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The Religion of Tomorrow

A Vision for the Future of the Great Traditions - More Inclusive, More Comprehensive, More Complete

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The Religion of Tomorrow

By: Ken Wilber
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
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A provocative examination of how the great religious traditions can remain relevant in modern times by incorporating scientific truths learned about human nature over the last century.

A single purpose lies at the heart of all the great religious traditions: awakening to the astonishing reality of the true nature of ourselves and the universe. At the same time, through centuries of cultural accretion and focus on myth and ritual as ends in themselves, this core insight has become obscured. Here Ken Wilber provides a path for reenvisioning a religion of the future that acknowledges the evolution of humanity in every realm while remaining faithful to that original spiritual vision. For the traditions to attract modern men and women, Wilber asserts, they must incorporate the extraordinary number of scientific truths learned about human nature in just the past 100 years - for example, about the mind and brain, emotions, and the growth of consciousness - that the ancients were simply unaware of and thus were unable to include in their meditative systems. Taking Buddhism as an example, Wilber demonstrates how his comprehensive Integral Approach - which is already being applied to several world religions by some of their adherents - can avert a "cultural disaster of unparalleled proportions": the utter neglect of the glorious upper reaches of human potential by the materialistic postmodern worldview. Moreover, he shows how we can apply this approach to our own spiritual practice. This, his most sweeping work since Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, is a thrilling call for wholeness, inclusiveness, and unity in the religions of tomorrow.

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This is a book to open you up and realize every side of the story. I couldn’t have felt anymore inspired after reading this book.

Must Read!!

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Overall the message and new content from Wilber is refreshing and deep. I've read about 10 of his other books, this one has new content on Shadow work and the stages beyond integral. Wilber does repeat himself quite a bit in this book, and it could perhaps be condensed, but I do find the repetition useful in the audio version so that it sinks into my mind better. The narration is clear in a British voice. I've listened to the recording three times, I found it most helpful listening along with the book the third time... It helped me get through the print copy faster and understand the audio better.

powerful message for humanity

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This is a mind expanding Book that brings everything together into one book. A true masterpiece!

Masterpiece

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Ken is surely one of the smartest most experienced writers in the field of psychological evolution a d its role on our human development.

Amazing read and research

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Love this Sutra! Love the carefully apportioned repetitions that always are heard interwoven in reinforced loops of yarn, weaving a most profoundly encouraging carpet to ride to all the next levels, stages etc.

Malcom narrates with a knowing and pleasant voice and shares excitement and wonder

Great Tomorrow Sutra

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The book is informative with a lot of interesting ideas, but it’s impossible to ignore the amount of repetition. Towards the mid point of the book I just wanted it to be done because of the repetition. And that’s despite finding the ideas engaging and interesting.

Informative

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Wonderful book, very comprehensive, and well worth a credit. It's very long at 30 hours but I think it is a terrific piece of work. The reader does not pronounce jnana correctly which get me cracking up but other than that I think he does a good job. Also his voice is clear and I think he likes the book a bit which I think plays a role in how easy it is to understand a reader.

I love this book

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this book contains essential understandings for navigating humanity's present and future. so many unique contributions to our self knowledge

the most important book of our time

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Where does The Religion of Tomorrow rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Ken Wilber is an acquired taste. You have to work for understanding, as he covers things broadly and thoroughly. Repetition aids in assimilation, and he is careful to explain as summary each time a term is reused . The first 4 chapters were an overview. Things were "fuzzy", but repetition in the subsequent chapters tend to make all seem more familiar. Listening time is over 30 hours. I plan to listen to it again in about a month and fully expect to understand it all better after the reflection and re-exposure to the terms and jargon which on initial hearing seems overwhelming.

Divergent cultures observe and describe what is known in terms which fit their experience. Wilber presents and integrates these over the grid work he helped to develop. He has been working in this field for decades, and this is a very good rendering of his thesis. The presentation is simple, but not simplistic. Effort to understanding will be rewarded, partly because he summarizes each time he reintroduces a word or concept. I did not find this annoying, but comforting and helpful.

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Religion of Tomorrow?

In an overview of Integral Spiral Dynamics, you can see things at a "higher level" looking "downward" at a previous level that cannot be understood from the "lower levels" looking upward, as the awareness and vocabulary is not yet available or present at that lower level.I suggest Ala Alda's "If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?" as helpful in developing communication skills to encourage dialog instead of name calling between the stages or levels.

What about Graeme Malcolm’s performance did you like?

I found the narrator easy to listen to. Being "English", the narration is little like hearing Shakespearean performance in that attention is required until you get the flow under control of your "ear". He aided the work as it captured the "conversational style" of the written work.

Any additional comments?

What passes as "political discussion" today is appalling. Re-framing this in the awareness of "States of Development" has been helpful.

Audible works best for me. PDF of charts included

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simply astonishing. a theory with room for everything. even the no-thing.

this will be a book I re-read for life.

perhaps the most inspired piece of the century.

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