Van: "Integral World" Aan: Onderwerp: Website Feedback Datum: zaterdag 7 juni 2014 10:10 INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 509 Amsterdam, June 7th, 2014 WEBSITE FEEDBACK As requested by many of you, I have added a comment box at the bottom of every essay so you can respond specifically to its content. Also, there's a TALK BACK link at the top of the page added for general feedback. Further, I have prepared a brief 10 question survey about Integral World, where you can suggest improvements. as to content, design and navigation: Please take the survey here: http://www.integralworld.net/survey.html This week's essays: PSYCHIC PHENOMENA, EVOLUTION, AND UNIVERSAL MEANING - ELLIOT BENJAMIN But I will say that for this reason, I find the question of universal meaning, which is the crux of the Intelligent Design/Meaningless Universe debate, to be a much more impactful debate to me than the psychic phenomena debate. And what do I think about this Intelligent Design/Meaningless Universe debate? Well we have the “conscious/meaningful/eros evolution” network of people like Barbara Marx Hubbard, Steve McIntosh, Carter Phipps, Andrew Cohen, and Ken Wilber [12]. I find their essentially Intelligent Design perspectives to be “feel good” theories that enable one to recover at least some kind of universal meaning to the universe, although certainly quite nebulous and far removed from the kind of personalized God one could “talk” with from the bible. But this kind of “feel good” evolution is completely antithetical to our mainstream science Big History explanation of the formation and development of the universe. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin66.html WHEN GODS DECAY - and the Rise of New Religions - ANDREA DIEM LANE In the latter part of the 19th century when Nietzsche proclaimed that "God is Dead," he believed that future generations would suffer immeasurably from God's premature funeral. Why? Because without such a God (without such an Ultimate Meaning or Concern) humans would have to stare reality in the face and discover that there was no purpose ultimately to human existence. Humans are the expendable result of blind evolutionary processes and, as such, have no ontological status in the grand scheme of things. As Nietzsche argued, without God we are left with nihilism, which is another way of saying that without Ultimate Meaning we are left with no meaning at all. Hence, when humans kill their belief in God they must then turn to their own inner selves and, in so doing, discover that there is no truly objective truth by which to govern their lives. We become wanderers, a lost species. Yet, though Nietszche was prophetic for his time (God has died, more or less, in the secular world), he did not realize how resilient a belief in God can be. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/diem-lane12.html To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UNSUBSCRIBE, update your account by logging in. For explanation, see: http://www.integralworld.net/nl_faq.html