Van: "Integral World" Aan: Onderwerp: A Cosmic You? Datum: vrijdag 3 april 2015 21:10 INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 556 Amsterdam, April 3rd, 2015 ‘IN EROS WE TRUST’ - Reflections on Integral Religiosity - FRANK VISSER This is, for sure, an inspiring message for a spiritually inclined audience, which gets implicitly reassured that science is on board too—even complexity science. For that science has supposedly shown that evolution—nay, the whole Cosmos—is driven by a mysterious Something called Eros or Higher Wisdom to produce complexity and consciousness. On that foundation, Wilber erects his religious superstructure of the three Faces of Spirit (the traditional Trinity of the mythic religions retranslated into the integral speak of I, We and It). But what if that foundation is shaky? Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser84.html REVIEW OF "THE CREATIVE ARTIST" - BY ELLIOT BENJAMIN - RUTH RICHARDS This unique book, The Creative Artist, Mental Disturbance and Mental Health, by Elliot Benjamin, Ph.D., should perhaps be classified as autoethnography, and is a very readable gift of personal sharing and artistic promise. Here one finds theory, personal contemplation over a few decades, sections of a novel, and vivid in-the-moment notes from his creative and adventurous son, also leading the creative artistic life in a society that doesn't always encourage it. Both are clearly persons of exceptional creative talent and complexity—and of persistence and strength. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin73.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