“Finally, integral spirituality — as the very name "integral" implies — transcends and includes science, it does not exclude, repress, or deny science.”

— Ken Wilber

An Integral Spirituality
Context: Finally, integral spirituality — as the very name "integral" implies — transcends and includes science, it does not exclude, repress, or deny science. To say that the spiritual currents of the cosmos cannot be captured by empirical science is not to say that they deny science, only that they show their face to other methods of seeking knowledge, of which the world has an abundance.

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