Ken Wilber

KOSMIC C ON S C IOU S NE S S
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 The Integral Approach: the Big Three, the Quadrants,
S e ss i o n O n e S e ss i o n S i x The Precious Opportunity of Human Birth
and the Lines of Development 1. Introduction
1. Introduction 2. Ascending, descending, and non-dual spiritual orientations
2. Ken Wilber: Kosmic storyteller 3. What is the goal of human development?
3. Integral map-making 4. The realization of One Taste
4. I, We, and It—the Good, the True, and the Beautiful 5. Precious human birth
5. The Four Quadrants 6. The seven chakras correlated with states and stages
6. The Lines of Development 7. What happens when an enlightened being dies?
7. The special importance of cognitive development
S e ss i o n S e v e n Developing Witness Consciousness
S e ss i o n Tw o Evolution Enfolds: the Stages of Development 1. Introduction
1. Introduction 2. The Inexpressibles
2. The Stage conception 3. EEG evidence of brain states associated with satori
3. What does “spiritual” mean? 4. How meditation accelerates vertical development
4. Levels, structures, stages, waves 5. Does writing strengthen the witness?
5. Are we evolving as a species? 6. Turiya: the fourth state of consciousness
6. The dangers of evolution 7. Highlights of Ken Wilber’s personal experiences with meditation
7. Reincarnation and human development through the life cycle 8. Breakthroughs, downturns, and plateaus in Ken Wilber’s process of awakening
S e ss i o n T h r e e From Identification with self to Realization of the Self S e ss i o n E i g h t Integral Transformative Practice
1.Introduction 1.Introduction
2.A simple model of development 2.
The transmission of non-dual awareness
3.Divination, astrology, and the pre-trans fallacy 3.How can we understand the uneven development of spiritual teachers?
4.From mythic to integral, and beyond 4. Have we moved beyond the age of gurus?
5.
What techno-economic base will emerge to support 5. Guidelines for choosing a spiritual teacher
integral consciousness? 6. Exercising body, mind, and spirit in self, culture, and nature
6. The widening of identity 7.
The world of the dream and the world of waking up — the domains
7. “Center of gravity” and the developmental line of the self of psychotherapy and spiritual practice
8. Was Ramana Maharshi an integrally realized world teacher? 8. The Ego-ego axis
9. Does prayer accelerate human development?
S e ss i o n F o u r States of Consciousness
1. Introduction S e ss i o n N i n e The Basic Moral Intuition
2. Waking, dreaming, and deep sleep — the gross, subtle, and causal realms 1. Introduction
3. Your Original Face—the ever-present Witness 2. The greatest depth for the greatest span
4. How the experience of altered states leads to the acquisition of 3. Animal rights, abortion, capital punishment — ethical dilemmas that
higher stages of development involve evaluating the depth of sentient life
5. An integrally informed approach to psychedelics 4. What about vegetarianism and the basic moral intuition?
6. Levels and fields of subtle energy 5. When is war justified?
7. Can you rank evolution by species? 6. Integral peace-making and the vision of a World Federation
8. The Wilber-Combs Matrix 7. Diplomatic lying
9. The momentous leap from first tier to second tier consciousness
S e ss i o n T e n Applying the Integral Model
S e ss i o n F i v e Types 1. Introduction
1. Introduction 2. Speaking AQAL— the language of an all-quadrant, all-level approach
2.
Typology and the Integral Map 3. Integral art
3.
Gender tendencies and masculine and feminine modes of being 4. Is there a 3-D visual model for the integral map?
4. Rights and responsibilities, freedom and fullness 5. Ken Wilber applies his theory of literary criticism to his own work
5. Making love in the gross, subtle, and causal body 6. Is understanding the integral model necessary for human development?
6.Androgyny, bisexuality, and the cultivation of masculine and 7. Should we consider a work of art separate from the ethics of the artist?
feminine sexual energy 8. An all-quadrant, all-level story of the future
7. Combining vertical scales with horizontal systems of typology
8. Will new elements be added to the integral map?

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