Many mystical philosophers are taking a “wait-and-see” attitude. This is reasonable because we live in an age of faddism where uncooked or half-baked ideas are shouted as loudly as any other idea.

Materialists have a habit of coopting alternative science notions. So many new age thinkers try to coopt spirituality with the notion of an imminent God that is consistent with materialist metaphysics. Examples are the deep ecology movement, feminist spirituality, the so-called holographic paradigm, and so forth. This is what Wilber objects to, mainly.

But as my work has emphasized, all the major advocates of the current paradigm shift, embrace transcendence (nonlocality) that includes immanence. Some philosophers, Wilber included unfortunately, also seem to hold on to the notion that science is a “lower” level activity and cannot possibly capture the “high” level subtle aspect of reality that mystics talk about. But my own work, Deepak Chopra’s work, Abraham Maslow, Rupert Sheldrake, all this should help Wilber reexamine his position.