Hi Gary:
> If you are a thinking person anywhere on this globe you will come up
> against the work and writing of Ken Wilber. Which is why his name keeps
> coming up. Pirsig had a mystical vision which he managed to bring back
> into a classic system. Wilber may not have had a Buddha-like event to
> triggered his theories, but he has done his homework. Wilber's writings
> are part mystical, part psychological systems, part anthropological, part
> sociology, part metaphysics. Because Wilber's ideas incorporates all these
> fields and endeavors to bring them together. A monumental task. A
> monumental vision. It is as impressive as Pirsig's work.
You have written an excellent advertisement for Wilber's books. I agree
with your description of what he has accomplished and his contribution
to knowledge. What he has left to do is embrace the MOQ. His
unification of human reality and integral vision will be incomplete until he
recognizes and concedes to the centrality of the world's moral order. He
makes many judgments that "this is better than that" such as, "We
need to move from pluralistic relativism to universal integralism--we need
to keep trying to find the One in the Many that is the form of the
Kosmos itself." But he gives us no reason why we should strive to find
the One in the Many other than a vague joining with "Spirit." Wilber's
work is fine, but far from finished until, perhaps in a peak experience
moment, his vision is illuminated by the MOQ. Do you agree?
Platt
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