Ken Wilber and the Integral Vision: The Hierarchical Mapping of Spirit
In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, a philosopher of staggering synthetic power named Ken Wilber articulated a vision of reality that would become the primary "Meta-Map" for modern esotericism: The Integral Vision . Moving beyond the fragmented surface of traditional and modern schools of thought, Wilber sought to reveal the absolute, multi-dimensional link between the evolutionary levels of consciousness and the foundational frequencies of the cosmos. His work represents a heroic "Integral Alchemy," a systematic attempt to re-connect the mathematical laws of development with the luminous patterns of the Perennial Philosophy . To understand Wilber is to confront the "High Perplexity" of The Great Chain of Being . Wilber teaches that the universe is not a flat collection of objects, but a "Nested Hierarchy" of Holons —entities that are both wholes in themselves and parts of larger wholes. He argues that every individual being is a unique ...