Word: wilber
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...MAJOR EVENT in the evolution of consciousness is the publication by a major publishing house of Ken Wilber's latest book, Up From Eden. That no one except the left-field journals like New Age and Mother Jones have reviewed this book shows how much trans-personal psychology--the study of consciousness--has to go in this country before it assumes its place as the field in social sciences...
...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...
...that should change now. No longer will Wilber be relegated to keep company with books like Better Real-Estate Investing through the Kabbalah. Wilber is a theorist well acquainted with Western scientific exposition and reasoning, and so far he has garnered praise as the Freud or Einstein of consciousness research. As the establishment slowly recognizes the legitimacy of this field, Wilber will be the point...
...smaller roles, Richard Grusin and Shirley Wilber also deliver telling, pungent performances. Seen most recently as Zoditch in the A.R.T. production of Journey of the Fifth Horse. Grusin demonstrates here his ability to play a balding, affected, overweight Hollywood producer as well as a sour old reader in a 19th-century Russian publishing house. As the mother, Wilbur is appropriately fussy and matronly: Her high nasal whine sounds very good...
...GREATEST disappointment in the cast is Shirley Wilber as Mrs. Plumm, the house mother of a Mount Holyoke dormitory. It seems impossible to reconcile Wilber's outstanding performances in other Harvard productions (such as the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet) with her tentative acting here...