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Newsletter Nr. 938
Amsterdam, June 11th, 2021


THE GROWTH OF LOVE - Some Personal Reflections on the ‘Grace and Grit’ Movie - FRANK VISSER

I watched the movie Grace and Grit, featuring Mena Suvari and Stuart Townsend, which was finally released last week, and was not disappointed. The New York Times and Variety had already trashed it, for being unbearably New Age or too disjointed and exploitative to work. That seems to be unfair. If anything, the book demonstrated quite a critical stance towards New Age beliefs about illness and healing, and the format of the book was a journal, which is fragmentary by nature.

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CRITIQUING WILBER’S DEFENSE OF KRISHNA’S JUSTIFICATION OF MURDER IN THE BAGHAVAD GITA - JOSEPH DILLARD

If murder can be justified and one still be “transpersonal,” what keeps other odious, despicable, and immoral acts from being “spiritual”? If we say “nothing,” then we are basically claiming there is no relationship between enlightenment or spirituality and morality. When we become enlightened, morality no longer applies to us. We are now exceptions to social norms, because we have evolved past a need to submit to them.

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