I have just finished reading your 2002 article comparing Sri Aurobindo and Ken Wilber … I have read some of both of them, probably more of Wilber.

I know from personal experience what the “spiritual” meanings amount to and I believe that Wilber has made his concept too complicated … at least in comparison to my own findings.

I see the “outer” macrocosmic reality as that of the dissociative ego, a 5 sensory external objective picture based upon the physically manifested … the thinker is the unrecognised “link” between his a posteriori perceptions and their actual source, the a priori spirit of the “microcosm”.

Where those two people see things as “originating” on high and descending to lower less “spiritual” levels of a more bipolar fashion of duality … I see all originating from the “Alpha” realm of “nothing” (such as like the Big Bang) where “God” (the Creative Force of Intelligence and Order) came from a relative NOthing expanding into a relative ALLthings (Potentially everything as well as nothing) …

Key to this might be the idea of panentheism in that all things are but a part of God who would be
“our” UNIverse (Unity/Oneness) …

WithIN that Unity overall would be the potentials, both the positive of creativity as well as the negative of destruction … and fully withIN the complete range is the Spirit of God as the Karmic accounting Intelligence and Energy, symbolized as the equal sign “=” inbetween the potentials as (+=-) … that which I call the BET (Basic Equation of Truth), the Truth of how our Universe really operates ! A “Trinity” !

The “normal” egotistical world view common among peoples is that of Duality (+/-) which has been foisted upon us by the western view of Christianity ever since Aristotle was mis-understood by Augustine, good VS evil, Christ VS Satan … claiming subjective spirituality but really objective religion.

Duality of (+/-) comes from the divisive and separative view taught all of our children early on where (+=+) and (-=-), and like the East and West, they never meet … but they do in the transcendent mind related to the compassionate, cooperative, and unconditionally loving Spirit of God … the higher Self experience of the truly enlightened …

So in the sense that we came from the Alpha God as “It” expanded into the Universe, we are still “headed” out into space and time, the macro units of “differentiation”, towards a reunification with the “Outer” God, the Omega that contains us … as we have the “momentum” of the genesis, we also have the attraction of the completion …

In the meantime though, those of us that come to know the truth that sets us free via an “awakening”, have the opportunity to return and re-evaluate our next experience, maybe being able to choose an even higher calling … those that do not so wake-up will most likely have their next experience in a similar “realm” of physicality until they finally “get it” …

Enough for now, but I have written a crude book about it all and offer it for purchase along with free downloads on my also crude website at: http://www.spiritcalls.us http://www.spiritcalls.us

Thanks for reading … please check it out as I believe my BET is a truer theory of everything than Ken’s is.

Peace, j.