A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science & Spirituality by Ken Wilber

A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science & Spirituality

by Ken Wilber

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Psychology & Mind

Every major worldview gets some real part of reality right, and none of them gets all of it. Ken Wilber's AQAL map, quadrants plus stages of development, is his attempt to fit those partial truths together, and this short book applies it to politics, business, medicine, education and your own practice.

Core ideas
  • Four quadrants: Crossing interior and exterior with individual and collective gives four views, of subjective experience, observable behavior, shared culture and social systems.
  • Stages of growth: Drawing on Spiral Dynamics, the framework traces development from egocentric through ethnocentric to worldcentric outlooks, alongside lines, states and types.
  • Live it out: The book closes by recommending an integral transformative practice, such as meditation, so the framework becomes something you do.
Published1996
Pages189
ISBN9781570628559
ReadOct 2022

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