INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 941 Amsterdam, June 27st, 2021 THE DIALECTIC OF INVOLUTION-EVOLUTION - JOE CORBETT The idea of involution is that the things of this world come from on high rather than from below, that the world has descended from a higher spirit rather than ascended from lowly brute matter as in evolution. Involution is therefore similar to the idea of entropy, where things break down into smaller constituents toward greater chaos over time, beginning in a state of low entropy and moving toward greater entropy, as in the ageing process from birth to old age and death, as the universe as a whole has been doing from its own beginning. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/corbett91.html GIVING POWER TO U.S. CENTRIST DEMOCRATIC SENATORS - Bipartisan Wisdom or Folly? - ELLIOT BENJAMIN Democrats and Progressives in the United States are currently in a very precarious situation. There is a Democratic majority in the Senate in the most narrow of margins, requiring the vote of Vice President Kamala Harris. Consequently, Democratic Senate Centrists now have an inordinate amount of power. This has been demonstrated through the draining process of convincing Democratic Senate Centrist leader Joe Manchin to vote for the recently passed pandemic relief package, and can be seen currently through the ordeal of trying to pass the infrastructure package, with significantly more challenging contortions expected to pass the upcoming voting rights package. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin125.html FIFTEEN FACETS OF THE SARS-COV-2 VIRUS - The Corona Conspiracy, Appendix 1 - FRANK VISSER "Frank Visser offers a useful list of 15 key assertions about SARS-CoV-2. You don't need to agree with every one of them to see that these are the canonical points, either proven or urgent for research (real scientific research, not just internet surfing), begging for further data." (David Quammen) Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser207.html