INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 784 Amsterdam, July 12th, 2019 ON EROS IN THE EVOLUTIONARY SENSE - LAYMAN PASCAL Hopefully you will not be excessively insulted that I consider you to be my colleagues in this inquiry. It is an old investigation—this delicious puzzle is how LOVE and MECHANISM operate together over the endless history of changing forms. Contemplative minds, in 19th century Europe and America, treated this as a wrestling match between Christian altruism and Darwinian selfishness yet the basic outlines of these arguments can be found in the fragmentary writings of early Greek sages and perhaps in the haunting glyphs of even earlier civilization. We stand before the question together, now, just as they did. And if your ardent wish is to quickly make up your mind about whether or not “eros” is a real player in “evolution” then you will doubtless be confused or disappointed by my confessional testimony today. I am not intending to take sides on this issue but to enter, with greater precision, into the exquisite Hinterland between the positions... Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/pascal1.html BEYOND DARWIN - The Hidden Rhythm of Evolution - Addendum 6: Toroidal evolution Everything written so far has basically focused on unraveling the overall pattern of the evolution of life in the universe, in general, and the human being, in particular. As we have seen, the result of this integral research clashes head on with the predictions of the materialist paradigm of classical science. Surprisingly, however, ground-breaking lines of research have started to appear in recent years in different branches of science —physics, chemistry, biology, neurology, among others— that are clearly in tune with the world view that emerges from our evolutionary research and can hence provide key data capable of explaining this unexpected universal pattern that we are revealing here. To show this suggestive harmony between different cutting-edge research in distinct fields of science, we will begin this addendum by outlining the fundamental characteristics of the universal dynamics that emerge from our inquiry into the rhythm of evolution. To this end, let us start out from the flat images represented in Figures 7-A and 7-B. These, we recall, summarized the overall pattern of universal evolution and the individual development of the human being from pole A (original energy) to pole Ω (final consciousness). Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/faixat8.html