In 1991, he published the memoir called Grace and Grit, upon which this film is based. Wilber has been an apologist for a worldview that I have written against for decades, starting with Unmasking the New Age (IVP) in 1986. While Wilber wants to integrate truths from all religions and philosophies, and puts his theories into an evolutionary scenario, he is essentially a Zen Buddhist and has written a book called Integral Buddhism. He has developed an account of consciousness in which the highest state of consciousness is the realization of oneness with an impersonal god. 1 Since his first book, The Spectrum of Consciousness (Quest Books, 1977), Wilber has defended the worldview that all is one (nondualism or monism) and all is divine (pantheism).
Over many years, I have evaluated his philosophy and reviewed his books. He is a nondualist pantheist, and I am a Christian theist. I am an academic and he is an independent scholar. As philosophers, we have little in common. We are both philosophers and we have both buried our wives. You see, Ken Wilber and I have two things in common. I did not want to watch this film, since I knew it would remind me of my own tragic journey. The film is, among other things, a study in how one’s deepest convictions influence one’s approach to suffering. Grace and Grit is a film by Sebastian Siegel (who wrote the script) about the suffering of a real-life young couple, writer Ken Wilber (played by Stuart Townsen) and his wife, Treya Wilber (Mena Suvari), who is diagnosed with cancer shortly after their wedding. Christianity uniquely gives meaning to suffering because of the redemptive suffering of its founder, Jesus Christ. All religions address this, but not in the same way. Perhaps life’s greatest challenge is coping with suffering - or how to suffer well.
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