Our guest today is a legendary thinker, author, and philosopher. Ken Wilber has spent decades understanding how humans are all interconnected with each other, decoding through dozens of beautifully written books, how we fit into the greater, massive, picture that is the expanding universe. He's an absolute pioneer, a visionary, and that barely scratches the surface of his work.

He joins Dave to outline his newest book—Finding Radical Wholeness: The Integral Path to Unity, Growth, and Delights—and offers up a supporting stream of consciousness which rivals any that you’d find, on any podcast, in depth of insight and emotional impact. His words resonate with a truth and wonder which will leave you inspired from beginning to end, and well beyond.

00:00:38 — Finding Radical Wholeness with Ken Wilber 

• Ken Wilber’s Amazon Author Page

• Different ways to explain the general ideas of the world

• Read: Finding Radical Wholeness: The Integral Path to Unity, Growth, and Delights

• Achieving wholeness in our day-to-day

• Ken’s first experience of wholeness with the universe

• Does a dog have Buddha-nature?

• Studying the work of D.T. Suzuki as a young boy

• Read: Essays in Zen Buddhism by D.T. Suzuki

• Oneness experiences as the core of spirituality

• Considering satori as the most precious gift that humankind has

00:18:09 — The Roles Biohacking & Brain Stimulation Play in Unity Experiences 

• Electromagnetic brain stimulation for ultimate reality experiences

• How brain-mind machines work

• Tap Into Your Brain’s Full Potential - Patrick Porter, Ph.D. #869

• How Dave wrote The Bulletproof Diet in gamma state 

• What the mind does vs. what the heart does

• Ken’s favorite advancements in technology 

• Questions remain with regard to quantum unity

• Explaining the theta formless state

• The Science of Changing Your Mind - Dr. Joe Dispenza #980

00:38:10 — States of Emptiness & How To Get There 

• Teachings of Nagarjuna

• Formulating the quantum principles

• Why all forms of thinking are incomplete 

• The four-quadrant pronouns that make it all make sense

• Basic tenets of integral theory

• Shared objective views, social organism or a collective group

• Going deep with Ken Wilber

• Are we living in a simulation?

• Fourth and fifth states of consciousness

01:08:55 — This is Ken Wilber on Drugs & Nonduality

• Psychedelic experiences vs. mystical oneness experiences 

• Drugs as a shortcut to masterful meditation

• Ken’s bad trip

• Stan Grof’s early LSD work 

• The Birth of LSD with Dr. Stanislav Grof, Father of Transpersonal Psychology - #428

• Failures of the psychedelic revolution 

• Dave’s hand in the ayahuasca boom

• Ken Wilber’s awe-inspiring perspective on nonduality 

• Read: Finding Radical Wholeness: The Integral Path to Unity, Growth, and Delights

• Outline of Ken’s latest book 

• Stages of operational thinking

• Introduction to systems theory 

• Appreciating the psychosomatic analysis of Fritz Perls

Resources

Dave Asprey’s NEW Book ‘Smarter Not Harder’ is out now: https://daveasprey.com/books 

Read: Finding Radical Wholeness: The Integral Path to Unity, Growth, and Delights

Read: Amazon Author Page 

YouTube: Integral Life

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