INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 785 Amsterdam, July 14th, 2019 GOD IN THE VACUUM - A Critique of Lexi Neale's Integral Relativity - ANDY SMITH What are we to make of Neale’s project? It’s a very ambitious one, attempting to unify not only Wilber’s AQAL with Hameroff and Penrose’s theory of quantum consciousness, but with the work of two other physicists. One of them, Garrett Lisi, I mentioned briefly as using an E8 algebraic system that Neale has tried, I would say quixotically, to relate to his eight perspectives. The other, Elizabeth Rauscher, has developed an 8-dimension Minkowski space that includes four imaginary, or non-local, dimensions. This might seem to be relevant to the four non-physical or non-local perspectives in Neale’s AQAL cube, but bear in mind that Rauscher’s model is of spatial dimensions, not the sort of dimensions that Neale is proposing. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/smith60.html GNOSIS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY - Science and the Serpent of Knowledge - BARCLAY POWERS Although many outstanding scholars of religion have speculated about the actual religious experience of gnosis, and the enlightenment of prophets and sages forged by its power, a rational scientific explanation of inner illumination is only now emerging from contemplative neuroscience. Neurotheology has also shed new light on the direct experience of the Godhead and its implications for the future understanding of the evolution of consciousness, and perhaps even the rediscovery of the original esoteric meaning of the image of God within man in the 21st century. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/powers26.html