Imagine what will happen if we take everything that all the world's cultures can tell us about human potential - the potential for psychological, spiritual and social development - and highlight the basic principles that unite these disparate pieces of knowledge; what if we tried to create a comprehensive map that included the most important aspects of all the great traditions of the world? This is exactly the map offered in Ken Wilber's Integral Vision. Using all known systems and models of human development - from the knowledge of the ancient sages to the latest breakthroughs in cognitive science - he distills them into five simple components, the existence of which the reader himself can verify based on his own direct experience.