INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 800 Amsterdam, October 3rd, 2019 MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCIENCE - Basic Introduction to Multi-Dimensional Science - ROBERT SEARLE Multi-Dimensional Science, or MDS represents a new revolutionary approach towards a more objective understanding of claimed psychic, and spiritual phenomena. If possible, and if ultimately correct it could in the future have extraordinary benefits for the advancement of the human race. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/searle1.html WHY INTEGRAL AQAL HAS NOT GAINED BROADER ACCEPTANCE AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT - How the distinction between embodied cognition and abstract reasoning derived from George Lakoff can be used to understand how Integral tends to be its own worst enemy - JOSEPH DILLARD The insights and research of cognitive linguist and philosopher George Lakoff are helpful. Lakoff is perhaps best known in the popular press for his work as a political consultant, due to his analysis of conservativism as appealing to an authoritative “father” model of embodied cognition while liberalism resonates with a nurturing “mother” integration of embodied cognition. In a number of research papers and books, beginning with the 1980 Metaphors We Live By, written with Mark Johnson, Lakoff demonstrated that embodied metaphors largely control the reasoning of humanity. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/dillard29a.html LITERAL SAM HARRIS - SCOTT F. PARKER This image keeps coming to me: Sam Harris holding a magnifying glass up to his squinting eye as he examines a novel, utterly confident in his ability to locate the book's thesis. Where is Christopher Hitchens when you need him to remind Harris that intelligence in a reader is the capacity for irony? For all his power of intellect, Harris seems incapable of carrying on any of his public conversations without reducing every statement he meets to a mere truth claim. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/parker10.html