Boomeritis : A Novel That Will Set You Free

About this book

Ken Wilbers latest book is a daring departure from his previous writingsa highly original work of fiction that combines brilliant scholarship with tongue-in-cheek storytelling to present the integral approach to human development that he expounded in more conventional terms in his recent A Theory of Everything. The story of a nave young grad student in computer science and his quest for meaning in a fragmented world provides the setting in which Wilber contrasts the alienated "flatland" of scientific materialism with the integral vision which embraces body mind soul and spirit in self culture and nature. The book especially targets one of the most stubborn obstacles to realizing the integral vision: a disease of egocentrism and narcissism that Wilber calls "boomeritis" because it seems to plague the baby-boomer generation most of all. Through a series of sparkling seminar-lectures skillfully interwoven with the heros misadventures in the realms of sex drugs and popular culture all of the major tenets of extreme postmodernism are criticizedand exemplifiedincluding the authors having a bad case of boomeritis himself. Parody intellectual slapstick and a mind-twisting surprise ending unite to produce a highly entertaining summary of the work of cutting-edge theorists in human development from around the world.