Up from Eden/The Atman Project

by Ken Wilber

"The Atman Project: A Transpersonal View of Human Development" (1980) unites Eastern and Western approaches into a single, coherent framework, integrating views from Freud to Buddha, Gestalt to Shankara, Piaget to Yogachara, Kohlberg to Krishnamurti. "Up from Eden: A Transpersonal View of Human Evolution" (1981) describes evolution as a magnificent journey of Spirit-in-action, drawing on theorists from Jean Gebser to Jurgen Habermas. The essay "Odyssey: A Personal Inquiry into Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology" and a "New Age" interview with Ken Wilber.

720 pages, Hardcover

Published December 28, 1999

About the author

Kenneth Earl Wilber II is an American philosopher and writer on transpersonal psychology and his own integral theory, a systematic philosophy which suggests the synthesis of all human knowledge and experience.

Reviews

[Janessa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This two books in one collection. Up from Eden is possibly my favorite read in 5 years. I'm a huge Ken Wilber fan, and thought I'd read his best stuff and then came across this gem. A fascinating philosophical view of human development and evolution. I've already read this one twice this year, and will re-read many times more. Atman project is also very good.

[Sheryl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Important ideas here, but (like all Wilber) incredibly dense.

[M S · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting early work by Wilber that lays out his understanding of the evolution of human consciousness..