Ken Wilber"Ken Wilber is generally regarded as the world's most influential Integral thinker. He is the first psychologist-philosopher in history to have his Collected Works published while still alive, and with his 22 books translated in up to 30 foreign languages, Ken is perhaps the most highly translated academic writer in America." - from Integral Institute's History page
This EXO has all the classic feel of the wise recluse who just distills knowledge from behind the veil of his keyboard. In his latest book, Integral Spirituality he gets into a cross-cultural mode and proposes using what he calls an Integral Methodological Pluralism - which is his way into the octal code's IN-8 patterns as far as we're concerned. The Amazon review of the book place it out this way...Integral Life practices involve engaging every level of being such as body, emotion, mind, soul and spirit to bring about transformation of consciousness.
So how does a 'heady' EXO like Ken get this idea to spread and develop. Wilber's AQAL map is his greatest memetic device. It allows him to use both history and experience to reach both the lineage-bound PHYLO's and the self-asserting ONTO's. The content he places inside that AQAL map is where the ECO's are fed and since EXO's can't resist a well-organized lexicon, they all shave their heads and move to Colorado and join the tribe (relax, he's not a cult leader, but he could play one well on You Tube. These well-orchestrated Secondary Domains align in Ken and allow his life to flow from IN-8 pattern #4 (love) to pattern #8 (truth) which is what a philosopher is defined as anyway...
All these factors make Ken a legit SomaStar (someone who's able to open their identity up and weave in aspects of all 4 life narratives to create a truly integrated life story). Take a look at some of artifacts he left for us.
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