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Frank Visser founded IntegralWorld.net in 1997 (back then under the name of "The World of Ken Wilber"). He is the author of the first monograph on Ken Wilber and his work: "Ken Wilber: Thought as Passion" (SUNY Press, 2003) and of many essays on this website. He currently is service desk manager for the worldwide Sara Lee websites at the online advertising agency Lost Boys.

My Critical Essays
on Ken Wilber

A List of My Contributions

Frank Visser

Since 2002, and intensifying aroud 2006, I have published several essays on Integral World which are quite critical of Ken Wilber, both by myself and others. My stated aim in doing this has always been to stimulate a debate on the value of Wilber's proposals. Below is an overview of my essays that have been written in this spirit.

Some see this as a useless attempt at Wilber-bashing, but I would like to reiterate that, in publishing these essays, I am just hammering on the point that the Wilber debate – if there is such a thing at all – should be critical, public, free, reasonable, informed, well-referenced, transparent, accessible and open to anyone who has studied Wilber. Contrary to what I perceive as the current Wilber discourse.

2002

• Wilber and Metaphysics , April 2002

2003

• Post-metaphysics and beyond: The AQAL framework as Kosmic Compass, July 2003
• Reflections on "Subtle Energy", December 2003

2004

• Subtle bodies, higher worlds, January 2004
• Integralism and Perennialism, May 2004
• Reflections on "What is Integral?", May 2004  
• Perennialism, Postmodernism, Integralism, June 2004

2005

• The Mind-Body Problem: Helpful Hints from Integralism and Perennialism, August 2005

2006

• A Spectrum of Wilber Critics, February 2006
• Talking Back to Wilber: A Call for Validation, May 2006
• Games Pandits Play: A Reply to Ken Wilber's Raging Rant, June 2006
• "Not So Fast, Cowboy": A Plea For Some Dispassion, June 2006 
• For the Record: Final Comments to Wilber's Recent Blog Postings, July 2006 
• The Wild West Wilber Report: Looking Back on the Wyatt Earp Episode, July 2006
• My Take on Wilber-5, August 2006
• Lord, Give Us Intgral, But Without the Hype: A Review of "Integral Spirituality", November 2006 
• Some Notes on Personalism, December 2006

2007

• A Brief History of Integral World: Ten Years of Integral Debate, May 2007
• If You Meet Wilber On the Road, Kill Him: On the Importance of Independent Integral Research, November 2007
• The Wilberian Evolution Report: A Collection of Debate Snippets, November 2007
• "What Good is Half a Wing?": The Wilberian Evolution Debate Continues, December 2007

2008

• Telling the Story As If It Were True, Review of "The Integral Vision", January 2008
• The Trouble with Ken Wilber: A Plea for a Change of Discourse, April 2008
• Assessing Integral Theory: Opportunities and Impediments, June 2008
• Frank Visser on Ken Wilber: A Video Interview by Randi Ceccine (Full Transcript), August 2008
• Perennialism Lite: Comments on "Integral Post-Metaphysics", August 2008

2009

• Ken Wilber's Mysterianism: How Not to Make a Case for Spiritual Evolution, February 2009
• Integral Design: Ken Wilber's Views on Evolution, May 2009

2010

• The 'Spirit of Evolution' Reconsidered: Relating Ken Wilber's view of Spiritual Evolution to the Current Evolution Debates, August 2010
• Eros and Bacteria: Why Some Organisms Grow in Complexity, and Some Don't, November 2010
• 'From Dirt to Divinity': Ken Wilber's pre-Darwinian Understanding of Evolution, November 2010

2011

• Frank Visser, Arguments from Ignorance, The "Frisky Dirt" Discussion So Far, February 2011