Rating: 
Summary: Vastly overrated.
Review: Wilber supposedly synthesizes East and West, Ancient and Modern in an integral worldview. Many heap praises on him. What is lacking, however, is solid argumentation and a philosophical approach. Wilber assumes nondualism (monism) and proceeds from there, seldom even considering theism as an option. Yet his worldview of ultimate oneness (Advaita Vedanta, Zen Buddhism) contradicts his theory of development (without distinctions there is no development) and gives no ontological value of humans, since personality is lower than the ultimately impersonal realm of "Emptiness" or "Spirit." Ethics has no basis in reality either, since (1) there is no separation of good and evil if all is one and because (2) Wilber's God is not a personal and moral being who is the source and standard of morality. Lastly, the historical Jesus has no place at all in Wilber's spirituality. The most influential person in human history is conspicuously absent. How integral can this theory then be? Douglas Groothuis
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