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Newsletter Nr. 895
Amsterdam, September 23rd, 2020


UNENLIGHTENED SCIENCE - A View on Things, Not God - BRAD REYNOLDS

Those whom I have called the “high priesthood” of Integral World (since they post the most articles and react most strongly to the spiritual perspective)—David Christopher Lane and Frank Visser—have both immediately responded to a new essay posted by author John White titled “Evolution: An Enlightened View.” Both are smart and excellent writers, well-versed in source literature, and provocative. Yet both, sadly, are reductionistic materialists: i.e., they firmly believe that only the realm of matter-energy and biology as being real (as do most scientists). They downplay or dismiss that the interior evolution of consciousness is also a process of transcend-and-include (until ultimate transcendence).

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http://www.integralworld.net/reynolds26.html


AVATARS - The Flowering of Humanity - JOHN WHITE

Human history is a process of ascent to godhead. That process is best described, individually and collectively, as evolution. Humanity is proceeding from a prepersonal state of simple animal consciousness through the personalized state of self-reflective, egoic consciousness to the transpersonal state of self-transcendence or consciousness beyond ego.
However, as mystics, myths and mystery schools point out, ascent would not be possible unless there first was descent. We cannot spiritually lift ourselves by our own bootstraps. We cannot create higher consciousness from electrochemical reactions. 

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http://www.integralworld.net/white4.html