Ken Wilber Bio
Ken Wilber real name Kenneth Earl Wilber II is an American writer on transpersonal psychology and his own integral theory, a systematic philosophy that suggests the synthesis of all human knowledge and experience.
Ken Wilber Age
Ken was born on January 31, 1949. He is currently 70 years old as per 2019.
Ken Wilber Wife/Married
Treya Killam Wilber.Treya Wilber met her husband Ken in 1983 when she was 36. She had never considered marrying anyone before, and neither had he. They were each quickly sure they had found their spiritual partner.
Ken Wilber Career
In 1967 he enrolled as a pre-med student at Duke University. He became inspired, like many of his generations, by Eastern literature, particularly the Tao Te Ching. He left Duke and enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but after a few years dropped out of university to devote all his time to studying his own curriculum and writing books.
Wilber stated in 2011 that he has long suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome, possibly caused by RNase enzyme deficiency disease.
In 1973 Wilber completed his first book, The Spectrum of Consciousness, in which he sought to integrate knowledge from disparate fields. After rejections by more than twenty publishers, it was finally accepted in 1977 by Quest Books, and he spent a year giving lectures and workshops before going back to writing. He also helped to launch the journal ReVision in 1978.
In 1982 New Science Library published his anthology The Holographic Paradigm and Other Paradoxes, a collection of essays and interviews, including one by David Bohm.
The essays, including one of his own, looked at how holography and the holographic paradigm relate to the fields of consciousness, mysticism, and science.
In 1983 Wilber married Terry “Treya” Killam who was shortly thereafter diagnosed with breast cancer.
From 1984 until 1987, Wilber gave up most of his writing to care for her. Killam died in January 1989; their joint experience was recorded in the 1991 book Grace and Grit.
In 1987 Wilber moved to Boulder, Colorado, where he worked on his Kosmos trilogy and oversaw the work of the Integral Institute. Wilber now lives in Denver, Colorado. Subsequently, Wilber wrote Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, the first volume of his Kosmos Trilogy.
A Brief History of Everything was the popularised summary of Sex, Ecology, Spirituality in an interview format. The Eye of Spirit was a compilation of articles he had written for the journal ReVision on the relationship between science and religion.
Throughout 1997, he had kept journals of his personal experiences, which were published in 1999 as One Taste, a term for unitary consciousness. Over the next two years his publisher, Shambhala Publications, released eight re-edited volumes of his Collected Works. In 1999, he finished Integral Psychology and wrote A Theory of Everything.
In A Theory of Everything, Wilber attempts to bridge business, politics, science, and spirituality and show how they integrate with theories of developmental psychology, such as Spiral Dynamics. His novel, Boomeritis (2002), attempts to expose what he perceives as the egotism of the baby boom generation.
In 2012 Wilber joined the Advisory Board of International Simultaneous Policy Organization which seeks to end the usual deadlock in tackling global issues through international simultaneous policy.
Ken Wilber Integral Theory
All Quadrants All Levels (AQAL, pron. “ah-qwul”), is the basic framework of integral theory. It models human knowledge and experience with a four-quadrant grid, along the axes of “interior-exterior” and “individual-collective”. According to Wilber, it is a comprehensive approach to reality, a metatheory that attempts to explain how academic disciplines and every form of knowledge and experience fit together coherently.
AQAL is based on four fundamental concepts and a rest-category: four quadrants, several levels, and lines of development, several states of consciousness, and “types”, topics which do not fit into these four concepts. “Levels” are the stages of development, from pre-personal through personal to transpersonal. “Lines” of development are various domains which may progress unevenly through different stages.
“States” are states of consciousness; according to Wilber persons may have a temporal experience of a higher developmental stage. “Types” is a rest-category, for phenomena which do not fit in the other four concepts.
In order for an account of the Kosmos to be complete, Wilber believes that it must include each of these five categories. For Wilber, only such an account can be accurately called “integral”. In the essay, “Excerpt C: The Ways We Are in This Together”, Wilber describes AQAL as “one suggested architecture of the Kosmos”.
The model’s apex is formless awareness, “the simple feeling of being”, which is equated with a range of “ultimates” from a variety of eastern traditions. This formless awareness transcends the phenomenal world, which is ultimately only an appearance of some transcendental reality.
According to Wilber, the AQAL categories — quadrants, lines, levels, states, and types – describe the relative truth of the two truths doctrine of Buddhism. According to Wilber, none of them are true in an absolute sense. Only formless awareness, “the simple feeling of being”, exists absolutely.
Ken Wilber Books
1. A Brief History of Everything
2. Sex, Ecology, Spirituality
3. A Theory of Everything
4. Integral Psychology
5. Integral Spirituality
6. No Boundary
7. The Spectrum of Consciousness
8. The Integral Vision
9. Grace and Grit
10. The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science and Religion
11. Integral Life Practice Starter Kit
12. The eye of spirit
13. One Taste
14. The Atman Project
15. Up from Eden
16. Integral Meditation: Mindfulness as a Way to Grow Up, Wake Up, and Show Up in Your Life
17. Boomeritis
18. Quantum Questions
19. Eye to Eye
20. A Sociable God
21. The Essential Ken Wilber
22. The Religion of Tomorrow: A Vision for the Future of the Great Traditions – More Inclusive, More Comprehensive, More Complete
23. Kosmic Consciousness
24. The collected works of Ken Wilber.
25. The simple feeling of being
26. Transformations of consciousness
27. Integral Buddhism: And the Future of Spirituality
28. The Pocket Ken Wilber
29. The One Two Three of God
30. The Future of Spirituality: Why It Must Be Integral
31. 1-2-3 of God
32. Breve Historia de Todas las Cosas
33. The Three Eyes of Knowledge
34. La Pura conciencia de ser
35. Eine kurze Geschichte des Kosmos.
36. Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber
Ken Wilber Influenced By
1. Jean Gebser
2. Rudolf Steiner
3. Jurgen Habermas
4. Alfred North Whitehead
5. Richard Tarnas
6. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
7. Erich Jantsch
8. Charles Taylor
Ken Wilber Quotes
1. This present moment, since it knows neither past nor future, is itself timeless, and that which is timeless is Eternal. Thus “the eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
2. Eternity is not ever-lasting time but the real, unfading, indestructible, and timeless Present, for, as Schroedinger said, the present is the only thing that has no end.
3. The adventure of awakening is among the most universal of human dramas.
4. I was slowly learning that love did not mean holding on, which I had always thought, but rather letting go.
5. The beauty of practice is that it transforms us so that we outgrow our original intentions—and keep going! Our motivations for practicing evolve as we mature.
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