A short filmed conversation in which Vishen Lakhiani visits Ken Wilber's personal library. The participants tour Wilber's shelves, note which books are primary vs secondary, and discuss how Wilber's Integral Theory has influenced authors and books (including Reinventing Organizations and Vishen's Code of the Extraordinary Mind). The tone is informal and anecdotal, focused on influence, curation choices, and mutual recognition between authors.
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You tossed my book away, didn't you, Ken? Let's go see your library. So this is where the genius works. Now, from what I understand, Ken, all the books over here are either books that you have written, are books by authors who were inspired by you, or are books that you have read, studied, critiqued, and drawn for inspiration.
Yeah, and there are ones in that entire room over there. Entire wall over there. There's the whole wall over here. And when I moved over here, I had to get rid of about half of them. But you can see things on. That's me in Greek. There are all sorts of different.
And I'll show you something right.
This book over here, Reinventing Organizations. This is one of the manuals that.
We use for running mindvalley.
So this book is inspired by Ken's work. It's an integral theory applied to work. Now, I hold this up to show how vast your body of work is and how it can be applied to everything from politics to business to the self.
Now, if you read my book, the.
Code of the Extraordinary Mind, I also.
Reference you multiple times as an influencer, as someone who influenced me.
Is my book on these shelves, or.
Was that one of the ones you got rid of?
It'll be on one of these shelves.
It will be on one of these shelves, so it's not already there. You tossed my book away, didn't you?
No, I read it carefully. You know I did.
But it didn't make the main shelf.
It's in the secondary shelf.
This isn't the main.
I'm just putting Ken Wilber on the spot here.
Now, there are main books over there. A lot of the main books are out there.
I know, I know.
I'm just.
But I do appreciate the advice you.
Gave me from my book.
So Ken actually showed me what was.
Right and what was wrong in my book.
Not that something was wrong. It was.
When you understand interval theory, you understand how to speak the different stages of awareness. So thank you, guys.
This is a glimpse inside the workspace of a legend.
