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Here's a very good summary of Ken Wilber's book The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science and Religion

The criticism of the book as is usual among Wilber's critics misses the point: if you do not see the perrenial philosophy as an integral religion, then your perspective about religions being irreconciliable is not Wilber's problem, is it?

Came across this not-too-critical page on Wilber, with many important links and a nice summary of Wilber's work as it now stands, as it originated and as it developed from a non-Wilberrie (Wilber-fan) perspective. What is of value in this document is that the author amply succeeds in his upfront stated aim, which is 'In this critique I have tried to strike balance between a too-worshipful and a too-critical stance', methinks, there being a major polarisation out there of Wilber die-hards, and the usual quota of lets-pull-him-down cynics.

I'll kick off this category with a link to a (not too) recent post titled A Buddhist Perspective on the weblog A Place Called Vertigo, in which the blogger compares the sayings and writings of Ken Wilber and Brian McLaren (a Christian apologist who's attempting to broaden and soften the orthodoxy while maintaining its mainstays). They are strikingly similar and Tim is disappointed that Brian may be drawing inspiration from Ken Wilber.

I think that may well be so (except that I'm not disappointed), for what else are philosophers for, if not for inspiring wisdom? The very reason that Ken Wilber thinks all approaches are right (because they all draw on Reality and then develop rigid partial constructs that in their partiality are 'wrong'), is why I think Ken Wilber and Brian McLaren may be talking similar things.

is a new category that's been added [to the left sidebar under Categories :-) ].

Here I'll be posting links both old and new, on my main man (Ken Wilber is the philosopher who is by far the most influential on my life, a culmination of all the thought that went before, and the final platform from which I make my own leap of thought), as well as posts and links on other weblogs on him.

Ken Wilber's philosophy may be summed up by the term 'integral philosophy' and in his own words:

'..........the idea is that all the various approaches and theories and practices have something important to tell us, but none of them probably has the whole truth in all its details. So each approach is true but partial, and the trick is then to figure out how all of these true but partial truths fit together. Not "Who's right and who's wrong?" but "How can they all be right?" How can they all fit together into one rainbow coalition?'