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Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution

by Ken Wilber

📖 851 pages 🗓 2000 ISBN 978-1570627446

About This Book

Wilber's most ambitious theoretical work — a thousand pages tracing the patterns of evolution across the natural, psychological, cultural, and spiritual domains. He identifies twenty "tenets" that govern how all holons (wholes that are also parts of larger wholes) evolve, and argues that Spirit is not merely the starting point of evolution but its telos — the entire process is Spirit's own self-discovery through progressive levels of complexity and consciousness.

What You'll Learn

All things are holons — simultaneously wholes in themselves and parts of larger wholes — and this fractal structure reveals the inherent order of the universe. Evolution is not random but directional — it moves consistently toward greater complexity, integration, and depth of consciousness. Flatland (modern scientific materialism) cannot account for consciousness, meaning, or value because it recognizes only surfaces.

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