A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science & Spirituality
by Ken Wilber
View on GoodreadsKen Wilber's compact 2000 introduction to his "integral theory" — a meta-framework that attempts to integrate scientific, psychological, spiritual, and developmental models into a single map of human experience and development.
Core ideas
- The "AQAL" framework (All Quadrants, All Levels): every phenomenon can be analyzed across four quadrants (interior/exterior × individual/collective) and across developmental levels — and most theoretical frameworks privilege one quadrant and miss the others.
- The developmental-levels claim: individuals and cultures move through identifiable stages of cognitive, moral, and spiritual development, and most contemporary political disagreements are partly developmental-level disagreements rather than substantive ones.
- The book is the entry-level Wilber — the larger books (Sex, Ecology, Spirituality; A Brief History of Everything) develop the framework in more depth, and AToE is the on-ramp.
Published1996
Pages189
ISBN9781570628559
ReadOct 2022
