"Norman Einstein":
The Dis-Integration of Ken Wilber
by Geoffrey D. Falk
Ken Wilber is the "long-sought Einstein of consciousness research," having been generously regarded as such since the late 1970s.
Ken Wilber is "a genius of our times."
Ken Wilber is "the world's most intriguing and foremost philosopher."
Ken Wilber's ideas have influenced Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jeb Bush, Deepak Chopra, Tony Robbins, and a host of other luminaries, spiritual and otherwise. Writer Michael Crichton, leadership guru Warren Bennis, playwright Eve Ensler (The Vagina Monologues), alternative medicine's Larry Dossey, the Wachowski Brothers (directors of The Matrix), and a handful of rock stars have all lent their voices in support of the "integral" community.
Yet Ken Wilber, his celebrated theories of consciousness, and the increasingly unquestioning population of "second-tier" spiritual aspirants surrounding him and participating in his Integral Institute (I-I) and Integral University, are not what they appear to be.
"Norman Einstein": The Dis-Integration of Ken Wilber will show you why the community around Wilber is being increasingly called a "cult," even by former founding members of I-I who have seen it first-hand.
Recommended ReadingBarber & Barber, When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth. By far the best book on the interpretation/meaning of myths. It shows convincingly that myths throughout the world have typically “transmitted real information about real events and observations, preserving the information sometimes for millennia within nonliterate societies.? David Fitzgerald, Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed At All. A very accessible summary of the "Jesus Myth" theory. That is, the high likelihood that Jesus never existed at all in flesh and blood, not even as an itinerant, illiterate, apocalyptic nutcase-preacher. Richard Carrier, On the Historicity of Jesus. The most comprehensive analysis of Jesus Mythicism, concluding that the "judicious" odds of a historical Jesus ever having lived, been crucified, and given rise to a cult/religion, even excluding all miraculous claims, are less than one in 12,000. Randall Helms, Gospel Fictions. Alan Dundes, Holy Writ as Oral Lit: The Bible as Folklore. Richard Elliott Friedman, Who Wrote the Bible?. Dennis R. MacDonald, Does the New Testament Imitate Homer?: Four Cases from the Acts of the Apostles. John Loftus, ed., Christianity Is Not Great: How Faith Fails. Ex-Preacher, Obsessed with Blood (The Crazy Things Christians Believe Book 1). The Thinking Atheist, Bible Contradictions. William J. Broad, The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards. William J. Broad, The Oracle: Ancient Delphi and the Science Behind Its Lost Secrets. Holotropic Breathwork (YouTube). Grof's theories about reliving birth traumas through his rapid-breathing techniques are nonsense, but like deep-tissue Rolfing, the practice has real and beneficial effects in emotional catharsis. Andrew Newberg, Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief. August L. Reader, The Internal Mystery Plays. Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near (movie). Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. |
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| Introduction | ||
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| I | Norman Einstein | 1 |
| II | Wilberian Evolution | 5 |
| III | Spiraling Psychology | 22 |
| IV | Integral Meditation | 32 |
| V | Kosmic Parapsychology | 49 |
| VI | Wilberian Mathematics | 61 |
| VII | Integral Politics | 63 |
| VIII | Integral Censorship | 71 |
| IX | Bald Narcissism | 90 |
| X | The Strange Case of Ken Wilber | 112 |
| XI | Cargo Cult Philosophy | 133 |
| XII | The Einstein of P.R. | 139 |
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| Appendix | Wilber and Bohm | 149 |
| Bibliography | 179 | |
| About the Author | 201 | |
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| Ken Wilber on Meditation (by Jim Andrews) | ||
| Twenty Boomeritis Blunders (by Jim Andrews) | ||
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