A Brief History of Everything

Pretentious pseudoscientific blather.

A bewildering mash-up of Greek philosophy, metaphysics, Marx/Freud/Jung, Buddhist enlightenment, 1920's creationism, 1940's cybernetics, 1960's sociology, 1970's Gaia universalism, 1980's New Age "Spirituality", and 1990's Theory of Mind. All of it misrepresented and misinterpreted to varying degrees and shrouded in mysticism to create an impressively ornate framework of outdated abject bullshit.

Audiobook: There are two narrators, a curious ignorant woman who asks questions, and an intelligent intellectual man who condescendingly mansplains how the world works in order to demonstrate how smart he is.

I'll be getting back to this book in about twenty years. Great stuff, albeit taken with a grain of salt and well digested, and perhaps best not read too soon in life. I think it'll hold up as we approach the singularity, let's put it that way.

This is an altogether friendly and accessible account of men and women's place in a universe of sex, soul, and spirit.

I loved this book. Rebellious against religion for decades, yet attracted to spirit, I was delighted to find a synthesis of ancient thought and more modern ideas. I grant the book is a dry read,perhaps, but I fell in love with Ken Wilber.

Wilber is a contemporary philosopher who specializes in integrating important truths from both Eastern and Western cultures. This is the most accessible of his many books, explaining the evolution of human ideas from matter to life to mind. This is a challenging book, but well worth the effort.

"How does a Seeker of knowledge download 2,000 plus years of human history in a few days of reading? Easy. Read or listen to Ken Wilber's brilliant synopsis neatly packaged into an elegant model of everything. The "Integral Model" will change the way you view your own life challenges and the world's enormous geopolitical problems forever."

evolution of mind and matter from particles to whole systems