Play, Irony, Growth & Transcendence - Chatting with Ken Wilber

I just finished a four-hour marathon of a conference call with Ken Wilber, being one of the five chosen participants to present their question on Wilber's latest book Integral Spirituality. It's a strange experience hanging on the telephone for the duration of a crappy European art film listening to the world's foremost integral theorist discuss the finer details of Integral Life Practice. I was somewhat nervous before the call. That's not very usual for me so I had to rely on some heavy duty feng shui shit: the finest ammachi insense, a water fountain, a couple of glasses of chilean white wine, some water fresh out of a tap plus chamomille tea - with honey!

"Play, irony, growth, transcendence are [approximately] the same thing!", said Wilber on the call. Right on! Asking what I intend to do after I finsh my studies I didn't have a stock answer so I rambled something incoherent. Reflecting on it now I kinda see myself facilitating more of the aforemenioned synonyms into the world. Growth, irony, play, transcendence. What could be better than that? Could one make any better use of the merciless heropass, as Mr. Gurdjieff called time? Is there honestly anything more worth our while, anything more True, more Beautiful or more Fun than the same sacred foursome: Play, irony, growth & transcendence. That's where I see the future, including mine, heading. Thank you for asking, Ken. Took a while to come up with a good answer. How sweet will sleep be now.

A prayer is always good before bed, though. So Dear God: please bless Mr. Ken Wilber. He has done so much to make the world a better place. Let him get the recognition he deserves. And let his re-cognition become our cognition. Let his subjectivity become at least an object for our awareness, and possibly become our subjective experience too. For integral philosophy and AQAL thinking is the now thing for a messed up world.

PS. If you're not yet familiar with Ken's work, here's a good introduction - a bit of a mind strecther, but you're savvy - you'll get it!