Ken Wilber

Kenneth Earl Wilber Jr. (born January 31, 1949, Oklahoma City, USA) is an American philosopher and mystic. His work focuses mainly on creating an "integral theory of consciousness" in which the insights of mysticism, postmodernism, science and systems theory come together to form a coherent picture of the Kosmos. In Kosmic Consciousness, Wilber states that he considers himself a storyteller and a mapmaker; his stories address universal questions and his maps integrate various perspectives of the cosmos.

External links

Primary sources and "authorized" websites

• Ken Wilber's Official Website
• Ken Wilber's Integral Institute
• Integral Naked
• Shambhala Publications' Ken Wilber site
• Wilber is in the process of writing six articles for beliefnet.com as part of a column called "Sense and Soul".
• "An Integral Spirituality" The silken thread that unites the world's great wisdom traditions
• "Why Do Religions Teach Love and Yet Cause So Much War?" Transcending the trauma to get to the truth of the world's faiths
• Which Level of God Do You Believe In? Your vision of God depends on where you are in your spiritual development
• "The Four Hands of God" Toward a more complete understanding of the elements of spirituality
• "An Integral Theory of Consciousness", an essay by Wilber.
• "What Is Integral Spirituality?" (A 1.3 MB .pdf file.) Wilber's 118 page rough draft summary of his two forthcoming books.

Sites of friends and fans of Wilber

• On beliefnet.com:
• Who Is Ken Wilber?, by Jack Crittenden
• Reading Ken Wilber: A beginner's guide to his works
• Mini-review of A Theory of Everything
• The website of What Is Enlightenment? print magazine, founded by guru Andrew Cohen, and heavily influenced by Wilber and his associates
• Integral World, a website by Frank Visser. Known as "The World of Ken Wilber" prior to a particularly cantankerous dispatch from Wilber
• The Integral Encyclopedia Wiki A separate Wiki based on the integral theory of Wilber and others
• "Ken Wilber" by Alex Burns on disinformation.com
• "Extended Glossary" for Speaking of Everything on enlightenment.com
• "A 4Quadrants analysis of the Portuguese mountain village Chão Sobral"

Critiques

• Kheper.net contains a directory of essays by M. Alan Kazlev, Arvan Harvat, Michel Bauwens and others on Wilber and Sri Aurobindo
• The Reading Room at Integral World - A collection of dozens of essays, many critical, responding to the work of Ken Wilber, at Frank Visser's website
• Critics of Ken Wilber - a collection of critiques of the work of Ken Wilber, some online
• Wilber's misrepresentations of Spiral Dynamics®, Part I - Part II - according to SD co-founder Chris Cowan
• "Ken Wilber and Sri Aurobindo: A Critical Perspective" by Rod Hemsell

Interviews

• Interview by Otto Scharner (August ´03)
• Interview with Larry Wachowski
• Interview with Andrew Cohen
• Shambhala Interview conducted shortly before the release of Boomeritis