven,” and consequently to a rejection of my agnostic perspective on the question of the existence of life after death. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin65.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