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Wilber was born in 1949 in Oklahoma City. In 1967 he enrolled as a pre-med student at Duke University. [3] He became interested in psychology and Eastern spirituality. He left Duke and enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln studying biochemistry, but after a few years dropped out of university and began studying his own curriculum and writing.
Wilber also sometimes refers to an ethical stage that is beyond the worldcentric, which he calls kosmocentric. [4] In a kosmocentric awareness, one experiences a release of attachments of the gross realm and a radical recognition of evolutionary processes so that an individual is compassionately called to action and becomes capable of letting ...
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution is a 1995 book by American integral theorist Ken Wilber. Wilber intended it to be the first volume of a series called The Kosmos Trilogy, [citation needed] but subsequent volumes were never produced. The book has been both highly acclaimed by some reviewers and harshly criticized by others.
Wilber also referenced Graves's emergent cyclical levels of existence in Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, when he introduced his quadrant model, [note 2] and began to incorporate Spiral Dynamics in the "Integral Psychology" section of The Collected Works of Ken Wilber (Vol. 4) in 1999, [22] and gave it a prominent place in the 2000 edition of A ...
The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science and Religion is a 1998 book by American author Ken Wilber.It reasons that by adopting contemplative (e.g. meditative) disciplines related to Spirit and commissioning them within a context of broad science, that "the spiritual, subjective world of ancient wisdom" could be joined "with the objective, empirical world of modern knowledge".
A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science, and Spirituality is a 2000 book by Ken Wilber detailing the author's approach, called Integral theory, to building a conceptual model of the World that encompasses both its physical and spiritual dimensions. He posits a unified ground-of-everything he calls Spirit.
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The integral philosopher Ken Wilber refers to involution in his online chapter of Kosmic Karma, employing concepts from Plotinus, Advaita Vedanta, Tibetan Buddhism, and Sri Aurobindo. According to Wilber, the cosmic evolution described in his previous works is preceded by an involution of Spirit into Matter.