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Integral Life Practice: A 21st-Century Blueprint for Physical Health, Emotional Balance, Mental Clarity, and Spiritual Awakening Paperback – September 9, 2008

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How to put Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory—which synthesizes the teachings of the world’s great wisdom traditions—into practice in all aspects of everyday life, so you can reach your full human potential

“A masterpiece guide of grounded, intelligent, self-transforming wisdom integrating the insights of all the great traditions of truth.” —Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit

Over the last thirty-five years, Ken Wilber has developed an Integral “theory of everything” that makes sense of how all the world’s knowledge systems—East and West; ancient, modern, and postmodern—fit together and can elevate our awareness. Drawing on science, psychology, human development, spirituality, religion, and dozens of other fields, Integral Theory is a revolutionary framework for understanding ourselves and the world we live in.

Now there is a way to not just think Integrally, but to embody an Integral worldview in your everyday life.

Integral Life Practice is not just a new approach to self-development and higher awareness, but a way of making sense of—and making best use of—the existing treasure trove of insights, methods, and practices for cultivating a more enlightened life. It offers a uniquely adaptive approach to awakened living that’s suitable for everyone: people with busy careers and families, college students, retirees, even hardcore athletes and yogis. It’s geared for devout—and irreverent—people of any religion, or no religion!

This highly flexible system will help you develop your physical health, spiritual awareness, emotional balance, mental clarity, relational joy, and energy level, within a framework that integrates all aspects of your life. Combining original exercises, vivid examples, cutting-edge theory, and illustrative graphics, Integral Life Practice is the ultimate handbook for realizing freedom and fullness in the 21st century.

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“At once challenging and uplifting, tender yet assertive, this provocative and accessible book is the source text for a new movement in post-metaphysics and life transformation. This book is the definitive roadmap for your journey to an awakened life.”
—Anthony Robbins, author of Awaken the Giant Within and Unlimited Power

“From the moment I began an Integral Life Practice, it was as if my life was assigned a new trajectory and course setting from deep within the cockpit of my soul. ‘Glory upon Glory’ is the way my days are unfolding since I began to practice. An ILP is an incredible catalyst to growth in ways that I could never have imagined. See for yourself!”
—Eddie Kowalczyk, lead singer-songwriter of Live

“Integral Life Practice is an extraordinary achievement. Comprehensive, detailed, and powerfully rational, it inspires any and all of us to consider more deeply how profound is our embrace of the life we are living. The searing clarity of the integral perspective leaps off every page of this manual for personal evolution, clearly illuminating what it means to be fully alive!”
—Andrew Cohen, spiritual teacher and founder of EnlightenNext

“Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory has created a road map. Now Terry Patten, Adam Leonard, and Marco Morelli have added a GPS (Global Practicing System) with Integral Life Practice. Travelers on the spiritual path will find this book indispensable.”
—Brother David Steindl-Rast, Benedictine monk, author of Listening Heart and The Heart of Prayer, and cofounder of Gratefulness.org

“Once again, Ken Wilber and his colleagues have taken a big subject, swallowed the whole thing and the kitchen sink too, and then spent years working to understand it, digest it, metabolize it, and then translate it into clear prose and helpful practices. And the outcome? This wonderfully helpful manual for living: Integral Life Practice. A fantastic resource for a more peaceful, meaningful, intelligent, and exuberant life.”
—Elizabeth Lesser, author of Broken Open and The Seeker’s Guide, and cofounder of Omega Institute

“Ken Wilber and the authors of this clearly written, sensible, well-informed book are fellow explorers with George Leonard and me in the development of integral transformative practices. Such practices grow out of a philosophic vision dawning across the world that joins our aspiration for personal and social transformation with both science and the contemplative traditions. This book will advance this developing worldview and the disciplines needed to actualize it.”
—Michael Murphy, author of The Future of the Body and The Life We Are Given, and cofounder of Esalen Institute

“Integral Life Practice will help you build the healthy foundation from which you can wake up to your transcendent nature or Big Mind. Western aspirants have long needed a universal practice manual that wisely draws upon ancient traditions and modern science and psychology. Now we have it—an inspiring, straightforward guide for living a truly harmonious, awakened life.”
—Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel, author of Big Mind, Big Heart

“Integral Life Practice is a masterpiece guide of grounded, intelligent, self-transforming wisdom integrating the insights of all the great traditions of truth.”
—Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit and Entering the Castle

“This book makes Ken Wilber’s ideas come alive. It spells out how to apply Integral philosophy to everyday life by working with body, mind, spirit, and the deeper psychological aspects of ourselves. Integral Life Practice presents a useful map of one’s existential condition leading toward the attainment of the highest states of consciousness.”
—Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche

“Integral Life Practice offers a finely honed distillation of some of the most effective and universal practices from the great wisdom traditions, at the same time presenting a context for practice that is both soaring and sensible. True to its title, it takes seriously the human need for fully balanced development, for depth as well as breadth, for psychological as well as spiritual development, for softness and toughness, for ethics and bold experimentation. Beautifully written, laid out in accessible modules, the book is truly an on-and-off-the-mat guide to 21st-century practice, arising from that place in us which stands in the best of tradition, yet rides the cutting edge.”
—Swami Sally Kempton, author of The Heart of Meditation

“Integral Life Practice brings the integral system from the mind to doable action in life. Here is a treasure of integral Upaya.”
—Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, past holder of the World Wisdom Chair of Naropa University

“Integral Life Practice represents a particular milestone. It gives a lucid and easy to understand summary of the Integral thought-system, without dumbing it down—no mean feat. What’s more, it describes in an engaging and practical way what to do in order to live from this elegant and inclusive worldview. If you want a clear and easy-to-follow map for waking up, read this book.”
—Bill Harris, Director, Centerpointe Research Institute and creator of Holosync Meditation Technology

“Here we learn, through integral wisdom and disciplines, how to be freer and more fully authentic by ironing out the peaks of higher consciousness development into every nook and cranny of daily life. This is the secret of the integral life: transcending while including, and being there while getting there every single step of the way. Get ready to train your mind, open your heart, and awaken to your true universal Self.”
—Lama Surya Das, author of Awakening the Buddha Within, and founder of the Dzogchen Meditation Centers

“What if we could draw from the best of the world’s ancient contemplative traditions as well as contemporary psychological and somatic therapies, and weld them into a powerful program for transforming our lives? Now we can, and Integral Life Practice is a happy result of this possibility.”
—Roger Walsh MD, PhD, University of California, author of Essential Spirituality

About the Author

Ken Wilber is the author of over twenty books. He is the founder of Integral Institute, a think-tank for studying integral theory and practice, with outreach through local and online communities such as Integral Education Network, Integral Training, and Integral Spiritual Center.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Integral Books; Illustrated edition (September 9, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 388 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1590304675
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1590304679
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.42 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.75 x 1.05 x 9 inches

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TERRY PATTEN speaks and consults internationally as a community organizer, philosopher, and teacher. Over the last fifteen years he has devoted his efforts to the integral project of evolving consciousness through practice, and facing, examining, and healing our global crisis through the marriage of spirit and activism. With Ken Wilber and a core team at the Integral Institute, he co-wrote the book Integral Life Practice. He also founded the online series Beyond Awakening; Bay Area Integral, a local nonprofit; and Tools For Exploration, a catalog company that defined the field of consciousness technologies. He is a social entrepreneur involved in projects that include restorative redwood forestry and the innovation of fossil-fuel alternatives.
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Ryan O'Neill

Amazing...but with some reservations

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 10, 2009

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Here is the condensed version of what was originally a very lengthy review.

Pros:

-Wonderful introduction to a wholly comprehensive personal and spiritual development framework (this fact alone makes it worth the purchase).

-Most complete work I've seen regarding personal development. Definitely a "desert island" book. Read it and see what I mean.

Cons:

-The book tries to do too much. By "distilling" many practices, and I think they sometimes water them down and make them less effective. Also, complex spiritual ideas such as the dark night of the soul (p.372) are reduced to half a page.

-Ok, so, here is my biggest difficulty, and one that I could elaborate on, so I'll be as brief as possible.

My difficulty has less to do with ILP than with Wilber's AQAL framework, which is the foundation for this book. I think he fails in trying to be truly integral and unbiased. Granted, I do not think this is possible, and I applaud his efforts and think he comes pretty darn close.

Still, I think he could be a little more honest regarding his perspective. The majority of the exercises in the book, and many of its underlying philosophies, are decidedly Eastern. Given Wilber's background in Mahayana Buddhism, this is understandable. But again, I wish he were more explicit about this.

For instance, I have thoroughly studied Eastern spirituality, but have recently been more interested in Western forms of paganism, because they resonate with more on a more aesthetic, emotional, and even tribal level. My current interest is in integrating mythology in spiritual practice Jungian style, but according to Wilber this brings me down a notch to his "mythic" level of development. Also, the practices I have had the greatest success with, magick and NLP, were not mentioned because of this bias. I was strangely offended by this.

Overall, though, I think this is a great book to establish a more comprehensive perspective. Just don't take it as gospel, and use your own intuition and emotions as guidance.

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Pernille Ingildsen

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Perhaps I feel now that I knew most of what was written here. But I didn’t know it in such clear language - only in intuitions and hunches. Therefore it was a relief and epifany to read it laid out so consistently and clear.

I believe I will return to this book, almost as a book of reference, when the hunches get muddy or hazy again.

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dollywiz

Didn't live up to the 5-star rating

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 22, 2012

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I haven't finished reading the book yet but feel comfortable rating it. The reason I bought this book is that I had recently read Ken Wilber's "No Boundaries" and "A Brief History of Everything" and they had a deep and profound impact. I felt like "No Boundaries" was the most important book I had ever read. Both books were rich in ideas and eloquently written. They changed my life. So, based on Wilber's writings, and the fact that this book was so favourably reviewed, I purchased it on Kindle. It hasn't moved me to any great extent. I find the writing simplistic and uninteresting. There are a million ways one can put integral theory into practice. So the practice aspect didn't do much for me. And the theory aspect went on and on, my eyes eager to skip over superfluous, new agey-type lines.

However, I appreciate what the authors have tried to do, to communicate integral philosophy to the mainstream, and they do a respectable job of it. Their writing is perfectly fine, but they are attempting to interpret and explain someone else's complex ideas in a way that comes across to me as flat and banal. Maybe if I hadn't read Wilber's books, it wouldn't affect me this way. It's just that I'm hungry for something different and cutting-edge. His books are in spades, this book isn't. However, without his integral theory, this book would never be. And since it seems to be affecting other readers in a highly favourable way, I also commend and celebrate it.

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Mad_ona_trip

Excellent

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Not much a reviewer myself, but I'm dropping to give my five star support review for this excellent book.

This book is the bluprint to my growth process. My progress since taking on this approach has been profound and managable.

As many people I went through a lot of self-help until I derived into a more spiritual approach to growth, renouncing all my old library sensing I had found a higher and holier place. Gettin in touch with the integral theory has put my feet on the ground.

Everyother path I followed before seemed fragmented... not anymore. Conscious evolution and awakeining are superb goals to have in life. Evolution as in stages, maturity, growth, ethics, compassion... and Awakening to the essence of who I am. Both make more sense together than what they ever made sense when they where apart.

Get a hold of the Big Mind DVD's as well if you don't have them, excellent value, excellent cause, excellent results.

ps. its a pitty that the integral inquiry in the book dosen't make reference to the Big Mind process as the ILP starer kit does, but basically the instructions are to talk to the non-seeking non-grapsing mind and sit as it during the period of meditation.

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Filipe Santos

A Spiritual Dr. Oz

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 21, 2019

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There is value in this book. Some of the advice here given is sound and easy to implement in daily life. Some of the information passed has left me thinking about myself and my own way to handle situations.

But then, there is the other part. The chapter on Shadow work is only average, if not underdeveloped. For something which was defined as extremely important and one of the most crucial contributions of the whole Integral Life Practice method, it gets the smallest Chapter of all the chapters which relate to the actual practice. I guess that the authors just had stuff to say about the least crucial ones. Physical health and meditation get, as expected, the most attention, accounting for practically half of the book by themselves.
But the worse of it are the whole chapters on why is this being offered. Pages and pages detailing the advantages of this method. Sales pitch after sales pitch. If you could cut some +30% of this book, it would be awesome. As it is, it's only average, and reminds me of an episode of Dr. Oz: helpful, if you know how to trim information to what really matters.

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John laing

Interesting but complicated, I suggest you read it several ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 18, 2014

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Interesting but complicated,I suggest you read it several times to absorb all the information.

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Magdalena

Very good introduction to integral life.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 27, 2020

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Quite a lot of theory on integral psychology, perhaps not that much on practice as I expected. Still, very good read and a great introduction to integral life.

Oliver Centurier-Harris

An Inspirational manual for a more rewarding life.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 8, 2017

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A brilliant and clear explanation of essential practices to expand life and make it more abundant by growing perspective of core areas of self, relationships and society.

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stephen Taylor

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 21, 2015

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