Frank Visser 
Ken Wilber [PDF ebook] 
Thought as Passion

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The first comprehensive overview of the life and thought of the American philosopher Ken Wilber.

This is the definitive guide to the life and work of Ken Wilber, widely regarded as the most comprehensive and passionate philosopher of our times. In this long overdue exploration of Wilber’s life and work, Frank Visser not only outlines the theories of this profound thinker, but also uncovers his personal life, showing how his experiences influenced and shaped his writing.

Wilber’s impressive body of work, including nineteen books in more than thirty languages, brings together science and religion, philosophy, art, culture, East and West, and places them within the all-encompassing perspective of evolution. Visser’s book follows Wilber’s four distinct phases as he reveals not only the story behind Wilber’s writing, but also the man behind the ideas. In recounting the course of Wilber’s life and the motives that led him to the subjects he has written so much about, Visser uncovers the intricacies of one of the world’s most important intellectuals. Included in this indispensable resource is a complete bibliography of Wilber’s work.

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FOREWORD
Ken Wilber
INTRODUCTION
Ken Wilber: The person and his work
The structure of this book
1. WHO IS KEN WILBUR? ‘I’M A PANDIT, NOT A GURU’
Top of the class
‘An entirely new world’
‘Life for me was sour’
‘The Einstein of consciousness research’
‘The lonely pursuit of the writer’
The Kosmos trilogy
‘A fundamental pattern’
So, yet another Grand Theory?
‘I’m a pandit, not a guru’
The seven faces of Ken Wilber
2. A FLYING START: ‘CONSCIOUSNESS IS LIKE A SPECTRUM’
What is transpersonal psychology?
The perennial philosophy as a guiding concept
A ‘perennial psychology’
The spectrum of consciousness

Evolution—the movement from Spirit to embodied individual

Involution—the movement from embodied individual to Spirit

Consciousness without boundaries
‘And yet, something was definitely wrong…’
3. CRISIS AND REORIENTATION: IN SEARCH OF A NEW FOOTING
‘Instantly the entire scheme became clear’
A forgotten truth
The search for the Self


Developmental psychology as a starting point

The prepersonal

The personal

The transpersonal

General principles of development

Pause for thought


A fall from Paradise?


Cultural evolution

The evolution of religion

New Age or Dark Age?

‘No longer lost in thoughts’
To sum up…
4. FURTHER REFINEMENTS: SCIENTIFIC AND SOCIAL ISSUES
Towards a New Paradigm?


The three eyes of knowledge

Three types of science

The pre/trans fallacy

A further refinement of the developmental model

Physics and mysticism: An unhappy marriage?


A holographic paradigm?

Quantum questions

Transpersonal sociology


Methodological considerations

The new religious movements

The stage model is complete
5. LOVE, DEATH, AND REBIRTH: YEARS OF TEST AND TRIAL
‘Love at first touch’
‘I went into a profound depression’
‘My path has been Buddhist’
‘I do not condemn the
entire New Age movement’
‘And that is what Treya had done for me’
Death and rebirth in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition
6. AN EVEN BROADER HORIZON: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL VIEW OF SPIRIT
The
Kosmos trilogy


Popular holism falls short

Individual and cultural progress

The four quadrants

The collapse into flatland

Ascending and descending spirituality

An interview… with himself


The four quadrants revisited

Global consciousness as a platform

In the grip of flatland

The eye of spirit


The integral approach

Is humanity evolving?

The ever-present Spirit

The integration of science and religion


A closer look at science and religion

Earlier attempts at integration

The integral agenda

The taste of Oneness


A day in the life

Pitfalls on the Path

Continuity of consciousness

The Collected Works
Integral Psychology
Boomeritis
A theory of everything
The Integral Institute
‘By far the most productive years of my entire life’
Towards a post-metaphysical spirituality
7. KEN WILBER IN PERSPECTIVE: THE BACKBONE OF WILBER’S MODEL
Materialist science: the domain of matter


Is there an inner dimension?

‘The hard problem’

Back to introspection

Orthodox psychology: the domain of the personality


The realms of nature

The stage paradigm

Philosophy of development

Transpersonal psychology: the domain of the soul


Wilber versus Jung

Wilber’s main opponents

The Wilber conference in San Francisco

Metaphysical religion: the domain of Spirit


The perennialists

The theosophical tradition

A Western Vedanta?

Epilogue: The map and the territory
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books by Ken Wilber
Complete bibliography of Ken Wilber
INDEX

Giới thiệu về tác giả

Frank Visser is an internet specialist who studied the psychology of religion at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and is the author of Seven Spheres.

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