The Spectrum of Consciousness
by Ken Wilber
The Theosophical Publishing House, Wheaton, Illinois, 1977. 374 pp.
As the first book of a brilliant contemporary thinker and writer, this one is still hard to beat. A big brother to
No Boundary, it covers in amazingly full detail the spectrum of the unfolding of consciousness into the dual personal world in which we think we live. It then shows how we can let go, level by level, from deepest delusion to uncover the truth of the one undivided consciousness we all are. Throughout this process, the author documents the teachings and practices of multiple representatives of the various major Eastern and Western traditions, with some consistent appearance of Vedanta, Mahayana Buddhism, psychoanalysis and modern physics. If you want a sure increase in cognitive understanding of this ”reality” of ours and have some time to concentrate, this is a must-read book.
-- reviewed by Dawn Kurzka
