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Ken Wilber's newest book is just a bold departure from his prior writings—an extremely original work of fiction that includes amazing grant with tongue-in-cheek storytelling to provide the integrated method of human progress that he expounded in more traditional conditions in his current A Theory of Everything. The tale of a naïve young graduate student in compsci and his pursuit of meaning in a fragmented world offers the environment in which Wilber contrasts the alienated "flatland" of medical materialism using the built-in perspective, which holds body, mind, heart, and spirit in self, culture, and character. The guide particularly locates among the most persistent obstacles to recognizing the vision: an illness of egocentrism and arrogance that Wilber calls "boomeritis" since it appears to affect the infant-boomer era most of. Via a number of glowing workshop-classes well intertwined with the idol's misadventures in the areas of drugs, sex, and common tradition, all the main tenets of severe postmodernism are criticized—and exemplified—including the writer's having a poor situation of boomeritis herself.