Okay, I need to slow down on this somehow - it is simply SO easy to add feeds to google reader, when I come across something interesting - I don't access my feeds for three days, suddenly I have 773 items that are "unread".

Whoo. 

And this isn't because I, all at once, added 100 feeds.  This is one month of finding interesting feeds, adding them (So Simple!), and then going about my business...

It's a problem if it takes me over an hour to even SCAN all the items from feeds that I deem interesting...

Integral Spirituality is going to be one of the new books released by Ken Wilber, in early 2006.

From the IN site:

This 118-page essay is not to be confused with the 350-page book Integral Spirituality: A Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World (to be published by Integral Books/Shambhala in the summer of 2006). This book will also be pre-posted in its entirety at www.IntegralSpiritualCenter.org in January, 2006

I would like to start the analysis of this draft - and then later the book by analyzing the truth claims of the draft (at least to start). 

In the first place, the fundamental thesis that I am positing that Integral Spirituality is - more so than any previous work of Wilber's - at its base, a philosophical work of  a rich, detailed, and inclusive EPISTEMOLOGY - both inividual and collective.

(Here is also the Wikipedia page on epistemology.)

As such, quite separate from substantive and ontological claims by Wilber, this work can be judged on the merits of the epistemological claims.

This multi-part analysis is going to follow the following structure.

Part I:  Brief historical analysis of the development of Wilber's thought.
Part II:  Historical predecessors - some analysis of previous work, that has similar analytic trends and thoughts as Wilber's.
Part III:  You down with the IMP?  Yeah you know me! (and us)
Part IV:  An exercise in Figure Drawing - Quadrants, Cubes, and Octahedrons
Part V:   The Claim of One Direction Complexity- Lines and Levels
Part VI:  Shifting Sands:  Expanding Outward into Science, Psychology, and Spirit.
Part VII:  Further Shifting Sands - or Wilber recapitulates Habermas


That's the plan.  Let me know if there are any thoughts on this. 

I don't know myself, but looking at the statistics for this site, I am getting an extra 20 hits a day, simply from google and technorati searches, looking for Stuart Davis.

Considering that:

1. This is new - I've never gotten an extra 20 hits for Stuart Davis before.
2. I haven't blogged anything recent about Stuart Davis in 6 months.

At any rate, here is his site, from anyone who gets referred to this site, looking for him...