From: Integral World [f.visser3@chello.nl] Sent: zondag 20 mei 2007 23:25 To: f.visser3@chello.nl Subject: [personal] Integral World: 10 Years of Integral Debate INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 195 Amsterdam, May 20, 2007 WILBER WATCH BLOG: "Integral Design" http://wilberwatch.blogspot.com/ A BRIEF HISTORY OF INTEGRAL WORLD - TEN YEARS OF INTEGRAL DEBATE - Frank Visser On the 10th anniversary of Integral World, formerly known as The World of Ken Wiber, I would like to look back, take stock and clarify my own position. In the past decade, 75 authors have published their work on Integral World, in close to 500 essays, who have found readers in 200 countries. Thanks to all of those, past and present, who have contributed essays for Integral World! The website would not have become what it is now without all of you. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser18.html THE MUSLIM LADDER - Dustin DiPerna While exploring the first three stages of religious orientation within the Islamic tradition (magic, mythic, and rational) we uncover a telling situation. Islam, as it exists today in several countries in the Middle East, has taken on a repressive form of extreme mythic orientation. Some predominate forms of extreme mythic Islam represent what we would call a pathological holon. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/diperna03.html WILBERISM-5 AND METAPHYSICS - Zakariyya Ishaq Metaphysics is the science/knowledge created to restore the fallen human to a level of consciousness that he had primordially possessed but lost. Metaphysics utilizes phenomena as a vehicle to facilitate this goal; it is a temporary created science or knowledge in this regard as a guide to the restoration of the broken soul and then at its “death” provides impetus to the final divine step in the stabilization of human consciousness. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/ishaq.html If you know other people interested in this Integral World 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/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UPDATE your email address or UNSUBSCRIBE, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/login.php To go to the Newsletter Archive, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/newsletter.html