I think Ken Wilbur is a genius and possibly having also attained life's highest truth by some means of mind training. He suggests that we follow his AQAL which is shorthand for All Quadrants, All Levels, All Lines, All States, All Types (P. 35). He derives his AQAL from:
The Quadrants - The concept of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness is changed by Wilbur into 4 basic ways of looking at things which are I, WE, IT, ITS (See Figures 1, 2, and 3).
All Levels, All Lines, All States, All Types mean what they mean literally.
To elucidate the meanings of all, you'd have to read the book. This is as simple as I can manage.
Wilbur states at the outset that now we're having 'the global village' (P. 1), that is, all cultures and knowledges are exposed and are available to us. We need the INTEGRAL VISION i.e., his AQAL to be used as the framework to understand everything such as knowledge, experience and their interconnectedness. This signals the new world to begin by using his Integral Vision.
I find Wilbur's Integral Model comprehensive and inclusive (as he claims on P. 4), yet at the same time exclusive in its own self from the language it uses to the various schemes it practices. Look at AQAL itself, all the words, the meanings, the applications to everything in the known universe are all done exclusively originally from Wilbur's own mind.
I now would like to quote 2 great quotes from Wilbur to let you see how he writes:
" There is a Spirit for each and every wave of awareness, since Spirit is that very Awareness appearing in the different levels of its own development, the same Awareness that slumbers in the mineral, stirs in the plant, moves in the animal, revives in the human, and returns to itself in the awakened sage. Most extraordinarily, all of us - including me and you - are invited to become an awakened sage ourselves." P. 103
"I will NEVER again pretend that I do not know or feel my own I AMness.*
And with that, the game is undone. A million thoughts have come and gone, a million feelings have come and gone, a million objects have come and gone. But one thing has not come, and one thing has not gone: the great Unborn and the great Undying, which never enters or leaves the stream of time, a pure Presence above time, floating in eternity. I am this great, obvious, self-knowing, self-validating, self-liberating I AMness.
Before Abraham was I AM." P. 148
*The Christian biblical God is sometimes referred to as I AM.
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I think Wilbur is a genius and having attained life's highest truth by some mind training.
I think Ken Wilbur is a genius and possibly having also attained life's highest truth by some means of mind training. He suggests that we follow his AQAL which is shorthand for All Quadrants, All Levels, All Lines, All States, All Types (P. 35). He derives his AQAL from:The Quadrants - The concept of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness is changed by Wilbur into 4 basic ways of looking at things which are I, WE, IT, ITS (See Figures 1, 2, and 3).All Levels, All Lines, All States, All Types mean what they mean literally.To elucidate the meanings of all, you'd have to read the book. This is as simple as I can manage.Wilbur states at the outset that now we're having 'the global village' (P. 1), that is, all cultures and knowledges are exposed and are available to us. We need the INTEGRAL VISION i.e., his AQAL to be used as the framework to understand everything such as knowledge, experience and their interconnectedness. This signals the new world to begin by using his Integral Vision.I find Wilbur's Integral Model comprehensive and inclusive (as he claims on P. 4), yet at the same time exclusive in its own self from the language it uses to the various schemes it practices. Look at AQAL itself, all the words, the meanings, the applications to everything in the known universe are all done exclusively originally from Wilbur's own mind.I now would like to quote 2 great quotes from Wilbur to let you see how he writes:" There is a Spirit for each and every wave of awareness, since Spirit is that very Awareness appearing in the different levels of its own development, the same Awareness that slumbers in the mineral, stirs in the plant, moves in the animal, revives in the human, and returns to itself in the awakened sage. Most extraordinarily, all of us - including me and you - are invited to become an awakened sage ourselves." P. 103"I will NEVER again pretend that I do not know or feel my own I AMness.*And with that, the game is undone. A million thoughts have come and gone, a million feelings have come and gone, a million objects have come and gone. But one thing has not come, and one thing has not gone: the great Unborn and the great Undying, which never enters or leaves the stream of time, a pure Presence above time, floating in eternity. I am this great, obvious, self-knowing, self-validating, self-liberating I AMness.Before Abraham was I AM." P. 148*The Christian biblical God is sometimes referred to as I AM.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2022
The Quadrants - The concept of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness is changed by Wilbur into 4 basic ways of looking at things which are I, WE, IT, ITS (See Figures 1, 2, and 3).
All Levels, All Lines, All States, All Types mean what they mean literally.
To elucidate the meanings of all, you'd have to read the book. This is as simple as I can manage.
Wilbur states at the outset that now we're having 'the global village' (P. 1), that is, all cultures and knowledges are exposed and are available to us. We need the INTEGRAL VISION i.e., his AQAL to be used as the framework to understand everything such as knowledge, experience and their interconnectedness. This signals the new world to begin by using his Integral Vision.
I find Wilbur's Integral Model comprehensive and inclusive (as he claims on P. 4), yet at the same time exclusive in its own self from the language it uses to the various schemes it practices. Look at AQAL itself, all the words, the meanings, the applications to everything in the known universe are all done exclusively originally from Wilbur's own mind.
I now would like to quote 2 great quotes from Wilbur to let you see how he writes:
" There is a Spirit for each and every wave of awareness, since Spirit is that very Awareness appearing in the different levels of its own development, the same Awareness that slumbers in the mineral, stirs in the plant, moves in the animal, revives in the human, and returns to itself in the awakened sage. Most extraordinarily, all of us - including me and you - are invited to become an awakened sage ourselves." P. 103
"I will NEVER again pretend that I do not know or feel my own I AMness.*
And with that, the game is undone. A million thoughts have come and gone, a million feelings have come and gone, a million objects have come and gone. But one thing has not come, and one thing has not gone: the great Unborn and the great Undying, which never enters or leaves the stream of time, a pure Presence above time, floating in eternity. I am this great, obvious, self-knowing, self-validating, self-liberating I AMness.
Before Abraham was I AM." P. 148
*The Christian biblical God is sometimes referred to as I AM.
I think Wilbur is a genius and having attained life's highest truth by some mind training.
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2022
I think Ken Wilbur is a genius and possibly having also attained life's highest truth by some means of mind training. He suggests that we follow his AQAL which is shorthand for All Quadrants, All Levels, All Lines, All States, All Types (P. 35). He derives his AQAL from:Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2022
The Quadrants - The concept of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness is changed by Wilbur into 4 basic ways of looking at things which are I, WE, IT, ITS (See Figures 1, 2, and 3).
All Levels, All Lines, All States, All Types mean what they mean literally.
To elucidate the meanings of all, you'd have to read the book. This is as simple as I can manage.
Wilbur states at the outset that now we're having 'the global village' (P. 1), that is, all cultures and knowledges are exposed and are available to us. We need the INTEGRAL VISION i.e., his AQAL to be used as the framework to understand everything such as knowledge, experience and their interconnectedness. This signals the new world to begin by using his Integral Vision.
I find Wilbur's Integral Model comprehensive and inclusive (as he claims on P. 4), yet at the same time exclusive in its own self from the language it uses to the various schemes it practices. Look at AQAL itself, all the words, the meanings, the applications to everything in the known universe are all done exclusively originally from Wilbur's own mind.
I now would like to quote 2 great quotes from Wilbur to let you see how he writes:
" There is a Spirit for each and every wave of awareness, since Spirit is that very Awareness appearing in the different levels of its own development, the same Awareness that slumbers in the mineral, stirs in the plant, moves in the animal, revives in the human, and returns to itself in the awakened sage. Most extraordinarily, all of us - including me and you - are invited to become an awakened sage ourselves." P. 103
"I will NEVER again pretend that I do not know or feel my own I AMness.*
And with that, the game is undone. A million thoughts have come and gone, a million feelings have come and gone, a million objects have come and gone. But one thing has not come, and one thing has not gone: the great Unborn and the great Undying, which never enters or leaves the stream of time, a pure Presence above time, floating in eternity. I am this great, obvious, self-knowing, self-validating, self-liberating I AMness.
Before Abraham was I AM." P. 148
*The Christian biblical God is sometimes referred to as I AM.
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