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Welcome to Ken Wilber’s
Integral Spirituality: A Deeper Cut
These are some of the most important and insightful conversations Ken Wilber has ever recorded. Featuring the most cutting-edge theory, the most intimate stories, and the most meaningful applications of Integral thought to our lives and to our world, you will not find spiritual conversations as intelligent and as sophisticated anywhere else in the world.

“This Integral Spirituality series stands out as one of my favorite conference series that I’ve ever been involved in. Not only did it give us a chance to really dive into Integral theory and practice with people who know my work so well, but it allowed me to connect with our members and listen to some of the most extraordinary stories that I’ve ever heard, which has been very gratifying for me personally. If you really want to see how deep the integral spiritual vision goes, you won’t want to miss this.” – Ken Wilber

Course Overview
Some of the most important and insightful conversations in the world.
In 2006 Ken Wilber published his seminal book Integral Spirituality: A Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World. This book represents the culmination of more than three decades of Integral theory and practice, suggesting a theory of spirituality that honors the truths of modernity and postmodernity—including the revolutions in science and culture, while incorporating the essential insights of the world’s religious traditions. Integral Spirituality demonstrates how today’s spirituality must combine the insights of the East with the discoveries of the West, paving the way for a radical new role for the world’s religions.

Nobody is more passionate about Ken Wilber’s work than you. Which is why we invited you to ask Ken your own questions about Integral Spirituality, resulting in more than 40 hours of groundbreaking dialogue that explores the book in remarkable chapter-by-chapter detail. Integral Spirituality: A Deeper Cut is your personal guide through the ins and outs of Integral theory and practice, and makes an essential companion to Ken’s critically-acclaimed book.

What You’ll Learn
Discover the answers to some of today’s greatest spiritual questions:

What is the difference between “religion” and “spirituality”?
What is the real relationship between God and evolution, or between science and spirituality?
Why does the universe exist? Why is there something instead of nothing?
What is the meaning of “enlightenment” in today’s world?
How can spiritual practitioners be so evolved in some aspects of their lives, and so self-involved in others?
What are the very best practices to help us accelerate our growth and awakening?
What’s the difference between masculine and feminine paths to spiritual awakening?
What is the relationship between spirituality and creativity?
How can art be used to portray and transmit spiritual experiences?
In what ways do we “create our own realities?”
How can we overcome the rampant narcissism that seems to be so prevalent in today’s spiritual communities?
What is the nature of “synchronicity,” or the meaningful coincidences that often seem to accompany spiritual experiences?
How can I make sense of the culture wars that often beleaguer meaningful social progress in the world?
What is subtle energy, and what is its relationship with consciousness?
How can we talk about spirituality in a way that can actually survive modern and postmodern criticism?
What is the meaning of “post-metaphysical” spirituality?
What are 4th, 5th, and 6th-person perspectives?
Is there any real evidence for involution?

About Ken Wilber
Ken Wilber is a preeminent scholar of the Integral stage of human development. He is an internationally acknowledged leader, founder of Integral Institute, and co-founder of Integral Life.

If you haven’t already heard of him, Ken Wilber is one of the most important philosophers in the world today. He is the most widely translated academic writer in America, with 25 books translated into some 30 foreign languages. Ken Wilber currently lives in Denver, Colorado, and is still active as a philosopher, author, and teacher, with all of his major publications still in print.

What makes Ken Wilber especially relevant in today’s world is that he is the originator of arguably the first truly comprehensive or integrative philosophy, aptly named “Integral Theory”. As Wilber himself puts it: “I’d like to think of it as one of the first believable world philosophies…” Incorporating cultural studies, anthropology, systems theory, developmental psychology, biology, and spirituality, it has been applied in fields as diverse as ecology, sustainability, psychotherapy, psychiatry, education, business, medicine, politics, sports, and art.

“If ordinary people don’t perceive that our grand ideas are working in their lives then they can’t develop the higher level of consciousness, to use a term that American philosopher Ken Wilber wrote a whole book about… The problem is the world needs to be more integrated, but it requires a consciousness that’s way up here, and an ability to see beyond the differences among us.”
-President Bill Clinton

Wilber explains the need for an Integral Approach in the following way: In our current post-modern world, we possess an abundance of methodologies and practices belonging to a multitude of fields and knowledge traditions. What is utterly lacking however, is a coherent organization, and coordination, of all these various practices, as well as their respective data-sets. What is needed is an approach that moves beyond this indiscriminate eclectic-pluralism, to an “Integral Methodological Pluralism” — driving toward a genuine “theory of everything” that helps to enrich and deepen every field through an understanding of exactly how and where each one fits in relation to all the others. Through the Integral approach, we reveal the previously unseen possibilities for a better, more compassionate, and more sustainable future for all of us.

In short, the Integral Approach is the coherent organization, coordination, and harmonization of all of the relevant practices, methodologies, and experiences, available to human beings. Ken Wilber states “You can’t [realistically] honor various methods and fields, without showing how they fit together. That is how to make a genuine world philosophy.”

The twenty-first century literally has three choices: Aristotle, Nietzsche, or Ken Wilber.”
– Jack Crittenden Ph.D., author of Beyond Individualism

Ken Wilber is also the founder of the Integral Institute, which is the first organization fully dedicated to advancement and application of the Integral Approach in relation to contemporary global issues. It was formed in collaboration with over 200 scholars and experts, specializing in education, politics, business, medicine, psychology, spirituality, as well as, law and criminal justice. The Integral Institute is currently partnered with Fielding Graduate University.

In 2007 Wilber co-founded Integral Life, a social media-hub dedicated to sharing the integral vision with the world wide community, as well as documenting and catalyzing the progress of the integral movement.

“The most comprehensive philosophical thinker of our times.”
–Tony Schwartz, the president, founder, and CEO of The Energy Project, and the author of What Really Matters: Searching for Wisdom in America

Course Curriculum

Introduction: The Integral Approach
Ken’s Introduction
Markers of Development
Full Enlightenment
Uniting Multiple Disciplines
Misinterpreting States and Stages
Integral Methodological Pluralism
Quadrants and the “Big Three”
4th-, 5th-, and 6th-Person Perspectives
Kosmic Address and the Pauli Exclusion Principle
Spiritual Practice and Cultural Embedment
Stages of Consciousness
Ken’s Introduction
Privileging Those Without Privilege
Moving Multiple Lines
The Role of Will
Spheres of Existence
States of Consciousness
Masculine and Feminine Paths to Nonduality
Structuralist and Hermeneutical Approaches to Meaning
Taking Perspectives on Perspectives
The Mysterious Presence
States and Stages
Ken’s Introduction
Skillful Communication
The Relationship Between States and Stages
Peak and Plateau Experiences
The Darth Vader Move
Boomeritis Buddhism
Ken’s Introduction
The Integrity of Emptiness
Worldcentric Buddhism
Gauging Development
Buddhism and Postmodernity
The Shadow and the Disowned Self
Ken’s Introduction
Shadows and Dissociation
Practicing Ethics
Shadow Hugging
Approaching the Authentic Self
Is 3-2-1 Too Superficial?
The Shadows of Shadow-Work
The Collective Shadow
A Miracle Called “We”
Ken’s Introduction
Relating With Amber
A “We” in Time
Creating Intentional Communities
Skillful Means and Mixed Altitudes
Zones of Emergence
The World of the Terribly Obvious
Ken’s Introduction
The Mirror of Nature
Evolution and the Bodhisattva Vow
Mental Perspectives vs. Soul Perspectives
Art and the Terribly Obvious
The Conveyor Belt
Kenʼs Introduction
Integral Sunday School
Gaps in the Conveyor Belt
The Energetics of Awakening
How to Self-Assess?
What About Race and Racism?
Applying the Conveyor Belt to Organizational Development
Integral Life Practice
The Difference Between ITP and ILP
Bringing ILP to Walmart
Selfless Service as Practice
Personal Will, Unique Will, and Enlightenment
Appendix I: From the Great Chain of Being to Postmodernism in 3 Easy Steps
Ken’s Introduction
The Cutting Edge of Physical Evolution
What’s the Evidence for Involution?
Involution and Practice
The Future of Consciousness, Energy, and Eco-systems
Appendix II: Integral Post-Metaphysics
Why Is Enlightenment Important?
Why the Kosmos?
Metaphysical Baggage
The Integral Daemon
The Evolution of Perspective
Constructing Reality
State-Stages and Kosmic Grooves
Integral Calculus, Integral Perspectives
The Science of Spirit
Meaning, Enactment, and God
Quadrants and the Myth of the Given
A Post-Metaphysical Approach to Synchronicity
Appendix III: The Myth of the Given Lives On
Ken’s Introduction: Reverse-Engineering the Kosmos
New Thought, New Age, and Beyond
Technology and Consciousness
Ancient Practice, New Understanding
Is the Future Spinning Out of Control?
After Enlightenment, What’s the Point?
The Finger Pointing to the Moon
Beyond the Fourth
Involution, as Never Before Seen
Arhats and Bodhisattvas
Eternity in Love
The Self-Liberating Nature of Reality
Perspectives and Practice
The Three Faces, From Altitude
Three Truths
To Get a Universe Going