Love your work Ken








These messages were left by donors to The Ken Wilber Gratitude Fund.
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I wish I could say I am standing on the shoulders of the giant of a mind, Ken Wilber, and seeing an even higher and wider Integral perspective. Not quite. I am sitting in the fanny pack of Ken Wilber, and after 20 years of study, I still can’t see as far. Even the view from Ken’s backside is amazing. His words have changed the way I look at my life and the world. I have read almost every word twice. I only wish I knew how to give more than just money to the Integral movement.
I have always been a searcher for wisdom and spiritual knowledge. I was frustrated. I felt alone because while I sensed some truth in most areas, I did not find any one path satisfying or complete, and often found them dissolving into platitudes or calcifying into dogma. Then a friend gave me Kosmic Consciousness. I listened to all 10 CDs in two marathon days, taking furious notes. Then I went on to read many of Ken’s books (full disclosure — SES is just a door stopper or a reference work for me). Ken Wilber did what no one from Descartes, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Camus, Sartre, Kierkegaard, to my college philosophy professors, to my parents, to my greatest fellow searching friends, to drugs, to lonesome meditation without much guidance, to yoga, etc., etc. had been able to do: he disclosed me to myself, and made me feel not alone. For that, I am forever, and quite simply, grateful. I don’t know much about what Ken is going through in life. But I know I want him to keep doing what he has done his whole life. Because it helped me feel comfortable in my own skin, in my own mind, in my own soul. And I know he is right. Ever partial, and ever open to legitimate non-myopic, truly honest criticism, but by and large, goddamnit — he is right. I wish I could give more to this great man. I’ll just say “Thanks, Arhat.”
The Ken Wilber Gratitude Fund provides a way to express our individual and collective thanks to Ken Wilber for all that he has given us. The Fund’s purpose is to: