A masterpiece.  I read the book three times and thought for a while that I held the world record - until I met another guy who said that he read it five times!  Ken said that when he wrote the book he was in an altered state which explains the power that the book has to grip the reader and reorder one's perspectives.  Truly a revolutionary work. 

Wonderful book … very insightful. It's taken me a year to get through it, and now I'm going back and taking notes. Ken has written some important words here. I text I could really sink my teeth into, SES is a wonderful respite from the normal intellectual sawdust that passes for wisdom in so many of our Western pop culture books.

Please go meditate for a several years before writing your “intellectual” reviews of this book… From your current perspective you may think you're saying something significant; however “in reality” outside of your little limited perspective academica cocoon… you are not… and you just sound silly.

It is flat-out strange that something–that anything–is happening at all. There was nothing then a Big Bang, then here we all are. This is extremely weird.

“Indeed, indeed: let the self-contraction relax into the empty ground of its own awareness, and let it there quietly die. See the Kosmos arise in its place, dancing madly and divine, self-luminous and self-liberating, intoxicated by a Light that never dawns nor ceases.  See the worlds arise and fall, never caught in time or turmoil, transparent images, shimmering in the radiant Abyss. Watch the mountain walk on water, drink the Pacific in a single gulp, blink and a billion universes rise and fall, breathe out and create a Kosmos, breathe in and watch it dissolve. ….And this earth becomes a blessed being, and every I becomes a God, and every We becomes God's sincerest worship, and every It becomes God's most gracious temple……And I-I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.  And the Shining says: to love it all, and love it madly, and always endlessly, and ever fiercely, to love without choice and thus enter the All, to love it mindlessly and thus be the All, embracing the only and radiant Divine: now as Emptiness, now as Form together and forever, the Godless search undone, and love alone will shine today.” (Sex, Ecology & Spirituality Wilber, 1995, p. 523)