Ken Wilber is an American writer on transpersonal psychology who has developed his own “integral theory,” a systematic philosophy that attempts to explain how well-established methodologies, and the experiences based on these methodologies, fit together in a coherent fashion. Wilber explains the need for such a theory as follows:
In our current post-modern world, we possess an abundance of methodologies and practices belonging to a multitude of fields and knowledge traditions. What is utterly lacking however, is a coherent organization, and coordination of all these various practices, as well as their respective data-sets. What is needed is an approach that moves beyond this indiscriminate eclectic-pluralism, to an “Integral Methodological Pluralism” — driving toward a genuine “theory of everything” that helps to enrich and deepen every field through an understanding of exactly how and where each one fits in relation to all the others. [1]
In 1974, Wilber wrote Wolff expressing his enthusiasm for The Philosophy of Consciousness Without an Object, and states that “I have just finished a work on the same subject, so I feel that our experience-thoughts . . . overlap.” He notes that the work is titled The Spectrum of Consciousness, and that “it deals with what is rather clumsily called the “manifestation” of objects “out of” consciousness-without-an-object (which I call Absolute Subjectivity).” Having trouble finding a publisher, Wilber asks whether Wolff could give him some comments on the manuscript, since he believes that Wolff “better than anybody else could feel what I am humbly trying to write in words.”
Gertrude Wolff responds that she and Wolff are “delighted that he is writing on the subject of Consciousness,” but that Wolff’s cataracts make it impossible for him to read, and that their work schedule is heavy. They would, she notes, be able to consider a few extracts from Wilber’s manuscript. (3 pages)
[1]Retrieved May 29, 2019 from https://integrallife.com/who-is-ken-wilber/
