This is a fine summary of the integral view and map. Although the cutting edge of Ken’s thinking is moving deeper these days, this still is my favorite book to give someone who wants to know what is going on with all this “integral” stuff.

Since Ken Wilber's discussion of the simplicity of ultimate conciousness and the ways of resisting it in No Boundary - John Needleman's agreement with Ken Wilber's view that Descartes' celebrated  “Father of the Mind-Body Split”  has been misunderstood and misrepresented as antithetical to transcendant  consciousness - and John Needleman's account of the transformation of our lives by ideas in contrast to concepts in The Heart of Philosophy …

I have observed at a distance the process of Ken Wilber's conscious evolution. This little book encapsulates most of his thinking summed up I believe by his statement on p. 56 that  “The health of the entire spiral is the prime directive, not preferential treatment for any one level.”  - I anxiously await his new book on integral spirituality.

In this Theory of Everything, I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody–including me–has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace, a genuine T.O.E.

But the real intent of my writing is not to say, you must think in this way. The real intent is to enrich: here are some of the many important facets of this extraordinary Kosmos; have you thought of including them in your worldview? My work is an attempt to make room in the Kosmos for all the dimensions, levels, domains, waves, memes, modes, individuals, cultures, and so on ad infinitum.