INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 766 Amsterdam, April 6th, 2019 KEN WILBER ON THE POWER BEHIND EVOLUTION - Casting Doubt on the Contributions of Neo-Darwinism Is a Dishonest Creationist Strategy - FRANK VISSER Recently I have come under attack for "misunderstanding" Ken Wilber's views on evolution, most notably by Brad Reynolds in his three-part series "Real Integral vs. Fake Integral". The major complaint is that I have created a strawman out of some "obscure" or "inferior quotes" taken from Wilber, to the effect that there is a Power (Eros) behind evolution that explains its apparent upward thrust—a claim I consider neither credible nor necessary to explain the complexity and diversity we see around us in nature and the cosmos at large. Another objection was that I had overlooked that Wilber's use of the term "evolution" is not strictly limited to the biosphere, but applies to all of reality. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser137.html POST-MATERIALIST SCIENCE - Is Everything Really Made of Consciousness? - BARCLAY POWERS Recently I read a fascinating autobiography by a University of Oregon neuroscientist, Marjorie Woollacott, called Infinite Awareness. She has a 40-year background in meditation and describes in great detail her journey from the materialism of neuroscience and her many doubting colleagues to her embrace of a “spiritual” post-materialist worldview based on her personal experiences of “energy” in meditation and, crucially, her initiation or shaktipat with a peacock feather from her initial teacher, an Indian swami. In direct contrast with Shinzen Young, the highly regarded meditation teacher and author of The Science of Enlightenment, she is able to handle subjects like kundalini, chi / ki, prana and chakras. Young, on the other hand, does not understand these matters and their essential role in returning to the Source, the Original Mind. Mindfulness, as conceived and taught in popular Western culture, ignores the key concept that enlightenment is within the body, not just in the mind / brain. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/powers25.html