INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST
 
http://www.integralworld.net
Newsletter Nr. 1.447
Amsterdam, November 14, 2025


Ken Wilber's Evolutionary Confusion: When Science Becomes a Metaphor for Spirit - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

In a rare 2007 blog post, Ken Wilber attempted to clarify his view of evolution in response to scientific criticism.[1] The result, however, revealed not clarity but confusion. Wilber acknowledged that Darwinian natural selection cannot be replaced by mere chance but insisted that even with selection, “something more” must be operating—a cosmic “tilt toward self-organization,” which he interprets as the spiritual drive of Eros.

This passage captures in miniature the central flaw of Wilber's entire metaphysical project: the conflation of descriptive scientific mechanisms with metaphoric spiritual aspiration.

Read more:
https://www.integralworld.net/visser652.html


Ken Wilber's Achilles Heel: The Question-Begging Eros of Radical Wholeness - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

For decades, Wilber has insisted that some kind of “Eros,” a cosmic drive toward increasing complexity and consciousness, must be posited to explain the arc of evolution—from matter to life to mind to spirit. With this new formulation, he makes the claim even more explicit, declaring that this “Eros” is as real as gravity. The result, however, is not an advance in integrative thinking but a regression into metaphysical speculation dressed up as science.

Read more:
https://www.integralworld.net/visser651.html