My first read, all be it many moons ago, was a rejective self obsessed boomer concious revolt! thankfully I had the sense to delve into the pesonal pain again and see the warmth and humour of an interesting and thoughtful copy of where we are and what can be. have since read anything and everything of KW, transcend and include. Definitely include this as an apetitiser, your following hunger will become insatiable! if you are my age maybe don’t tell your parents!

“Boomeritis”, Ken Wilber's only novel so far published (we shall soon see another, methinks), is a fantastically funny look at, through his own eyes, much of the theory that led up to integral, especially Spiral Dynamics.  The novel inhabits postmodernity subjectively, while critiquing those values simultaneously, which leads to hilarities throughout.  All in all, a delight to read, especially for the new-comers to integral theory.

I believe that evidence shows that there is a real spirit, a real Beach, but it is beneath no pavement whatsoever, for all pavements arise within it: Spirit is all-encompassing. It transcends everything, it includes everything.

The typical New Age notion is that you want good things to happen to you, so think good thoughts; and because you

create your own reality, those thoughts will come true. Conversely, if you are sick, it’s because you have been bad.

The mystical notion, on the other hand, is that your deepest Self transcends both good and bad, so by accepting
absolutely everything that happens to you - by equally embracing both good and bad with equanimity - you can

transcend the ego altogether. “The idea is not to have one thing that is good smash into another thing called my ego