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Transformations of Consciousness: Conventional and Contemplative Perspectives On Development (New Science Library) Paperback – September 12, 1986

by Ken Wilber (Author), Jack Engler (Author), Daniel P. Brown (Author)
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Drawing on modern psychology and psychiatry, as well as the world's great meditative traditions, this book presents the first 'full-spectrum' model of human development--one that includes both the conventional stages of psychological growth and the 'higher' levels of spiritual development.
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    358 pages
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    Shambhala
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    September 12, 1986
  5. Dimensions
    6.25 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0394742028
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0394742021
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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 ‏ : ‎ Shambhala; 1st edition (September 12, 1986)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 358 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0394742028
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0394742021
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.22 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches
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CWard
5.0 out of 5 stars Long term meditator? Get this book.
Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2010
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An excellent presentation of the stages of mindfulness meditation as well as the spectrum of development and the spectrum of psychopathology. Authors Ken Wilber, Jack Engler and Daniel P. Brown know what they are talking about.

Because levels of meditative development are still not widely known, because so few have ventured deeply into meditation, a book like this isn't understood by many. Someone who hasn't meditated can't believe this is possible, so they dismiss it.

If you are a serious long term meditator this book is great. If you've never meditated, or done much contemplative work, this book may not make much sense.

A very worthwhile book for any interested in meditative or contemplative development.
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Bodhidharma
5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely useful for the advanced practitioner!
Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2019
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This is a gem, a true classic. The research by Brown and Engler regarding the effects of meditation is excellent. I re-read their work twice and took copious notes the second time through. I was so impressed with Dr. Brown's work I purchased his Pointing Out the Great Way, which is an invaluable guide to the Gradual Path of Mahamudra.
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Robert Doc Barham
4.0 out of 5 stars On Consciousness and meditation
Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2020
I read Transformations Of Consciousness several years ago. If you are interested in meditation then you will enjoy this read. It is an intelligent and deep work on a subject that deserves such exploration. Meditation is a truly transformative practice that can radically change one’s life for the better. It is both inspiring and motivating.
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Greg
5.0 out of 5 stars Rigorous analysis of the meditation process
Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2009
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What I found most valuable in this book was the work of Engler and Brown in presenting a very rigorous analysis of the meditation process and their intimate knowledge of Thervadan, Tibetan, and Vedanta meditation. This book is very valuable for those who would like to get a more scientific analysis of what happens in the meditation process and what a more useful definition of what enlightenment is.
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Federico Matias Parra Silva
5.0 out of 5 stars The most advanced western review on the inner-works of meditation
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2010
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This is a great book!

For those interested in a western, psychological
analysis of what happens to those who follow a spiritual
path until the end, this book will bring so much clarity
to it!

A great book for any serious practitioner.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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More than met the expectations I had for my husband's reading.
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Mr Sutapas Bhattacharya
5.0 out of 5 stars Dan Brown helps reveal real Holy Grail of spirituality
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2006
This book was originally published in 1986 and Amazon.co.uk lists a March 31st 2006 reprinting under Transformation of Consciousness. If you want to read more of Ken Wilber's epicyclic models, then this is twenty year old epicycles (see Andresen and Forman: Cognitive Models and Spiritual Maps for a more recent Wilber piece followed by a sympathetic but still exposing critique by Christian de Quincey). Wilber's old friend Michael Bauwens has put up his The Cult of Ken Wilber on the web for those interested in this New Age cult.
This book is worth the money primarily due to Harvard psychologist Professor Daniel Brown's extremely important chapter with its examination of the parallels between the stages of meditation in three authoritative yogic traditions (Yoga Sutras, Vipassana and Mahamudra). Although Brown came to the odd conclusion that all the paths are same but the goals different, others like myself (also Forman in The Problem of Pure Consciousness)disagree as the key stage is Basis Enlightenment (nondual Pure Consciousness) is the stage all 3 describe most similarly. Post-Enlightenment practises differ.
Brown's study discusses the yogic experience of the subtle flow of the Light when mental processes are held in abeyance. The Light is perceived as coming in waves (Hindu) or pulses/moments (Buddhists) which is clearly just a difference in focus. The YS tradition describes the Light as the coordinates of that previous gross mental content or A CONTINUOUSLY VIBRATING ENERGY FIELD IN A STATE OF CONTINUOUS WAVE PROPAGATION.
This information proved critical in my 1994 identification of the physical correlate of the Divine Light/Pure Consciousness or Godhead with the brainwaves from the brainstem Reticular Activating System. These brainwaves continuously underly all other brainwave activity and only cease at death. Numerous other authoritative yogic and mystic facts (the Light at the Centre, the prana/atman identity, Advaita's mutual superimposition of Pure Consciousness and sense percepts, Insight meditation's catching the Light in gaps between percepts, Vajrayana's Clear Light of Death as a continuous series of moments etc.) plus the presence of the Light in NDEs fits this interpretation (see my review of Kapstein's The Presence of Light on Amazon.com) or The Oneness/Otherness Mystery: The Synthesis of Science and Mysticism. Patanjali even begins the Yoga Sutras stating: yogas cittavritti nirodhah (yoga is the cessation of the WAVE-LIKE FLUCTUATIONS of the mindstuff). See also Travis's model of Pure Consciousness as the background state in Dalai Lama and Varela: Sleeping, Dreaming and Dying. The RAS is well known as it arouses the cortex as distinct from specific attention and is a universal human process unaffected by culture and tradition. Cessation of the RAS constitutes brain death.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I won't buy a horse from him
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 2, 2012
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The book is fine, i e the authors and the text. I had to order a new copy, though it was expensive for my purse,as used ones are not sold to customers abroad. I received, however, a used one with the former owner's signature among other signs of use. Good enough for me, no good advertisement for the sellers'business.
Otherwise, the book is worth its prize!
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