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a brief history of everything
May 2009 
What is one book that has changed your life? How?
Posted on Mar 23rd, 2007
by 
~C4Chaos
~C4Chaos
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for March 23, 2007:
If I had to pick one, this book would be it:
A Brief History of Everything
by Ken Wilber
by Ken Wilber
I even wrote a long existential essay about it. This book had single-handedly aggregated all the previous knowledge that I've learned and put them all together like a giant jigsaw puzzle.
Yep, it's a bit heady and geeky, but once I've grasped the Four Quadrants everything fell into a neat map. Then again, the map is not the territory.
I hope that Ken and his publisher republish this book under Creative Commons. I think it's high time for Integral theorists to start embracing the Free Culture, and put the "transcend and include" principle into more concrete practice. IOS should not just be another pretty phrase.
Resistance is partial, Ken, resistance is partial!
Yep, it's a bit heady and geeky, but once I've grasped the Four Quadrants everything fell into a neat map. Then again, the map is not the territory.
I hope that Ken and his publisher republish this book under Creative Commons. I think it's high time for Integral theorists to start embracing the Free Culture, and put the "transcend and include" principle into more concrete practice. IOS should not just be another pretty phrase.
Resistance is partial, Ken, resistance is partial!
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Man… you are such a pest to that poor Ken Wilber, aren't you? Can't you just let him be? Hah!
I, too, listed a KW book as my life-changer.
that's the least i can do to him for screwing up my head! ugh!
LOL! Good point.
i love your post. it gave me goosebumps. but i still think you have a number fetish :)
Hee hee… you can't tell me you didn't think that math humor was hilarious!
All the books I've read have changed my life. If nothing else, they occupied me for some time period that I could otherwise have been doing something else…
But, yeah, reading KW's books made for a very big change in my life. As did reading Douglas Adams' books.