A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber
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Book Summary Author: Ken Wilber Edition: Mass Market Paperback Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Published: 2007-03-27 ISBN: 1590304500 Number of pages: 544 Publisher: Shambhala |
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Book Reviews of the A Brief History of Everything
Customer Review: This book is as silly as its title!
Summary: 1 Stars
On page 219 we find this: "If you take somebody
from the magic or mythic worldview, and you try to
explain to them that the sum of the squares of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the hypotenuse, you won't get very far." Well, of course not, because you will not be making any sense at all! Did the author mean to state the Pythagorean Theorem: the square of the hypotenuse in a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides? This is a completely different idea, but we must assume this is what he was trying to say. But it gets worse! Mr. Wilber wants us to believe that the results and conclusions of the meditative traditions
( "you are face to face with the Divine . . .") are exactly the same kind of knowledge as the Pythagorean Theorem!!!!! Have your seventh-grade child demonstrate--in the real, physical, "empirical" world--the truth of the Theorem of Pythagoras and then ask yourself if you believe Wilber is correct here.