Van: "Integral World" Aan: Onderwerp: Two Darwins? Datum: maandag 23 februari 2015 8:42 INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 551 Amsterdam, February 23th, 2015 DUPLICATING DARWIN - Ken Wilber's and David Loye's Misreading of Neo-Darwinism - FRANK VISSER A recent IntegralLife.com members-only audio "For the Love of Darwin: Beyond the Selfish Gene" (Feb. 16, 2015) features a conversation between Ken Wilber and David Loye about the supposed limitations of neo-Darwinism. They talk about the many books Loye has self-published on a new, more spiritual, interpretation of Darwin, which matches Wilber's spiritualized view of evolution. They both see neo-Darwinism as an extremely limited and even destructive view, which needs to be complemented by a wider and more spiritual view of Darwin. Loye even claims that Darwin, in his later works, was hinting at exactly such an expanded view of evolution. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser82.html DARWIN’S MORAL SENSE - The Evolution of a Conscience [What's Love Got to Do with It?] - DAVID LANE AND ANDREA DIEM-LANE The implication running throughout the interview is that somehow Darwin’s evolutionary views on morality and love have somehow been woefully neglected by more traditional scholars, since they (according to Wilber and his ilk) overly stress “The essentials about this is that the way Darwin is particularly interpreted today, is the Darwin of the ‘Survival of the Fittest’ and ‘The Selfish Gene’ and nothing but ‘it’s a jungle out there’ and ‘it’s a vicious world’ and ‘it’s nasty, brutish and short’ and ‘that’s the way nature is built and therefore that’s the way humans are built as well”. And this has been used as a justification for all sorts of the most vile and wretched human behavior imaginable.’” Here Ken Wilber is creating a classic straw man argument, since evolutionists are not made out of a single cloth nor do the majority of them agree with justifying “vile and and wretched human behavior” because of Darwinism. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/lane87.html KEN WILBER, JOSEPH CAMPBELL, & THE MEANING OF LIFE - How Two Great Thinkers Collaborate to Give Us The Ultimate Hero's Journey of Personal Growth & Human Development - Installment #4: System #8 -- Evolution & Involution - HUGH & KAYE MARTIN Ken Wilber's four 'Transcendent States,' the 'Pre-Trans Fallacy,' 'Spirit,' 'True Self,' 'Witness,' 'Waking Up,' and 'Spirit-in-Action.' How do these esoteric and abstruse concepts square with the Martin's ADAPT Model? These all pertain to Spiritual Growth -- the higher levels of consciousness whereby we experience transcendent bliss, awaken to the Divine Presence, or submit to the guidance of Providence. Spiritual Growth[1] is a process of Awakening -- of waking up to universal spiritual truths that are unchanging and eternal. This contrasts to normal Actualization Growth, which is the process of changing and 'metamorphosing' from one Stage to the next. - The Transcendent States. Ken Wilber's four higher States of consciousness. - The Romantic Fallacy. Where we mistake primitive Stages for higher States of consciousness. And its opposite: The Inverse Romantic Fallacy. - The Twin Aspects of the Divine Presence: The Immanent Presence, or Core Self. The Transcendent Presence, or Witness. - Awakening. The process of Waking Up to the Realm of the Spirit. - Spiritual Practices. Everything from yoga and tai chi to meditation and prayer. - Spiritual Guides. Pathfinders to the spirit world with no pretensions to infallibility or godhood. - Developmental Sequences. Progressions of growth for each of nine Arenas in the Realm of the Spirit. - Providence. Shakespeare's Hamlet says: 'There is a Divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we may.' How true is this? To show you how the process of Spiritual Growth helps people to grow, we present a case study: Jean Valjean from Les Miserables -- Jean Valjean, one of the Wretched of the Earth, is awakened to the Divine Presence through a gift of unconditional love. He thereafter dedicates his life to alleviating suffering and serving humanity. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/martin38.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