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“Ken Wilber is regarded by some as one of the most influential contemporary thinkers in transpersonal psychology and spirituality. His ambitious program to develop a systematic integration of all knowledge is described in various books such as his A Brief History of Everything (1996), A Theory of Everything (2000), and The Marriage of Sense and Soul  (1998). The centerpiece of Wilber’s grand synthesis is his four quadrant model (often denoted “AQAL”, an acronym for “all quadrants, all levels”), which he presents as an integration of the perennial philosophy’s great chain of being with the modern differentiation of the cultural value spheres.” “Wilber’s basic idea is quite well known by now.   It can be found in all of his books.  In its simplest form it says that in the process of our psychospiritual development, there are three main stages which we go through, which he labels the prepersonal, the personal and the transpersonal.  The prepersonal is all that part of our development prior to the emergence of a separate self, which normally happens in or around adolescence.  It is well described in all the standard literature.  The personal is the main part of our development, taking place in adulthood, and culminating in the mature ego.  Most of psychology, and most of other literature too, deals with this stage of development, and again there is a mass of data about it.  The transpersonal is the realm beyond that, which we only reach by an intentional process, because society does not help us with it – at this point there is no escalator taking us onwards, so to speak.  It is more controversial, although Maslow started writing about it fifty years ago,  but Wilber’s great achievement has been to describe it in full detail, and to map it with the help of writers from many countries and many centuries.”KEN WILBER INTEGRAL PSYCHOTHERAPY 2004What is included here:1. In touch for decades2. Do transformations occur in therapy3. Occupational Hazards of the X and Y chromosomes4. Emptiness-the existensial halfway house5. The realistic expectations of integral wisdom6. What is an integral psychotherapist7. Recipe for the Human Psyche. Part 1. states, stages, and bodies8. Recipe for the Human Psyche. Part 2. a second type of stageRuntime: About 80++ minutes