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The term '''involution''' refers to different things depending on the writer. In some instances it refers to a [[process]] that occurs prior to evolution and gives rise to the [[cosmos]], in others an aspect of [[evolution]], and still others a process that follows the completion of evolution in the human form.

The term '''involution''' refers to different things depending on the writer. In some instances it refers to a [[process]] that occurs prior to evolution and gives rise to the [[cosmos]], in others an aspect of [[evolution]], and still others a process that follows the completion of evolution in the human form.

The integral philosopher [[Ken Wilber]] refers to involution in his online chapter of ''Kosmic Karma'', employing concepts from [[Plotinus]], [[Advaita Vedanta]], [[Tibetan Buddhism]], and Sri Aurobindo.  According to Wilber, the cosmic evolution described in his previous works is preceded by an involution of Spirit into Matter.  This involution follows the reverse stages to the sequence of evolution - e.g. Spirit to soul to mind to life to matter.  Once the stage of insentient, lifeless  matter is attained, then "something like the Big Bang occurs", whereupon matter and manifest world come into concrete existence, from which stage evolution follows. <ref>Wilber, Ken, ''Introduction: From the Great Chain of Being to Postmodernism in Three Easy Steps'', [[Shambhala Publications]], 2005.</ref>

The integral philosopher [[Ken Wilber]] refers to involution in his online chapter of ''Kosmic Karma'', employing concepts from [[Plotinus]], [[Advaita Vedanta]], [[Tibetan Buddhism]], and Sri Aurobindo.  According to Wilber, the cosmic evolution described in his previous works is preceded by an involution of Spirit into Matter.  This involution follows the reverse stages to the sequence of evolution - e.g. Spirit to soul to mind to life to matter.  Once the stage of insentient, lifeless  matter is attained, then "something like the Big Bang occurs", whereupon matter and manifest world come into concrete existence, from which stage evolution follows. <ref>Wilber, Ken, ''Introduction: From the Great Chain of Being to Postmodernism in Three Easy Steps'', [[Shambhala Publications]], 2005.</ref>

 

==References==

==References==

#Gottfried de Purucker, Occult Glossary, TUP, 2nd ed., 1996 [1]

#Gottfried de Purucker, Occult Glossary, TUP, 2nd ed., 1996 [1]