I think is a very important passage, and often I think this is why I do not understand your search for a method or for someone to show you the way.
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The cult of Ken Wilber
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and that nobody, has a claim to the absolute truth
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Dante-Gabryell MonsonThe desire for radical change, for radical otherness, which is so often coupled by impotency, started to be replaced by concrete engagement, by a love for 'immanence'. And once you take that step, you start seeing many other flaws in the Wilberian system
philosophy critique religion integral spiraldynamics immanence cultism awareness for:alicepopkorn
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What can be a conclusion to all this? That Ken Wilber is an undoubtedly interesting and stimulating author, with an interesting Edifice. But that it is no substitute for reading primary material, other competing interpretations, but most of all, one's own spiritual and intellectual, and moral development. That it is not a fully critical and emancipatory theory, and has increasingly become 'politically reactionary', elitist, and used as a system of instrumental manipulation for the leadership of large organizations (that's how Beck's SD is marketed to corporations and politicians). That it is already now used to justify spiritual oppression (Da Free John), war and occupation (Bush), stifling internal debate, and creating an environment of cultic adhesion. These are not trivial matters!
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Can anything be salvaged? I must admit I personally still use the four quadrant system, as it is a comprehensive system for a phenomenology of the world. I believe it is of interest to grapple with Wilber's interpretations, even the wrong ones. In this, he functions as a 'great author', despite the lack of acceptance in academia. Most of all, I believe that the integrative impulse is a worthy enterprise. In a world of such diversity to look at structure and developmental processes (which are a feature of the natural , social and personal worlds) is necessary. But the integrative, integral impulse does not belong in any way to Mr. Ken Wilber; it is a general feature of contemporary consciousness (one trend battling the fragmentation of postmodernity), with many different pioneers and alternatives to Wilber.
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