“In Defense of Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory of Everything”

Let's talk about some of the things that Wilber claims to know, or at least believe, as a result of his integral method. One of the things is a spectrum of consciousness – which means that “sensation” and “matter” are only two wavelengths of this spectrum, and other, deeper wavelengths include “heart,” “mind,” “soul,” and “awareness,” among many frequencies of conscious vibration. For someone who believes that “matter is all that exists,” this spectrum-of-consciousness theory seemingly enters the territory of “New Age hocus-pocus” because, let's face it, Cartesian “dualism” or chakra activation or remote viewing or visiting the Other Side or extraterrestrial sighting or levitation or telekinesis – sound like crazy and impossible realities to the naked mind.

Wilber is right though. These things are real. I don't mean “real” from a “pseudo-scientific” standpoint. I mean it from a hard scientific standpoint. The aforementioned paranormal phenomena are straight-up fact. The evidence is overwhelming. It is both sad and ridiculous that a pseudo-intellectual like James Randi is convinced otherwise, because, for example, Chinese medicine is proof of chi and chakras, nei kung is proof of supernatural powers, Thrive is proof of extraterrestrial visitation, the United States military and Monroe Institute are proof of remote viewing and astral travel. Before you object to these claims, do your homework. Step up to the plate. Devour as much information as you can on these subjects. You will find that such “New Agey” claims and phenomena are real – scientifically real.

Ken Wilber's Integral Theory of Everything is good and true in theory/principle and in practice/experience. As mentioned at the beginning of this paper, the only thing that any genius or intellectual or scholar can criticize Wilber of not justifying sufficiently regards his take on evolution and God. The nondual and the paranormal are fact. But is God? – is ultimate meaning and purpose?

So what if integrience and Integral Theory is legitimate and so what if fantastical, magical things such as psychic and supernatural abilities are real? – even if these things are the case, this does not prove the ultimate question/claim: whether/that life, as a whole, has an ultimate meaning and purpose – whether/that there “is” such “thing” as an Ultimate Being, a Being than Which nothing is or can be greater. God.

God is indeed the ultimate question. It's a scary one, too, because if God is real, then God is GOD. “God,” meaning a being/reality/subject that is Infinitely Intelligent, Infinitely Powerful, Infinitely Good, Infinitely Aware, etc. Magic could be real, and that would be unbelievably epic and fantastical – but magic could be real and God still could not be. God is more than magic. God is Infinite Magic. God is so much more than “Infiniteness/Brahman” that language simply cannot do it any justice. But language can still lead the mind and soul in a right direction.

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