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Book Study Meditation The Marriage of Sense and
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Ken Wilber (from Wikipedia)
. . . is an American author who has written
about mysticism, philosophy, ecology, and
development-al psychology.

• Founded the Integral Institute in 1998.
• The AQAL (all quadrants all levels) Model
  represents the core of his work.
• Advocates mapping a neo-perennial philosophy.
• Has a debilitating illness called Rnase Enzyme
  Deficiency Disease.

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AQAL An Introduction to Ken Wilbers Integral
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Brian McConnell
. . . first read Ken Wilbers, Eye to Eye in
1997, which coincided with his introduc-tion to
Theravada Buddhism.

• Has authored recent articles for
• the Integral Leadership Review
• and OpEdNews.
• Is affiliated with the Integral
• Institute and Integral Without
• Borders as a Researcher/
• Practioner.
• Serves as acting Director for
• Group Epignosis.

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The Marriage of Sense and Soul Part 1 The
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1 - The Challenge of Our Times . . .
There is arguably no more important and pressing
topic than the relation of science and religion
in the modern world. Science is clearly one of
the most profound methods that humans have yet
devised for discovering truth, while religion
remains the single greatest force for generating
meaning.
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1 - The Challenge of Our Times . . .
The reconciliation of science and religion is
not merely a passing academic curiosity. These
two forcestruth and meaningare at war in
todays world. Modern science and premodern
religion aggressively inhabit the same globe,
each vying in its own way, for world domination.
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What do we mean by religion?
. . . one thing is immediately obvious many of
the specific and central claims of the worlds
great religions contradict each other, but if we
cannot find a common core of the worlds great
religions, then we will never find an integration
of science and religion.
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The Great Chain of Being
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The Great Chain of Being
. . . virtually all of the worlds great wisdom
traditions subscribe to a belief in the Great
Chain of Being.
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The Great Chain of Being
As Arthur Lovejoy abundantly demon-strated in his
classic treatise on the Great Chain, this view of
reality has in fact been the dominant official
philosophy of the larger part of civilized
humankind through most of its history.
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The Great Chain of Being
. . . the actual view is more like the Great
Nest of Being, with each senior dimension
enveloping or enfolding its junior dimension(s)
a situation often described as transcend and
include.
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What do we mean by religion?
. . . this simple hierarchy of body, mind, and
spirit was nonetheless the backbone of even the
earliest shamanic traditions, showing up as the
hierarchy of earth, human, and heaven. This
three-level scheme reappears in the Hindu and
Buddhist notion of the three great states of
being gross (matter and body), subtle (mind and
soul), and causal (spirit).
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The Modern Denial of Spirituality
With the rise of modernity in the West, the Great
Chain of Being almost entirely disappeared.In
its place was a flatland conception of the
universe as composed basically of matter (or
matter/energy), and this material universe,
including material bodies and material brains,
could best be studied by science, and science
alone.
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What is Modernity?
Various scholars . . . have suggested that what
specifically defines modernity is something
called the differentiation of the cultural value
spheres, which especially means the
differentiation of art, morals, and science.
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What is Modernity?
The wonderful differentiations of modernity went
too far into actual dissociation, fragmentation,
alienation. Dignity became disaster.Science
became scientismscientific materialism and
scientific imperialismwhich soon became the
dominant official worldview of modernity.
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2 A Deadly Dance
In the wake of modernity . . . associated with
the eighteenth-century Enlightenment and often
continuing today . . . There arose four or five
major stances toward the relation of science and
religion.

1. Science denies any validity to religion.
2. Religion denies any validity to science.
3. Science is but one of several valid modes of
   knowing, and thus can peacefully coexist with
   spiritual modes.

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Epistemological pluralism . . .
The traditional view of epistemological
pluralism was given perhaps its clearest
statement by such Christian mystics as St.
Boneaventure and Hugh of St. Victor every human
being has the eye of flesh, the eye of mind, and
the eye of contemplation. Each of these modes of
knowing discloses its own corresponding dimension
of being (gross, subtle, and causal) . . .
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
. . . also known as Ajaan Geoff, (born 1949) is
an American Theravada Bhuddhist monk of . . . the
Thai forest kammatthana tradition.

• Practiced meditation under Ajaan Fuang Jotiko.
• He is abbot of the Metta Monastery in San Diego
  County California.
• He is recognized most notably as a highly skilled
  translator of the Pali Cannon and is also a
  prolific author.

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Goodwill Has to Be Circumspect
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Book Study Meditation The Marriage of Sense and
Soul
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