KEN WILBER
“For the real intent of
my writing is not to say, You must think in this way. The real
intent is: here are some of the many important facets of this
extraordinary Kosmos; have you thought about including them in
your own worldview? My work is an attempt to make room in the
Kosmos for all of the dimensions, levels, domains, waves, memes,
modes, individuals, cultures, and so on ad infinitum. I have on
major rule: everybody is right. More specifically, everybody—including
me—has some important pieces of truth, and all of those
pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious,
spacious, and compassionate embrace... My critical writings have
never attacked the central beliefs of any discipline, only the
claims that the particular discipline has the only truth—and
on those grounds I have often been harsh. But every approach,
I honestly believe, is essentially true but partial, true but
partial, true but partial. And on my own tombstone, I dearly hope
that someday they will write: He was true but partial.”
- Ken
Wilber
Ken Wilber is the author of over a dozen books, including Sex,
Ecology, Spirituality; The Spectrum of Consciousness; Up from
Eden; and Grace
and Grit. The Spectrum of Consciousness, written when he was
twenty-three years old, established him as perhaps the most comprehensive
philosophical thinker of our times. Credited with developing a
unified field theory of consciousness—a synthesis and interpretation
of the world's great psychological, philosophical, and spiritual
traditions—Ken Wilber is the most cogent and penetrating
voice in the recent emergence of a uniquely American wisdom
Ken Wilber is an evolutionary
philosopher, leading edge psychologist, Buddhist practitioner,
leader, teacher, synthesizer of world knowledge, Kosmic storyteller,
outspoken critic of much of the progressive status quo, and advocate
of modern, universal and integral spirituality. With books translated
into up to 30 languages, Wilber’s radical call for human
transformation has a truly global reach.
In 2000, Wilber founded the Integral
Institute (I-I). The institute functions as the “world’s
premier site for integral research and applications; as a generator
of consulting services, seminars, and conferences; as a network
of the most influential integral theorists from around the world;
and as an open organization for disseminating and applying integral
methods to complex problems in a wide variety of fields, personal
to professional” (www.integralinstitute.org).
The operating model at Integral Institute is the AQAL map, a multi-dimensional,
evolutionary matrix incorporating the human inquiry fields: physics,
biology, psychology, culture, and spirituality. The acronym “AQAL”
embodies the Institute’s primary belief that ultimate human
knowledge accounts for the truth quality present in all forms
of inquiry, bringing them together not as a random heap, but as
a living, conscious whole.
We learn from Ken Wilber the reasons
it is important to cultivate an Integrally-informed life practice,
to live consciously in our interior and conscientiously through
our exterior. Then our relationship to the Universe blooms fully:
our body as expressions of nature, our mind enfolded in culture,
our true self none other than divine spirit. Shunning reckless
and selfish egalitarianism, it is authentic compassion that forms
the moral context of Wilber’s work. It is a mature ethic
that honors the value of each and every sentient being while cultivating
the discriminating wisdom that arises out of regular contemplative
practice. Ultimately, the message of Ken Wilber’s work is
one of liberation, of radical remembrance, that we each might
come to find what Zen describes as our Original Face, our Identity
that is truer than any writer’s words. We find that, through
Ken’s thought, we exist beyond thought - prior to time and
oblivious to life and death, we just simply are.
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