Rolf Sattler Wilber ’ s AQAL Map and Beyond - 10 - Chapter 1 : Hierarchy and Beyond

For most people the world consists of a multitude of things, objects, or entities, such as rocks, animals, and humans. All of these are then ordered in terms of higher and lower: animals are higher than rocks, humans are higher than animals, and those who believe in angels would say that angels are higher than humans. This kind of thinking and perception of reality is hierarchical because in a hierarchy there are entities at increasingly higher levels. In this chapter I demonstrate that in addition to hierarchical thinking and perception, there are still other ways of viewing and experiencing the Kosmos including ourselves, and that these other ways are fundamentally important for the beneficial transformation of ourselves and society.