Word: atman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wilber, the editor of the Cambridge based ReVision, "the journal of consciousness and change," has written three previous books with titles such as The Spectrum of Consciousness and The Atman Project. They have all been published by the Rudi Foundation, a Lincoln, Nebraska based organization that subsidizes the study of the human mind through its sales of oriental rugs, making it a sort of fringe Ford Foundation Before Doubleday signed up Wilber, his book could only be found in stores that also sold incense and Tarot cards...
...backdrop for the unfolding of consciousness culminating in humanity's reunion with some sort of Godhead--the Buddha or Hegel's Absolute Spirit or what have you Wilber does not attempt to reconcile science and religion but instead shows how they are part of the same endeavor, the Atman Project--humanity's constant striving for knowledge of an absolute, such as the Buddhist Atman. As Wilber points out, not all scientists would admit to this. "A scientist who guffaws at the existence of any sort of "infinite" but unashamedly marvels aloud at the 'laws of Nature (with a capital...