NOTE: This article was published on the Integral World website in 2014: http://integralworld.net/benjamin64.html
Sometimes I wonder if I lack a gene, or perhaps have an extra gene, that makes me “different” from other people. I never learned how to make chit-chat small talk, I never got the hang of picking up girls at bars, and parties where you just go around and get into conversations with everybody were always very uncomfortable for me. In a similar way, I wonder…..
NOTE: This article was published on the Integral World website in 2006: http://integralworld.net/benjamin7.html
Integral Philosophy has been extensively formulated by Ken Wilber, from his four quadrants to his eight zones, including a multitude of lines, levels, types, etc. [1]. However, there is also an openness to alternative views of what “integral” may mean, through the dedicated overseeing of the Integral World website by Frank Visser [2]. In this essay I would like to formulate what my own conception of…..
NOTE: This article was published in Paranthropology Journal in 2015. To obtain the article from the Paranthopology website, contact Elliot Benjamin at ben496@prexar.com A shortened version of this article is available on the Integral World website: http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin74.html
Paranthropology: Journal of Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal
Vol. 6 No. 2 50
Experiential Skepticism and an Exploration of
Mediumship and Life After Death
Elliot Benjamin
Abstract
This article describes a “researcher-based experiential research” approach to…..
NOTE: This article was published on the Integral World website in 2010: http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin24.html
Synchronicity can be thought of simply as “meaningful coincidence” (Jung, 1955). However, more involved definitions of synchronicity are readily available in the literature. For example, Braud and Anderson (1998) defined synchronicity as “a subjectively significant coincidence between an inner state, usually of need, and an unaccountable outer event that corresponds to and/or answers the need.” (p. 143). Irwin and Watt (2007, pp. 132-133) discussed synchronicity in…..
NOTE: This article was published on the Integral World website in 2006: http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin.html
There have been a number of people who have expressed serious concerns and misgivings regarding the cult dangers of philosopher Ken Wilber’s Integral Institute (c.f. [1]). These criticisms have generally focused upon Wilber’s harsh comments regarding scholars who disagree with his philosophical opinions. This has become increasingly more evident with the development of the Integral Institute website and especially Ken Wilber’s private website (c.f. [1], [2]),…..
NOTE: This article was published on the Integral World website in 2015: http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin75.html
I think both Frank Visser and David Lane have given stimulating, fair, and balanced perspectives on Andrew Cohen’s recent “apology” [1]. One can see from the comments to both Visser and Lane’s essays the divided responses of Cohen’s ex-students in regard to their feelings of whether Cohen was being truly sincere in his apology, or rather manipulative to rebrand himself as a more “user-friendly”…..
NOTE: This article was published on the Integral World website in 2015: http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin76.html
There has been an increasing alarm the past few years about the extent that especially young people in our U.S. society—and virtually all over the world—are becoming saturated with what has been referred to as “social media addiction” (Addiction.com Staff, 2012; Anderson, 2015; Augenbraun, 2014; Barnes, 2015; Golinkoff, 2015; Gordon, 2015; IANS, 2015; Johnson, 2015; McNamee, 2014; Paddock, 2013; Whiteman, 2014). There…..
Creative Artist Support Group monthly meetings in Belfast, Maine, free of charge. Next meeting is Monday 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. in Belfast Free Library, 3rd floor Conference Room. Facilitated by Elliot Benjamin, Ph.D.
Welcome. My name is Elliot Benjamin, author of Life after Death: An Experiential Exploration with Mediums by an Agnostic Investigator; The Creative Artist, Mental Disturbance, and Mental Health; Modern Religions: An Experiential Analysis and Exposé; and Numberama: Recreational Number Theory in the School System. I’m so happy to have you as a visitor to my blog about my books and articles. This project is very special to me, and I hope to share some of that excitement with you here.
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