Ken Wilber: The Evolution of Integral Inquiry

Ken Wilber, the foremost Integral pioneer and philosopher of our time, has graciously agreed to join our rapidly evolving Bay Area Integral community for a live public dialog! Please join us!

You’re invited to bring your open mind and heart, your sincere inquiring mind, and your willingness to stretch, transform, and evolve.

This unprecedented event will be an opportunity for our Integral community to come together with this genius who has inspired and awakened so many of us, and who defined the space in which our community coalesced. Ken conceived this event together with Terry Patten, who will host and facilitate the day.

We’ll spend the morning and early afternoon together exploring a central topic of Integral practice — Inquiry, the process of participating in questions that open consciousness beyond limited perspectives. Inquiry practice is intrinsic to Integral consciousness, and is the ground from which both higher stages and higher states of consciousness emerge. Ken will guide us in that fruitful practice, and he’ll also share how he learned it and how his practice has evolved, drawing us into the ineffable living process of self-recognition, open intelligence, and intuitive freedom.

After our conversation with Ken, we’ll practice the inquiry he’ll catalyze and deepen in both our individual consciousness, and also together in our intersubjective we-space. By opening to the larger field of our shared awareness, we’ll not only evolve personally, but we’ll also awaken and coalesce our community through the inquiry practice.

Revered as “the Einstein of consciousness”, Ken Wilber is the world’s leading “integral” philosopher. He is the most widely translated academic writer in America, with 25 books translated into some 30 foreign languages, and is the first philosopher-psychologist to have his Collected Works published while still alive. His many books, all of which are still in print, include Integral Spirituality; No Boundary; Grace and Grit; Sex, Ecology, Spirituality; and the “everything” books: A Brief History of Everything (one of his largest selling books) and A Theory of Everything (probably the shortest introduction to his work).

His Integral theory integrates Western science, Eastern mysticism and postmodern psychology and philosophy, laying the foundations of a new, comprehensive view on consciousness and the world. Integral philosophy is now a worldwide movement which is rapidly becoming a powerful presence in fields as diverse as politics and spirituality, psychology and business, medicine, and art.

“Ken Wilber is one of the greatest philosophers of this century, and arguably the greatest theoretical psychologist of all time.” – Roger Walsh, MD, PhD

“Ken Wilber is one of the most important pioneers in the field of consciousness in this century. I regard him as my mentor. He is a source of inspiration and insight to all of us.” – Deepak Chopra, MD

“Ken Wilber is a national treasure.” – Robert Kegan, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Terry Patten is a leading voice in the emerging fields of integral evolutionary practice, leadership and spirituality. He speaks and consults internationally—inspiring, challenging, and connecting leaders and institutions worldwide. Terry has worked for over three decades as a philosopher, activist, coach, and teacher. He was a part of the core team at Integral Institute that developed Integral Life Practice and was the senior writer and co-author, with Ken Wilber, of Integral Life Practice: A 21st-Century Blueprint for Physical Health, Emotional Balance, Mental Clarity, and Spiritual Awakening.

He hosts the acclaimed online teleseminar series Beyond Awakening: The Future of Spiritual Practice where he engages leading-edge conversations bringing higher consciousness to human affairs with dozens of the best-known thinkers and spiritual teachers of our time. In 2008 he founded Bay Area Integral, the San Francisco nexus of the budding international Integral movement.