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Newsletter Nr. 1.399
Amsterdam, August 27, 2025


Has Ken Wilber Succeeded in Integrating Science and Religion, Sense and Soul? - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Ken Wilber's career has been driven by an audacious ambition: to reconcile the domains of science and religion, to bridge “sense and soul,” and to create a coherent framework—Integral Theory—that could serve as a metaparadigm for human knowledge and spiritual growth. Over more than four decades, Wilber has produced a vast corpus of books, diagrams, and theoretical refinements in pursuit of this goal.

But the question remains: has he succeeded? And if not, why not?

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Why Academia Ignored Ken Wilber - And Why Critics Were Bypassed - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Ken Wilber set out to be a world-historical philosopher, a grand synthesizer of science, philosophy, and spirituality. He envisioned a system so comprehensive that it could explain evolution, consciousness, culture, and mysticism in one sweep. Yet, despite decades of writing, teaching, and cultivating an eager following, he never sparked meaningful academic debate. Why? The reasons are both structural and ironic. 

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https://www.integralworld.net/visser561.html