Systems thinking, spirituality and wisdom: perspectives on Ken Wilber [PDF]
This is the editorial for the special issue 'Systems Thinking, Spirituality and Wisdom: Perspectives on Ken Wilber'.
Matti Kamppinen, JP Jakonen, Ruth Illman
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Ken Wilber’s Integral Spirituality
The book of Ken Wilber, a philosopher, psychologist and the founder of integral theory, is devoted to the role of spirituality, faith and religion nowadays and in the future. The author systematically applies the holist integral theory to many aspects of
A. E. Ulanova
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Systems thinking, spirituality and Ken Wilber: beyond New Age
Systems thinking is a general worldview concerning the nature of reality. It sees the world as composed of systems, and all particular entities populating reality as linked with other entities – the emergence of new properties denies the flatland of ...
Matti Kamppinen, JP Jakonen
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The spiritual core of the hard problem: consciousness as foundational, not emergent [PDF]
This paper proposes a transpersonal reframing of the Hard Problem of Consciousness by positing that consciousness is ontologically primary—not an emergent property of neural processes, but the foundational reality from which mind and matter arise ...
Amira Arora
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Reconfiguring Pain Interpretation Within a Social Model of Health Using a Simplified Version of Wilber’s All Quadrant All Levels Framework: An Integral Vision [PDF]
Despite the proliferation of biomedical and psychological treatments, the global burden of chronic intractable (long-term) pain remains high—a treatment-prevalence paradox.
Mark I. Johnson
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Beyond postmodern spirituality: Ken Wilber and the Integral approach
The American philosopher Ken Wilber has taken on a sizeable challenge by trying to unsnarl the modern world-knot and its secular worldview. In the course of his almost forty years of predominantly solitary study (he has worked outside academia for the ...
JP Jakonen
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Die ontwikkeling van die menslike bewussyn: Ken Wilber se AQAL-teorie
The development of the human consciousness: Ken Wilber’s AQAL theory Kenneth Earl Wilber III, an integral philosopher, psychologist and mystic with an intelligence quotient of 160, was born on 31 January 1949 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in the United ...
Ignatius (Naas) W. Ferreira
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Relating Ken Wilbers Consciousness Development Model With Psychotherapy
In this article, the relation between consciousness development, psychopathology and psychotherapy is discussed in the framework of a concept called saturated contact, and examples from cognitive therapy approach are offered. The article is structured
Hanna Rasel Scherler
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Participation, metaphysics, and enlightenment: reflections on Ken Wilber’s recent work
This article critically examines Ken Wilber’s (2006) recent work from a participatory perspective of human spirituality. After a brief introduction to the participatory approach, I limit my discussion to the following four key issues: a.
Jorge Ferrer
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Ken Wilber’s Spectrum Psychology: Observations from Clinical Consciousness Research
In his article Stanislav Grof evaluates the pioneering spectrum of consciousness theory of Ken Wilber and discusses its impact on the development of transpersonal psychology.
Stanislav Grof
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