Wilber, Ken

Early years and education

Ken Wilber was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on January 31, 1949. His father served in the US Air Force , in connection with which the Wilber family constantly moved: at different times they lived in Bermuda , El Paso and Great Falls . When Ken was leaving school, the family moved to Lincoln , Nebraska , where the future philosopher completed his primary education, changing four schools in the last four years. Since his father, who was constantly busy at work, often did not go home, Ken grew up under the great influence of his mother, who from childhood instilled in him a strong aesthetic feeling, thereby arousing interest in art as a whole.

At school, Ken showed himself to be an unexpectedly gifted student, literally grasping everything on the fly (he firmly held the position of class leader in academic performance and a round excellent student in both high school and high school). He was naturally gifted with talent for studies requiring mental work, and was also ready to devote a considerable amount of time and effort to teaching. In high school, he received the nickname "Brain", since from the beginning to the end of the school year he firmly maintained the position of the best student, which did not please his classmates, since the best student naturally set the bar for the rest. At the end of high school, as a leading student, he was instructed to deliver a farewell speech on behalf of his classmates. ^[3]

Moreover, Ken, wanting to gain good fame among his students, tried to belittle his achievements. All his life he did not want to remain for those around him only a “Brain”, and therefore he plunged headlong into pre-educational activities. So he became an active member of the student committee, twice he was elected president of the school and once - class student committee. He showed himself to be an excellent player in football, basketball, volleyball, a good gymnast and track and field athlete, and he enjoyed not so much the competitions as such, but the general attention that attracted him. ^[3]

This contradictory desire to devote himself to mental activity and at the same time to be accepted among his peers remained relevant for Wilber even when his outstanding ability as a thinker and logic gained worldwide fame. For all the naturally sociable nature of it, it was difficult for Wilber to accept the fact that from a very young age he had to lead a closed and lonely existence: “People are sure that I am a recluse by nature, I avoid the company of others, it’s antisocial , but this is far from it . These anti-socials demonstrate this ability at the age of four to five years, you can’t hide it. Everything is exactly the opposite with me, I am very sociable, and I get tremendous pleasure from it. When I seriously started writing at the age of twenty-three, the hardest thing was to come to terms with the fact that I would have to distance myself from people. The penchant for writing and thinking, which was characteristic of me in adulthood, necessitated that almost all of my adult existence be spent alone with myself, reading, writing or thinking, which was not easy for me. ” As a schoolboy, Wilber even acted as a host on the television show “Indispensable”, in which he interviewed different people: he was invited to participate in the show as a student who showed himself to be very gifted in the art of communication. ^[four]

In 1967, at the insistence of his parents, Wilber began to study medicine at Duke University and almost immediately became disillusioned with the possibilities of science ^[5] . He was inspired not by psychedelics that were fashionable at that time, but by oriental literature, especially Tao de Ching . From an academic point of view, the first year was wasted, and Wilber returned to Nebraska and enrolled at the University of Nebraska . It is here that he will receive a bachelor 's degree with two major disciplines - chemistry and biology , while he will devote a significant portion of his time to eastern philosophy and western psychology . Wilber received a scholarship for postgraduate education in biochemistry , passed all the necessary courses, but decided to abandon writing a research paper and focus on his writing.

In 1972, while earning teaching, he met Amy Wagner. They decide to live together and get married the same year. In order to somehow provide himself with food while writing books, Wilber has to earn a living by low-paid labor (for several years he worked as a dishwasher). Interestingly, in order to hone his writing skills, Wilber literally rewrote all the books of Alan Watts literally by hand. Over the next ten years, his working method was as follows: to intensively study the material for about ten months, to form in the mind the image of the entire book and then translate it on paper for two or three months.

Early career

In 1973, Ken Wilber, 23 years old, completed the manuscript of his first book, The Spectrum of Consciousness , in which the author attempted to synthesize eastern and western schools of psychology. For several years, more than two dozen publishers refused to publish Wilber's book because of the complexity of the material presented in it, and only in 1977 did the Theosophical publishing house Quest Books agree to publish the work.

The publication of the book brought Wilber recognition in the academic community, which allowed for a series of lectures and seminars. However, after a year, he for a long time almost completely detached himself from social activities in order to devote more time to writing. During this period, he also helped organize the publication of the transpersonal journal ReVision in 1978.

In 1979, Wilber's second book, No Borders, was published; it is a popular version of the Spectrum of Consciousness. Then the books “ The Atman Project ” (1980) and “ Ascent from Eden ” ( Up from Eden ; 1981) are published, devoted to the issues of ontogenetic and phylogenetic development of a person - from prepersonal levels through personal to transpersonal . Work on the magazine by that time required more and more time, and therefore in 1981 Wilber amicably divorced Amy and moved to Cambridge ( Massachusetts ) to focus on ReVision projects.

In 1983, Wilber moved to Marin County ( California ), where he met Terry ("Treier") Killam and later married her. A few days later, during a routine medical examination, she was diagnosed with breast cancer . From the fall of 1984 to 1987, Wilber almost completely stopped writing books and took care of his wife. In 1987, Wilber and Treya moved to Boulder , Colorado, and settled near Naropa University , a Buddhist institution founded by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche . Treya died in January 1989 . The experience of their life together in recent years is described in the book “ Grace and Fortitude ” (1991).

Recent years

In the early 1990s, Ken Wilber made an attempt to write a textbook on integral psychology , but in the process of working on the book he discovered a number of conceptual and theoretical obstacles hidden in the modern situation in science, which prompted Wilber to rethink modern theoretical and practical paradigms. This, in turn, led him to three years of work on his monumental monograph Sex, Ecology, Spirituality ( Sex, Ecology, Spirituality , 1995), which became the first volume of the Cosmos trilogy conceived by him. In 1996, the work A Brief History of Everything was published, which is a popular exposition of the ideas of the work Sex, Ecology, Spirituality.

In 1997, the book The Eye of Spirit was published, summarizing the articles written by Wilber for ReVision magazine on the relationship between science and religion . His next work was published by the authoritative publishing house “ Random House ” under the title “The Wedding of Reason and Soul: the Integration of Science and Religion” in 1998.

Throughout 1997, Wilber kept diaries and wrote down his experiences in them, which were then published in 1999 in the form of a book called “One Taste”. One taste is a Buddhist term for the experience of cosmic consciousness . In the next two years, its publisher, Shambhala Publication, decides to publish the complete works of Wilber.

1999 becomes especially fruitful in Wilber's writing career: he finishes work on the books Integral Psychology ( Integral Psychology ; an abridged and generalized version of his planned textbook on integral psychology) and The Theory of Everything ( A Theory of Everything , 2000). The Theory of Everything attempts to combine business , politics , science and spirituality together and show how they are integrated into the theory of spiral dynamics . In 1999, Wilber also completed a draft of the novel Boomeritis (published in 2002), in which he exposed narcissism as the main trait of modern people.

At the end of 2006, Wilber published his work “Integral Spirituality”, which presented to the public the concept of an integrated approach to spirituality and spiritual development, and in August 2007, the book “ Integral Vision ”, which is an illustrated introduction to the integral model, outlined in accessible language. The “Integral Vision” provides recommendations on designing one's own “practice of integral life” - a personalized system of self-development and personal growth. In the coming years, a new, completely revised edition of the most important, according to Wilber himself, work in his career, "Transformation of Consciousness", dedicated to integral psychotherapy and development, is planned. In addition, the publication of the trilogy " The Many Faces of Terrorism " ( The Many Faces of Terrorism ) is expected, dedicated to integrated politics and the problem of terrorism in the third millennium.

Since 1987, Ken Wilber has been living in Denver , Colorado. Here he continues to work on the work of his life - the trilogy of Cosmos - as well as other books, and manages the activities of the Integral Institute and the Integral University.

Mysticism and the Great Chain of Being

Ken Wilber is compiling a map of the “new eternal philosophy” ( English neo-perennial philosophy ), which combines the traditional mysticism described in the “ eternal philosophy ” of Aldous Huxley , and the theory of cosmic evolution , closely associated with the ideas of the Indian philosopher Sri Aurobindo . However, instead of adopting the anti-evolutionary approach to history, which is usual for eternal philosophy, as a regression from previous eras, or the South , Wilber turns to the concept of the great chain of being traditional for the West . In accordance with the works of Jean Gebser , this theory says that a great chain of being has existed and exists forever, manifesting itself in the material and, thereby, gradually revealing itself. As a practitioner of Mahayana Buddhism, Wilber believes that reality is essentially a non-dualistic unity of emptiness and form that develops over time . Wilber's work is an attempt to describe how form undergoes changes and how in the world forms of being with consciousness participate in this change until they realize their true essence in emptiness.

Holon

Holon is a key concept for Ken Wilber’s philosophy, borrowed from Arthur Koestler ’s book “ The Ghost in the Machine "(1967); fundamental structural unit of the Cosmos. In search of what could serve as the basic building blocks of existence, Wilber agrees with the conclusion that any entity or concept has a dual nature: as a whole in itself and as an element of something else - that is, it is a holon. In the book A Brief History of Everything, he gives such a popular explanation: “For example, a whole atom is part of a whole molecule , and a whole molecule is part of a whole cell , a whole cell is part of a whole organism , and so on. Each of these objects is not a whole, and not a part, but a holon. ”

In the book "Sex, Ecology, Spirituality" Wilber identifies about twenty principles that characterize all holons ^[6] . These principles form the basis for his model of manifested reality. In addition, according to Wilber, the totality of the manifested reality is only a wave in the ocean of the unmanifest Void, which is not a holon.

AQAL: Integral Model of Cosmos

AQAL (pronounced “aqual”) is the basis of Ken Wilber’s integrated approach. AQAL stands for “all quadrants all levels”. The model describes five fundamentally unforgivable categories that, according to Wilber, must be considered in any integral model. In Excerpt C: The Ways We Are in This Together, he describes AQAL as "one proposed Space architecture." ^[7] According to the “all-sector, all-level” model, advanced on the basis of analytical and synthetic processing of more than 200 generally accepted hierarchies and systems from various fields of human activity, in order to holistically consider any subject, it is necessary to take into account the following mutually correlating aspects:

• 4 quadrants (or sectors) - individual internal (subjective study of an object, for example, phenomenology ), individual external (objective study of an object, for example, neurophysiology ), collective internal (subjective study of cultural relations, for example, cultural anthropology ) and collective external (objective study social groups, for example, systems theory );
• The lines of development that are present in these sectors (for example, in the psychology of development, this is the line of cognitive development, emotional, physical, etc.; see the concept of Gardner's multiple intelligences );
• Levels of development that relate to a given subject (for example, a person goes through several more or less clearly defined stages of development throughout his life);
• States of consciousness that are involved in the consideration or activity of this subject (for example, to perform certain types of work, a state of full concentration is necessary);
• Types (e.g. gender ).

According to Wilber, it is necessary to understand that this classification does not apply to absolute, but to relative truth (he relies on the principle of two truths in Buddhist philosophy (see below)).

Absolute and relative truth

Wilber is a supporter of the Buddhist doctrine of two truths , which says that in order to avoid philosophical error (or "categorical collapse"), it is necessary to clearly distinguish between the absolute truth of emptiness and the relative truths of form. All AQAL categories are relative truth. None of them are absolutely true. Only formless awareness, “a simple sense of being, ” is the absolute foundation of existence. Wilber, following Sri Aurobindo, calls this formless awareness " Spirit ." Wilber's “spirit” can be considered analogous to the “ One ” Plotinus , Schelling's “ Absolute, ” Hindu Brahman and Buddhist shunyata .

Pre / Trans Delusion

According to Ken Wilber, in many statements regarding irrational states of consciousness, an error is made in determining the difference between pre-rational and supra-rational states. According to Wilber, they can easily be taken one after another - a phenomenon called by him “ pre / trans fallacy ” ( pre / trans fallacy ). You can either reduce the perception of supra-rational spiritual realization to the level of pre-rational regression, or raise pre-rational states to the level of supra-rational ones. Freud and Jung , according to Wilber, made a mistake of pre / trans-delusion: Freud believed that mystical experience was a regression to infantile oceanic states, while Jung considered pre-rational myths as spiritual revelations. According to Wilber, he himself made a similar mistake in the early "romantic" period of his development (see, for example, the book "No Borders").

Wilber on Science

In The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science and Religion, Wilber describes the current state of the "hard" sciences as the "narrow sciences." He argues that the natural sciences currently receive data only from the lower levels of consciousness - sensorimotor ( perception , etc.). What he calls “broad science” would include data from logic, mathematics, and symbolism, hermeneutics, and other levels of consciousness. Ideally, a broad science would include the testimonies of meditators and spiritual practitioners.

Wilber's own concept of science includes both narrow science and broad science. An example is the use of electroencephalography and other technologies for research on meditation and spiritual practices. All this is included in the concept of "integral science" by Ken Wilber. In his opinion, narrow science is superior to narrow religion, but broad science is superior to narrow science. That is, the natural sciences provide a more inclusive, accurate description of reality than any of the exoteric religious traditions, and the integrated approach , which includes both religious statements and scientific statements based on intersubjectivity, is preferable to narrow science.

Wilber on Darwinism

Ken Wilber rejects creationism , considering it an attempt by a narrow religion to appear as a science. However, for example, he is not a supporter of the philosophical-naturalistic evolutionary theory of Richard Dawkins , whom Wilber describes as a "religious preacher." Although Wilber views natural selection as a valid scientific theory, he believes that Darwinism describes only the biological aspect of evolution. In his opinion, Aurobindo gave a more complete description of the physical, intellectual and spiritual aspects of evolution . Moreover, Wilber believes that Darwin had a largely negative intellectual influence, since due to the success of Darwinism among the intellectual and philosophical elite, the holistic ontologically evolutionary views of the German idealists were replaced by physicalism .

Wilber agrees with theorists of rational creation that neo-Darwinism is not able to adequately explain the origin of life , the phenomenon of human consciousness and self-consciousness . But he also disagrees with the theorists of creationism that they insist on the dualistic nature of the creator, separated from what he created. The Wilberian concept of divinity is similar to that found in Zen Buddhism or Advaita Vedanta .

Recently, Wilber began to use the term "tetraevolution" to describe the four-dimensional development of holons .

Work currently

In 2005, the Integral Spiritual Center was opened - a branch of the California Integral Institute. Then Wilber presented the public with a draft of 118 pages of two of his books on which he is working. ^{[8] The} work was published under the title “What is Integral Spirituality?” And contains several new concepts: integral methodological pluralism , integral postmetaphysics , integral mathematics, and the Wilber – Combs lattice . In 2006, this work was published in the form of the book “ Integral Spirituality ”.

Wilber combines his various belief systems ( English frameworks ) together:

This is our task: to “ reengineer ” the explanatory system of beliefs that would plausibly represent those basic methodologies - from phenomenology to autopoiesis , systems theory , hermeneutics - through the “transcendental deduction ” of the structure of the Cosmos , which would first allow these methodologies to arise and exist, because they already exist. The proposed explanatory system is called AQAL , it focuses on an integral overview of innate perspectives, its social practice is integrated methodological pluralism, its philosophy is integral postmetaphysics , its signal network is IOS ( integral operating system ) - all third-person words for describing the Cosmos, in which the first and second persons are indivisible agents, carriers of consciousness, and intentionality , and sensations , and not just matter , and energy , and information , and causality . ^[7]

Integral Post-Metaphysics

Integral postmetaphysics is the term by which Wilber describes his attempts to reconstruct the world spiritual and religious traditions in the form in which they would satisfy the modernist and postmodern criticism of these traditions. It is based on integral epistemology , which includes tools such as integral methodological pluralism , integral semiotics , as well as various methods for briefly recording the subject's perspective and location of an object , one of which is called integral mathematics.

Integral methodological pluralism proceeds from the notion that the “dimensions” (quadrants) that any holon contains can be studied both from the outside and from the inside. Thus, to study the animate holons (including humans), since they contain all four quadrants, at least 8 basic methodologies can be applied. For example, the method of studying the individual internal (upper left) quadrant of a person from the inside is phenomenology , from the outside - psychoanalysis and structuralism . Wilber points out that using each of the eight methods, you can get data that is fundamentally not received by the rest. For example, phenomenological research (the study of consciousness from within, including through meditation) cannot detect the existence of the Freudian shadow and stages of consciousness. Therefore, to obtain more or less complete knowledge of holon, it is necessary to combine as many methods of studying it as possible (preferably all).

The main source on this subject is the Integral Spirituality book published in 2007 (published in Russian in the form of an electronic book in 2013). In addition, some of the materials have been published on the Internet . On the Nature of a Post-Metaphysical Spirituality: Response to Habermas and Weis , 2006 ) ^[9] Ken Wilber on the official website of Shambhala, a writer in an online article entitled On the Nature of Post-Metaphysical Spirituality: A Response to Habermas and Weis speaks of post-metaphysical spirituality. On another webpage, “ Future Excerpts from Kosmic Karma and Creativity to Be Posted ” ^[10] , an outline is included that includes Excerpt F: Integral Post-Metaphysics.

Wilber Lattice - Combs

The Wilber – Combs lattice is a conceptual model of consciousness developed by Ken Wilber and Allan Coms . It is a lattice with successive states of consciousness on the X axis (from left to right) and structures of development, or levels, of consciousness on the Y axis (from bottom to top). This grid illustrates how each structure of consciousness interprets experiences of different states of consciousness, including mystical states. For example, someone at the mythical level of awareness can interpret subtle experience as a dimension full of gods and goddesses, while someone at the mental level can interpret it more rationally, for example, as a vision of the deep meaning of the cosmos, or the universe .

The concept of Wilber’s eternal philosophy was mainly formed under the influence of madhyamaka - Buddhism , especially under the influence of the philosophy of Nagarjuna . ^{[11] The} non-dual mysticism of Advaita Vedanta , Tibetan Buddhism, Zen Buddhism , Plotinus and Raman Maharshi also had a strong influence. Wilber has been practicing Buddhist meditation since studying at the university, and has studied some famous meditators such as Dinin Katagiri , Maedzumi Rosi , Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche , Kalu Rinpoche , Penor Rinpoche and Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche .

Концепция эволюции или психологического развития Уилбера основывается на работах Шри Ауробиндо Гхоша и Жана Гебсера , концепций великой цепи бытия , немецкого идеализма , Эриха Янча , Жана Пиаже , Абрахама Маслоу , Эрика Эриксона , Лоуренса Колберга , Говарда Гарднера , Клэра Грейвса , Роберта Кигана и спиральной динамики . Экзистенциального психолога Ролло Мэя он называл своим личным другом. Также Уилбер писал о Ральфе Эмерсоне , Альфреде Уайтхеде , Юргене Хабермасе и Пьере Тейяре де Шардене .

Работы Уилбера

• The Spectrum of Consciousness , 1977, anniv. ed. 1993: ISBN 0-8356-0695-3
• No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth , 1979, reprint ed. 2001: ISBN 1-57062-743-6
• The Atman Project: A Transpersonal View of Human Development , 1980, 2nd ed. ISBN 0-8356-0730-5
• Up from Eden: A Transpersonal View of Human Evolution , 1981, new ed. 1996: ISBN 0-8356-0731-3
• The Holographic Paradigm and Other Paradoxes: Exploring the Leading Edge of Science (editor), 1982, ISBN 0-394-71237-4
• A Sociable God: A Brief Introduction to a Transcendental Sociology , 1983, new ed. 2005 subtitled Toward a New Understanding of Religion , ISBN 1-59030-224-9
• Eye to Eye: The Quest for the New Paradigm , 1983, 3rd rev. ed. 2001: ISBN 1-57062-741-X
• Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists (editor), 1984, rev. ed. 2001: ISBN 1-57062-768-1
• Transformations of Consciousness: Conventional and Contemplative Perspectives on Development (co-authors: Jack Engler, Daniel Brown), 1986, ISBN 0-394-74202-8
• Spiritual Choices: The Problem of Recognizing Authentic Paths to Inner Transformation (co-authors: Dick Anthony, Bruce Ecker), 1987, ISBN 0-913729-19-1
• Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life of Treya Killam Wilber , 1991, 2nd ed. 2001: ISBN 1-57062-742-8
• Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution , 1st ed. 1995, 2nd rev. ed. 2001: ISBN 1-57062-744-4
• A Brief History of Everything , 1st ed. 1996, 2nd ed. 2001: ISBN 1-57062-740-1
• The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad , 1997, 3rd ed. 2001: ISBN 1-57062-871-8
• The Essential Ken Wilber: An Introductory Reader , 1998, ISBN 1-57062-379-1
• The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science and Religion , 1998, reprint ed. 1999: ISBN 0-7679-0343-9
• One Taste: The Journals of Ken Wilber , 1999, rev. ed. 2000: ISBN 1-57062-547-6
• Integral Psychology: Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy , 2000, ISBN 1-57062-554-9
• Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality , 2000, paperback ed.: ISBN 1-57062-855-6
• Speaking of Everything (2 hour audio interview on CD), 2001
• Boomeritis: A Novel That Will Set You Free , 2002, paperback ed. 2003: ISBN 1-59030-008-4
• Kosmic Consciousness (12 hour audio interview on ten CDs), 2003, ISBN 1-59179-124-3
• Вместе с Корнелом Уэстом, комментарии к трилогии « Матрица », участие в Return To Source: Philosophy & The Matrix на The Roots Of The Matrix , всё в The Ultimate Matrix Collection ( DVD ), 2004
• The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings , 2004, ISBN 1-59030-151-X
• The Integral Operating System (69 страниц по AQAL с DVD и 2 аудиодисками), 2005, ISBN 1-59179-347-5
• Исполнительный продюсер: Stuart Davis DVD Between the Music: Volume 1 и Volume 2 .
• Integral Spirituality: A Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World , 2006, ISBN 1-59030-346-6
• The Integral Vision: A Very Short Introduction to the Revolutionary Integral Approach to Life, God, the Universe, and Everything , 2007, ISBN 1-59030-475-6
• Transformations of Consciousness (полностью обновлённое издание, анонсировано)
• The Many Faces of Terrorism (анонсировано)
• Kosmic Karma and Creativity: Volume Two of the Kosmos Trilogy (анонсировано)
• The Fourth Turning (сокращённая эл. версия опубликована в 2014 году; полная печатная версия планируется в 2015 году)
• Trump and a Post-Truth World (2017) , ISNB 9781611805611
• The Religion of Tomorrow (2017), ISNB 9781611803006

In Russian

• Никаких границ. Восточные и западные пути личностного роста. — 1998, 2003. ISBN 5-17-018322-4
• Проект Атман. Трансперсональный взгляд на человеческое развитие. — М.: АСТ, 1999, 2004. ISBN 5-17-021069-8
• Око Духа. Интегральное видение для слегка свихнувшегося мира. — М.: АСТ, 2002. ISBN 5-17-014321-4
• Один вкус. Дневники Кена Уилбера. — 2004. ISBN 5-17-021067-1
• Интегральная психология. Сознание, Дух, Психология, Терапия. — 2004. ISBN 5-17-021067-1
• Краткая история всего. — М.: АСТ, 2006. ISBN 5-17-036016-9 . Переиздание: М.: Постум, 2015. — 624 с. — ISBN 978-5-91478-035-4
• Благодать и стойкость . — М. : Открытый Мир , 2008. — 656 с. - 3000 copies — ISBN 978-5-9743-0127-8 . Переиздание: М.: Постум, 2013. — 656 с. - 3000 copies — ISBN 978-5-91478-025-5
• Интегральное видение. — М.: Открытый Мир, 2009. ISBN 978-5-9743-0156-8
• Теория всего. — М.: Постум, 2013. ISBN 978-5-91478-027-9
• Интегральная духовность. — Электронное издание. — М.: Ipraktik, 2013. Google Books .
• Бумерит. — Электронное издание. — М.: Ipraktik, 2013. Google Books .
• Очи познания: ПЛОТЬ, РАЗУМ, СОЗЕРЦАНИЕ. Интегральный мир.—М.:" РИПОЛ классик",2016.

Книги о Уилбере

• Donald Jay Rothberg and Sean Kelly, Ken Wilber in Dialogue: Conversations With Leading Transpersonal Thinkers , 1998, ISBN 0-8356-0766-6
• Joseph Vrinte, Perennial Quest for a Psychology with a Soul: An inquiry into the relevance of Sri Aurobindo's metaphysical yoga psychology in the context of Ken Wilber's integral psychology , Motilal Banarsidass, 2002, ISBN 81-208-1932-2
• Frank Visser. Ken Wilber: Thought As Passion . — New York: State University of New York Press (SUNY Press), 2003. — 352 p. — ISBN 0791458156 .
• Brad Reynolds, Embracing Reality: The Integral Vision of Ken Wilber: A Historical Survey and Chapter-By-Chapter Review of Wilber's Major Works , 2004, ISBN 1-58542-317-3
• Lew Howard, Introducing Ken Wilber , May 2005, ISBN 1-4208-2986-6
• Raphael Meriden, Entfaltung des Bewusstseins: Ken Wilbers Vision der Evolution , 2002, ISBN 88-87198-05-5
• Brad Reynolds, Where's Wilber At?: Ken Wilber's Integral Vision in the New Milennium , 2006, ISBN 1-55778-846-4
• Kiyashchenko L.P., Moiseev V.I. Philosophy of transdisciplinarity / Ros. Acad.Sciences, Institute of Philosophy. - M .: IFRAN, 2009. ISBN 978-5-9540-0152-5 . (Chapter 3. Integral approach (logical-ontological aspect).)