Ken Wilber, właśc. Kenneth Earl Wilber Jr. − amerykański filozof, socjolog, psycholog, teoretyk systemów oraz pisarz. W swojej pracy zajmuje się również kulturą, duchowością i mistycyzmem. Jest twórcą integralnej teorii świadomości, propagatorem integralnej praktyki oraz założycielem "Instytutu Integralnego". Podobnie jak Stanislav Grof uważany jest za twórcę psychologii transpersonalnej. Autor systematycznie odmawia uczestnictwa w standardowej naukowej wymianie myśli i nie poddaje swoich prac procedurze krytyki . Wikipedia
“An integral approach even makes room for those who did the disowning to you.”
Integral Spirituality in Real Life
Kontekst: What often happens if you study this integral map is that it begins to make room in your psyche, in your being, in your soul, for all the parts of you that were disowned, whether by society, your parents, your peers, whomever. An integral approach even makes room for those who did the disowning to you.
Why Do Religions Teach Love and Yet Cause So Much War?
Kontekst: In my previous column I didn't spell out, or really indicate what an "integral approach" to spirituality would include. Many readers naturally assumed that this was simply another version of "universalism" — the belief that there are certain truths contained in all the world's religions. But the integral approach emphatically does not make that suggestion. Other readers maintained that I was offering a version of the "perennial philosophy" espoused by Aldous Huxley or Huston Smith. Does the integral approach believe that all religions are saying essentially the same thing from a different perspective? No, almost the opposite.
Yet the integral approach does claim to be able to "unite," in some sense, the world's great spiritual traditions, which is what has caused much of the interest in this approach. If humanity is ever to cease its swarming hostilities and be united in one family, without squashing the significant and important differences among us, then something like an integral approach seems the only way. Until that time, religions will continue to brutally divide humanity, as they have throughout history, and not unite, as they must if they are to be a help, not a hindrance, to tomorrow's existence.
The Marriage of Sense and Soul (1998)
Kontekst: There is arguably no more important and pressing topic than the relation of science and religion in the modern world. Science is clearly one of the most profound methods that humans have yet devised for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning. Truth and meaning, science and religion; but we still cannot figure out how to get the two of them together in a fashion that both find acceptable.
Introduction, Collected Works of Ken Wilber, vol. VIII (2000) http://wilber.shambhala.com/html/books/cowokev8_intro.cfm/ <br class="br">Kontekst: 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 one 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. To Freudians I say, Have you looked at Buddhism? To Buddhists I say, Have you studied Freud? To liberals I say, Have you thought about how important some conservative ideas are? To conservatives I say, Can you perhaps include a more liberal perspective? And so on, and so on, and so on... At no point I have ever said: Freud is wrong, Buddha is wrong, liberals are wrong, conservatives are wrong. I have only suggested that they are true but partial. 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.<br>And on my own tombstone, I dearly hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial...
“The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will.”
Źródło: A Brief History of Everything
Which Level of God Do You Believe In? (2004)
Ken Wilber książka Sex, Ecology, Spirituality
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality (1995, 2000)
The Marriage of Sense and Soul (1998)
Why Do Religions Teach Love and Yet Cause So Much War?
Short definition, tall order.
An Integral Spirituality
Ken Wilber książka Sex, Ecology, Spirituality
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality (1995, 2000)
Which Level of God Do You Believe In? (2004)
There would be a real New Age.
Up From Eden (1981)
“There is intersubjectivity woven into the very fabric of the Kosmos at all levels.”
A Brief History of Everything (1996)
Integral Spirituality in Real Life
which nowadays, by the way, ain't all that impressive
An Integral Spirituality
Eye to Eye: The Quest for the New Paradigm (1984)
An Integral Spirituality
An Integral Spirituality
Integral Spirituality in Real Life
The Marriage of Sense and Soul (1998)
"Foreword" to Ken Wilber: Thought as Passion (2000) by Frank Visser
“Anybody can they say they are being "spiritual"”
and they are, because everybody has some type and level of concern. Let us therefore see their actual conception, in thought and action, and see how many perspectives it is in fact concerned with, and how many perspectives it actually takes into account, and how many perspectives it attempts to integrate, and thus let us see how deep and how wide runs that bodhisattva vow to refuse rest until all perspectives whatsoever are liberated into their own primordial nature.
The Eye of Spirit : An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad (1997)
Źródło: Which Level of God Do You Believe In? (2004)
