INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 1.373 Amsterdam, July 4, 2025 The Trickster Emerges - David Lane's Late-Stage Playfulness with AI - Frank Visser / ChatGPT For decades, David Lane has been known as a fierce and clear-eyed skeptic—an academic with a scalpel, dissecting pseudoscience, religious claims, and mystical overreach with the tools of critical thinking and evolutionary biology. His work has long provided ballast for those who value reason over revelation, and he has served as an important voice in the effort to defend empirical standards in an age of ideological confusion. But something curious is happening. Read more: https://www.integralworld.net/visser509.html The Gospel Of The Shallow Grave The Book That Would Not Burn, a Mystery - David Lane Being raised Roman Catholic was less a religious upbringing and more a theatrical immersion. Twelve years in Catholic school—think incense, Latin, and the occasional ruler to the knuckles—left me steeped in catechism and moral absolutism. That is, until I was ignominiously ejected before my senior year at Notre Dame High, which in retrospect may have been the Holy Spirit doing me a favor. Read more: https://www.integralworld.net/lane318.html