INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 65`3 Amsterdam, April 30th, 2017 HOW DID WE WASTE 30 YEARS OF WARNINGS ABOUT ESCALATING GLOBAL WARMING? - Climageddon, Part 1, Chapter 7 - LAWRENCE WOLLERSHEIM Despite being the world's most recognized authority on global warming, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) has consistently understated the intensity and timeframes of global warming, as well as the danger that it represents. The IPCC's global warming prediction scenarios fail to include going over more global warming tipping points—or, in the IPCC's nomenclature, "high-impact events" or fat tails—in the climate's major or minor systems or subsystems. The greatest loss caused by IPCC's underestimation problem is that it quells, if not removes, the appropriate sense of urgency essential to motivating the world to deal with the escalating global warming emergency's present and future threats. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/wollersheim7.html A BLINDED SCIENCE - What for science cannot Be Is the emptiness of consciousness For you as life full-filled to See - MARTIN ERDMANN Our scientists who are struggling to seek out the nature of consciousness remind me of the story of the blind men, who try to determine what an elephant looks like by touching different parts of the animal's body. What the blind men observe is not the elephant, but the elephant exposed to their method of inquiry. What the scientists detect is not consciousness but consciousness exposed to their method of questioning. Consciousness cannot be seen with the eye of mind as employed by science, for consciousness is not some-thing. It is no-thing. It is emptiness to be seen with the eye of contemplation disclosed. With the eye unveiled emptiness of consciousness is realized as life full-filled. For this to be seen there are numerous methods of meditation, of self-exploration to select from. So emptiness can be blissfully witnessed by the seeker of truth - beyond all science. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/erdmann13.html