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One Taste [Paperback]

Ken Wilber
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Aug 8 2000
As one who has written extensively about the interior life, meditation, and psychotherapy, Ken Wilber—the leading theorist in the field of integral psychology—naturally arouses the curiosity of his numerous readers. In response to this curiosity, this one-year diary not only offers an unprecedented entrée into his private world, but offers an introduction to his essential thought. "If there is a theme to this journal," Wilber writes, "it is that body, mind, and the luminosities of the soul—all are perfect expressions of the Radiant Spirit that alone inhabits the universe, sublime gestures of that Great Perfection that alone outshines the world."

Wilber's personal writings include:

   •  Details of his own spiritual practice
   •  Advice to spiritual seekers
   •  Reflections on his work and that of other prominent theorists in the field of integral psychology
   •  His day-to-day personal experiences
   •  Dozens of his short theoretical essays on topics from art to feminism to spirituality to psychotherapy

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Okay, Ken Wilber fans, you've waited long enough. The intensely private potentate of the integral path has broken his silence and published a year's worth of journal notes. Pull up a chair. You've entered the living room of one of the most intriguing spiritual theorists on the planet. He'll tell you a little about his work schedule, friendships with publishers, artists, and intellectuals, and you'll talk late into the night about bringing together the best parts of all the world's wisdom traditions. Hold on tight, though, because the conversational pace can be dizzying, bouncing from Nagarjuna to Plotinus, Derrida to Nagel, feminism to Zen, psychotherapy to vipassana. And this isn't just superficial soul-babble. Give it a while to sink in. Take a sip of wine. Move on to more expansive talk of higher states of being. Wilber will describe his own meditative experiences and how they relate to his revision of the Great Chain of Being. As daylight breaks, you'll gaze into the early twilight, wondering how you failed to notice all those hidden dimensions within and beyond an otherwise two-dimensional world. --Brian Bruya --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Something of an iconoclast, Wilber (The Marriage of Sense and Soul, LJ 2/1/98) has created a unique spot for himself in contemporary thinking on spirituality. Guided to some degree by notions such as the "perennial philosophy" expounded by Aldous Huxley and by thinkers such as Huston Smith, Wilber's work draws on a wide array of religious, philosophical, and psychological systems while simultaneously disparaging what he considers to be the superficial eclecticism of various New Age movements. Wilber devotees will, no doubt, find this record of a year in his life essential reading. For most readers, however, distracting and largely uninteresting details of Wilber's life (he's dating a swell girl), cliched passages describing various states of spiritual awe, often opaque theoretical discussions, and a thinly veiled general tone of self-aggrandizement will tend to obscure the many highly original and thought-provoking passages scattered throughout. A frustrating book by a controversial thinker; only for collections with a demonstrated interest in this author.?Mark Woodhouse, Elmira Coll. Lib., NY
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.


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4.0 out of 5 stars Wilber Revealed Jun 27 2001
Format:Paperback
Most of Ken Wilber's books do not reveal much about the man behind the work. For most academic writers that is fine. But Wilber's writing, though seemingly theoretical or academic at times, is in fact about the most intimate of topics: coming to know ourselves. Perhaps because his writing is so broad in scope and yet ultimately so intimate in its implications, Wilber thought his readership might be entitled to a peek at how he is doing with his own personal atman project. This book lets the reader peek away,and you may or may not like what you see.

This was the first Wilber book I read. I had known about him for years, but my reading list is long and I just didn't pick his work up, until a respected friend gave me a copy of One Taste, and I could no longer put it off. I have now read almost all of his published work. With that perspective, I offer these thoughts.

First, the part that may trouble some. KW does come off as pretty darn egotistical in this book. He seems to realize it and mentions in the introduction that these diary entries were (supposedly) not written with intent to publish, and therefore what may seem like boasting and namedropping were in fact just factual entries meant for himself. These now candidly published entries might to the outside reader seem a bit...immodest. This would be a trivial matter but for the nature of KW's work, which after all is ultimately about transcending the ego.

I found KW's disclaimers about that less than entirely convincing, but the fact that he may still personally be a spiritual work in progress in my mind does not diminish the brilliance of his work. I was electrified when I read this. I have been a serious student of philosophy and spiritual practice for 30 years, and I find KW's work among the most brilliant and, to me, practically helpful work I have seen. Some say he does no original thinking, but only synthesizes the work of others. Yes, he only synthesizes the work of an unprecedentedly enormous body of thought, writing and accounts of mystical experience in a staggering array of fields over millenia, in ways no one else has before. I think this would qualify as original thought. Some say he doesn't write well. I find that he explains the ideas of many great thinkers more understandably than they do themselves. He relates their work to that of other great thinkers in ways that I,and I suspect most, never saw before. His writing can be moving and inspirational as well.

I'm not sure I would recommend One Taste as the first Wilber book to read, although it worked fine for me. It is one of his most accessible books. One criticism of this book is that Wilber's references are too obscure. But, this being a journal, KW has taken less care than usual to explain all his references, because this was ostensibly originally written for himself. Readers already familiar with his other work will be less baffled, and this may be one more reason to start with one of his other books. One Taste has the advantage of being one of his more recent books. Because KW is constantly refining his thought, this gives the reader a look at his most current thinking. I give it four stars instead of five, because I wasn't interested in many of the boring personal details ("I went shopping today"), but the meaty parts are first rate. I find his work so personally helpful in my own practice precisely because it is a synthesis of so much other work. He links it together in ways I could never have myself and has helped me to take a more integral approach to what had before been disparate and disconnected elements of my practice and study.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Ken spills the beans Mar 21 2002
Format:Paperback
An unconventional book for old baldie. Half of this book is very deep writing on the nature of reality and the other half is a description of Ken running around with his new girlfriend. Half the substance of this book has already appeared on the Shambhala website. Ken spills the beans that he does and has for some time experienced the ultimate non-dual state of consciousness.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant and Inspiring! Oct 29 2001
Format:Paperback
This is wonderful book that gives us a rare glimpse into Ken Wilber's personal life, he writes this book in a much more relaxed and fun manner. It's a great introduction to his works, there are many brilliant insights and summaries of many concepts. I would recommend this book to anybody interested in a spiritual path. Read everything this man writes, it will change your life!
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2.0 out of 5 stars this one turned me against Wilber
When I was younger and a little less wise (and a lot less knowledgeable), I was one of those who was impressed by Ken Wilber's remarkable range of learning and his confident claims... Read more
Published on Aug 20 2001
3.0 out of 5 stars Revealing look at a seminal dilettante and his age
Here is a kind of voyeuristic romp through what often comes across as a name-dropping self-absorbed world of an obsessive-compulsive logorrheic author. Read more
Published on Jun 26 2001
4.0 out of 5 stars Tasty reading.
Of Shakespeare, Emerson wrote, "his mind is the horizon beyond which, at present, we do not see," and I think the same can be said of Ken Wilber. Read more
Published on Jun 2 2001 by G. Merritt
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 18 2001 by Tidel
5.0 out of 5 stars One Taste - but I hope we get more!
This is the first book by Ken Wilbur I have read and now I will read others. It is a book in which the man behind the theories reveals himself as real, unique and human. Read more
Published on Jan 29 2001 by Kathy Parry
4.0 out of 5 stars Don't make this your first KW book
As someone who is only beginning to fathom the depth and scope of Ken Wilbur's thinking, I have to say that I wish this hadn't been the first book I had picked up by him. Read more
Published on Jan 4 2001 by Nathaniel T. Parsons
5.0 out of 5 stars 'TRUTH' with a capital
KW's private diary explores his thoughts on the perennial philosophy as expressed in the Vedanta of Ramana Maharshi et al. Read more
Published on Aug 12 2000 by Gary Seth Peetra
4.0 out of 5 stars Wilber Revealed
Most of Wilber's books do not reveal much about the man behind the work. For most academic writers that is fine. Read more
Published on July 27 2000 by David K. Bell
5.0 out of 5 stars Lanterns along the spiritual path
I have read it twice and will read it again. KW is on the cutting edge of integrating East and West, science and religion, liberal and conservative. Read more
Published on July 22 1999
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting but exasperating, inspiring but paradoxical.
I've read several books by Ken Wilber now and always come away from them impressed by the depth of his knowledge, moved by the passion of his prose, unsure about the validity of... Read more
Published on July 7 1999
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