07.31.06
Wilber/Cohen: the postmodern strategy
Having discussed Kant, and eastern spirituality, here’s another twist:
I notice that the current issue of What is Enlightenment? magazine, with a discussion between Ken Wilbur and Andrew Cohen, is backtracking/hedging on their postmodern theme. They have changed the pitch to a curious combination of ‘modern/postmodern’ with Wilbur pulling a sly rabbit out of a hat using the thematic of the ‘myth of the given’ (if you don’t want to mention Kant, that’s a nice way to slip him in, most indirectly).
It is nice to know they are reading my material on New Ages (and Kant, no doubt), and getting worried!
This article also asks a question: why are all these gurus unable to understand history? It is a significant issue for the quixotic hope they might provide some leadership in a new era of spirituality.
Enlightened or not, they have miscalculated.
It is about time all these gurus dropped the postmodern strategy, as it slips into catastrophe. It is not going to work, and the only beneficiaries will be the fundamentalists, who will certainly turn on the New Agers with a vengeance.