The Collected Works of Ken Wilber, Volume 5 (Five): Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber

Wilber, Ken

ISBN 10: 1570625050 / ISBN 13: 9781570625053

Published by Shambhala Publications, Boston, MA, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Collected Works of Ken Wilber, Volume 5 (Five): Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber
• Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Boston, MA
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1570625050
• ISBN 13: 9781570625053
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

Grace and Grit is the compelling story of the five-year journey of Ken Wilber and his wife, Treya Killam Wilber, through Treya's diagnosis of breast cancer, treatments, and finally, death. During this period, Ken put his own work on hold in order to offer full-time support to Treya. In fact, it would be nearly ten years before he published a new full-length theoretical study (Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, Volume Six of this series). Nonetheless, this personal narrative contains a wide-ranging commentary, including critiques of both conventional and New Age approaches to illness. Ken's account of the couple's struggle to integrate this catastrophic event into their spiritual practice, combined with excerpts from Treya's journals, produces an unforgettable portrait of health and healing, wholeness and harmony, suffering and surrender. The book contains a new introduction and index.

About the Author

Ken Wilber is the developer of an integral "theory of everything" that embraces the truths of all the world's great psychological, scientific, philosophical, and spiritual traditions. He founded the Integral Institute, a think-tank for studying issues of science and society, in 2000. Wilber is the author of twenty books.