This introductory sampler of Ken Wilbers thought, wisdom, and wit--excerpted from his most popular books--ranges over a variety of topics, including meditation, mystical experience, the new age, science, and spirituality. Ever since the publication of his first book, The Spectrum of Consciousness, written when he was twenty-three, Ken Wilber has been identified as the most comprehensive philosophical thinker of our times. This introductory sampler, designed to acquaint newcomers with his work, contains brief passages from his most popular books, ranging over a variety of topics, including levels of consciousness, mystical experience, meditation practice, death, the perennial philosophy, and Wilbers integral approach to reality, integrating matter, body, mind, soul, and spirit. Here is Wilbers writing at its most reader-friendly, discussing essential ideas of the worlds great psychological, philosophical, and spiritual traditions in language that is lucid, engaging, and inspirational.