Holons, Integral Institute's new
monthly newsletter, is broken down in a really interesting way:
Articles are listed by quadrants, altitude, and culture (althought the
"culture" part is almost exclusively western, particularly
American...I'm sure it will get more integral as time goes by). All in
all, it's a great first step in providing second tier perspectives on a
wide variety of subjects.
The section on "culture by altitude" particularly caught my attention, largely due to Sam harris' new book, "
Letter to a Christian Nation,"
and it's relagation to an orange altitude. One of the
problems I see is that there is just a short paragraph of a pop-up
blurb that claims that Harris has a "kind of violence in his rational
reductionism, which doesn't get resolved until trans-rational and
integral stages," without explaining why. The only link takes you
directly to the Random House website which is basically a commercial
for the book. In my humble opinion, this is less than satisfying. I
want to know why the editors have taken this position, not just that
they have.
Much more richness on this subject is contained in the November issue of
Wired magazine, in an article entitled,
"The New Atheism," by Gary Wolf.
More on this at
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Gary Stamper
www.garystamper.com
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