changelog

  1. Choosing what to read

    Added a selective reading guide and a guide to Wilber's five phases and the Kosmos trilogy. The chronological catalog now distinguishes retitled editions and reused material, with corrected publication details and clearer notes where the evidence remains uncertain.

    Simplified the People and Concepts introductions to make the indexes easier to browse.

  2. A roadmap through Wilber's ideas

    All 41 concepts now sit on a single visual reading path: four acts, nineteen numbered stops down a central spine, with optional side branches for depth and counterargument. There are two ways in — start at the top if you are new, or jump straight to a topic if you came looking for one — plus a six-stop express route for anyone with only an afternoon, and a panel pointing at the places Wilber's argument is most contested. See the roadmap.

    The roadmap's central spine, with numbered stops and side branches
  3. New concept page: The Myth of Primal Ecological Wisdom

    Added The Myth of Primal Ecological Wisdom, on Wilber's argument that the Eco-Romantic claim that tribal societies possessed a lost "ecological wisdom" confuses indissociation (nature not yet differentiated from mind) with integration, and that pre-modern peoples did real ecological damage too — limited by means, not restrained by wisdom. Cross-linked with the pre/trans fallacy, environmental ethics, and the dialectic of progress.

  4. Excerpts now shown directly, and a full accuracy pass

    The click-to-expand style used for excerpt quotes is gone — every quote across the concept wiki and people index now shows in full, directly on the page. That prompted a proper editorial review of all 182 excerpts against the source book, which turned up and fixed a real problem: one page's only "quote" was actually a paraphrase, not real text. Also fixed: a quote that broke off mid-sentence, several mislabeled chapter citations, and a handful of pages that were more one-sided or redundant than the book itself is. See Jürgen Habermas for the clearest before/after.

    The Habermas page with quotes shown directly, no accordion
  5. Annotatable reading layer: Phase 1 prototype

    A first working prototype of annotated book text: an excerpt of Sex, Ecology, Spirituality renders with highlighted passages and margin notes attached directly to them, à la Google Docs comments. One chapter section for now, not yet linked from the site's navigation — proof of the mechanism before it's built out further. See it live: Annotated: Myth and Archetype.

    Highlighted passage with a margin sidenote on the annotated reading prototype
  6. People index: 23 thinkers Wilber engages with

    The people index is now substantially built out — Habermas, Plotinus, Foucault, Hegel, Piaget, Freud, Jung, Joseph Campbell, Gebser, Spinoza, Whitehead, Marx, Aurobindo, Kohlberg, Loevinger, Maslow, Koestler, Derrida, Heidegger, Darwin, Nietzsche, Weber, and Teilhard de Chardin each get a page showing where Wilber agrees with them, where he breaks from them, and the passages where he makes his case. Browse the People Index.

    The People Index page listing thinkers by mention count
  7. Concept wiki: ten more concepts, now sourced from the full book text

    The concept wiki grows from seven pages to seventeen — the four quadrants, the Big Three, the pre/trans fallacy, vision-logic, flatland, Kosmos vs. cosmos, Eros and Agape, the Right-Hand and Left-Hand paths, involution and evolution, and Wilber's take on postmodernism — all newly sourced directly from the book's full text rather than reading notes. Example: The Four Quadrants.

    The Four Quadrants concept page
  8. Concept wiki pilot: seven concept pages sourced from Sex, Ecology, Spirituality

    The first working piece of the concept wiki: instead of an idea Wilber discusses being scattered across a dense book, each concept — holons, holarchy, dominator vs. growth hierarchy, the Great Chain of Being, systems theory, ascent and descent, and his reading of Plato — now gets its own page pairing a synthesis of his view with expandable excerpts pulled straight from the source text. Example: Holons.

  9. Bio, full works catalog, and cover art

    Booted up the project: a draft biography of Ken Wilber, a complete works list (39 titles across five decades) with a dedicated page per book, cover art for most of them, and in-depth overviews for the twelve core works. See the Biography and Works Catalog.

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