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
awareness ends
Anything you are exclusively attached to & identify with ends up distorting & limiting awareness.
consciousness
Do you even recognize your own consciousness?
endless meetings
Freedom is an endless meeting.
force conform
Society forces you to conform.
oppression social form
Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.
belief justified form
The only justifications for belief have the form "justified for me".
way
There is a way out, but the way out is really a way within.
cutting path tomorrow
Be the most ethical, the most responsible, the most authentic you can be with every breath you take, because you are cutting a path into tomorrow that others will follow.
matter universe
There is nothing in the universe but matter.
views unity adequate
An integral approach acknowledges that all views have a degree of truth, but some views are more true than others, more developed, more evolved, more adequate.
philosophy moving psychology
The most striking feature of the perennial philosophy/psychology is that it presents being and consciousness as a hierarchy of dimensional levels, moving from the lowest, densest, and most fragmentary realms to the highest, subtlest, and most unitary ones.
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.
healing opportunity compassion
If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge, as a healing crisis and opportunity. Being sick is then not a condemnation or a moral judgement, but a movement in a larger process of healing and restoration. When sickness is viewed positively and in supportive terms, then illness has a much better chance to heal, with the concomitant result that the entire person may grown and be enriched in the process.