From: Integral World [f.visser3@chello.nl]
Sent: zaterdag 16 december 2006 19:18
To: f.visser3@chello.nl
Subject: [personal] Hanegraaff on Wilber

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Newsletter Nr. 175
Amsterdam, December 17, 2006



WILBER WATCH BLOG: 
http://wilberwatch.blogspot.com/

"INTEGRAL INFLATION"

In 2002, Wouter Hanegraaff, the author of New Age Religion and Western Culture, reviewed 
the Dutch edition of my book on Wilber. Here's the English version:

"EVERYONE IS RIGHT": FRANK VISSER'S ANALYSIS OF KEN WILBER - Wouter Hanegraaff

"Ken Wilber is an unknown celebrity. This American autodidact, born in 1949, currently 
has written 19 books on psychology and spirituality, which have been translated in more 
then 20 languages. At his 50th birthday, the publication of The Collected Works of Ken 
Wilber was started, which now comprise eight voluminous tomes. Wilber's biographer and 
exegete Frank Visser comments that this makes him “the most translated American author 
of academic works”. 

However, Visser's Dutch language study is internationally seen the first integral 
analysis of Wilber and his oeuvre, which has been published by a non-university 
publishing house [the US edition was published by SUNY Press]. In university circles 
interest in Wilber is almost absent: few psychologists of religion or scientists 
of religion know his name, let alone have read his work. The reason for this is not 
hard to see..."

Read more:
http://www.integralworld.net/hanegraaff.html


REINCARNATION AND THE SPHERES - Frank Visser

"I would like to draw attention to some issues related to reincarnation, that deserve 
more attention. Is there a self that reincarnates? Or does reincarnation occur without 
an enduring self that reincarnates, as most Buddhist schools proclaim? What to make of 
the complex view of reincarnation that is presented in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, 
which is becoming more and more popular in the Western world thanks to the efforts of 
Tibetan lamas such as Chögyam Trunpga and Sogyal Rinpoche? In the absence of any 
comprehensive view of life after death, the Tibetan view seems to hold the day. 
The Tibetan Book of the Dead offers a view of the reincarnation process -- nothing 
less, and nothing more. How probable is the Tibetan view? What alternatives exist 
to understand reincarnation?"

Read more:
http://www.integralworld.net/visser-ss-05.html



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