This Shit Blew My Mind: All Human Knowledge In One Chart

Trevor Stark
The Common Thread
Published in
4 min readApr 7, 2022

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Who is Ken Wilber? What is Integral Theory? and What is the 4 Quadrant model?

Ken Wilber’s 4 Quadrants Model (illustrated By the Author!)

Ken Wilber is the smartest person you’ve ever heard of.

He’s a philosopher who’s written over 40 books on topics ranging from sex to quantum physics to meditation.

Watch Ken stop his brain waves through meditation:

His work has culminated in a grand theory of all human knowledge called Integral Theory.

Integral Theory is much more complicated than I could explain in this article. Still, the general idea is that every domain of human study is part of a deeper, integrated theory of everything.

Every knowledge domain - spirituality, biology, and economics - has some grain of truth and value.

The key to integral theory is to see the value in each domain and incorporate them into your life.

Here’s a visual I drew up:

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