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Newsletter Nr. 782
Amsterdam, July 1st, 2019


RE-IMAGINING OUR EVOLUTIONARY FUTURE - Placing Self Development in the Context of Overall Development - JOSEPH DILLARD

The following is an overview of a series of essays that I plan to publish on Integral World and also in book form. I invite your critique.
Ken Wilber's AQAL, as well as developmental psychology in general, approach development as self development, whether prepersonal, personal, or transpersonal. From the perspective of AQAL, the holon of self development exists within broader holons, which we can collectively consider “overall development,” since they are yet to be differentiated. What can we discover about self development when it is approached from the perspectives of transcendent holons?

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http://www.integralworld.net/dillard25.html


THE INTEGRALLY EVOLVING KOSMOS - JOE CORBETT

The idea of a Kosmic Storehouse, Akashic field, Implicate Order, or memory bank of the universe is a controversial one, to say the least. It brings up the notion of New Age woo-woo and associated pseudo-scientific claims. Is there any evidence for its existence? And what role might it play in biological systems and ultimately consciousness itself?
Everyday when we go to sleep, we go in and out of various phases of consciousness about a half dozen times throughout the night. We spend nearly a third of our lives (and some animals far more than that) going through these cycles of sleep, and without them our mental and physical systems would soon begin to breakdown, so they are very important to life.

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http://www.integralworld.net/corbett64.html