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    <![CDATA[A Brief History of Everything]]>
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    <![CDATA[In a breathtaking trip from the Big Bang to the Postmodern world we inhabit, Ken Wilber examines the universe and our place in it, and comes up with an accessible and entertaining account of how it all fits together. Along the way he sheds light not only on the great cosmic questions but on various contentious issues of our day, such as changing gender roles, environmentalism, diversity and multiculturalism, even the meaning of the Internet. A Brief History of Everything is the perfect introduction to the great Integral thinker at his wise and witty best.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber]]>
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    <![CDATA[Here is a deeply moving account of a couple's struggle with cancer and their journey to spiritual healing. <em>Grace and Grit </em> is the compelling story of the five-year journey of Ken Wilber and his wife Treya Killam Wilber through Treya's illness, treatment, and, finally, death.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition]]>
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    <![CDATA[In this tour de force of scholarship and vision, Ken Wilber traces the course of evolution from matter to life to mind and describes the common patterns that evolution takes in all three of these domains. From the emergence of mind, he traces the evolution of human consciousness through its major stages of growth and development. He particularly focuses on modernity and postmodernity: what they mean; how they impact gender issues, psychotherapy, ecological concerns, and various liberation movements; and how the modern and postmodern world conceive of Spirit. This second edition features forty pages of new material, new diagrams, and extensively revised notes.]]>
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    <![CDATA[A Theory of Everything]]>
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    <![CDATA[The spiritual intellectual Ken Wilber takes on the hottest theory in  modern physics, known as the &quot;M Theory,&quot; or the &quot;The Theory of Everything.&quot; As  Wilber explains, it is &quot;a model that would unite all the known laws of the  universe into one all-embracing theory that would literally explain everything  in existence.&quot; Of course this new &quot;M Theory&quot; opens up a can of wormy, slippery  questions, which Wilber addresses: &quot;What does 'everything' actually mean? Would  this new theory in physics explain, say, the meaning of human poetry? Or how  economics work? Or the stages of psychosexual development?&quot;<p>  Being Ken Wilber, he couldn't resist answering these questions by folding the  &quot;Theory of Everything&quot; into some of his own personal visions and theories. This  overlay is presented in his signature straightforward, clearly written style.  The upshot is that common readers can easily follow Wilber on a quantum journey  and wind up with a lasting souvenir--a scientific and spiritual understanding of  how the mind, body, soul, and universe all work together like a never-ending  symphony. And that's just in the first four chapters. From there he shows  readers the practical applications of this vision--explaining how it could lead  to more integrative styles of business, education, medicine, ecology, and even  how we address world conflicts. Wilber admits that this &quot;holistic quest is an  ever-receding dream, a horizon that constantly retreats as we approach it.&quot;  Nonetheless, he can still take readers on an incredible journey--one that's well  worth the price of the ticket. <em>--Gail Hudson</em></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth]]>
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    <![CDATA[A simple yet comprehensive guide to the types of psychologies and therapies available from Eastern and Western sources. Each chapter includes a specific exercise designed to help the reader understand the nature and practice of the specific therapies. Wilber presents an easy-to-use map of human consciousness against which the various therapies are introduced and explained. This edition includes a new preface.]]>
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    <![CDATA[One Taste]]>
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    <![CDATA[Okay, Ken Wilber fans, you've waited long enough. The intensely private potentate of the integral path has broken his silence and published a year's worth of journal notes. Pull up a chair. You've entered the living room of one of the most intriguing spiritual theorists on the planet.  He'll tell you a little about his work schedule, friendships with publishers, artists, and intellectuals, and you'll talk late into the night about bringing together the best parts of all the world's wisdom traditions. Hold on tight, though, because the conversational pace can be dizzying, bouncing from Nagarjuna to Plotinus, Derrida to Nagel, feminism to Zen, psychotherapy to vipassana. And this isn't just superficial soul-babble. Give it a while to sink in. Take a sip of wine. Move on to more expansive talk of higher states of being. Wilber will describe his own meditative experiences and how they relate to his revision of the Great Chain of Being. As daylight breaks, you'll gaze into the early twilight, wondering how you failed to notice all those hidden dimensions within and beyond an otherwise two-dimensional world. <em>--Brian Bruya</em>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Integral Psychology : Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy]]>
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    <![CDATA[The goal of an &quot;integral psychology&quot; is to honor and embrace every legitimate aspect of human consciousness under one roof. This book presents one of the first truly integrative models of consciousness, psychology, and therapy. Drawing on hundreds of sourcesâEastern and Western, ancient and modernâWilber creates a psychological model that includes waves of development, streams of development, states of consciousness, and the self, and follows the course of each from subconscious to self-conscious to superconscious. Included in the book are charts correlating over a hundred psychological and spiritual schools from around the world, including Kabbalah, Vedanta, Plotinus, Teresa of Ãvila, Aurobindo, Theosophy, and modern theorists such as Jean Piaget, Erik Erikson, Jane Loevinger, Lawrence Kohlberg, Carol Gilligan, Erich Neumann, and Jean Gebser. <em>Integral Psychology </em> is Wilber's most ambitious psychological system to date and is already being called a landmark study in human development.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Integral Spirituality: A Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World]]>
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    <![CDATA[Integral Spirituality is being widely called the most important book on spirituality in our time. Applying his highly acclaimed integral approach, Ken Wilber formulates a theory of spirituality that honors the truths of modernity and postmodernity&#8212;including the revolutions in science and culture&#8212;while incorporating the essential insights of the great religions. He shows how spirituality today combines the enlightenment of the East, which excels at cultivating higher states of consciousness, with the enlightenment of the West, which offers developmental and psychodynamic psychology. Each contributes key components to a more integral spirituality.On the basis of this integral framework, a radically new role for the world&#8217;s religions is proposed. Because these religions have such a tremendous influence on the worldview of the majority of the earth&#8217;s population, they are in a privileged position to address some of the biggest conflicts we face. By adopting a more integral view, the great religions can act as facilitators of human development: from magic to mythic to rational to pluralistic to integral&#8212;and to a global society that honors and includes all the stations of life along the way.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Boomeritis: A Novel That Will Set You Free!]]>
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    <![CDATA[Ken Wilber's latest book is a daring departure from his previous writings—a highly original work of fiction that combines brilliant scholarship with tongue-in-cheek storytelling to present the integral approach to human development that he expounded in more conventional terms in his recent <em>A Theory of Everything. </em> The story of a naïve young grad student in computer science and his quest for meaning in a fragmented world provides the setting in which Wilber contrasts the alienated &quot;flatland&quot; of scientific materialism with the integral vision, which embraces body, mind, soul, and spirit in self, culture, and nature. The book especially targets one of the most stubborn obstacles to realizing the integral vision: a disease of egocentrism and narcissism that Wilber calls &quot;boomeritis&quot; because it seems to plague the baby-boomer generation most of all. Through a series of sparkling seminar-lectures skillfully interwoven with the hero's misadventures in the realms of sex, drugs, and popular culture, all of the major tenets of extreme postmodernism are criticized—and exemplified—including the author's having a bad case of boomeritis himself. Parody, intellectual slapstick, and a mind-twisting surprise ending unite to produce a highly entertaining summary of the work of cutting-edge theorists in human development from around the world.]]>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">177174</id>
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  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science and Religion]]>
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    <![CDATA[There is arguably no more critical and pressing topic than the relation of science and religion in the modern world. Science has given us the methods for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning. Yet the two are seen as mutually exclusive, with wrenching consequences for humanity. In The Marriage of Sense and Soul, one of today's most important philosophers brilliantly articulates how we might begin to think about science and religion in ways that allow for their reconciliation and union, on terms that will be acceptable to both camps.<br/>        Ken Wilber is widely acclaimed as the foremost thinker in integrating Western psychology and the Eastern spiritual traditions. His many books have reached across disciplines and synthesized the teachings of religion, psychology, physics, mysticism, sociology, and anthropology, earning him a devoted international following. The Marriage of Sense and Soul is his most accessible work yet, aimed at guiding a general audience to the mutual accord between the spiritual, subjective world of ancient wisdom and the objective, empirical world of modern knowledge. <br/>        Wilber clearly and succinctly explores the schism between science and religion, and the impact of this &quot;philosophical Cold War&quot; on the fate of humanity. He systematically reviews previous attempts at integration, explaining why romantic, idealistic, and postmodern theories failed. And he demonstrates how science is compatible with certain deep features common to all of the world's major religious traditions. In pointing the way to a union between truth and meaning, Ken Wilber has created an elegant and accessible book that is breathtaking in its scope.]]>
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