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Newsletter Nr. 1.157
Amsterdam, January 16, 2024

FROM THE ARCHIVES:


THE INVOLUTION/EVOLUTION COSMOLOGY - Ken Wilber Holds on to an Outdated Scheme of Existence - FRANK VISSER

In Ken Wilber's latest book The Religion of Tomorrow: A Vision for the Future of the Great Traditions (2017), a recurring theme is the involution/evolution cosmology as formulated in his integral philosophy, which forms the background to all of his writings. Not many of his readers, even those of his advanced students who have studied all of this books, will be familiar with the notion of "involution", which is the nineteenth century counterpart to the more familiar concept of evolution.

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KEN WILBER AND “MORONIC” EVOLUTION - The Religion of Tomorrow and the misunderstanding of Emergence - DAVID LANE

It has been twenty years [1997] since I first wrote about Ken Wilber's misunderstanding and misrepresentation of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. One would hope that in those intervening two decades Wilber would have at least learned not to keep peddling his mistaken caricature of biological evolution and how it actually works. But that hasn't happened since Wilber in his most recent book, The Religion of Tomorrow (2017), still persists in presenting a false picture of the current theory and in so doing propping up a straw man of his imagining so as to champion his own, not so subtle version of intelligent design.

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https://www.integralworld.net/lane124.html