INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 818 Amsterdam, December 10th, 2019 ARE WE CLEVER APES WITH GUNS? - Limitations of Self Development and Evidence for Overall Development - JOSEPH DILLARD As a psychotherapist with a long-term interest in self-development, quite familiar with Mark Forman's "An Introduction to Integral Psychotherapy," for example, it seems clear that Wilber, following mainstream developmental psychology, has painted mid-prepersonal as a deranged state, minimizing, ignoring, or simply being blind to what it means to be healthy and balanced at mid-prepersonal. That level has a lot of important, necessary, positive characteristics, and if they are not integrated, people have an unstable foundation on which to grow. Large chunks of their development become fixated; they become unbalanced, and the more they focus on developing this or that line (like cognitive and spiritual intelligence) without that strong foundation, the more they invite their collapse, generally for moral reasons (see Gafni, Cohen, Da Free John, and partially Wilber). Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/dillard34.html If there is a singular topic integral students need to be educated on, it is evolutionary biology. In the coming weeks, we therefore publish a few chapters from "THE EVOLUTIONARY SCIENTISTS, Glimpses into the Life and Work of Great Thinkers in Evolutionary Biology" (MSAC PHILOSOPHY GROUP). WILLIAM DONALD HAMILTON - EMILY PARK http://www.integralworld.net/lane189.html JEAN-BAPTISTE LAMARCK - GAVIN LEE http://www.integralworld.net/lane190.html NILES ELDREDGE - UNA SHING http://www.integralworld.net/lane191.html THEODOSIUS DOBZHANSKY - ETHAN LI http://www.integralworld.net/lane192.html JARED DIAMOND - CHIN LING-WANG http://www.integralworld.net/lane193.html JAMES LOVELOCK - RANIA SERENA SOETIRTO http://www.integralworld.net/lane194.html