Semiotics of Spirituality | What Zen Masters Know that We Don’t

In his masterpiece Sex Ecology and Spirituality, Ken Wilber applies the work of Ferdinand de Saussure in Semiotics to the question of spiritual experiences’ validity. By looking at the Signifier and Signified of Saussure’s linguistic Sign as well as the referent in the context of spiritual experience Integral philosopher Ken Wilber arrives at an interesting hypothesis in Sex Ecology and Spirituality: that spiritual experiences are at a higher level of development than the general public; the difficulties in studying spiritual experience are comparable to the difficulties of a blind community studying colour. This brings in Wilber’s pre/trans fallacy — the distinction between prerational development and postrational development. 
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⌛ Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:38 Summary of Semiotics
5:32 The Referent of Great Price
10:22 Spiritual Evolution
13:55 Conclusion
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