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Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news.

Ken Wilber

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Ken Wilber
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 31
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Oklahoma City
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Kenneth Earl Wilber II
Kenneth Earl Ken Wilber Junior
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