As I was walking recently with the monk who teaches me Buddhism, he characterized his undergraduate training in psychology as being Skinnerian psychology.

As I reflected on this later, it occurred to me that Skinner’s psychology of behaviorism was the ultimate extension of the principle of conditioning that the Buddha spoke about.

(As noted on the Blogmandu roundup for October 30) The author of Open Letter to Rational Pundits takes the atheists to task for their efforts to convince Christians of their folly by rational arguments. In an ironic way, the rant demonstrates both irrationality and a very limited “stage of development,” at least in this post. There’s little intellectual content presented, just the teenage overuse of the “f” word as if its shock value will somehow carry weight. On the the development scale, we’re probably at a preteen level. If that’s what Wilber’s integral philosophy produces, then it’s more bankrupt than I’ve thought.