You might want to look more deeply into the background of Mr. Wilber and some of his past associates (Adi Da, for example). The 60′s counter culture produced an awful lot of verbose narcissists who manage to generate enough of a following to live comfortably while telling everyone else how to live. Sounds a lot like a slave-master relationship to me. I followed the creation and evolution of Wilber’s Integral Institute for a few years until I noticed warning signs of cult-like activity. I even had a friend who began going into these space-out like trances while speaking Wilber-ese and then she would snap out of it as if nothing happened. It was the scariest thing I have ever seen a once solidly rational person do.

Also, the people you feel are blinded by socialists agendas, based on my experience, preach integration and ways of living that promote the formation of the very hierarchies they dislike and are led by charismatic dingbats who are very often not as open-minded as they tell others to be. The fact is that integrative philosophies have been promoted before and they simply don’t work, but they do serve the function of removing from the gene pool those who are not strong enough to stake a claim in the world and then defend it.

Call me paranoid, but as a self-proclaimed secular Jew, I have difficulty swallowing any spiritual movement that has a central authority figure or mystical overtones, including those associated with Judaism, especially when the leadership lives high on the hog while the flock suffers. When someone tells me that I have a rational objective part and an irrational subjective part and by integrating the two I will be whole, it reminds me of those who believe I need to be perfected, or else… Thinking outside the evangelical box is indeed a good thing, but not if it is replaced by another elitist philosophy dressed up in sounds/looks/feels good garb that has camera-ready appeal.

Peace