INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 1.370 Amsterdam, June 28, 2025 The Budget Reconciliation Bill - Big and Beautiful or Big and Ugly? - Elliot Benjamin Putting everything together: my friend's informative response, the Indivisible action toxic basic features summary, and the CBO description of the distribution effects, I feel very strongly that this is a “big and ugly” bill and I fervently hope that it is not passed. I also welcome more informative responses from interested Integral World readers. Read more: https://www.integralworld.net/benjamin157.html Left & Right - Conservatives, Liberals, Progressives, Neo-Liberals, and Relativism - Brad Reynolds This article is highly important—especially in the context of today’s political, cultural, and religious polarization—because it offers a developmental, evolutionary framework for understanding why these divisions exist, rather than simply describing or reacting to them. It situates our conflicts not merely as political disagreements, but as collisions between fundamentally different worldviews—each with its own logic, values, and level of consciousness. That alone reframes the culture wars from “us vs. them” into something more nuanced and potentially more transformative. Read more: https://www.integralworld.net/reynolds62.html