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NORMAN EINSTEIN 201
those two is properly representing Jung’s thought. Nevertheless, if
past experience is any indication, that shy silence on Wilber’s part,
coming on the heels of the many other documented misrepresentations
by him of others’ work, would place the smart money on
Odajnyk’s presentation as being valid, at least on the above points.
And note further that Odajnyk’s critique, too, was given well
prior to Crittenden’s assertion—first made in 1998, and reprinted
by Wilber’s own Integral Institute in 2004—that no such “believable
criticisms” have ever been made of kw’s work. Further, Odajnyk’s
book was put into print by Wilber’s own long-time publisher,
Shambhala. Thus, kw could not reasonably have been unaware of
its existence. (Shambhala—“the leading publisher of Buddhist
books in the western world”—also publishes Trungpa’s writings.
Its president and editor-in-chief, Samuel Bercholz, has served as a
trustee of the Naropa Institute [Shambhala, 2004].)
Odajnyk’s comments on Wilber’s early work, too, are worth
noting:
When it comes to psychological development, we know that it
is possible to point out a person, or a culture, with highly
evolved intelligence and consciousness while his, or its, instinctive,
emotional, and ethical development lags far behind
.... In other words, it is possible to have a higher consciousness
that is “transcendent, transpersonal, and transtemporal”
and a personal unconscious that is “instinctive, impulsive,
libidinous, id-ish, animal, ape-like.” I know that for Wilber
[in his early work, pre-1981] this is not possible by definition,
but definition is theory.
Wilber’s more recent (see 2000e) psychological model includes
more than a dozen “streams” of development, or quasi-independent
“lines”—of cognition, needs, sexuality, motivation, self-identity,
etc. Those lines were first introduced by kw (1998) in his “Wilber-
3” phase, beginning in the early ’80s. And such epicyclic streams/
lines do indeed now allow for individuals to be simultaneously at,
for example, a high level of cognitive or of psychic/spiritual development,
but a low moral stage.
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[Adi Da] makes a lot of mistakes. These are immediately reinterpreted
as great teaching events, which is silly (Wilber,
1996a).