![]() The best place to start the overview is with a series of diagrams. While I particularly want to focus on certain aspects of Wilber’s model in detail, especially where he deals with how his way of looking at things helps us analyse current challenges (the second post) and how we might focus our energies better on progressing our own personal development (the third post), I do need to give a sense of the overview first, I think. ![]() ![]() So, I have decided to go ahead and publish this sequence on Wilber, with some acknowledgement of Medina’s caveats and Rifkin’s perspectives, before then exploring in appropriate depth the other two books at greater leisure over a longer time span.ĭid I hear a sigh of relief? The Quadrants There is no way I can do justice to the combined 1000 plus pages of these two books and Wilber’s theory all in one sequence of posts without driving you all nuts. His book also caused me to rehabilitate Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs from my relatively low opinion of it. Not only does this book contain a detailed critique of Wilber, and cannot be ignored for that reason alone, but it also torpedoed some of my blindly accepted assumptions about the Native American civilisation and if they sink completely upon further investigation of the facts they were clearly prejudices. I very much want to record my response to this massive survey of the current state of our civilisation and its origins but I am aware that it overlaps with Wilber’s thesis in some of it themes.Īs if that were not complicated enough, a friend left a comment on my blog recommending I look at John Fitzgerald Medina’s book, Faith, Physics & Psychology. You can see elements of this pattern as I describe my process now with these three books. Often the one I started last is finished first before I trace my steps back to its predecessor (or not, as the case may be). Each book I start triggers me to start reading another until I have several books in progress nested one within the other. Such a time span is not unusual for me as I read books on rather the same principle as they make Russian dolls. While reading Wilber’s book and drafting the review, in rapid succession I gobbled up two other tomes.įirst, after something like four years, I finally finished reading The Empathic Civilization by Jeremy Rifkin. The book does have an ambitious agenda and one that understandably excites me given my attempts to organise my experience and thinking around the idea of interconnectedness (see diagram above). The title, of course, is partly tongue in cheek but not entirely. (This is not to be confused with a Bahá’í book by Robert Parry with a slightly more unassuming title, A Theory of Almost Everything, which had come out seven years earlier in 1993 or with Stephen Hawking’s unauthorised The Theory of Everything, which came out in 2007.) It is modestly titled A Theory of Everything: an integral vision for business, politics, science and spirituality. After re-posting the sequence of articles about Jenny Wade’s theory of the levels of consciousness, I finally got round to reading a book by Ken Wilber that has been lurking on my shelves for 10 years at least, I suspect.
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