Do you have questions for Ken Wilber? (serious questions only)

[Loving Radiance]

It just got confirmed that a friends of mine gets to interview our beloved godfather Ken Wilber for Denver Westword (no promises though).

If you have any questions for him, comment here, I will pass them along. The questions should be centered around how to make sense of the social/political/environmental world we find ourselves in today. It should be widely accessible to read for everyone, so it will be a bit dumbed down.

I will link the interview here when it's published.

Edited February 21, 2021 by Loving Radiance

[Gesundheit]

Is the deep state real?

[eggopm3]

When's volumes 2 and 3 of SES coming out?  

[Hello from Russia]

What does he think of Russia and Russian government? 

[Haumea2018]

Have your friend ask him "when you say Yellow/Teal is about including the lower stages, how does that manifest in real-world terms, beyond meaningless rhetoric? Or is it basically all about the rhetoric?" 

Edited February 21, 2021 by Haumea2018

[Leo Gura]

Did he vote for Trump?

[Lyubov]

23 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Did he vote for Trump?

oh god... did he?

[Leo Gura]

24 minutes ago, Lyubov said:

oh god... did he?

Never trust a Boomer not to Boom you

[How to be wise]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

Never trust a Boomer not to Boom you

Bernie Sanders?

[Leo Gura]

9 minutes ago, How to be wise said:

Bernie Sanders?

Touche

[blackchair]

[Joel3102]

26 minutes ago, How to be wise said:

Bernie Sanders?

He’s technically not a baby boomer, he’s part of the silent generation 

[Raze]

How is societies current transition between stages going? Is it not smooth enough, is it possible society will revert?

How do you feel about claims that young people in western countries lack meaning in their lives?

Do you feel foreign policy reflects understanding of stages, or do larger countries try to force smaller countries to skip stages?

[Rilles]

4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Never trust a Boomer not to Boom you

Lol, theres a huge difference between Wilber and Beck, I highly doubt he voted for Trump. 

"The world is in turmoil. As populist waves roil the Brexit-bound UK, along with Europe, Turkey, Russia, Asia—and most visibly, the US with the election of Donald Trump—nationalist and extremist political forces threaten the progress made over many decades. How did we get here? And how, with so much antagonism, cynicism, and discord, can we mend the ruptures in our societies?

In this provocative work, philosopher Ken Wilber explains why there is cause for hope. He lays much of the blame on a failure at the progressive, leading edge of society. This leading edge is characterized by the desire to be as just and inclusive as possible, and to it we owe the thrust toward women’s rights, the civil rights movement, the environmental movement, and more. This is all evolutionarily healthy; what is unhealthy is a creeping postmodernism that is elitist, “politically correct,” and that looks down on “deplorables.” Combine this with the techno-economic demise of many traditional ways of making a living, and you get an explosive mixture. As Wilber says, for some Trump voters: “Everywhere you are told that you are fully equal and deserve immediate and complete empowerment, yet everywhere are denied the means to actually achieve it. You suffocate, you suffer, and you get very, very mad.”

He is watching Blue and Green from a birds eye view. 

[mmKay]

@Leo Gura would you say all your biggest questions have been anwsered? 

[blackchair]

my question: can i hug you?

[AtheisticNonduality]

Are stage green movements like Black Lives Matter a viable option, and what would stage yellow equivalents look like?

[AtheisticNonduality]

What psychedelic experiences do you have?

[Moksha]

On your deathbed, what is the one sentence you would send to the world?

[Natasha]

How he is doing healthwise? How is he feeling? I know he was struggling with health issues in the recent past.