Ken Wilber
Ken Wilber
Kenneth Earl "Ken" Wilber IIis an American writer on transpersonal psychology and his own Integral Theory, a four-quadrant grid which suggests to synthesize all human knowledge and experience...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth31 January 1949
CountryUnited States of America
reflection mirrors mind
You are not the one who experiences liberation; you are the clearing, the opening, the emptiness, in which any experience comes and goes, like reflections on the mirror. And you are the mirror, the mirror mind, and not any experienced reflection.
opposites negative discovering
The point is to unify the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses both.
consciousness
I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.
fundamentals physics significant
Physics is the most fundamental, and least significant, of the sciences.
profound may might
And through the opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment you might even touch eternity.
shifting arbitrary truth-is
The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.
profound force method
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.
ego emptiness spirit
Put bluntly, the ego is not an obstruction to Spirit, but a radiant manifestation of Spirit. All Forms are not other than Emptiness, including the form of the ego. It is not necessary to get rid of the ego, but simply to live with it a certain exuberance.
long-ago mind body
Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies.
consciousness
Do you even recognize your own consciousness?
endless meetings
Freedom is an endless meeting.
oppression social form
Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.
levels woven fabric
There is intersubjectivity woven into the very fabric of the Kosmos at all levels.
track creative nebraska
I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska.