Speaking of Everything

Ken Wilber | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 15, 2001)
• Original Release Date: December 15, 2001
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Enlightenment.Com
• ASIN: B00005UWIL
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #427,771 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Introduction

2. It's Not Every Day You Lose $100 Million

3. Leading the Integral Institute

4. Approaching the Powers That Be

5. Boomeritis

6. Only One Mind

7. The Two Truths Doctrine

8. Satori for Worms

9. Reincarnation

10. Got the Outline, Got the Framework

See all 14 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Pathetically Obvious

2. wake Up to Nirvana!

3. Hallucinatory Nonsense

4. The Burden of Fame

5. strumming the Strings

6. Working Day Satori Blues

7. Unraveling the Mysteries of Life, Death & Pain

8. A Celestine Prophecy of the Second Tier

9. The Internet

10. The Qlink

See all 14 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Buddha of Wisdom seems to be a nice guy, May 11, 2002

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Benjamin Tochtermann (Munich, Germany) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Speaking of Everything (Audio CD)

„Speaking of Everything" is not just an interview given by an author about his writings. It covers many more topics, leads the listener much deeper and tells much more about human consciousness, psychospiritual development and deep philosophical questions than anything I have heard before in form of an "interview".

The conversation is led by Jordan Gruber, founder of Enlightenment.com (anyone interested in integral consciousness-studies should check this site) and publisher of various essays and Ken Wilber. Wilber, the so called "Einstein of consciousness", is one of the most widely read American philosophers and author of seventeen books as well as numerous other writings. He literally has drawn thousands of sources to create a genuine world philosophy model that includes more different approaches, worldviews, systems, and "maps of human consciousness" than any other model before. In fact these "Theories of Everything" can be seen as one big meta-map of the Kosmos and humankind in its evolutionary process. Wilber delivers the overview.

Now J. Gruber talks to this giant of knowledge and intelligence. And what comes out is a very relaxed, very human and partly very funny interview. In a concentrated manner Wilber and Gruber cover a lot of topics and discuss a lot of questions in philosophy, spiritual development, psychology, sociology, literature and a lot more. Gruber is well prepared and seems to be very versed in each of the topics. His questions are intelligent and very clear. At some parts I thought that he tends to speak a bit too rapidly, especially when he reads out texts, so that you may be forced to listen to the sequences more than once.

Wilber's genius shines through in many answers he is giving. Not only that he seems to be the greatest mind of our time, he also seems to be a very nice guy. He not at all comes across as this hermit-like person sitting in an ivory tower of wisdom, knowledge and spiritual transcendence looking down on the rest of us.

It's difficult to say, but probably the listener is pretty lost if he/she is not familiar with any of Wilber's ideas. The booklet offers a glossary in which many terms are explained but due to the complexity of some of the topics it probably won't help much. Anyway: I highly recommend this CD. It really transports a lot of the atmosphere around KW and gives you a good idea of his vision.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Audio for the mind, February 17, 2003

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Roger Nelson (Irmo,SC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Speaking of Everything (Audio CD)

This 2-disc set is a great chance for the followers of Ken Wilber and newbies alike to get inside the world's most gifted and prolific philosopher alive today. I have read all the classics of philosophy and heard all the arguments, even was told we could not come up anything new. Then I met Ken Wilber in his book "A Brief History of Everything." This was years ago and I have been an avid fan ever since. When I got the 2-disc set "Speaking of Everything" (produced by J. Gruber and Enlightenment.com), I was so exicited to hear the voice of an enlightened mind I had been conversing with for years.
Outside of my personal aspect, the cds do well to introduce the ideas ken has been developing in his books over the years. I found it especially nice to hear him in a conversational setting and with statements about the future of things including enlightenment.com, digital darshan, the Qlink, etc. I highly suggest this set for anyone who is serious about personal enlightenment and world transforamtion, you know who you are.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Most Thoughtful Interview, August 1, 2003

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Nicq MacDonald (Sioux Falls, SD United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Speaking of Everything (Audio CD)

Ken Wilber is fun to read, but let's face it- reading his books often takes more time than we have. And, as one reads Wilber's books, they often begin to think of questions that they'd like to ask the guy- What's going on at Integral Institute? What do you think of reincarnation and parapsychology? Can a worm have a peak experience of nondual consciousness? Are psychedelic drugs the real deal?

These questions, and more, are answered in this interview. Jordan Gruber, from ......., presents a nice sample of intriguing questions and isn't afraid of posing questions to Wilber that he might take heat for- such as the work done at Clarus and their "Qlink", or Dean Radin's parapsychological research. And Wilber isn't afraid to answer- he discusses issues never mentioned in his books, and shows a willingness to not shy away from controversy, contrary to the image some have of him as being dodgy.

All in all, I recommend this interview for fans of Wilber, especially those who have read SES and Boomeritis.