Finding Radical Wholeness

The Integral Path to Unity, Growth, and Delight

By: Ken Wilber

Narrated by: Christopher Ragland

From integral philosopher Ken Wilber, a practical guide to finding a radical and complete Wholeness through a path that blends integral theory, psychology, spiritual practice, and shadow work.

According to Ken Wilber, the perpetual human search for growth and fulfillment is often incomplete. In this book, Wilber integrates the wisdom of spirituality, psychology, shadow work, science, and integral theory to offer us a path to a radical and complete Wholeness of Waking Up, Growing Up, Opening Up, Cleaning Up, and Showing Up. Wilber shows listeners how to apply integral theory to their everyday lives for transformation. For example, he shows how the theory of the Four Quadrants—the four perspectives through which we view the world—relates to our lives and allows us to show up and be more present. He also discusses how to evolve our multiple intelligences, how to increase our spiritual awareness, how to process what’s hidden in the depths of our consciousness, and how to enhance, deepen, and widen the feelings of bliss and love. Wilber introduces several practices—on topics such as the Witness, One Taste, and shadow work—to lead us to direct experiences that we can integrate into our lives. In this way, we truly understand Wholeness and can make room for everything life brings our way.

No other path of growth includes these five categories—each of which is a unique path to wholeness. By combining them and integrating them, one comes to a realization of what Wilber calls Big Wholeness—a completeness in which everything in our experience comes together to pull us into this deep meaning, where we feel in touch not only with all of the important aspects of ourselves but also with everything in our world.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2024 Ken Wilber (P)2024 Shambhala Publications

“Growing Up” significantly understood & relevant!

Thank you Ken Wilbur for clearly describing and allowing such a profound experience of radical wholeness.
I am forever grateful.
The section on “growing up” is particularly important since it completely dissolves any negatively charged emotions or thoughts associated with lack and lack of fulfillment.
What a gift!

some useful stuff, presented poorly

I think it would be less than half the length of it was actually edited. he repeats himself SO many times, sometimes in the very next sentence.

Loving Bliss

Loving Bliss, Blissful Love realized as always having been there… Neti Neti! Gratitude for your offerings.

Simultaneously expansive and dry

I really liked the breadth and scope of the material, and the way it was organized into actions. It definitely expanded my understanding of wholeness, as including spiritual enlightenment, but also including so much more. I think his framework will stick with me for a long time, and I’m glad I listened to it. All those things being said, at times it felt repetitive and dry. Maybe that is intentional, as readers/listeners need repetition to be able to retain, But I wish it didn’t sometimes feel so bogged down.

Ken does it again...depth for the ages

Ken Wilber's writings changed my life back in the mid-'90s with "A Brief History of Everything," and it just got better from there. I maintain that he uas created the most comprehensive map of reality that has yet been devised, and each book is sort of at once an overview of where his worldview is at right then and a deep-dive into one or another aspect of it. For instance, this one has actual exercises in locating and experiencing various higher developmental states (including—unprecedented for him, I believe—a section on sexual tantra!), so it's not just theory. Even still, he distills various cultural issues with a grace and clarity nearly unmatched.

Wilber is the first to admit that he stands on the shoulders of giants, and his encyclopedic knowledge of the great wisdom traditions of the world—combined with "knowledge of acquaintance" in the form of actual *experience* of these states he elucidates—remains among the most impressive I've ever come across. May he live long and write more!

Good summary of Wilber's work.

Simpler and better edited than Wilber's other recent work such as the Future of Religion. Out of his books this might be the one I would recommend to someone new to his work. I listened to it with the physical book. It is very much a summary of the breadth of Wilber's work, with updated examples and four of the best pointing out instruction sections I've seen from him in 20 years. Also appreciated Wilber's new content related to integral sexual Tantra. Made for a good book study group with our community.

Hard Pass on this book

It was disappointing to find the first seven chapter filled with snarky put downs, unsubstantiated and overreaching statements that I assume are just shorthand in order to do the thinking for the reader around points that seem obvious to the author. It felt lazy to me, like he assumes the reader will just belive whatever rolls out of his mouth because he said it. Then in chapter 8, it was as if a new editor had entered from stage left and forced the author to assume a non-belittling tone and to start showing his work. There are some interesting ideas and observations, mostly created by others and assembled by the author. It was just too much to wade through for a few interesting thoughts. I suggest a hard pass, unless you need to do some shadow boxing around narcissistism and fundimentialism. Not what I have experienced in other Intergral Theroy proponents.