Mystics agree, scholars disagree?
Read this in John Horgan's informative and entertaining "Rational Mysticism":"This upsurge in scientific and scholarly interest has not brought about consensus on mystical matters. Quite the contrary....
View ArticleSpeaking Out with Passion
Wilber once wrote: "Speak out with compassion, or speak out with angry wisdom, or speak out with skillful means, but speak out you must.... This is truly a terrible burden, a horrible burden, because...
View ArticleBoldness Revisited
What I liked about Wilber is his boldness; what I currently dislike about Wilber is his boldness. Let me explain.When I first encountered Wilber's writings in the early eighties, I immensely liked the...
View ArticleMaterialistic Spirituality
We al know what "spiritual materialism" means: using spirituality for selfish means. But there is such as thing as "materialistic spirituality" as well:"One of the best secrets of life [is]: let your...
View ArticleCriticism: Shadow or Challenge?
Wilber and me have a conflict, that's for sure. But what's the best strategy for conflict resolution? Wilber's suggestion to dig into one's own shadow might lead to the suggestion, that criticism is...
View ArticleIntegral Ideology
When psychoanalysis was criticized, critics were labelled "sexually repressed".When Marxism was criticized, people were told they had the wrong "class consciousness".When Integralism is criticized, we...
View ArticleThe Narcissism of "Mr. Know-All"
Geoffrey Falk, a "strong negative" Wilber critic, who has turned Wilber-bashing into an art, but who is never short on facts, reflects further on Wilber's recent rants:"From the Wikipedia entry for...
View ArticleIntegral Without Hype
For a month I took a break from blogging, but will now resume this activity again.In the past weeks, a lot of networking has occurred between people who have completely had it with the current hype...
View ArticleWilber Parody
A few days ago I linked to one of Geoffrey Falk's blog postings, which was about a supposed transcript of a recent talk by Wilber to his II students. It turned out to be fake. Someone had parodied...
View ArticleDepth and Complexity
I was listening to Steve Paulson's interview with Wilber (featured on Integral Naked as "To the Best of Our Knowledge", part 2), where Wilber explains that complexity and consciousness seem to...
View ArticleSimply Too Much...
While preparing a review of Integral SpiritualityI was -- again -- struck by the many times Wilber uses the word "simply". In my opinion, this is a rethorical device that has run out of hand. For those...
View ArticleIntegral Inflation
The signs are not good.First we had this posting on the kenwilber.com blog asking for a CEO, where everything seemed to be historical. The Institute. The fact that it got a CEO. A turquoise one at...
View ArticleDavid Lane Returns
David Lane, a sociology professor and former-Wilber-fan-turned-critic around 1996, was one of the first strong critics of Wilber's treatment of biology and other fields of science. From that original...
View Article2006 - What A Year!
In 2006, Integral World broke all visitors records, with close to 200.000 visitors, and 600.000 page views. It even topped the record year of 2003. One year ago, I was wondering if the time for...
View ArticleAQAL Journal
I was notified of the fact that AQAL Journal, the long awaited "academic" publication on matters integral, has finally been released. At this moment, the available issues (all from 2006, nrs. 1-4), are...
View ArticleIntegral Idols
On Ken Wilber's blog I found the following "call for papers", titled: You're Going to Be a Star: Post Your AQAL Essays on This Site. It starts:"I have some really good news and a little bit of bad...
View ArticleIntegral Design
In The Oxford Handbook of Science and Religion (Oxford University Press, 2006), edited by Philip Clayton and Zachary Simpson, there's an integral chapter written by Sean Hargens and Ken Wilber, called...
View ArticleEros or Oops?
On the first page of Sex, Ecology, Spirituality (1995) Wilber sets the stage for what is to come by comparing his philosophy to the prevailing scientific outlook.To Schelling's burning question, "Why...
View ArticleIntegral Politics
In a recent Integral Naked dialogue, "Escaping Flatland, Part II", Wilber discusses the contours of Integral Politics as he sees it. He gives a good summary of the points he has made in the three...
View ArticleWilber Assessment vs. Advertising
The Integral Vision, the latest product of the Integral marketing machine, is a rehash of material from Integral Spirituality, most notably its Introduction. It would have been fine to warn readers...
View ArticleSome Convenient Truths
Al Gore's documentary about global warming "An Inconvenient Truth" had a clear message to the world: our continued use of fossil fuels will spell disaster for our immediate future. So we have a...
View ArticleEvolutionary Science, Fundamentally Confused?
In the introductory text of a recent Integral Naked audio, a talk between Ken Wilber and Rupert Sheldrake ("Integral Evolutionary Biology"), this astonishing statement can be read:There is perhaps no...
View ArticleIntegral Politics, Integral Political Party, Integral Political Science
In this weeks Integral Naked session, Wilber gives away a free video on the Third Way of Integral Politics. Check it out: http://in.integralinstitute.org/live/view_ipolitics.aspx. The tone of voice is...
View ArticleKen Wilber's Mysterianism
In a recent members-only video on Integral Life, titled "Can Evolutionary Science Explain Evolution Itself? / The Mystery of Evolution", Ken Wilber reiterates his view on evolution before a group of...
View ArticleThe 'Spirit of Evolution' Reconsidered
Just to let you guys know I have summarized my concern's about Ken Wilber's view of evolution in a paper which was presented at the 2nd Integral Theory Conference. The paper "The 'Spirit of Evolution'...
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