The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and ...

"Ken Wilber is one of the most important pioneers in the field of consciousness in this century. Read everything he writes. It will change your life."-Deepak Chopra, M.D. "When Ken Wilber's thought walks through your mind, the door to the next higher level becomes visible. Anyone seeking to update the wisdom traditions of their lineage needs his reality and consciousness maps. The kabbalah of the future will lean on Ken's work."-Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi "After reading Wilber, it's impossible to imagine looking at the world the same way again."-Mitchell Kapor, founder of Lotus, Inc. "Wilber blends a perceptive sensitivity to the nuances of spiritual life with a profound intellectual sophistication. The upshot is a pleasure to read: accessible, deep, provocative, and ultimately very moving."-Michael Lerner, author ofiSpirit Matters/iandiThe Politics of Meaning/i"The twenty-first century literally has three choices: Aristotle, Nietzsche, or Ken Wilber."-Jack Crittenden, Ph.D., author ofiBeyond Individualism/iKen Wilber is the author of over twenty books. He is the founder of Integral Institute, a think-tank for studying integral theory and practice, with outreach through local and online communities such as Integral Naked, Integral Education Network, Integral Training, and Integral Spiritual Center."As you look deeply into your own awareness, and relax the self-contraction, and dissolve into the empty ground of your own primordial experience, the simple feeling of Being-right now, right here-is it not obvious all at once? Were you not present from the start? Did you not have a hand to play in all that was to follow? Did not the dream itself begin when you got bored with being God? Was it not fun to get lost in the productions of your own wondrous imagination, and pretend it all was other? Did you not write this book, and countless others like it, simply to r