i hate ken wilber

most of the time i’m not thinking about ken wilber, but whenever he gets mentioned by someone or i come across his name/works, i passionately despise him. i have a friend that has been really into him for some years, and i end up with some cds or dvds or books on loan….i’m actually too nice in such a situation to divulge my rather harsh opinion on the matter. i even attempt to watch/listen/read a little bit just to be able to say i did. but oh is it ever excruciating! here are my two reactions nowadays: pay attention to the drivel and get extremely irate; or pay no attention at all and let my mind wander (normally to very mundane subjects). i also hate hate hate how ken wilber says “guru”….like “g’ROO”….drives me up a wall.

why do i hate ken wilber so much? for one, i find him extremely egotistical and condescending. think about this, if you’ve looked or listened to any of his crap, you will quickly discover that it is nothing new. he basically rehashes a lot of ancient eastern philosophies, gives them some new terminology (the bigger the word, the better), and tries to make things all pseudo-scientific in order to make it seem important. that’s my biggest problem with ken wilber: everything that comes out of his mouth (or written by him) is just this egotisitcal masturbatory intellectualism that is designed to make anyone not “in the know” or “part of the club” seem undeveloped and unenlightened. what all this creates is a cult-like atmosphere using special lingo to distinguish yourself from the others. i really see no difference in this “philosophy” than i do in say scientology. maybe ken wilber doesn’t require you to leave your families/friends and give up all you own to him, but his products can be rather expensive. and i believe ultimately damaging to your well-being. getting you caught up in words and concepts as opposed to actually looking at yourself and dealing with your issues successfully.

have you ever been to his website? god even that looks full of itself. uuuggghhhhhhhhhhh….

here’s something else: ken wilber at one point (and maybe still does) endorsed this other similar work of bullshit that calls itself adi da the da avatar.

i happen to collect books…and i know a few places where i can get free books, which could be good for reading, gifts, or if nothing else, used to make papercrete. anyhoo…that’s how i ended up with this stunning autobiographical tome called the knee of listening: the early-life ordeal and the radical spiritual realization of the divine world-teacher by adi da (the da avatar). ok. this is one of those american-turned-guru stories in which not one single sentence makes any sense and with every other noun capitalized. crap crap crap. let’s see what the back cover says just to give you an idea:

“This is a book like no other. It is the true story of how the Diving Being has appeared on earth in human form. Here Adi Da describes His first thirty-one years in vivid detail: His illumined Birth; His embrace of an ordinary human life; His unrelenting quest for God; His complete investigation of human experience–from money, food, and sex to the most esoteric mystical phenomena; His Divine Re-Awakening; and His unprecendented Revelation of the Way of Divine Enlightenment for all beings.”

if only My Ordinary Human Self could forego All Concientiousness and make Money off of such Pure Shit…though that Great Self would have Great Difficulty keeping My Divine Self from throwing up each time My Enlightened Being finished an Illumined Chapter. jesus! what Drivel!

ok. so that tangent had a purpose. here’s what ken wilber said about the great adi da:

“My opinion is that we have, in the person of Adi Da, a Spiritual Master and religious genius of the ultimate degree. Adi Da’s teaching is, I believe, unsurpassed by that of any other spiritual Hero, of any period, of any place, of any time, of any persuasion.”

need i say anymore? just another demonstration of ken wilber’s craptitude.