The following series of essays were published on Integral World in Europe from December 2006 to September 2023. They cover a range of topics but primarily focus on Ken Wilber's views on evolution, epistemology, consciousness, and enlightenment. Initially, I was a great fan of Ken Wilber's works when I first discovered him in the late 1970s and early 1980s. However, after a closer analysis of his books, especially when he focused on Darwinian evolution and fundamentally misrepresented it, I became a harsh critic of his ...
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The following series of essays were published on Integral World in Europe from December 2006 to September 2023. They cover a range of topics but primarily focus on Ken Wilber's views on evolution, epistemology, consciousness, and enlightenment. Initially, I was a great fan of Ken Wilber's works when I first discovered him in the late 1970s and early 1980s. However, after a closer analysis of his books, especially when he focused on Darwinian evolution and fundamentally misrepresented it, I became a harsh critic of his tendency to indulge in spiritual hyperbole. Nevertheless, I still feel that Ken Wilber is an important thinker and has provided us with some valuable insights, especially in how best to adjudicate varying states of awareness in meditation. A special thanks must be given to Frank Visser, the founder of the Integral World website, for creating a forum where a variety of different perspectives (pro and con) were welcomed and discussed. In organizing this book, I decided it would be best to keep the chronological order in which they were first published since that will provide the necessary timeline and context for the reader to best understand the arguments that I have put forth. Table of Contents: 1. The Art of Spiritual Hyperbole 2. The Confused Hype of Da Free John 3. Misunderstanding Evolution 4. Wilber on Evolution Revisited 5. Feynman's Clocks vs. Wilber's Winds 6. The Sound of Three Books Clapping 7. On Reductionism 8. Tangled Phone Lines: Dawkins and Wilber 9. Andrew Cohen Exposed 10. Frisky Dirt 11. Random Mutations in Molecular Biology 12. The Faith of Physical Causes 13. The Death of Privacy 14. UFOs and the Chandian Effect 15. Wilber's Eye and the Danger of Reification 16. Darwin's Moral Sense 17. Quantum Theory and the Transcendent 18. Transcendental Sociology 19. The Avatar Project 20. How Seriously Should We Take Mysticism? 21. Integral Apartheid 22. The Missing Nuance: Integral Politics 23. The Misuse of Statistics24. Chroma Casting 25. Wilber as Religious Preacher 26. Moronic Evolution 27. Integral Theory and its Discontents 28. Cosmic Myopia 29. Confused from Eden 30. Eden's Probability Error 31. Novelistic Truth 32. Multiple Infinities 33. Enlightenment and its Vagaries 34. Appendix 35. About the Authors
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