Integral Naked: Integral Ken Wilber

For those who believe in total self improvement there is nothing quite as amazing (as far as systems go) as Integral Life Training.

I actually stumble across Integral Naked on Myspace.  I was surfing through my friends list.  One of my favorite pass times on the ‘Net is to look at my friends’ friends.  I don’t even recall which friends page I went to but this person had a man named Ken Wilber on their friends list.  I knew Ken was some kind of respected American philosopher but I wasn’t really familiar with his work (at least not directly).  

I have always been into hardcore spiritual individuals.  You know: rejected, rogue shaman types like Fred Allen Wolf, Carlos Castaneda and not particularly skeptical, bean counting, BORING scientist who don’t believe in ANYTHING they can’t put next to a ruler.  Don’t get me wrong, I love science but it has always come off as arrogant, one sided and elitist against anything it doesn’t see as worthy.  Sometimes scientist don’t even look into a phenomenon before they completely dismiss and marginalize it and anyone who even researches some subjects (i.e. ufos, out of body experience).  Most times I would rather read a mad man’s book before I buy anything from some of the most respect “scientists”.  I had stereotyped Ken Wilber as the latter.  Since he has been so respected and (from my perspective) accepted by the core scientists of this age I figured he was a cynical, elitist, skeptic like the rest.    

Boy was I wrong.  Ken Wilber is… fuck.. I don’t know…  Something completely different than I have ever read.  Ken Wilber is like some kind of super scientist, guru master, monk, genius.  Something the world rarely notices let alone respects.  Charles Tart/Sri Auribindo/J. Krisnamurti types are the only persons I know of that are even remotely scientifically/otherworldly bad ass enough to compare to Ken Wilber.  And I must say Ken has surpassed all of them (IMHO) by embellishing, capstoning and co-creating this integral approach to spirituality, religion and science. The more I read this mans work, or hear him speak the more I respect and love him.  He has opened my eyes to a method connecting the Bhagavad-gita to the bible to the Clare Grave’s Spiral Dynamics to Freud to Robert Monroe’s Journey’s Out of the Body to the Tibetan Book of the Dead.  It is all starting to make sense and come together as I understand Ken’s Integral Methodical Pluralism vision of spirituality.Ken Wilber is the only man that I have ever wanted to make sweet, sweet love too.  Does that make me gay?!  If so give me some rainbow stickers and some leather chaps because I’m comin out like Lance Bass.  Then I’ll be Ken Wilber’s Diva Bitch.