An Integral Approach to Judaism

Rabbi David Ingber and Ken Wilber explore the implications of taking an Integral approach to Judaism, one which promises to include all the important insights of previous approaches, without ever privileging one perspective or interpretation of this ancient religion to the exclusion of the others.  They then go on to discuss an impossibly painful chapter of human history, during which the unimaginable suffering European Jews endured was eclipsed only by the immeasurable wealth of knowledge, tradition, and insight that was forever lost to the Holocaust.

In the second and final installation of this dialogue, David and Ken Wilber explore the three major ways we can relate to divinity: through personal experiences of transcendence and reverie (God in 1st-person), through profound relationships with the Creator and with each other (God in 2nd-person), and through the sublime appreciation of Creation itself (God in 3rd-person). They discuss how all three of these dimensions of spiritual reality are necessary for a fully-realized means of worship, and yet have often found themselves pitted against each other throughout history as various factions within a spiritual tradition advocate one or two particular aspects of God, while remaining distrustful of the others....