The Wish-fulfillment of Ken Wilber

Ken Wilber centers on human personal development, which is good but not nearly enough---Wilber's view of evolution is really involution, not unlike the religious wisdom traditions. What we need is the evolution of the human species to higher and higher species and eventually to real supermaterial Godhood in the cosmos.

Wilber's second problem is that his “integral” approach defines “worldcentrism” as the highest development of man, failing to emphasize the realistic, sociobiological, view of human nature as proceeding in strength from the egocentric and ethnocentric stages to its weakest bonding at the worldcentric stage.

Our worldview needs to harmonize with actual human nature and actual evolution, which leads to the synthesizing vision of the Twofold Path in the Theoevolutionary Church. We do affirm involution and the Inward Path to the God-Within, as do the religious wisdom traditions, but we also affirm the evolutionary Outward Path to Real Godhood in the cosmos.

We are all in this world together, not worldcentrically, but ethnocentrically, and cooperative ethnocentrism is the key to both stable societies and evolving societies. We require psychological and social structures that enhance actual, sociobiologically valid,  human nature, which can then enhance real evolution, such as small, naturally-bonding, states or ethnostates, with a light federalism--- not worldcentrism.

Worldcentrism suggests a utopian dream that leads to the hedonism of stopping all competition, variety and evolution in favor of listless, noncompetitive pleasure. This relates to the worthy goal of the Inward Path to the God Within, which is nevertheless only a mirror of the goal of the Outward Path of evolution to Real Godhood in the cosmos.