INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 769 Amsterdam, May 7th, 2019 ACCEPTING THE RADICALITY OF DARWIN - The Religious Orthodoxy of Ken Wilber - FRANK VISSER During a three week holiday on the Azores archipelago I read the magnificent but massive 1000-page Darwin biography written by Adrian Desmond and James Moore.[1] It gave me a deeper understanding of the reactionary forces in religion and society Darwin had to battle against to formulate his theory and get his message heard. There were no scientists proper, in those days, most Cambridge geologists were theologians or rich landlords. Not to mention the brutal inner conflicts he suffered, both physically and mentally, caused by the revolutionary and subversive nature of his discoveries, in the midst of Victorian turmoil. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser138.html CAN YOU BE AT A LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT? - EDWARD BERGE It seems common in integral circles to stereotype people by claiming an individual resides at a specific developmental level, as if someone fits easily into one category. Granted the AQAL model allows for different domains or lines to be at different levels, but nonetheless in each domain the claim remains that said domain is at a specific, measurable level. In addition, there is the concept of a center of gravity (COG), generally associated with the self-related or ego line, as it is apparently the organizing structure for the other levels and lines. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/berge10.html