The self-proclaimed “philosopher”
Ken Wilber (he dropped out of graduate school where he was studying
biochemistry) has sought to bring together the world´s far-ranging spiritual
teachings, philosophies, and scientific truths into one coherent and
all-embracing vision: the integral theory.
Wilber himself is not hiding
that there are hierarchies in his model: there are people who are better
thinkers than others. He categorizes people in three levels of thinking capability:
1st-Tier thinkers, 2nd-Tier thinkers, and 3rd-Tier
thinkers. People who can think in accordance with Wilber´s system is the best
thinkers, they are 2nd-tier thinkers or 3rd-Tier thinkers
(very rare highly developed thinkers, among them of course Wilber himself). People
who can´t think in accordance with his system are 1 tier thinkers.
In an article Ken Wilber is Losing
it, by Michel Bauwens, it appears, that Wilber apparently has made a test in
order to “separate the 1st-Tier people from the 2nd-Tier.
What Wilber considers to be
"2nd-Tier thinking" is the ability of practicing the same
thinking as himself. It seems like a television competition in knowledge and
ability to repeat what Wilber has said (who himself just is repeating what others have said).
Now, if we take the chakra
system, then it is very common in New Age for the crown or third eye energies
to open without embodiment or the processing of the first three chakras. Many
new agers end up with a top-down awakening because they became interested in
spiritual pursuits, started attending classes, doing drugs, reading literature,
and finding gurus and other teachers who showed them how to seek outside themselves.
This externalization of spiritual pursuits leads to advanced work without the
basics of spiritual work being done. In new age there even exists a contempt
for tradition and preparatory work.
Due to evolutionism, we live
in a culture where we want to be advanced – more awakened, more spiritual, and
above everyone who surround us yesterday. When we go through this spiritual
kindergarten, where spirituality is a commodity and has a materialistic nature,
we look for what can separate us from one another. This spiritual materialism
allows us to consume endless books, gurus, and teachers that center around the
upper chakras and participate in the competitive spirituality that is so
pervasive in the modern spiritual community.
Ken Wilber, and his community,
is, despite their claim of integrality, extremely marked by this spiritual
immaturity. It is almost surrealistic strange how Wilber, this apparently
eloquent guy, at the same time is capable of creating such a childish competitive
spirituality-system.
But maybe there is another,
unpleasant, 2nd-Tier or even 3rd-tier thinker behind it? – (see my blog
post: The
Conspiracy of the Third Eye).
The above blog post is an extract from this article:
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