The Atman Project: A Transpersonal View of Human Development
by Ken Wilber
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Wilber traces human development from infancy into adulthood and beyond, into those states described by mystics and spiritual adepts. The spiritual evolution of such extraordinary individuals as the Buddha and Jesus hints at the direction human beings will take in their continuing growth toward transcendence.Tags
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Fascinating, but unfortunately Ken Wilbur didn't stop with this book.
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Ken Wilber is one of the most widely read and influential American philosophers of our time. His writings have been translated into over twenty foreign languages. He lives in Denver, Colorado.
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- Canonical title
- The Atman Project: A Transpersonal View of Human Development
- Original title
- The Atman Project: A Transpersonal View of Human Development
- Original publication date
- 1980
- Epigraph
- Know that, by nature, every creature seeks to become like God.
-Meister Eckhart
All creatures seek after unity; all multiplicity struggles after it -- the universal aim of life is always this unity.
-John Tauler
Being one with the universe, one with God -- that is what we wish for most whether we know it or not.
-Fritz Kunkel - Dedication
- TO
Roger Walsh,
Whom I am proud to call
friend. - First words
- Everywhere we look, said the philosopher Jan Smuts, we see nothing but wholes.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And because there is always only Atman, the Atman-project never occurred.
- Blurbers
- Smith, Huston; Owens, Clair Myers; Krippner, Stanley; Walsh, Roger; White, John
- Original language
- English
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- 6 — Dutch, English, Estonian, German, Italian, Spanish
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- Paper, Ebook
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