American philosopher who developed integral theory — a comprehensive meta-theory synthesizing psychology, spirituality, evolutionary biology, sociology, and postmodern theory through the AQAL framework (All Quadrants All Levels) — writing Spectrum of Consciousness, Sex Ecology Spirituality, A Brief History of Everything, and more than two dozen other books.
Created the most ambitious synthesis of human knowledge since Hegel — Wilber's integral AQAL framework attempts to map every significant human inquiry (scientific, spiritual, artistic, moral) onto a developmental hierarchy of levels and quadrants, providing a meta-map for navigating the proliferation of knowledge domains.
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