Review of Ken Wilber’s Book: Integral Spirituality: A Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World

Stephen P. Smith

Abstract


Wilber writes of the great repression of spirit by the intellectual West. He writes (page 183): "They jettisoned the amber God, and instead of finding orange God, and then green God, and turquoise God, and indigo God, they ditched God altogether, they began the repression of the sublime, the repression of their own higher levels of spiritual intelligence. The intellectual West has fundamentally never recovered from this cultural disaster." I agree the tragedy is very apparent, sense-certain in fact. Nevertheless, Wilber's investigation of 8 perspectives carries the weakness presented by his caricature-mode thinking here, and any caricature is revealed to be a strawman if we care to dig deeper. You can find this book at Amazon: Integral Spirituality: A Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World .


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ISSN: 2153-831X