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Magolda, Marcia Baxter, Creating Contexts – for learning and self-authorship: constructive-developmental pedagogy (1999)

A book to help educators create the conditions in which students can learn to construct knowledge and achieve ‘self-authorship’, rather than just expect answers from an authority figure (ie promote the shift from conventional to post-conventional thinking).

Magolda, Marcia Baxter, Knowing and Reasoning in College: Gender-related patterns in students’ intellectual development (1992)

A five-year longitudinal study assessing how ‘ways of knowing’ change during the college years, as well as the influence of gender. Presents much material in the students’ own words.

Magolda, Marcia Baxter, Learning Partnerships: Theory and Models of Practice to Educate for Self ( 2004)

Review to come.

Magolda, Marcia Baxter, Making their Own Way: Narratives for Transforming Higher Education to Promote Self-Development (2001)

Review to come.

Maharshi, Ramana Sri, Be as You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi (edited by David Godman) (1985)

A very readable themed collection of the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi, “India’s greatest modern sage” (Ken Wilber).

Maharshi, Ramana Sri, Talks with Ramana Maharshi: On Realizing Abiding Peace and Happiness (edited by Robert Powell)

Ken Wilber: “Talks is the living voice of the greatest sage of the twentieth century.”

Includes foreword (‘The Sage of the Century’) by Ken Wilber – who says this is one of two or three books that he always mentions when asked which one book he would choose if he was stranded on a desert island.

CG Jung: “He is genuine and, in addition to that, something quite phenomenal. What we find in the life and teachings of Sri Ramana is the purest of India; with its breath of world-liberated and liberating humanity, it is a chant of millenniums. He is the white spot in a white space.”
“Sri Ramana Maharshi was one in whom the ego-notion had ended.”

A collection of teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi.

Mahoney, Michael J, Constructive Psychotherapy: A Practical Guide (2003)

Ken Wilber writes: “Michael Mahoney, one of the world’s foremost authorities on human change process, has put a lifetime of wisdom into this major publication. This is a superb how-to manual for therapists interested in leading-edge, innovative, and integrative clinical approaches. Mahoney’s book is not just the best available account of constructive psychotherapy, but one of the best books I’ve read on psychotherapy, period.”

Richard Schwarz, PhD (The Center for Self Leadership): “I assume Mahoney calls it constructive psychotherapy because to call it what it really is would be less catchy: a creative integration of narrative, cognitive, behavioural, experiential, body, and movement therapies with ancient wisdom traditions… a multitude of useful ideas and techniques embedded in a philosophy of compassion and respect for clients… it’s truly a ‘work of the heart’”.

Includes: meditation and embodiment; self-relationship and spiritual skills; breathing exercises; mindfulness meditation; spiritual skills exercises; centering techniques; drama and dreamwork; and human change process: a synopsis. Plus rich case examples.

Maira, Shakti, Towards Ananda: Rethinking Indian Arts and Aesthetics (2006)

Ken Wilber writes: “To integrate spirit and matter in an aesthetic presentation that opens the viewer to an integral moment is remarkable enough. But what is truly astonishing about Shakti’s work is the depth to which that intention is realized. Shakti is the finest integral artist now working in the fields of painting and sculpture.”

Includes an overview of Western ideologies and art movements, and their conflict with Eastern perspectives.

Maitri, Sandra, The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram: Nine Faces of the Soul (2000, 2001)

AH Almaas, founder of the Diamond Approach (which Ken Wilber calls "One of the genuinely superb contributions to East/West psychology and psychotherapy"), writes: “Her careful study of the enneagram types also reflects her continued experience in teaching it for many years, just as it embodies her mature understanding of spiritual transformation. Sandra is not only a teacher of the enneagram; she is first and foremost an experienced and fine teacher of inner spiritual transformation. Her book possesses a depth and completeness that I find missing in the existing enneagram literature.”

A leading figure in Enneagram work and the ‘Diamond Approach’, Sandra Maitri was one of the first to learn about the Enneagram from Claudio Naranjo, in the 70s. She here describes how traversing the inner territory of our particular Enneagram type can lead to “profound fulfillment and meaning, as well as authentic spiritual realization” – re-connecting with our essential nature.

Maitri, Sandra, The Enneagram of Passions and Virtues: Finding the Way Home (2005)

Leading ‘Diamond Approach’ teacher Sandra Maitri takes her exploration of the inner landscapes that the Enneagram illuminates further; how the passions described by the Enneagram model can transform into virtues.

“It is my sincere hope that what I have understood will assist my fellow travelers in finding their way to that home that, upon reaching, we realize was here all the time.”

Marion, Jim, Putting on the Mind of Christ: The Inner Work of Christian Spirituality (2000)

Ken Wilber writes (in his foreword): “A pioneering book, a truly inspired revelation, and a gentle guide to the deepest terrain of our own souls, where there awaits, as there has through all eternity, Christ as Source and Suchness of this and every world.”

“A remarkable, often astonishing document… probably the first book to describe the overall path of consciousness development from a Christian perspective. As such, it is a stunning achievement.”

“The Holy Spirit continues to speak to us, even in this moment, and thus it increasingly makes the path itself more clearly revealed and understood, easing us along it all the more lovingly.”

Ground-breaking book by a former monk.

Marion, Jim, The Death of the Mythic God: The Rise of Evolutionary Spirituality (2004)

Marion’s follow-up looks at the “crisis of faith” and the desire for authentic spiritual experience, which is now at “an all-time high”.

He urges us to “go directly to God”.

Martin, Curly, The Life Coaching Handbook: Everything You Need to Be an Effective Life Coach (2001)

A practical approach to coaching, inspired by Spiral Dynamics. There’s even a colourful Value Memes spiral on the cover. It also includes practical marketing strategies.

Maslow, Abraham, Future Visions - Unpublished Papers of Abraham Maslow (1996)

Fascinating and wide-ranging collection by the founder of the humanistic, and – later – transpersonal, schools of psychology (the latter that Wilber became a key part of, until 1982 – when, he tells us, he left it behind). Includes Maslow’s Boomeritis-like critique of leading US New Age growth centre Esalen’s self-indulgence, hedonism, impulsivity and anti-rationalism. Also a warning against the quick fix of ‘Big Bang’ breakthroughs – peak experiences – rather that the lifelong task of true growth – plateau experiences.

Also included are Maslow’s suggestive arguments in favour of law and order, the forceful father, and against liberals who cannot see the reality of evil; views which are described by the editor as linked to what today would be called neo-conservatism. However, despite such a foundation of conservative 'realism', “philosophical anarchism and decentralization” might still be our ultimate goal, argues Maslow. Quite a novel synthesis! There is no higher growth without the (Blue value-meme) base of ‘law and order’.

Includes an analysis of the “communist personality” (basically it seems to come in both pre-conventional and post-conventional variants).

Maslow died in 1970.

Maslow, Abraham, Motivation and Personality (1954, 1987)

A classic work by a founder of the Humanistic and, later, Transpersonal, psychology movements.Third edition.

Includes detailed description of Maslow’s ‘Hierarchy of Needs’ model, a study of 'Love in Self-Actualizing People’, and a final chapter titled ‘Toward a Positive Psychology’.

Maslow, Abraham, Toward a Psychology of Being (1998 3rd ed)

Another classic and highly influential work - covering the hierarchy of needs, self-actualisation etc.

Maslow, Abraham, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature (1976, 1993)

One of Maslow’s most popular and influential works.

Maturana, Humberto and Varela, Francisco, The Tree of Knowledge - The Biological Roots of Human Understanding(1987, 1992)

An influential book takes a looks at the science of perception and understanding – with a focus on ‘autopoeisis’, self-creation.

“A way of seeing cognition not as a representation of the world ‘out there’, but rather as an ongoing bringing forth of a world through the process of living itself.”

McIntosh, Steve, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (2007?)

Review to come.

McNab, Peter, Towards An Integral Vision: Using NLP & Ken Wilber’s AQAL Model to Enhance Communication (2005)

Ken Wilber writes in the foreword: “This is probably the first integrally-informed NLP book to be published and, as such, it deserves a very wide readership indeed.”

“The book’s aim is to introduce a whole new audience to the Integral World. He has been teaching this material along with NLP for the past eight years, and this gives his book not only great depth but also a wealth of experience to draw from... This makes the book a powerful and compelling approach to individual transformation and community enrichment.”

“Energetic, engaged and practical, this is a very personal book that also includes many exercises to help readers to apply the integral model in their own lives.”

Integral Institute founder member Peter McNab introduces models including Wilber’s AQAL, Clare Graves’ values model, NLP’s Perceptual Positions etc.

Mezirow, Jack and associates, Learning as Transformation – Critical Perspectives on a Theory in Progress (2000)

An important and wide-ranging book for adult educators by 15 top scholars and practitioners, including Integral Institute member Professor Robert Kegan (on ‘What “Form” Transforms? A Constructive-Developmental Approach to Transformative Learning’). Here Kegan contrasts ‘informational learning’ with ‘transformational learning’. He also points out that the field of transformational learning that Mezirow has helped to popularise tends to focus on “but one of several gradual, epochal transformations in knowing of which persons are shown to be capable throughout life.”

Other contributors include key figures such as Mary Field Belenky, Laurent A. Parks Daloz, Stephen Brookfield, Patricia Cranton and Kathleen Taylor (on ‘Teaching with Developmental Intention’).

Merzel, Dennis Genpo, Big Mind • Big Heart – Finding Your Way (2007, includes CD)

From Ken Wilber’s foreword: “Let me state this as strongly as I can: the Big Mind Process founded by Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel is arguably the most important and original discovery in the last two centuries of Buddhism.

“It is an astonishingly original, profound, and effective path for waking up, or seeing one’s True Nature.

“It is such a simple and universal practice it can be used in any spiritual path you wish, or even just alone, by itself, as a practice for realizing your True Nature—which you can call God, Allah, Jahweh, Brahman, Tao, Ein Sof—it doesn’t really matter, because the core of the Big Mind Process is Emptiness itself, which, having no specific content at all, can and does embrace anything that arises, integrating it all.

“What Dennis Genpo Roshi has done is not only the most original discovery in Buddhism in the last two centuries, it is unbelievably simple, quick, and effective.

“In Zen, this realization of one’s True Nature, or Ultimate Reality, is called kensho or satori (“seeing into one’s True Nature,” or discovering Big Mind and Big Heart). It often takes five years or more of extremely difficult practice (I know, I’ve done it) in order for a profound satori to occur. With the Big Mind Process, a genuine kensho can occur in about an hour—seriously."

Father Thomas Keating writes: “A book of great creativity and originality that will make a significant contribution to the East-West dialogue and to the needs of those who are attracted to move beyond seeking”.

From the book: “What blew my mind, and keeps amazing me, is that just about everyone, whether accomplished Zen student or absolutely new to spiritual practice, is able to access these transcendent voices, and speak clearly and precisely, with complete sincerity about their experience of these voices.

“This shift is observable to everyone in the room, and has also amazed the many accomplished spiritual leaders of all the major traditions – and even skeptics – who have witnessed it”

Genpo Dennis Merzel offers us this guidebook to his profound – yet surprisingly easy* – practice that integral Western practices of Gestalt and Jungian therapy and Voice Dialogue with the Eastern spiritual tradition of Zen. (*Therefore controversial!)

Learn how to experience your personal voices (eg the Skeptic, Fear, the Vulnerable and Innocent Child, the Seeking Mind) and transpersonal ones (Big Mind, Big Heart, Masculine and Feminine Compassion, Great Joy, Integrated Free-Functioning Human Being, Great Joker/Great Fool).

You may not believe the hype, but you owe it to your Self to at least investigate it ;-)

Includes a CD with ‘Big Mind Process’, ‘Posture and Breathing Instruction’, and ‘A Guided Big Mind Meditation’.

Merzel, Dennis Genpo, The Path of the Human Being: Zen Teachings on the Boddhisattva Way (2005)

Leading US Zen teacher – and Integral Institute regular – Dennis Genpo Merzel describes how we can undertake the process of awakening our Buddha-mind. He also developed the ‘Big Mind’ technique of voice dialogue that allows (short-term) access to deep transcendental states – and has become a popular core technique in Integral Institute trainings.

Miles-Ypes, Netanel (ed.) The Common Heart: An Experience of Inter-Religious Dialogue (2006)

Ken Wilber writes (in his foreword): “It is in almost every respect a rather amazing document”.

“The results of that extraordinary gathering have been kept largely secret until now.”
This group “from very different backgrounds and traditions…. did arrive at several profound points of agreement about what, by any other name, is Ultimate Reality.”

“The wonderful, intense, difficult, playful, and respectful inter-religious dialogues that arrived at these conclusions – of both important similarities and wonderful differences – are the core of this extraordinary book.”

Report of a series of extraordinary meetings organised by Father Thomas Keating between spiritual teachers from a broad range of spiritual traditions: Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, indigenous, and Islamic.

This broad group of spiritual seekers – Snowmass dialogues – met at various locations around the US for 20 years, beginning in 1984.

Miller, Melvin and Cook-Greuter, Susanne (eds.), Creativity, Spirituality and Transcendence: Paths to Integrity and Wisdom in the Mature Self (1999)

A collection co-edited by Integral Institute founder member Susanne Cook-Greuter. A non-reductionistic look at creativity and spirituality.

Mipham, Sakyong, Ruling Your World - Ancient Strategies for Modern Life (2005)

Ken Wilber writes: “Sakyong Mipham offers inspirational vision – as well as practical guidelines – for enormously enriching our individual lives in a way that benefits others as well. Highly recommended for the honest and straightforward purity of the teaching and its immediate application in – and beyond – our everyday lives.”

The son of the late Tibetan Buddhist guru Chogyam Trungpa acts as an accessible guide, leading us towards awakening. One piece of advice he gives – don’t expect sudden change, aim for a ten per cent transformation.

Mitroff, Ian and Denton, Elizabeth, Spiritual Audit of Corporate America: A Hard Look at Spirituality, Religion and Values in the Workplace (1999)

Ken Wilber writes: “This is a very important book, I believe, both for its pioneering discoveries about spirituality in the business world and its leading-edge suggestions for putting those findings to good use.”

Wilber’s integral framework is becoming increasingly influential in the workplace spirituality movement.

Myss, Caroline, Invisible Acts of Power: Channelling Grace in Your Everyday Life (2004)

Ken Wilber: “Invisible Acts of Power is a wonderful account of the chakras (or energy centers) in the human bodymind and their special role in spiritual grace, gifts, and empowerment. A magical and moving handbook of your own deepest and divine powers.”

What happens when you offer assistance or grace to someone in need? Myss received 1,200 responses in six days when she asked this question in her e-newsletter. The resulting stories are organised around the “seven classic stages of spiritual development” (ie chakras).

Murray Thomas, R, Moral Development Theories - Secular and Religious: A Comparative Study (1997)

Covers 13 secular and 13 religious theories of moral development.

Includes Jane Loevinger’s ego development, Freud/Erickson/Fromm, Carol Gilligan, Karl Marx, Hinduism, Buddhism etc.

Murphy, Michael, Golf in the Kingdom (1972, 1997)

Esalen co-founder and Integral Institute founder member Michael Murphy’s ground-breaking and masterful novel on golf and spirituality.

The story revolves around Murphy’s encounter with a mythical Scottish shaman and golf pro named Shivas Irons.

Murphy, Michael, The Future of the Body – Explorations Into the Further Evolutions of Human Nature (1992, 2005)

Ken Wilber writes: “This is a brilliant work of a true pioneering genius, mandatory reading for integral” – “an excellent compendium of an integral view.”

And Prof Charles Tart says: “The only way to adequately describe this book is to state that is the most important work on the relationship between the mind and body ever written.”

An 800-page masterwork by the founder of Esalen, the pioneering human potential centre in California.

Murphy is also a founder member of the Integral Institute.

Murphy, Michael, The Kingdom of Shivas Irons (1998)

Ken Wilber writes: “A brilliant and beautiful narrative of human possibilities. Murphy has written a spellbinding tale – provocative, compelling, immensely enjoyable – of the search for a deeper order, a more profound meaning, lying just within, and just beyond our grasp. It’s about golf, yes, but it’s really about the possible human being, struggling to grow into its own frightening greatness.”

Integral Institute founder member, and Esalen centre co-founder, Michael Murphy’s sequel to Golf in the Kingdom sees Murphy back in Scotland on a spiritual adventure to track down the mythical golf professional and shaman, Shivas Irons, with whom Murphy played a transformative round of golf in 1956.

Narvaez, Darcia, Bebeau, Muriel, Thoma, Stephena and Rest, James R, Postconventional Moral Thinking: A Neo-Kohlbergian Approach (1999)

How Lawrence Kohlberg’s work and James Rest’s Defining Issues Test (DIT) have shaped our understanding of moral development. Includes a digest of the findings that have emerged from DIT research.

Owen, Nick, More Magic of Metaphor – Stories for Leaders, Influencers and Motivators (2005)

A wonderful and wide-ranging collection of stories, with a guiding narrative about a ‘Young Magician’, gently – and graphically – interweaved with integral/Spiral Dynamics analysis (which is further elucidated in three appendices).

“Nick has created a magical source book for leaders, therapists, trainers and the curious.”
Martin Woods, Head of Leadership Development, Norwich Union Insurance

“Nick Owen has constistently led the way in applying the emergent field known as integral education.” Lynne Feldman, Integral Institute.

Palmer, Helen (ed), Inner Knowing… Consciousness… Creativity… Insight…. Intuition (1998)

A selection of essays by leading authorities on perception, creativity, spirituality and intuition.

Contributors include include Jung, Integral Institute founder members Roger Walsh and Frances Vaughn, Abraham Maslow, Krishnamurti, Daniel Goleman, Charles Tart, Sylvia Boorstein, Jack Kornfield, Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi, Isabel Allende, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Bruno Bettelheim, Erich Fromm and Jack Kornfield.

Palmer, Helen, The Enneagram: Understanding Yourself and the Others in Your Life (1991)

An established ‘Bible’ by one of the leading writers on the Enneagram system of personality type, with its deep psychological underpinnings.

Personality type is one of the five core elements in Wilber’s integral model known as AQAL. It deals with ‘horizontal’ development, as he calls it.

Palmer, Helen, The Enneagram in Love and Work: Understanding Your Intimate and Business Relationships (1996)

Using the Enneagram personality type model, one of its foremost authorities uncovers our deepest unconscious motivations, traumas and avoidances.

For each type, the book looks at worldview, spiritual path, focal issues, intimacy, biases, leadership style, conflict resolution, employee participation etc.

Paulson, Daryl, Competitive Business, Caring Business - An Integral Business Perspective for the 21st Century (2002)

Ken Wilber writes (in his foreword): “As a pioneer in this new and exciting field, Daryl Paulson’s presentation has much to offer. It is fresh, provocative and daring.”

Written by a founder member of the Integral Institute.

Perez, Joe, Soulfully Gay: How Harvard, HIV, Crystal Meth, Sex Addiction, Psychosis, and Integral Philosophy Brought be Back to God (2007)

From Ken Wilber’s foreword: “… perhaps the most astonishing, brilliant and courageous look at the interface between individual belief and cultural values that has been written in our times.”

“Joe is… a rip-roaring wonder of a writer.”

Join Joe on his mind-bending quest to understand sex, love, God and everything else.

Perry, William, Forms of Intellectual and Ethical Development in the College Years: A Scheme (1970/1998)

“His book Forms of Intellectual and Ethical Development in the College Years is a living classic”
Integral Institute founder member Prof Robert Kegan, Carol Gilligan and Theodore Sizer (from their memorial tribute to Perry in Harvard University Gazette, 1999).

New edition of a landmark book in student (and adult) development – charting cognitive growth through nine stages of increasing complexity. Based on a 15-year longitudinal study.

With new introduction by leading student development researcher L. Lee Knefelkamp.

See William Perry’s Theory of Intellectual and Ethical Development.

Piaget, Jean and Inhelder, B, The Psychology of the Child - the Definitive Summary of the Work of the World’s Most Renowned Psychologist (2000)

A classic work by the pioneer of developmental psychology Jean Piaget.

Piaget, Jean, The Child’s Conception of the World: a 20th-century Classic of Child Psychology (1967, ?)

A classic work that examines how children come to understand reality and causality.

Reimer, Joseph, Paolitto, Diana Pritchard and Hersh, Richard H, Promoting Moral Growth: from Piaget to Kohlberg (1990)

Concrete examples and FAQs to help turn Kohlberg’s pioneering moral development theory into everyday practice.

Includes foreword by Lawrence Kohlberg.

Reynolds, Brad, Embacing Reality: The Integral Vision of Ken Wilber, A Historical Survey and Chapter-By-Chapter Guide to Wilber’s Major Works (2004)

Brad Reynolds “has studied under Ken Wilber for the past ten years” and offers this detailed and comprehensive primer on Wilber’s work, “the first such book written with Wilber’s support and guidance.”

Includes 48 line-drawings depicting key concepts in the integral approach, along with detailed charts and photos of 20 of Wilber’s original book jackets.

Rest, James R, and Narvaez, Darcia (eds.) Moral Development in the Professions: Psychology and Applied Ethics (1994)

Review to come.

Reynolds, Brad, Where’s Wilber At?: Ken Wilber’s Integral Vision in the New Millenium (2006)

Read this user-friendly guide to get up to date with the cutting-edge of the integral worldview – post-metaphysical theory, the Wilber-Combs Matrix, Wilber’s ‘Phase 5’, ‘All Quadrants, All Levels’ etc.

“Wilber’s vision… is laying the positive foundations for an ‘integral revolution’, or better, a natural evolution to a higher-order worldwide consciousness to which we are all invited.”

Riso, Don Richard and Hudson, Russ, The Wisdom of the Enneagram - The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types (1999)

Ken Wilber writes: “The Wisdom of the Ennegram is a very important book. By combining the horizontal types of the Enneagram with a system of vertical levels of awareness, Riso and Hudson have produced one of the first truly integrated models of the human psyche. In addition to the importance of this pioneering work itself, it goes to point up the utter inadequacy of anything less than a full-spectrum model of human growth and development. Highly recommended.”

Wilber also writes, in The Eye of Spirit, “Don Riso, in my opinion, is doing an excellent job of using the horizontal Enneagram with the vertical spectrum of consciousness.”

Wilber has himself, apparently, said that he personally shows Enneagram 5 type tendencies in particular – as all the best people do, ahem... ;- )
(Though I’ve since also heard that he’s said he doesn’t have them. Please get in touch if you can clarify).

Here’s how Riso and Hudson describe the Enneagram 5 leader: “The perceptive, provocative type. Curious, innovative, secretive, and eccentric. Fives are tireless learners and experimenters, especially in specialized or technical matters. They like to understand in detail, spend time on research, and follow their curiosity wherever it leads. They are highly analytical and preoccupied with discovery, not paying attention to project time constraints and relationships. They can deteriorate into arrogance and noncommunication, intellectual bickering and oneupsmanship. At their best, Fives are visionary pioneers, bringing strikingly new ideas and profound depth to their work.”

Though ‘Type’ is one of the 5 foundations of the AQAL view, I can’t help noticing that no developmental practices drawn from personality type models (like the Enneagram or Myers-Briggs) appear to be included in the matrix of 62 practices that is at the heart of the Integral Institute’s Integral Life Practice Starter Kit.

By the way, Don Riso (along with AH Almaas and Claudio Naranjo) are themselves considered to be Enneagram 5 type writers....

Rice, Keith E, Knowing Me, Knowing You: an Integrated SocioPsychology Guide to Personal Fulfilment & Better Relationships (2006)

Prominent UK ‘Change Engineer’ Keith Rice draws Spiral Dynamics (Beck, Cowan, Graves) as well as NLP, Maslow, Kohlberg, Susan Blackmore and much else besides into an integrated and comprehensive approach to understanding ‘what makes people tick’.

Rinpoche, Traleg Kyabgon, The Practice of Lojong (2007)

Ken Wilber writes: “In the entire corpus of contemplative systems, East and West, I personally have found nothing that rivals [Lojong]”.

“It is a succinct practice manual of all of the main practices of Mahayana Buddhism, carefully distilled and concentrated into the most essential and effective ones.”

“Seriously, if you want one practice book of Buddhism, it woud be hard to find anything better than Lojong.”

Lojong in Tibetan means ‘mind training’.

Rowan, John, Discover your Subpersonalities: our inner world and the people in it (1993)

Includes questionnaires and simple exercises to help understand and take charge of our ‘subpersonalities’ (which are also investigated by the Genpo Dennis Merzel Roshi’s ‘Big Mind’ process, very popular with the Integral Institute).

John Rowan is a leading transpersonal/integral psychotherapist, counsellor and author, and a founder member of the Integral Institute (as well a member of the London Integral Circle).

Rowan, John, Ordinary Ecstasy: the dialectics of humanistic psychology (1976, 2001)

A widely respected guide to Humanistic Psychology.

Stanley Krippner: “A tour de force … high on the reading list both for veterans in the field and for neophytes seeking a reader-friendly but knowledgeable introduction.”

Maslow, Wilber, Psychosynthesis, groupwork, Gestalt, sexuality, organisational development, dreams, Centaur Consciousness, Spiral Dynamics, co-counselling, psychodrama – it’s all there, and much more, described by one of the field's clearest voices.

John Rowan is a leading transpersonal/integral psychotherapist, counsellor and author, and a founder member of the Integral Institute (as well a member of the London Integral Circle).

Rowan, John, Subpersonalities: the people in us (1990)

Ken Wilber writes: “Superb book”.

We all have many ‘subpersonalities’ that can awaken under different circumstances. Integral Institute founder member John Rowan synthesises work on the topic by Freud, Jung, Perls, Satir etc – and takes human development up to transpersonal realms.

John Rowan is a leading transpersonal/integral psychotherapist, counsellor and author, and a founder member of the Integral Institute (as well a member of the London Integral Circle).

Rowan, John, The Transpersonal: Spirituality in Psychotherapy and Counselling (2005)

Long-awaited updated second edition of Integral Institute founder member John Rowan’s classic book.

It includes a section on pioneers including Jung, Assagioli, Grof, Maslow and Rudhyar, profiles of practioners including Frances Vaughn, Hal Stone/Sidra Winkelman, Seymour Boorstein et al, and a dicussion of ‘The Wilber revolution’. Also practices including meditation, Active Imagination, visualisation etc.

Integral Institute founder member Frances Vaughn writes: “The Transpersonal is a clear and comprehensive overview of the ‘heartland’ of transpersonal psychology; a pioneering work set in solid theoretical context. It is a valuable resource for practioners and laypersons interested in psychotherapy and the frontiers of consciousness.”

John Rowan is a leading transpersonal/integral psychotherapist, counsellor and author, and a founder member of the Integral Institute (as well a member of the London Integral Circle).

Rowan, John with Jacobs, Michael, The Therapist's Use of Self (2002)

Integral Institite founder member John Rowan and his co-author try to answer the question ‘Who is the therapist?’ and look at what the different ways of being a therapist mean in practice. Covers topics including transference, countertransference, projective identification, empathy, genuineness, non-possessive warmth, presence and personhood.

A valuable book in stepping towards integrative psychotherapy.

Roshi, Genpo, Big Mind/Big Heart Revealed DVD (2004)

The revolutionary ‘Big Mind’ technique of voice dialogue allows (short-term) access to deep transcendental states – and has become a popular core technique in Integral Institute trainings.

Genpo Dennis Merzel Roshi’s ‘Big Mind’ (Zen) approach was developed in 1999 – and has recently taken the Integral world by storm. Big Mind is (from what I hear) the most highly rated element in the various Integral Institute trainings.

This professionally-produced 2 DVD set offers us a full workshop with Genpo Roshi, running through first the personal voices (or subpersonalities, selvesor ‘I’s) – including The Controller, the Vulnerable Child, the Skeptic, the Mind of Desire, the Damaged Self, the Mind that Seeks the Way. And then the transpersonal voices, including Big Mind, Big Heart, the Non-Seeking Mind, Yang Compassion, Joyous Mind, and the Integrated Free Functioning Mind (I think Genpo Roshi has said he would have just called it the Integral, or Integrated, Mind - if he’d thought of it at the time. Do please let me know if I’ve got this right!).

Rubinov-Jacobson, Philip, Drinking Lightning: Art, Creativity and Transformation (2000)

Includes foreword by Ken Wilber. (The author is apparently in discussion with Wilber about establishing the first International Museum and Academy of Visionary Art in America).

Creativity and art as an integral part of one’s personal spirituality. With an overview of Visionary art as a distinct movement – plus 40 full colour plates and 50 black and white reproductions, from 25 artists.

Rubinov-Jacobson, Philip, Eyes of the Soul - Exploring Inspiration in Art (2004)

Ken Wilber writes (in his foreword): “[This is] a book of very extraordinary art... Surely that is one of the most precious functions and services of art – to help us see more, feel more, know more, love more, express more, than we thought possible. If the word 'soul' represents, among other things, the best part of the personality, then art as the evocative display of the soul is the best part of art."

"This is a book of such art.”

This 728-page book includes 550+ color plates, 225+ black and white reproductions, and an anthology of 149 artists and 12 writers from around the world.

Russell, Peter, Waking Up in Time - Finding Inner Peace in Times of Accelerating Change (1998)

Ken Wilber writes: “A wonderful book, masterfully balancing ecological doom and spiritual renaissance.”

Ryan M J, The Fabric of the Future: Women Visionaries of Today Illuminate the Path to Tomorrow (1998)

Includes foreword by Ken Wilber: “The Fabric of the Future is truly an extraordinary book, profound, wise, far-ranging, visionary, compassionate, often brilliant, always moving.”

The 40 contributors to this volume include Jean Houston, Riane Eisler, Joanna Macy, Angeles Arrien, Meg Wheatley, Joan Borysenko, Caroline Myss, Starhawk, Sylvia Boorstein, Barbara Marx Hubbard and Gloria Steinem.

Schlitz, Marilyn, Amorok, Tina and Micozzi, Marc (eds.), Consciousness and Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind-Body Medicine (2004) - with DVD

Ken Wilber’s foreword introduces 60+ essays and a DVD with interviews. Other contributors include: Dean Ornish, Larry Dossey, Deepak Chopra, Candace Pert, Jon Kabat-Zinn etc.

Joan Borysenko writes: “This stunning collection of theories, research and new perspectives deserves to become the classic text in this fascinating field.”

Schlitz, Marilyn and Hyman, Tina (eds), Integral Medicine: A Noetic Reader (DATE)

Ken Wilber writes in his chapter-length foreword: “Integral medicine is in its infancy”.

“As such, the medical and health-care practitioners who are helping to forge an integral practice are on a voyage of incredible discovery, arguably the most important that the millennia-old profession of medicine has ever made.”

“In the following chapters you will see some of the most important and pioneering efforts.”
“Taken together, they cover aspects of virtually all of the quadrants, levels, lines, states, and types.”

Contributors include: Roger Walsh, Michael Murphy, Deepak Chopra, Candace Pert, Rupert Sheldrake, Brian Swimme, Stanislav Grof, Christian de Quincey and Theodore Roszak.

Schwartz, Tony, What Really Matters : Searching for Wisdom in America (1995, 1996)

Ken Wilber writes: “What Really Matters is a magnificent work, executed with style, great intelligence, and great sincerity. A true hero’s journey, it will stand for a long time as a chronicle of some of the best that America has to offer, and – just as important – how a sincere soul can approach it all.”

Wilber chose this book as one of around half a dozen key works recommended for further reading at the conclusion of his integral summary A Theory of Everything – An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science, and Spirituality.

It includes a chapter ‘Putting Consciousness on the Map – How Ken Wilber Married Freud and the Buddha’. Others cover: Helen Palmer, the Enneagram and Hameed Ali, Jack Kornfield, Michael Murphy and Ram Dass.

“In seeking more wisdom, Tony Schwartz did, in fact, find it. What Really Matters?… brilliantly separates the wheat from the chaff. The final chapter is as good a description of wisdom as any I know in the literature”, said M. Scott Peck, author of The Road Less Travelled: The New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth (Buy US; Buy UK).

Senge, Peter, Otto-Scharmer, Claus, Jaworski, Joseph and Flowers, Betty Sue, Presence: an exploration of profound change in people, organisations and society (2005)

Ken Wilber: “Presence is a timely and altogether important book. Drawing on a leading-edge understanding of human learning and awareness, it offers a simple but effective gateway to our capacity to become change agents of the future – in business, work, play, and relationships. Finding our presence is find the key to creative change and to our own future.”

Draws on interviews with 150 leaders.

Senge and Scharmer have been interviewed on Ken Wilber’s Integral Naked website.

First edition was titled: Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future.

Singh, Kathleen, The Grace in Dying: A Message of Hope, Comfort, and Spiritual Transformation (2000)

Ken Wilber writes: “a profound and moving – and much-needed – book.”
Kenneth Ring (Heading Toward Omega: In Search of the Meaning of the Near-Death Experience (Buy US; Buy UK) writes : “The new Kübler-Ross has arrived, and her name is Kathleen Singh. In a stunning debut, she has written, quite simply, the most important book on the nature of dying since On Death and Dying (Buy US; Buy UK). The Grace in Dying gives us new eyes with which to view death, and no one who reads Singh’s work can come away from it without sharing her radiant vision. The book is a flat-out masterpiece.”

Trained in transpersonal psychology and many spiritual traditions, Singh works with dying patients in a Florida hospice.

Sinnott, Jan, The Development of Logic in Adulthood: Postformal Thought and its Applications (1998)

Prof Jan Sinnott synthesises her 20 years of research on lifespan cognitive development - and describes the growth of complex, postformal thought. Also looks at applications of postformal thought in family relations, adult education, personal identity and spirituality.

Sinnott, Jan, and Cavanaugh, J (eds.), Bridging Paradigms: Positive Development in Adulthood and Cognitive Ageing (1991)

An examination of positive development across adulthood, with an emphasis on complex, post-formal thought.

Slaughter, Richard, Futures Beyond Dystopia: Creating Social Foresight (2004)

From Ken Wilber’s foreword: “Richard Slaughter has done a superb job in conveying the essentials of this integral map and its application to future studies… a superb introduction to this new field… it is indeed an approach that changes profoundly the nature of the discipline.”

Teasdale, Wayne, A Monk in the World: Cultivating a Spiritual Life (2003)

Ken Wilber writes the foreword to this book about a Hindu monk who practices Roman Catholicism, and is also a founder member of Ken Wilber’s Integral Spiritual Center.

Lama Surya Das: “This wonderful book helps us learn how to integrate the fundamental principles of contemplative spirituality into our modern lives.”

Teasdale, Wayne, The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World’s Religions (2001)

Ken Wilber: “The Mystic Heart is a beautiful and profound meditation on the commonalities at the core of the world’s great religions.”

Renowned interreligious monk Teasdale reveals the practice of a universal spirituality – as befits the ‘Interspiritual Age’ he sees us entering, where a new civilisation is formed around common spiritual values.

Includes an introduction by the Dalai Lama.

Thurman, Robert, Inner Revolution - Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Real Happiness (1998)

Ken Wilber writes: “A wonderful introduction to the entire sweep of Buddhism, pointing out its continuing, powerful relevance for today’s world.”

Thurman is a leading US Tibetan Buddhist – and also well known for being Uma’s dad.

Includes foreword by the Dalai Lama.

Tingen, Paul, Miles Beyond – The Electric Explorations of Miles Davis 1967-1991 (2003)

Ken Wilber writes: “An extraordinary book, brilliant in its conception and delivery, about one of the great musical geniuses of our times. Highly recommended”.

Maybe this is one relating to your musical line of development... ;- )

Tulku, Chagdud, Lord of the Dance: Autobiography of a Tibetan Lama (1992)

From Ken Wilber’s foreword: “a story as amazing and remarkable as any I have read.”

Autobiography of Vajrayana Buddhist Master Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, the son of one of Tibet’s most renowned female lamas, who was later forced to flee into exile by the Chinese invasion. He would later help bring Tibetan Buddhism to the West: the Chagdud Gonpa Foundation now has 20 centres around the world, and Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche is based in Brazil.

Tulku, Chagdud, Gates to Buddhist Practice (The Living Dharma Series: the Oral Teachings of Chagdud Tulku, 1993)

From Ken Wilber’s foreword: “a wonderfully clear and straightforward presentation.”

Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhist wisdom in an easily-accessible style, from exiled Master Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche.

Turiel, Elliot, The Culture of Morality: Social Development, Context and Conflict (2002)

A leading scholar of moral development seeks to disprove those who lament the moral state of US society and perceive a decline in morality amongst the young.

Topics include abortion, indvidualism, gender, moral development vs moral decline etc.

Also includes discussion of Kohlberg, Gilligan, Piaget, Habermas, Putnam, Nussbaum, Bellah, Etzioni, Fromm, Bennett.

Vaillant, George E,The Wisdom of the Ego (1993, 1998)

Prof Robert Kegan (Integral Institute founder member and author of In Over Our Heads - the mental demands of modern life) writes: “A richly textured, elegantly written, and humane book by the person who is becoming the Anna Freud of his day. Vaillant’s sympathetic treatment of the defences is itself wise and creative.”

This work is regularly cited by Ken Wilber and takes an empirical look at the maturation of the ego (using Jane Loevinger’s ego development model), in particular how our ego’s defence mechanisms change as we grow up.

It includes much longitudinal research drawn from Harvard University’s ‘Study of Adult Development’, along with studies of complex individuals including Sylvia Plath, Eugene O’Neill, Florence Nightingale and Anna Freud.

Valine, Bob (ed), The Second Birth: Stories of Awakening within the Heart of Community (2006)

Thirty-eight everyday folks share their personal stories of embodied spiritual awakening, through Saniel Bonder’s ‘Waking Down in Mutuality’ approach to spiritual rebirth – awakening as the flawed, human beings that we are.

Bonder is a member of Ken Wilber’s Integral Spiritual Center.

Includes introduction by Saniel Bonder.

Van Haften, W, Korthals, M and Wren, T, Philosophy of Development - Reconstructing the Foundations of Human Development and Education (1996)

An important “fully comprehensive philosophy of development” – including chapters focusing on different lines of development: cognitive, moral, scientific, societal, artistic etc.

Also looks at individual and collective development in various domains, and engages with the post-modern critique. This book – a co-operative effort by seven authors – seems to have passed almost entirely unnoticed in integral circles – even though many of its key influences are included: Kohlberg, Kegan, Loevinger, Habermas, Piaget, Fowler, Gilligan etc. (Perhaps this neglect is due to the fact that it originates in Holland; Frank Visser spotted it!).

It’s great to find integral-like approaches such as this popping up, completely unconnected to Wilber – and in academia too (which is often viewed as being constitutionally averse to integral approaches).

Visser, Frank, Ken Wilber - Thought as Passion (2003)

Ken Wilber writes in the foreword: "Frank Visser has certainly studied this material as carefully as anybody, and I am deeply appreciative of his efforts to make an integral approach more available to the public".

The evolving ideas, and the man behind them, including numerous charts and diagrams.

Integral Institute founder member Frances Vaughn, author of Shadows of the Sacred, Seeing through Spiritual Illusions, writes: “This book is an excellent overview and introduction to the extraordinary work of Ken Wilber, a visionary genius of our time.”

Vrinte, Joseph, Perennial Quest for a Psychology with a Soul: An inquiry into the relevance of Sri Aurobindo’s metaphysical yoga psychology in the context of Ken Wilber’s integral psychology (2002)

Darryl Paulson (author of Competitive Business, Caring Business and Integral Institute founder member) writes: “This book deals with the relevance of Sri Aurobindo in the context of Ken Wilber’s integral philosophy. There is no doubt that Vrinte sides more with Aurobindo than Wilber and his points are worth pondering very seriously. Vrinte has done his homework and understands Wilber’s work in depth. If one merely reads it to get an overview of Wilber and Aurobindo, the book is worth the read. However, the real meat is the in-depth study and comparison of Wilber and Aurobindo.
This will be destined to become a classic in the field”.

Dialogue and critique around two integral thinkers.

Wade, Jenny, Changes of Mind - A Holonomic Theory of the Evolution of Consciousness (1996)

John Rowan, Integral Institute founder member and author of The Transpersonal: Spirituality in Psychotherapy and Counselling, writes: "This is stunningly simple and stunningly erudite at the same time. The simplicity lies in the fact that the author takes us systematically and clearly through the main stages of development; the erudition lies in the fact that relevant research is quoted all the way through. The chapter on pre- and perinatal experience is the best I have seen, and we seldom find in a book like this a chapter on after-death experience. There are similarities to the work of Ken Wilber but in no way is this derivative from him - it is deeply original and well thought out."

Michael Washburn, author of The Ego and the Dynamic Ground, writes: “In this stunningly original book, Dr Wade presents a theory of development that begins before birth and ends after death. She extends the boundaries of development in a way that leads us to rethink the nature of consciousness and the relation of consciousness to the brain. Dr Wade draws on a wide range of sources from the fields of developmental psychology, brain research, new-paradigm studies, and mysticism. She brings these sources together in a synthesis that will make an important contribution to consciousness studies and to transpersonal psychology.”

In true integral style, Jenny Wade’s model includes Jung, Freud, Piaget, Wilber, Gnostics, Buddhism, sociology, pre-natal memories, sex etc. Also includes a graphic showing how many of her 11 levels other researchers include (eg Wilber, Cook-Greuter, Grof, Graves, Loevinger, Kegan, Maslow etc).

Jenny Wade has been interviewed on Ken Wilber’s Integral Naked website.

Wade, Jenny, Transcendent Sex: When Lovemaking opens the Veil (2004)

With a foreword by Ken Wilber, Wade studies ordinary people’s spontaneous spiritual awakenings through transcendent sex.

Includes extracts from first-hand accounts by nearly 100 respondents.

Covers animal possession, time travel, out-of-body experiences, past life regression and also enlightenment.