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None of the above readily researchable concerns, again, have had
any effect at all on Wilber’s admirers and students, as one of the
latter (Reynolds, 2004) has recently and disconcertingly demonstrated:
One of the more useful ways that I envision Ken Wilber and
his work is to see him as a bodhisattva serving the enlightenment
of other sentient beings.... Having worked under his
tutelage for nearly a decade, I have personally seen the commanding
power and adeptness to which he pursues this
aim....
I like to see Wilber as a modern-day human-embodiment
of Manjushri.
Manjushri is a “perfectly enlightened Buddha,” and is the
Buddhist “Lord of the Word,” i.e., the figure is a god.
Manjushri, as god of the Word, is the universal icon of the
liberative power of the Word (Thurman, 1991).
Of course, in any non-Buddhist context, “liberating Words”
would be seen to refer to the averred literal cosmic sound of Om or
the Word of God, not to any mere physical writings as Reynolds
takes them. But that is a separate issue.
Adulation such as the above, from Reynolds, could have come
equally well from the mouths of any of the loyal followers of any of
the spiritual teachers we have already met herein. And indeed,
such behavior constitutes part of the problem with Wilber’s increasingly
revered place in the world. Worse, Reynolds’ praise, as
of this writing, exists just a single mouse-click away from the home
page of Wilber’s website. That is, the link to it is displayed prominently
on that home page with, one may safely assume, Wilber’s
explicit approval and sanction for that obeisance.
Red-flag, rapidly-losing-perspective (in my opinion) things like
that, plus kw’s previous excited endorsements of various indefensible
“Rude Boys,” may well leave one feeling somewhat sick to one’s
stomach. There is, however, a partial antidote. That is, individuals
who may by now have very reasonable and understandable concerns
about the caliber of Wilber’s confidently given but frequently
baldly wrong advice may wish to meditate on the following cleansing
idea, courtesy of the former NFL star quarterback Joe Theisman: