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Newsletter Nr. 727
Amsterdam, August 22th, 2018


THE INTEGRAL ZEPPELIN - An Open Letter to Ken Wilber - Frank Visser

Since writing Ken Wilber: Thought as Passion (SUNY, 2003) our paths have diverged considerably, me taking a more rational-critical look at Integral Theory. Integral World, which started out as a fan-site in 1997, has hosted a wide variety of criticisms raised by over one hundred authors. These have not elicited any substantial responses from integral corners. Frankly, this defensiveness and non-responsiveness have always surprised me. Rather than seeing these critical readings as "attacks" that need to be defended against, it would be more productive to see them as "challenges" that need to be met, by a philosophy that claims to be on top of things scientific. 

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http://www.integralworld.net/visser123.html


AS INTEGRALISTS, CAN WE AGREE ON THIS? - Joseph Dillard

Can we agree that the moral line is a core line? A “core” line is one that is required for tetra-mesh. Tetra-mesh, the balancing of all four quadrants, is required to move from one level of overall development to the next. Within a particular line, such as cognitive, self-system, or proprioceptive, Wilber assumes that tetra-mesh is also required for the development of a line from one level to the next. I agree. 
These assumptions are important, because if they are correct, then what we conclude is higher level overall development, in the absence of the development of the core moral line, actually line development mistaken for overall development. We have developed this or that aptitude or intelligence, or several of them, and confused that with the development of our overall identity. 

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http://www.integralworld.net/dillard18.html


SLAVES TO GROUPTHINK - Problems With Integral Life Practice - Joseph Dillard

LP, or any yoga or spiritual discipline that you undertake is going to be confronted with the manufactured consent of your guru or teacher, in the form of your compliance with their priorities for your development. That can be no problem if you know what you are buying and the contract is clear and limited, similar to university coursework. However, we often internalize the assumptions of our spiritual teachers and thereby manufacture our own consent; we give ourselves reasons why we need to continue with an approach that is dogmatic or that we have long outgrown. Integral Deep Listening (IDL) is designed to minimize these problems by accessing and interviewing personifications of your own authentic emerging potentials to provide you with objectivity both toward the priorities of external authorities and toward your own. The result is a reduction of addiction to drama, psychological geocentrism, and rationalization, at the negative pole, and an increase in objectivity, transparency, and rationality at the other. 

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http://www.integralworld.net/dillard19.html