Concept Index
Concept Index
The inverted index this wiki exists for: instead of a concept scattered across
hundreds of pages of a single book, each page here collects Wilber's view on one idea —
a synthesis plus curated excerpts pulled from wherever he actually makes the case,
across works. See docs/concept-wiki-vision.md for
the full rationale.
All pages below are sourced from the full text of Sex, Ecology,
Spirituality
(library/1995-sex-ecology-spirituality-full-text.md), chapter-cited. Not exhaustive —
see each page's status and the vision doc for what's deliberately left for later
passes, and for other Wilber works this wiki hasn't drawn from yet.
★ marks category: core-term pages (Wilber's own vocabulary); the rest are
category: wilber-on-x pages — his take on a topic, which is often the more
interesting concept than the bare term.
Core terms
| Concept | Notes |
|---|---|
| ★ Holons | the basic units — wholes that are also parts |
| ★ Holarchy | how holons nest into nested wholes |
| ★ The Great Chain of Being | the traditional matter/life/mind/spirit picture |
| ★ The Four Quadrants | interior/exterior × individual/collective |
| ★ The Big Three | I / We / It — art, morals, science |
| ★ Right-Hand and Left-Hand Paths | it-language vs. interior meaning |
| ★ Kosmos vs. Cosmos | matter+life+mind+spirit vs. the merely physical |
| ★ Flatland | the reduction of the Kosmos to the cosmos |
| ★ Vision-Logic | the postformal cognition beyond linear rationality |
| ★ The Pre/Trans Fallacy | confusing prerational and transrational states |
| ★ Ascent and Descent | wisdom's return to the One, compassion's embrace of the Many |
| ★ Eros and Agape | the motive forces behind Ascent and Descent, and their pathologies |
| ★ Involution and Evolution | Spirit's enfolding into, and unfolding out of, the lower |
Wilber on X
| Concept | Notes |
|---|---|
| Systems Theory and the Sciences of Complexity | Wilber's case for, and (elsewhere) against, complexity science as holism |
| Dominator vs. Growth Hierarchy | separating hierarchy from domination |
| Wilber's Non-Dual Reading of Plato | Plato as mystic, not just rationalist |
| Wilber on Postmodernism | its real achievement (vision-logic, pluralism) and its derailment (nihilism, narcissism) |
