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Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition Kindle Edition
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.
Wilber 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.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherShambhala
- Publication dateJanuary 2, 2001
- File size2024 KB
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"Hugely informed, outspoken, and deeply illumined, Ken Wilber's penetrating insights uplevel the whole game of understanding human beings and human history."—Branches of Light
"The scope of the work is extraordinary. Only a handful of thinkers, such as Aurobindo in the East and Hegel in the West, have assembled such vast evolutionary visions. Yet Wilber's view is unique not only in providing a far-reaching vision but also in grounding that vision in contemporary research in fields such as cosmology, biology, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and ecology."—Roger Walsh, Resurgence
"Wilber possesses the rare combination of a deep, advanced spiritual practice with a sharp wit, brain power and scholarship to rival the finest Princeton Ph.D. . . . Sex, Ecology, Spirituality rewards the reader with a comprehensive, nondualistic, and sophisticated analysis of our world and consciousness."—Green Living
"Wilber's book is essential reading as a transplanetary survey of our problems and our possibilities. This is a book to live with for the next five years, and carry with you long into the next century."—David Boadella, Journal of Family Life
"Wilber is without a doubt one of the most significant thinkers of our time and brings a fresh understanding to our cultural situation and the prospects for an integral worldview in the next century. He displays a staggering erudition . . . a profound intuitive understanding and a highly developed analytical capacity. The combination is breathtaking. . . . Any thinker concerned with the big picture will find Wilber's work a gold-mine of insights which make compulsory reading for the 21st century."—Network: The Scientific and Medical Network Review
"Exhaustive exploration of the history of consciousness."—Parabola
"I think the most significant recent development in the field [of Transpersonal Psychology] is the publication of Ken Wilber's book, Sex, Ecology, Spirituality . I would encourage anyone interested in exploring the field in depth to read this volume."—Gnosis Magazine
"The twenty-first century literally has three choices: Aristotle, Nietzsche, or Ken Wilber. This book, written with remarkable scholarly breadth and depth, is exactly the medicine we need for the new century and the new millennium: not because it will make us feel good, which it surely might, but because it can jolt us awake."—Jack Crittenden, Ph.D., author of Beyond Individualism
About the Author
Ken Wilber is the author of over twenty books. He is the founder of Integral Institute, a think-tank for studying integral theory and practice, with outreach through local and online communities such as Integral Education Network, Integral Training, and Integral Spiritual Center.
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- ASIN : B00KWKRAM4
- Publisher : Shambhala; Revised edition (January 2, 2001)
- Publication date : January 2, 2001
- Language : English
- File size : 2024 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Print length : 884 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #474,833 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #92 in Philosophy & Spiritual Growth
- #224 in Modern Philosophy (Kindle Store)
- #320 in Consciousness & Thought (Kindle Store)
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Customers find the book engaging and thought-provoking. They describe it as insightful, addressing complex philosophical topics in clear language with extensive end notes. Readers appreciate the author's exploration of creativity as an inherent aspect of reality. Overall, they describe the book as a multifaceted and well-researched overview of God's nature.
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- Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2024I bought another copy of this book recently for my dad. Of all the books I've read in my life, this had one of the biggest impacts on my way of thinking about the world.
The drawback is Wilber's writing style, which is kinda painful. But you can get used to it.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2022A multi-multfaceted, amazingly researched overview explanation of God’s Spirit driven evolution of humankind.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2017Have not read it yet, but I have been wanting to read it for ten years. One book by Ken Wilber is like taking a doctoral level course in college. I read the introduction and found it interesting, as is everything he writes. I have no doubt that I will enjoy the book immensely. I was glad to see other books by Ken Wilber that I have not read as well and will probably order them in the future. I have almost everything he has ever written.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2015This is a BIG book! I've only begun to get through this author's lifetime of research and reflection, but I am in no hurry. Lots to absorb and think about, and plenty of references and notes to round out the presentation. I had thought it might be too academic to be spiritually helpful, and am gratified to find it a fine synthesis of the scientific, philosophic, and personal approaches.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2023I believe Ken Wilber spent five years researching the material for this book, and it shows. I read the 2nd edition eighteen years ago in paperback, and came back for the 1st edition in hardcover. Still many things to learn, even on a second reading.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2019This is Wilber's magnum opus with extraordinary depth and scope, covering many topics, from evolution, the Four Quardrants to the four stages of Spiritual development. ...The next step: getting a direct dialogue going with KW and the other great genius of our time: Peter Baofu.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2017Mind blowing. Ken Wilbur is funny. He is academically accurate and discusses complex philosophical issues with great clarity and without watering down the subject. He builds a case for everything he suggests and bashes various points of view, without bashing the values behind the views. Feminists, ecology advocates, and in fact, the entire western civilization and devastated by Wilbur with pointed criticisms of where they veered off course.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2017Patience to digest everything in this book was necessary for me. The book made a great deal of sense to me and what I sense are my spiritual beliefs at this point in time. It's good to have a dictionary handy if you are unfamiliar with studying this kind of information.
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Andreu O.Reviewed in Spain on January 31, 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars Molt interessant
Molt interessant..diferent.
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MercureReviewed in France on June 29, 2017
5.0 out of 5 stars On devrait pouvoir mettre dix étoiles !
Que dire ?
Ce livre est juste le résumé le plus magistral et le plus clair possible de l'aventure de l'humanité, d'un point de vue non seulement philosophique, mais aussi scientifique, rationnel, spirituel.
C'est tout simplement époustouflant.
Le titre de "Einstein de la conscience " souvent donné à Wilber est plus que mérité.
Et, 20 ans après parution, ce livre n'existe toujours pas en français...
Nos pauvres philosophes français, enfermés dans leur carcan terriblement étroit, vont se réveiller un jour et réaliser combien de décennies de retard ils ont accumulé par rapport à où se développe aujourd'hui la philo de demain.
Génial : ce livre est tout simplement génial.
- Sylvie LemieuxReviewed in Canada on July 8, 2016
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
I was told it was the best of Wilber and I agree!
- Paul NelsonReviewed in the United Kingdom on March 19, 2016
5.0 out of 5 stars a great behemoth of a book
This is Ken Wilber's magnum opus, a great behemoth of a book, tremendous in energy and ambition. It might help if before attempting it you have read one or other of his simpler introductions to Integral thought, or perhaps the Ken Wilber Reader. But (being basically on his side) I found this an exhilarating read...brilliant from beginning to end, opinionated, argumentative, and hope-giving. The footnotes alone are worth the price of the book. Wonderful, though not for the faint-hearted.
- Amazon CustomerReviewed in the United Kingdom on August 15, 2017
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Just as described, thanks