Ken Wilber

Wilber traces human development from infancy into adulthood and beyond, into those states described by mystics and spiritual adepts. The spiritual evolution of such extraordinary individuals as the Buddha and Jesus hints at the direction human beings will take in their continuing growth toward transcendence.

Here Ken Wilber’s widely acknowledged “spectrum of consciousness” model is used as a broad framework capable of integrating numerous different and important fields, from art and literary theory to cultural studies, from anthropology to philosophy, from developmental psychology to spirituality.

If the Buddha, Saint Teresa, or an enlightened shaman walked into the room today, would they find themselves in need of some serious spiritual catching up to do? The answer, says Ken Wilber, is yes.

Shortly after marrying Treya Killam, Ken Wilber (author of Spectrum of Consciousness and other influential books on transpersonal psychology) discovered she had breast cancer.