Much, if not all, of what I believe to be what I am and what I think the world is, are all biases. I call it bias because it comes from my perspective or my point of view; me as the central point of reference from which everything else revolves around. I had to come first before everything else. Surely, no? Although this error may be obvious to some of you, for most of my life, I have always depended on the external to learn, to understand about myself, and to know how I view my world.

Knowing the theory of how to end suffering is entirely different from actually experiencing it. For Ken Wilber, a world-renowned expert on human consciousness, it took a devastating personal tragedy to truly understand this difference.