Some of us have recently been having a weekly book club on Ken Wilber’s Sex, Ecology, Spirituality.  In our latest SESsion, I gave a presentation that compared Wilber’s tripartite conception of big history (which includes the physiosphere, biosphere, and noosphere) with Gregg’s TOK and the related periodic table of behavior, in which 4 planes of existence are recognized.  I argue that we should recognize the difference between the biosphere and the zoosphere.  Wilber conflates these (on this he borrowed from the earlier work of Teilard de Chardin).  Here’s the video:

https://youtu.be/1DZHWoU6CVI

Also here is the matrix document that starts with Gregg’s PTB and adds some content from other sources, including what I learned listening to the “Conscious Evolution” podcast series.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cJXUXWYt-Chvqy3XR_rDC7szLqrd-rwr/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=117491835000953037563&rtpof=true&sd=true

(feel free to add comments to the doc)

What do you guys think of this? 

Brandon Norgaard

Founder, The Enlightened Worldview Project