Van: "Integral World" Aan: Onderwerp: Up fro Eden Datum: zaterdag 17 augustus 2013 10:15 INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 463 Amsterdam, August 17th, 2013 KEN WILBER, UP FROM EDEN - A Critical Assessment of Ken Wilber's Early Writings - KEVIN R.D. SHEPHERD The American writer Ken Wilber gained popular celebrity as a commentator on the perennial philosophy. Certain of Wilber's emphases distinguished him from the Human Potential Movement; for instance, he repudiated the transpersonal relevance of the Jungian archetypes. Jung asserted that: "Mystical experience is experience of archetypes." Wilber qualified this to mean "lesser mysticism." Wilber's transpersonalism was nevertheless convergent to a considerable degree with alternative therapy, a commercial vampire persisting today. Moreover, Wilber's version of the "perennial philosophy" can be viewed as incomplete, and also incorrect on numerous points of exegesis. In popularity, the Wilber theory replaced the version of Aldous Huxley, which was very minimal in definition, and ultimately misleading, not least because Huxley became a drug ingester. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/shepherd3.html To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UNSUBSCRIBE, update your account by logging in. For explanation, see: http://www.integralworld.net/nl_faq.html