Ken Wilber is one of the most creative spiritual thinkers alive today, and A Theory of Everything is an accessible taste of his brilliance. Like a masterful conductor, he brings everyone in, finds room for science and spirit, and creates music for the soul. Postmodernism had built its huge band of followers largely on its capacity to deconstruct everybody else s ideas, leaving the wielder of this postmodernist demolition as the king or queen of the academic hill. Evolutionary psychology managed to pull the rug out from under the rug-pullers, and it did so by showing that evolutionary principles give much more interesting and compelling explanations of human behavior than the standard postmodern claim that all behavior is culturally relative and socially constructed. Evolutionary psychology made it clear that there are indeed universals in the human condition, that evolution can be denied only by embracing incoherence, and that, most of all, postmodernism just wasn t any fun any more.
Evolutionary psychology is actually a branch of a radically new understanding of evolution itself.
The second law of thermodynamics tells us that in the real world, disorder always increases. The revolutionary new understanding found in chaos and complexity theories maintains that the physical universe actually has an inherent tendency to create order, just as when water chaotically washing down the drain in your bathroom sink suddenly organizes itself into a beautiful swirling whirlpool. Biological life itself is a series of swirling whirlpools, creating order out of chaos at every turn, and these new and more highly ordered structures are carried forward by various selection processes operating at all levels, from physical to cultural. Still, as hot as evolutionary psychology is, it s not the hottest. The very hand of God could be seen in its formulas, some whispered.