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Integral Spirituality: A Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World
by Ken Wilber
from Shambhala

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• The book to begin with for Integral Theory
  Ken Wilber has significantly improved his clarity in explaining most of the Integral Model details. He has especially improved in detailing how individuals at different stages perceive different aspects of reality.
  Wilber goes into further depth regarding interior/exterior aspects of the quadrants, which is not his usual style, and readers will find this expanded explanation interesting but slightly more difficult to grasp (he needs more practice explaining this one clearly).
  What is radically... more info

• pages missing
  Just bought a copy and pages 197 through 228 are missing. Clearly a publisher's mistake as the book is otherwise bound like any other new copy. Amazon's return policy does not cover shipping expense for returns even when the product is defective. This is not fair to the buyer.

• Integral What whut whut?
  Bias is a wonderful thing,especially coming from a man who is bias comes from the religion of no religion, or buddhism. Of all the books I've ever got a bad vibe from it was this book. I love his Integral Psychology because its right on! But I read through this book, Integral Spirituality, and like anything over thought through the thinking process, it lacks feeling, emotion. And I just skimmed the book enough to see that detachment actually yeilds a catuerized over intellectualized summation of an attempt... more info

• An overview of some upgrades Wilber makes in this book
  
  Ken Wilber's book, Integral Spirituality, has some new insights to offer, including an upgrade of his four-quadrant model. Taking into account that a holon in any of the four quadrants can be seen from the outside, or experienced as--or as if--from within, this gives a total of eight perspectives or zones.
  The Four Quadrants with eight primordial perspectives, or hori-zones of arising, and their respective methodologies:
  Upper Left
  ["I" inside: zone #1]
  [phenomenology] more info

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