From: Integral World [f.visser3@chello.nl]
Sent: maandag 5 februari 2007 18:10
To: f.visser3@chello.nl
Subject: [personal] Higher Consciousness

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Newsletter Nr. 181
Amsterdam, February 5, 2007

WILBER WATCH BLOG: "2006: WHAT A YEAR!"
http://wilberwatch.blogspot.com/


STAGES OF HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS - Alan Kazlev

Alan Kazlev continues his exploration of a larger view of integral.

The states of existence described in the chapter 4 are not just abstractions, but can 
be explored and experienced through consciousness-raising exercises and esoteric and 
spiritual discipline. This constitutes the path of spiritual development, by which one 
acquires freedom from cosmic forces(sect. 4-xxv) and ultimately becomes an instrument 
of the Divine actualisation and Divinisation of matter itself, which is also the 
realisation of Self as the Supreme and vice-versa. 

The following very simplistic diagram refers to the first four stages in this ascent 
or inward movement of consciousness, from the surface consciousness of the outer 
personality, to the stage of Enlightenment and Liberation. This last is traditionally 
(both in the perennial philosophy and also in Wilberian theory) the final stage, but 
in the Integral yoga and transformation only the first of a series of larger and 
greater enlightenment and transenlightenment.


Read more:
http://www.integralworld.net/kazlev11.html


WILBER, LAING, MADNESS & WAR - Elliot Benjamin

From my own perspective on mental disturbance, I find much that I resonate with in 
R.D. Laing's perspective of the lack of natural sanity in our concepts of “normal” 
in our society [5]. But for me, the most extreme examples of the insanity of what 
is considered to be normal in our society can be seen by our current engagement in war. 

For it is “normal” for us to be dropping bombs on civilian populations, referred 
to as “collateral damage,” and letting young men and women get killed on a daily 
basis in a war that virtually everyone agrees cannot be won. It is “normal” to 
read about terrorist suicide bombers killing innocent men, women, and children 
in Iraq and Palestine every day in the newspapers. The world we live in is completely 
filled with violence and we see it in all its colorful imagery constantly on our 
television sets; this is “normal.” Is it any wonder that R.D. Laing therefore asked us what is madness?


Read more:
http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin9.html



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