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Newsletter Nr. 853
Amsterdam, May 9th, 2020


THE NETFLIX OF CONSCIOUSNESS - How Understanding Evolution and Neuroscience Can Help in Deep Meditation - DAVID LANE

The wayward mind is not the problem in meditation. It is the solution, if properly understood. For too long, the practice of yoga and meditation has been intertwined with a mythological overlay that generates unnecessary confusion and hampers a more robust grasp of how the mind actually operates.

Indian gurus have often talked about meditation as a battle or a war with the mind and how one must conquer its capricious flights of fancy. This is certainly understandable, given how easily our thoughts flitter about and how difficult it is for us to sit still and calm down our persistent wanderings. But this avoids a more fundamental question that should be asked: why does our mind incessantly create such a plethora of thoughts, ideas, projections, and ruminations? In other words, to what purpose does this monkey mind serve?

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HIER(AN)ARCHICAL SYNPLEXITY - EDWARD BERGE

We touched upon this topic my recent discussion with the Growing Down Podcast crew entitled "Do our models get in the way?" So how can model building help us to authentically empathize and communicate with our fellow humans? We discussed how there has been criticism of the integral model, or at least of some of those who promote it, on how it pigeon-holes people at a level of development, typically assuming a lower level on a hierarchical scale than the integral adherent. It seems this is used more as a means to elevate the adherent above criticism, as well as devalue the criticism.

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http://www.integralworld.net/berge13.html