Integral Psychology Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy

by WILBER, KEN

• ISBN13: 9781570625541
• ISBN10: 1570625549
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-16
• Publisher: Shambhala

Summary

The goal of an "integral psychology" is to honor and embrace every legitimate aspect of human consciousness under one roof. This book presents one of the first truly integrative models of consciousness, psychology, and therapy. Drawing on hundreds of sources--Eastern and Western, ancient and modern--Wilber creates a psychological model that includes waves of development, streams of development, states of consciousness, and the self, and follows the course of each from subconscious to self-conscious to superconscious. Included in the book are charts correlating over a hundred psychological and spiritual schools from around the world, including Kabbalah, Vedanta, Plotinus, Teresa of Avila, Aurobindo, Theosophy, and modern theorists such as Jean Piaget, Erik Erikson, Jane Loevinger, Lawrence Kohlberg, Carol Gilligan, Erich Neumann, and Jean Gebser. Integral Psychology is Wilber's most ambitious psychological system to date, and it is already being called a landmark study in human development.

Author Biography

Ken Wilber, with all sixteen of his books translated into up to twenty foreign languages, is one of the most widely read and influential American philosophers of our time, credited with creating a genuine world philosophy. His recent books include The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science and Religion, A Brief History of Everything, and One Taste: The Journals of Ken Wilber.

Table of Contents

Note to the Reader: A Daylight View	vii
Part One Ground: The Foundation	1	(56)
The Basic Levels or Waves	5	(23)
The Developmental Lines or Streams	28	(5)
The Self	33	(5)
The Self-Related Streams	38	(19)
Part Two Path: From Premodern to Modern	57	(30)
What Is Modernity?	59	(7)
To Integrate Premodern and Modern	66	(8)
Some Important Modern Pioneers	74	(13)
Part Three Fruition: An Integral Model	87	(108)
The Archeology of Spirit	89	(26)
Some Important Developmental Streams	115	(14)
Spirituality: Stages or Not?	129	(10)
Is There a Childhood Spirituality?	139	(4)
Sociocultural Evolution	143	(15)
From Modernity to Postmodernity	158	(16)
The 1-2-3 of Consciousness Studies	174	(14)
The Integral Embrace	188	(7)
Charts	195	(24)
Notes	219	(70)
Index	289