Okay, Ken Wilber fans, you've waited long enough. The intensely private potentate of the integral path has broken his silence and published a year's worth of journal notes. Pull up a chair. You've entered the living room of one of the most intriguing spiritual theorists on the planet. He'll tell you a little about his work schedule, friendships with publishers, artists, and intellectuals, and you'll talk late into the night about bringing together the best parts of all the world's wisdom traditions. Hold on tight, though, because the conversational pace can be dizzying, bouncing from Nagarjuna to Plotinus, Derrida to Nagel, feminism to Zen, psychotherapy to vipassana. And this isn't just superficial soul-babble. Give it a while to sink in. Take a sip of wine. Move on to more expansive talk of higher states of being. Wilber will describe his own meditative experiences and how they relate to his revision of the Great Chain of Being. As daylight breaks, you'll gaze into the early twilight, wondering how you failed to notice all those hidden dimensions within and beyond an otherwise two-dimensional world. --Brian Bruya
From Library Journal
Something of an iconoclast, Wilber (The Marriage of Sense and Soul, LJ 2/1/98) has created a unique spot for himself in contemporary thinking on spirituality. Guided to some degree by notions such as the "perennial philosophy" expounded by Aldous Huxley and by thinkers such as Huston Smith, Wilber's work draws on a wide array of religious, philosophical, and psychological systems while simultaneously disparaging what he considers to be the superficial eclecticism of various New Age movements. Wilber devotees will, no doubt, find this record of a year in his life essential reading. For most readers, however, distracting and largely uninteresting details of Wilber's life (he's dating a swell girl), cliched passages describing various states of spiritual awe, often opaque theoretical discussions, and a thinly veiled general tone of self-aggrandizement will tend to obscure the many highly original and thought-provoking passages scattered throughout. A frustrating book by a controversial thinker; only for collections with a demonstrated interest in this author.?Mark Woodhouse, Elmira Coll. Lib., NYCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
"Ken Wilber is one of America's most creative spiritual thinkers. Though framed in the form of a diary, his reflections give us an insight into the kinds of issues that are now central to the growing spiritual discourse in America." -fromTikkun
Review
"Ken Wilber is one of America's most creative spiritual thinkers. Though framed in the form of a diary, his reflections give us an insight into the kinds of issues that are now central to the growing spiritual discourse in America." -fromTikkun
From the Hardcover edition.
One Taste: The Journals of Ken Wilber FROM THE PUBLISHER
Ken Wilber-the leading theorist in the field of transpersonal psychology-has written extensively about meditation, psychotherapy, and the interior life. But what of his own life? What is his own meditation practice like? What does he read? What are his work habits? What thinkers and artists inspire the man who has inspired so many? This diary of a year in the life of Ken Wilber offers an unprecedented entrée into his private world-as well as a further exploration into his essential thought on the perennial philosophy. These intimate writings include:
his day-to-day personal experiences
details of his own spiritual practice, plus his recommendations for others
reflections on his work and that of other prominent theorists in the field of transpersonal psychology
never-before-published material from his Naropa seminars
critical observations on popular spiritual movements, from ecopsychology to Jungian to new age
correspondence with leading spiritual and transpersonal theorists
short theoretical essays on topics from art to feminism to spirituality to psychotherapy
a full acount of his writing and publishing of The Marriage of Sense and Soul
Art & Photography
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