Ken Wilber was interviewed by salon.com last week. I found it to be a stellar summary of his recent thought.
Watch out for Steve Paulson's vocal shift toward the end of the interview where he starts twigging that Wilber may be on to something liberating and gets all acquisitive. It's a terribly amusing turn, and I dare say, a very familiar one for me.
Watch out for Steve Paulson's vocal shift toward the end of the interview where he starts twigging that Wilber may be on to something liberating and gets all acquisitive. It's a terribly amusing turn, and I dare say, a very familiar one for me.
You Are The River: An Interview with Ken Wilber
By Steve Paulson April 28, 2008
Ken Wilber may be the most important living philosopher you've never heard of. He's written dozens of books but you'd be hard-pressed to find his name in a mainstream magazine. Still, Wilber has a passionate - almost cultlike - following in certain circles, as well as some famous fans. Bill Clinton and Al Gore have praised Wilber's books. Deepak Chopra calls him "one of the most important pioneers in the field of consciousness." And the Wachowski Brothers asked Wilber, along with Cornel West, to record the commentary for the DVDs of their "Matrix" movies.
A remarkable autodidact, Wilber's books range across entire fields of knowledge, from quantum physics to developmental psychology to the history of religion. He's steeped in the world's esoteric traditions, such as Mahayana Buddhism, Vedantic Hinduism, Sufism and Christian mysticism. Wilber also practices what he preaches, sometimes meditating for hours at a stretch. His "integral philosophy," along with the Integral Institute he's founded, hold out the promise that we can understand mystical experience without lapsing into New Age mush.
Read full article: Here
Another gold moment:
Q: But somewhere down the road—50 years from now, 500 years from now—once neuroscience becomes much more advanced, will scientists be able to pinpoint where [our] values and thoughts come from?
KW: I'm saying we'll never understand it. The materialists keep issuing promissory notes. They always promise they're going to do it tomorrow. But interior and exterior arise together. You can't reduce one to the other. They're both real. Deal with it.
