Review of Wilber's The Marriage of Sense and Soul

In October of 1999 I attended a conference at Purdue University on pressure sensitive paints (I spoke on a related topic: temperature sensitive paint) and one evening spent some time in a Barnes and Noble bookstore looking for something interesting. I came across Ken Wilber's The Marriage of Sense and Soul. It had a definite effect on me and initiated my journey toward an appreciation of the postmodern. Here is a review of the book. I recommend the review but, interestingly, what I took away from the book that was important to me was not discussed in the review. It was where I learned about the Great Chain of Being and the principle of emergence. Here for a Wikipedia explanation. It might not seem to follow but it does. The book prepared me for A New Kind of Christian by Brian McLaren.