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7 unusual facts about Ken Wilber


Christian de Quincey

Ken Wilber (the theories of whom have been criticized by de Quincey)

Integral yoga

The former represents the Inner Guide which is realised through the Heart, the latter can be compared to the traditional concept of Vedantic, Buddhist and popular guru Enlightenment and the descriptions of the Causal and Ultimate stages of spiritual development in the evolutionary philosophy of the integral thinker Ken Wilber.

Ptolemy Tompkins

Other books include The Beaten Path: Field Notes on Getting Wise in a Wisdom-Crazy World (William Morrow, ISBN 978-0-380-97822-9), The Monkey in Art, and This Tree Grows Out of Hell (Sterling, ISBN 978-1-4027-4882-0), a spiritual history of Mesoamerica heavily influenced by the thinking of Ken Wilber and Owen Barfield.

Quantum mysticism

Ken Wilber, Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists (editor), 1984, rev. ed.

Universal evolution

Cosmogenesis (Teilhard) or the formation of inanimate matter (the Physiosphere of Wilber), culminating in the Lithosphere, Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, etc. (Teilhard), or collectively, the Geosphere (Vernadsky).

Value system

Integral theorist Ken Wilber (1949-) re-introduced Spiral Dynamics concepts in his book A Theory of Everything (2000, Shambhala) where he attempts to bridge business, politics, science, spirituality and developmental theories, showing how they inter-relate through his model of manifest existence.

Worldcentrism

The American integral philosopher Ken Wilber uses the term worldcentric to describe an advanced stage of ethical development.


Integral psychology

Important writers in the field of integral psychology are Sri Aurobindo, Indra Sen, Haridas Chaudhuri, and Ken Wilber.


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