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Integral Psychology [Paperback]

Ken Wilber
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May 16 2000
The goal of an "integral psychology" is to honor and embrace every legitimate aspect of human consciousness under one roof. This book presents one of the first truly integrative models of consciousness, psychology, and therapy. Drawing on hundreds of sources—Eastern and Western, ancient and modern—Wilber creates a psychological model that includes waves of development, streams of development, states of consciousness, and the self, and follows the course of each from subconscious to self-conscious to superconscious. Included in the book are charts correlating over a hundred psychological and spiritual schools from around the world, including Kabbalah, Vedanta, Plotinus, Teresa of Ávila, Aurobindo, Theosophy, and modern theorists such as Jean Piaget, Erik Erikson, Jane Loevinger, Lawrence Kohlberg, Carol Gilligan, Erich Neumann, and Jean Gebser. Integral Psychology is Wilber's most ambitious psychological system to date and is already being called a landmark study in human development.

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In this dense text, philosopher Wilber (The Eye of the Spirit) aims to reconstruct a place for spiritual consciousness in Western developmental psychology. Describing prevailing psychological theories as inhabiting a "flatland" where only "the world of matter and energy, empirically investigated by human senses and their tools is real," Wilber surveys their history. He looks both at the early modern era, when scientific materialists banished the philosophical investigation of an individual's interior life from science, and at the work of 200 ancient, medieval and modern philosophers, for whom spiritual concerns were paramount. They all helped shape the history of modern developmental psychology, he argues. Wilber aims to produce a two-volume textbook from his research; this effort is a condensed outline of the ideas he plans to detail. But even this shorter text contains 20 pages of charts, 68 pages of endnotes and a lengthy explanation of his four-quadrant model (designed to integrate consciousness, spirit and therapy with the psychological development of the individual in relationship to the material world)--all of which makes for some hefty reading. Additionally, because he's writing for a scholarly audience, Wilber employs terminology that may be challenging for the lay reader, although he does manage, occasionally, to clarify complex themes with simple analogies. Mixing scientific inquiry with spiritual concerns, this book should speak most clearly to those looking for a basis in Western science to validate their spiritual quest. Illustrations. (Apr.)

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"Wilber's unprecedented work offers diamond-like clarity, brilliance, and many-faceted reflection, and his writing speaks with an unencumbered authority."— NAPRA Review



"One of the most important thinkers of our age, and certainly the leading authority in the field of transpersonal psychology . . . The scope of his scholarship and of his understanding of the psychological development of the individual from early body awareness to the higher (and ultimately non-dual) experiential levels is quite simply breathtaking."—The Middle Way

"The first truly comprehensive map of the human mind."—Larry Dossey, author of Be Careful What You Pray For . . . You Just Might Get It



"Ken Wilber is a national treasure. No one is working at the integration of Eastern and Western wisdom literature with such depth or breadth of mind and heart as he."—Robert Kegan, Professor of Education, Harvard University Graduate School of Education, and author of In Over Our Heads



"In ages to come, historians may well view Wilber's work as the pivotal insight that legitimized the return of consciousness and spirit to our age. For this exciting page-turner, psychology owes him a millennial debt."—T. George Harris, founding editor, Psychology Today and American Health



"In a single publication Wilber strides over the entire history of psychology to create new and comprehensive strategies for human survival in the next millennium."—Don Beck, coauthor of Spiral Dyanmics



"Integral Psychology is so all-encompassing, lucid, and well written that Ken Wilber deserves the recognition of having single-mindedly brought conceptual order to psychology of the East and West."—Susanne Cook-Greuter, coeditor of Transcendence and Mature Thought in Adulthood


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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars a non-rider's guide to the equestrian arts Jan 14 2004
Format:Paperback
Those who have read Wilber know that he writes with marvelous clarity. If every help manual in the world were written in such a style, we could all follow the directions, no doubt about it. Even granted the Wilberian preoccupation with spatial metaphors: up, down, around, transcend and include.

What I question are the credentials re: "therapy." One could definitely make a case that many of the best "therapists" never get licensed at all and don't have impressive credentials. At the same time, however, it's strange to read suggestions about therapy or counseling without seeing any of the author's background in these disciplines. Was Wilber trained by therapists? Has he actually sat with clients and received supervision from therapists? Listened as a group of colleagues told him about his own countertransference issues? I don't know. Perhaps he has. I hope so. Because work on yourself isn't enough to make you knowledgeable about psychotherapy--just as meditations on the nature of horseness don't make you an expert on dressage.

Wilber does some of the homework in terms of theory, but the real grist, the give-and-take of actual case histories, actual in-session learnings, knowledge of the analytic literature, accounts of the mistakes all trainees make in session, notes on dealing with fighting couples or self-destructive families: where is it? Because without it, degree or no degree, we are scarcely in a position to write adequately about psychotherapy, let alone recommend modifications to how it is performed by seasoned practitioners who every day get their hands and hearts dirty with genuine human conflict and tragedy, illness and death.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Few More Words on Mr. Wilber Jan 23 2002
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An Added Note, Jan 2002:

Reading the reviews on this page, some of them remind me of a philosophy class I once took with an excellent professor. The subject matter was Sextus Empiricus, and his "fathering" of Skepticism as a formal philosophical method. What the professor mentioned to us, just before handing back our first essays, in a friendly but admonishing manner, was that it is far too easy to simply cast aspersions or find thinkers wrong; whereas it is far more productive to find what is right about what they say; and that only after you've got what they say down pat & can recount it, can you start to do an intelligent criticism of their work.

Mr. Wilber himself parses his work into four periods, sometimes revising his earlier views (such as on Romanticism). And though there is a general concern that informs what he has written - the totality of human knowledge and how we come to that knowledge and what characterizes that knowledge & perhaps most importantly what we can do with that knowledge (which therefore makes is difficult to write something that is not somewhat related to something else that is already written in Wilber’s ongoing opus) – UP FROM EDEN is not the same book as, say, INTEGRAL PSYCHOLOGY. And the repetition in the books simply, yes, rehashes the basic outlines of his foundational Quadrant model, which any good writer will offer, as there will always be readers who are new to him. Thus each book can be self-contained and does not require what can be a frustrating practice of buying a book that refers back to another book the reader is therefore forced to get in order to be able to make sense of the tome in her hands at the moment – a tome which could have set her back 50 dollars.

Who else out there can summarize so much, so clearly, and be good enough at writing to actually sell books, thus making his work available (can anyone really argue otherwise, agree or no with his starting-point conclusions) to all of us easily, and not have us searching for his work in obscure, disparate, academic journals? And what other philosopher is so perspicaciously tooting the horn of so many other writers, introducing them to us and contextualizing them for us?

For my buck, it is difficult to find a better analytical guide to knowledge, and his hand-holding - as he guides us through the annals of consciousness - is simply too valuable and too rare, to my eye, to cast aside as simply repetitious.

Is it a wonder at the relatively young age of Mr. Wilber that his works are, though unfinished, already collected?

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Super Super Book Dec 18 2003
Format:Paperback
As more and more people meet Wilber, they often say they don't like him. But like him or not as a person, his work is in a class of its own. This is one of the most insightful books ever written. Wilber's ability to integrate vast amounts of information in a way that makes sense is incredible. He is also one of the clearest writers you will ever read. I find that reading Wilber also requires that one read many of the references he cites to really understand where he is coming from. Absolutely a must book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent integration!
Ken Wilber, the master of integration, attempts to integrate many theories in the diverse field of psychology, philosophy, and spirituality in this book. Read more
Published on Jan 12 2004
5.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting integration.
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Wilber is no doubt an excellent philosopher, and his notion that every aspect of human "consciousness"-especially spiritual consciousness-can and should be integral topics of study... Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars put up or shut up
Enough already. Ken Wilber has been writing the same book over and over and over for twenty-five years. Read more
Published on July 26 2001
5.0 out of 5 stars Wilber's vision is unique and important
There are some people that suggest that Wilber has been too repetitive in his last few books. That he's simply been repeating the same basic refrain over and over again. Read more
Published on Mar 17 2001 by Tidel
3.0 out of 5 stars Not worth it...
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Published on Feb 26 2001 by Zentao
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