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Newsletter Nr. 750
Amsterdam, January 10th, 2019


COMPARING COGNITIVE AND EXPERIENTIAL MULTI-PERSPECTIVALISMS - JOSEPH DILLARD

Multi-perspectivalism is the ability to take a perspective that consists of many perspectives. Integral perspectives, which combine the world views of multiple thinkers, disciplines, and cultures are an example of a cognitive multi-perpectivalism. Within Ken Wilber's Integral AQAL model,[1] which is itself an example of cognitive multi-perspectivalism, when one achieves a world view that grasps and integrates multiple points of view, they have attained vision-logic on one line, the cognitive line of development. Their overall development is not at vision-logic, but only their cognitive development. This is because overall development is composed of a number of developmental lines, some of which are core. “Core” means that they are essential for stage-to-stage development.

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MYSTICS OF THE WORLD - DAVID LANE

Back in 1990 at Mt. San Antonio College, we started a mini book series on mystics of the world, first concentrating on shabd yoga adepts from North India. Later we published texts on such luminaries as Nicholas of Cusa, Rumi, and St. Teresa of Avila. About a month ago, an old Indian friend of mine asked me if I still had any copies of those little books. We had published them in a cute, 3.5 x 3.5 size. I told him that I would see what I could unearth since we had exhausted our initial print run. Although I found a few copies of the first in the series, I thought it would be better if we did a whole new edition of the series in a larger, more accessible format.

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THE CONVERGENCE OF CONTEMPLATIVE NEUROSCIENCE - And the Original Goal of Inner Alchemical Meditation - BARCLAY POWERS

When the concept of inner illumination is explored from the perspective of Western medicine and neuroscience, the necessity of a rational explanation of “enlightenment” becomes obvious. This has been the experience of many scientists who also practice yoga and other non-theistic meditation traditions. The purpose of this article is to propose a 21st Century cross-cultural model of the goals of meditation and yoga by introducing a more accurate translation of Chinese and Indo-Tibetan contemplative traditions than is currently accepted by Western science. Understanding that many of the core meanings of the terms of Eastern and Western inner alchemy are describing the same phenomena in different words may be the royal road forward for transpersonal psychology.

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http://www.integralworld.net/powers24.html