From: Integral World [frank.visser@eurorscg.nl] Sent: dinsdag 4 juli 2006 0:05 To: f.visser3@chello.nl Subject: [personal] For the Record INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 156 Amsterdam, July 3, 2006 FOR THE RECORD: FINAL COMMENTS ON WILBER'S BLOG POSTINGS After raging and ranting about his critics in the now infamous blog posting "What We Are; That We See", Wilber has recently added a final insult to the contributors of this Integral Website. It is a place of "sleazy", "tabloid" journalism – of "liars and cattle thieves", as Wyatt Earp would say – never to be used by anybody seriously interested in Wilber's philosophy. Hopefully, this is my last reflection on the events following Wilber's outbursts against his critics... It would be a healthy understanding to dawn on everybody that integral philosophy is wider then Wilber's version of it - a fact he has readily acknowledged - and that other versions of it can and should be explored. But also, that a critical analysis of Wilbers theoretical proposals outside of the in-group context of the integral organizations, would be very timely. So not only "integrally informed", but "sceptically informed" as well. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser14.html TOWARDS A LARGER DEFINITION OF THE INTEGRAL The word “integral” is a big part of interdisciplinary theorist Ken Wilber's philosophy, and of the generic movement that has developed around it (Integral Institute, Integral Naked, Integral studies, etc). But it is also found in other teachings as well, for example, the Bengali sage and yogic revolutionary Sri Aurobindo uses it to refer to the particular spiritual path he taught (“Integral Yoga”). A lot of people have adapted and adopted it. There's the California Institute of Integral Studies for example, which has absolutely nothing to do with Wilber, and the Integral Review, an interdisciplinary journal. It behooves us therefore to provide a wider definition that can accommodate all these specialised uses. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/kazlev1.html FURTHER ADDITIONS: 07/02/06: Anthony Galli's reply to Harris called "A Fair Response" has been added to the Reading Room. 07/02/06: Anthony Galli's reply to Harris called "That Old Time Religion" has been added to the Reading Room. 07/02/06: Anthony Galli's reply to Harris called "Final Thoughts" has been added to the Reading Room. 07/01/06: Chapter 7 of Jeff Meyerhoff's "Bald Ambition", called "Poststructuralism and Postmodernism", has been added to the Reading Room. If you know other people interested in this IW Newsletter, please forward this mail to them. Thanks. To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/index.html?newsletter.html To go to the Newsletter Archive, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/index.html?newsletter.html To UNSUBSCRIBE from this Integral World Newsletter, click here: http://frank.e-marketing.eurorscg.net/afmelden.php?a=aa&e=f.visser3@chello.nl&id=3272&m=13 ======================================== Frank Visser, Waterpoortweg 279, 1051 pv, Amsterdam Author of: Ken Wilber: Thought as Passion SUNY 2003 Read all about Ken Wilber : http://www.integralworld.net ========================================