The Spectrum of Consciousness

by Ken Wilber

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Wilber's groundbreaking synthesis of religion, philosophy, physics, and psychology started a revolution in transpersonal psychology. He was the first to suggest in a systematic way that the great psychological systems of the West could be integrated with the noble contemplative traditions of the East. Spectrum of Consciousness, first released by Quest in 1977, has been the prominent reference point for all subsequent attempts at integrating psychology and spirituality.

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Este trabalho de Ken Wilber pode ser considerado a principal teorização no campo da Psicologia Transpessoal, numa abordagem que amplia as concepções sobre a consciência desenvolvidas pela psicologia ocidental.

Neste livro notável, o autor compara a consciência ao espectro eletromagnético. A partir dessa analogia, tal como qualquer radiação eletromagnética, a consciência é "una" e se manifesta por uma multi­plicidade de aspectos, de níveis ou de faixas, que correspondem aos diferentes comprimentos das ondas eletromagnéticas.

Para o autor, o "espectro da consciência" implica a integração dos conhecimentos fragmentados das escolas psicológicas ocidentais com os principais elementos das tradições esotéricas, resultando show more numa visão holística da consciência.

Desta forma, enfoques aparentemente contraditórios das diferen­tes abordagens são considerados complementares, pois as diferenças entre eles preenchem as lacunas existentes, criando uma síntese que valoriza igualmente as visões de Freud, de Jung, de Maslow, de May e de outros psicólogos renomados, assim como as de grandes líderes espirituais, desde Buda até Krishnamurti.



MÁRCIA TABONE

Autora de A Psicologia Transpessoal
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EL ESPECTGRO DE LACONCIENCIA

Qué tienen en común el hinduismo, el
cristianismo, el budismo, la Terapia Gestalt,
el psicoanálisis, la psicosíntesis? Ken Wilber explica
que la conciencia, al igual que la radiación y la luz, se proyecta en
una multitud de «longitudes de onda» al descender
hacia el tiempo y el espacio. En consecuencia, diversas religiones y terapias se
corresponden con distintas zonas del «espectro de la conciencia»
Magnífica síntesis de religión, física y psicología.
La presente obra refuta la filosofía del materialismo, establece
la presencia de

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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 Spectrum of Consciousness
Original publication date
1977
Epigraph
Thus we cannot escape the fact that the world we know is constructed in order to see itself. But in order to do so, evidently it must first cut itself up into at least one state which sees, and at least one other state which... (show all) is seen.

-G. Spencer Brown
Consciousness is in its original nature, quiet, pure, and above the dualism of subject and object. But here appears the principle of particularization, and with the rise of this wind of action, its waves are agitated over th... (show all)e tranquil surface of Mind. It is now differentiated or evolves into eight levels.

-D. T. Suzuki

There is thus and incessant multiplication of the inexhaustible One and unification of the indefinitely Many. Such are the beginnings and endings of worlds and of individual beings: expanded from a point without position or ... (show all)dimensions and a now without date or duration.

-Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Dedication
It is with warmth and love

that I dedicate

THE SPECTRUM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

to John W. White
First words
William James, in an oft-quoted remark, has stated that

Our normal waking consciousness is but one special type of consciousness, while all about it are parted from it by the filmiest of screens there lie potential for... (show all)ms of consciousness entirely different.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The search is always already over.
Blurbers
Hixon, Lex; Feuerstein, Georg; Ring, Kenneth; Leviton, Richard; Smith, Huston

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Nonfiction, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
153Philosophy & psychologyPsychologyConscious mental processes and intelligence
LCC
BF311 .W578Philosophy, Psychology and ReligionPsychologyPsychologyConsciousness. Cognition
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