'Waves, Streams, States, and Self'

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This paper reviews, discusses and analyzes Ken Wilber's article, "Waves, Streams, States, and Self--A Summary of My Psychological Model: (Or, Outline of An Integral Psychology)". According to the paper, Wilber attempts to offer what he believes to be a holistic approach to spirituality, integrating both neurological and more conventional spiritual models, in what he calls a synthesis of both mind and brain, East and West.

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"Wilber also speaks of what he calls the "four higher or transpersonal states of consciousness, which I call psychic, subtle, causal, and nondual" (Wilber, 2000, p.2) He links these states to the mystical experiences of Christian saints like St. Teresa of Avila and also to Eastern mysticism: "The gross body/waking state supports the annamayakosha (the sheath made of food, or the physical mind), and the causal body/formless state supports the anandamayakosha (the sheath or consciousness structure made of bliss, or the transcendent mind)" (Wilber, 2000, p.2). Although this may be an attempt to show that he is well-read, this is just another way of stating that the physical body and what we call 'mind' (not merely brain) are connected, and that neurochemistry can produce a mystical state like Teresa's and even the transcendent mind is linked to states of the physical body and brain."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Wilber, Ken. "Waves, Streams, States, and Self--A Summary of My Psychological Model: (Or, Outline of An Integral Psychology)." 2000. Shambhala.com. 4 May 2007. http://wilber.shambhala.com/html/books/psych_model/psych_model1.cfm/

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