Born in 1949 in Oklahoma City, Ken Wilber lived in many places during his school years, due to his father being in the army. He completed high school in Lincoln, Nebraska, and started medicine at Duke University. However, during his first year he lost all interest in pursuing a career in science, and started to read in psychology and philosophy, both West and East. He went back to Nebraska to study biochemistry, but after a few years dropped out of university to devote all his time to studying his own curriculum and writing books.

With eighteen books on spirituality and science, and translations in twenty countries, Wilber is now the most translated academic author in the United States. He is seen as an important representative of transpersonal psychology, which emerged in the sixties from humanistic psychology, and which concerns itself explicitly with spirituality. For the fundamental and pioneering nature of his insights, he has been called "the Einstein of consciousness".

His debut The Spectrum of Consciousness (1977) established his reputation as an original thinker, who seeks to integrate Western and Eastern psychology. No Boundary (1979), which summarizes this work, is one of his most popular books. His core works Up from Eden : The Atman Project   cover the territories of developmental psychology and cultural history respectively.

In his more recent works, especially the voluminous Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution  (1995), he has criticized not only Western culture, but also counter-cultural movements such as the New Age. In his opinion, none of these approach the depth and detailed nature of the "perennial philosophy", the conception of reality that lies at the heart of all major religions, and which forms the background of all his writings. This fundamental work has been summarized too, in A Brief History of Everything (1996).

In his most personal work up till now, Grace and Grit (1991), Wilber gives a moving account of his relationship with his second wife, Treya, who died of cancer in 1989. In One Taste he gives a personal journal of the year 1997, he offers insights in his way of life and his spiritual experiences. In his most recent book Boomeritis, a Fiction, he plays out his provocative theories about humanity and the Boomers. He even adds his own twist of humor to this work of fiction belended with theory.

Ken Wilber has a 10 set CD set that done in interview form with Tammy Simon. The work is called Kosmic Consciousness an is Unabridged.

He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

In 2000 he founded the Integral Institute, where he the president of a think-tank for studying issues of science and society in an integral way.

He has written over 18 books alone and numerous with other authors in his fieldand has done 2 CD interviews . A master of human potenial and an insipration to everyone who takes the time to learn about his theories.