Ken Wilber - The Origins of the Integral Perspective - a podcast by www.integralnaked.org

Having writtenThe Spectrum of Consciousnesswhen he was 23, Ken began the life-long pursuit of trying to understand the meaning and importance of being human at a remarkably early age, having since expanding his work into over two-dozen books, each building on the insights of the one before. Life, and human life in particular, is a developmental affair. It’s not that there are (as Gaspar and Ken discuss) 6-7 major psychological and spiritualapproachesto the same fundamental human condition, there are 6-7developmental levels of consciousness. From archaic, to magic, to mythic, to rational, to pluralistic, to integral and beyond, there is no one answer to the meaning of life. The meaning of life literally develops along with thestructuresof human consciousness, in complimentary and simultaneous growth throughstatesof consciousness, where “wakefulness” progresses fromwaking-gross, todreaming-subtle, todeep-dreamless-sleep, toever-present nondual. There are two “axes of enlightenment,” one in structures of consciousness and one in states of consciousness (see Ken’s bookIntegral Spiritualityfor more detail on this topic).

Gaspar and Ken end by talking about the fact that Ken isn’t imposing an Integral framework on anyone—he’s giving peoplewho arealreadyat an integral level of developmenta map and a way to talk about what they are already experiencing, but don’t have a language to talk about their deepest insights intuitions into life. All we do is help provide the most complete map and language for the Integral developmental wave at the leading edge of evolution, and we’d love to have you listen in and help unfold and express this blooming edge of consciousness….