People Index

Wilber's work is dense with named thinkers he draws on, argues with, or both. This index inverts the book's own footnotes the same way the concept wiki inverts its arguments: instead of a person scattered across hundreds of pages, each page here collects what Wilber actually says about one thinker — where he agrees, where he departs, and the passages where he makes the case, chapter-cited from the source text.

Sourced entirely from Sex, Ecology, Spirituality. The roster below is the full set of significant recurring interlocutors found in a full-text scan of that book, sorted by mention count (main body only, footnotes and references excluded) — see library/1995-sex-ecology-spirituality-people-source.md for the underlying research. Twenty-three have live pages; the remaining four names in the table are name-drops with no substantive discussion attached (see "Not written up" below) — the roster is otherwise complete.

Not written up

These four are deliberately left as plain text, not gaps to fill later — each was checked against the full text and found to be a name-drop with no argument or stance attached, not a substantive discussion:

• Gregory Bateson — his 8 mentions are all in the endnotes (none in the main body), and even there he appears only secondhand, as the source of the "cybernetics" that Morris Berman leans on; the passage is really a critique of Berman, not an engagement with Bateson's own ideas.
• Stephen Jay Gould — appears once, credited in passing (with Niles Eldredge) for the "punctuational model" of evolution, with no further discussion.
• Auguste Comte — appears once, in a list of structural-functionalists ("from Comte to Parsons to Niklas Luhmann"), with no argument attached.
• Roberto Assagioli — appears only in the bibliography (0 mentions in the main body); Psychosynthesis is listed as a reference but never discussed in the text.

Any of these could get a page later if a future work (or a closer look at SES itself) turns up more substance, but as of this pass the roster of people SES actually argues with is complete.