INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 614 Amsterdam, June 1st, 2016 US PRESIDENT TRUMP - The Ultimate Outcome of Social Media Addiction and Unbridled Narcissism in America? - ELLIOT BENJAMIN I am by no means “in the know” about politics, but I do think that both Jones and Lissack have conveyed some very important considerations here, which includes Jones' observation that the Republican party is begrudgingly starting to get behind Trump to “unify” the party. And I would go further, in the sense that I think this whole phenomenon of Trump having already essentially secured the Republican nomination for president, which I must say makes me feel embarrassed to be a United States citizen, is very much a function of our country's social media addiction and unbridled narcissism, which we share with the Western world, as I have written about in previous essays. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin82.html TOWARD A TRANS METAPHYSICAL APPROACH - Possibly Needed for Contact with Civilizations not Exceedingly Limited to Spacetime - GIORGIO PIACENZA Can science in general and astrobiology in particular (and even the until now not well-accepted disciplines of ufology and exopolitics) adequately serve humankind handle the news of a verified intelligent extraterrestrial species being able to arrive to Earth's shores? Can scientists and either orthodox or unorthodox cultural leaders in general become an suitable and ideologically updated social influence that will adequately motivate people and other cultural leaders to profoundly re-think who we are as a species and what “reality” (in an expanded multidimensional sense) is like? Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/piacenza40.html