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Newsletter Nr. 733
Amsterdam, September 24th, 2018



WHY WE NEED A SECULAR INTEGRAL - FRANK VISSER

Integral Theory has two aspects that don’t go very well together:

Classifying current knowledge, from the various sciences. This has resulted in the nifty AQAL model, with its myriad applications. The idea is to assemble all valid types of knowledge. We might call it "exoteric integral."

Claiming superior knowledge, which is at variance with all of the sciences. This has resulted in the more esoteric involution/evolution doctrine, evolution as Spirit-in-action, Eros-in-the-Kosmos etc. We might call it "esoteric integral."

The problem comes to the fore most clearly in the field of evolutionary biology, which studies the emergence of biological complexity. Instead of fleshing out evolutionary theory in the Lower-Right (exterior-collective) quadrant, or even better, present an “integral biology” which covers all major schools of that scientific discipline, Wilber has chosen not to explore this area but import Eastern-esoteric evolutionary concepts.


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