[MD] The Trouble With Wilber

[MarshaV]

At 06:20 PM 5/29/2007, you wrote:
>dmb says:
>I'm with Keith here. Wilber's quasi-theological terms make me queasy 
>sometimes too, but Krimel's suggestion that he shares anything with 
>the religious right really isn't even plausible. One could quote 
>Wilber's criticism of that sort of religiosity all day long even if 
>this forum's archives were the only available source. That's how 
>many times I've invoked Wilber against theism here already. Like all 
>major thought systems in history, he can find some truth in it but 
>he also criticizes religious conservatives as cognitively 
>underdeveloped mythic thinkers, egomaniacs who hide from rational 
>evidence. In this sense, I think both he and Pirsig are 
>anti-theistic. And yet they both criticize scientific materialism 
>for being spirtually empty. I think they both offer a vision of 
>reality that allows us to have spirituality and a brain at the same time.

Hi DMB,

What of the Religious Left?  And the poor, excluded religious 
middle?  Are they keen thinkers?

Marsha