From: Integral World [newsletter@integralworld.net] Sent: maandag 18 augustus 2008 15:19 To: f.visser3@chello.nl Subject: [personal] Perennialism Lite INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 253 Amsterdam, August 18th, 2008 PERENNIALISM LITE: COMMENTS ON "INTEGRAL POST-METAPHYSICS" - Frank Visser This essay explores the twin themes of metaphysics and evolution and how they feature in the writings of Ken Wilber. I compare this with what I myself have gathered over the years about these topics from the perennialist and the scientific literature. This is not so much to defend any position as to clarify them. As is well know by now, Wilber has labelled his current phase as "post-metaphysical", otherwise known as Wilber-5. He also preaches a view of spirituality that has been called "evolutionary". Are these items—metaphysics and evolution—therefore incompatible? Or is a synthesis between them possible? What exactly is Wilber rejecting with this notion of a "post-metaphysical" spirituality? And does he do justice to the fullness of the perennialist tradition? Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser29.html TEN ANNOTATED BOOKS ON EVOLUTIONARY THEORY - Andrea Diem-Lane - Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett - The Making of the Fittest by Sean B. Carroll - Dawkins vs. Gould by Kim Stefelny - Why Darwin Matters by Michael Shermer - Darwin Loves You by George Levine - The Reluctant Mr. Darwin by David Quanmmen - The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins - The Human Genome Sourcebook by Tara Acharya and Neeraja Sankaran - DNA: The Secret of Life by James Watson - Nature Revealed: Selected Writings 1949-2006 by Edward O. Wilson Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/diem-lane3.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