From: Integral World [newsletter@integralworld.net]
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Subject: [personal] On Integral Naked

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Newsletter Nr. 239
Amsterdam, May 12, 2008

WILBER WATCH BLOG: "Evolutionary Biology, Fundamentally Confused?"
http://wilberwatch.blogspot.com/


ON KEN WILBER AND INTEGRAL NAKED - Scott London

I was dazzled by Ken Wilber’s book Sex, Ecology, Spirituality when it appeared in 
the mid-1990s. Rarely had I encountered a writer and philosopher who expressed himself 
with so much energy and clarity of insight on the difficult business of human consciousness. 
His grasp of the complexities of evolutionary theory, systems thinking, metaphysics, 
contemplative tradition, postmodernism and other daunting subjects was not just impressive, 
but masterful.

Read more:
http://www.integralworld.net/london1.html

NOT THAT THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT.... - Geoffrey Falk

I have been at the forefront of the debunking of Ken Wilber's ideas for just over three 
years by now. Therefore, I was more than a little surprised to read, in Robert Sandberg's 
recent essay, "Ken Wilber—The Asimov of Consciousness". that Wilber has been "losing former 
fans, readers, followers, and promoters" largely owing to a sense of profound disappointment 
on the part of such people "who take him to be or want him to be taken seriously by 
evolutionary biologists, academic philosophers, and practicing psychologists and neurobiologists," 
but who have not had that psychological need met. 

Read more:
http://www.integralworld.net/falk5.html


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