From: Integral World [newsletter@integralworld.net] Sent: vrijdag 18 september 2009 19:13 To: f.visser3@chello.nl Subject: [personal] "Integral Ecology" Review INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 294 Amsterdam, September 20th, 2009 PITFALLS OF WILBERIAN ECOLOGY: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF "INTEGRAL ECOLOGY" Integral Ecology is founded on an unjustifiable optimism – a consequence of the subjectivic and idealistic approach with its fundamental importance of the „interior dimensions“ as „key to our future as species“ (IE 478), very much a Californian spin - and gives hopes which can't be materialized. Contrary to the authors' statements, it's basic position is not particularly new: the „solution“ is moral/spiritual „development“ and intellectual „enlightenment“ as a means for the „good“ use of technological and economic „progress“, or „progress“ in „interior dimensions“ as a good basis for „progress“ in „exterior dimensions“ (ecological modernization, sustainable development etc.). We have to be spiritually „enlightened“ to use modern technology „wisely“. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/markus4.html ANDREW COHEN EXPOSED: A REVIEW OF "AMERICAN GURU" After reading William Yenner's edited volume, AMERICAN GURU: A Story of Love, Betrayal and Healing—Former Students of Andrew Cohen Speak Out, I felt a number of emotions, ranging from depression, to anger, to frustration, to disbelief, to finally gratitude. My first encounter with an Andrew Cohen devotee occurred several years ago when one of the editors of their slick magazine, What is Enlightenment? (now called, EnlightenNext), wrote me a personal letter asking for my appraisement of her guru. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/lane9.html A ADDTHIS button has been placed at the top-left of the homepage, so you can send this site to your social neworks friends easily. 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