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We are reading Integral Spiritualiy in our Atlanta, Ken Wilber meet up aka Integral Salon… This book is excellent, but is extremely cognitive and requires a comprehensive Wilber background to 'enjoy' (vs “wrestle through”– e.g. integral math)
I encourage you to google “WIlber meet up _____ (your city)” and find out if there is a salon in your town. We meet all over the world on the first Wed of the month… Meeting other wilber-groupies (said playfully) in person will add tremendously to understanding AQAL and the Integral vision.
Namaste!
K.
I've just started on this one but I have to comment. I've rarely encounterd a book that comes this close to being in a punk rock concert! At least the chapter on “Shadow and the disowned self” gave me a couple of an hours' worth of literary headbanging, underlined word-surfing and lots of stupid wide grins on my face! Gotta love it!
Patrick bought it for me for my birthday! Thank you, Patrick!!
I started with Boomeritis Buddhism because that was really important to me. Then I hung a left. Now I'm going right. The Shadow stuff, of course, is also very important to me and I'm almost finished with that chapter. He has really repeated himself alot on this issue, which I 'spect is part concern and part confession. I have a hard time putting it down too, and I'm prolly gonna read it over again when I'm done. I'm afraid I've done alot of swallowing whole without enough chewing and I want to go back and get more out of those morsels. Ew.
Yummy book!
Zones zones zones. It's all about the zones! 8 of them!
The whole Integral Methodological Pluralism bit, is fleshed out a tremendous amount in this book. 8 different zones for perceiving/experiencing life - that's what you get!!
I'm less thrilled about stages, as applied to “real” people. I just don't see people occupying one stage. I would say that based on the topic/day/hour, people can access higher states, but in terms of that state usage, I see people spending 20/30/20/20 of actual time in lower “states” to upper “states”, in terms of perspectives. I think this means that no person you meet is EVER in a stage, but only 50% of the time in states that cluster around a particular stage.
If you read nothing else in this book, please read chapter nine, and share it with everyone you know who is intrested in situating spirituality and religion in the modern and postmodern world.