Editing Great chain of being (section)

== Adaptations and similar concepts ==
The American philosopher [[Ken Wilber]] described a "Great Nest of Being" which he claims to belong to a culture-independent "[[perennial philosophy]]" traceable across 3000 years of mystical and esoteric writings. Wilber's system corresponds with other concepts of [[transpersonal psychology]].<ref>{{cite journal |author=Freeman, Anthony |date=2006 |title=A Daniel Come to Judgement? Dennett and the Revisioning of Transpersonal Theory |journal=[[Journal of Consciousness Studies]] |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=95–109 |url=http://www.imprint.co.uk/pdf/13-3_Freeman.pdf |access-date=July 3, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120813003002/http://www.imprint.co.uk/pdf/13-3_Freeman.pdf |archive-date=August 13, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In his 1977 book ''[[A Guide for the Perplexed]]'', the economist [[E. F. Schumacher]] described a hierarchy of beings, with humans at the top able [[Mindfulness|mindfully]] to perceive the "eternal now".<ref>{{cite book |last=Costello |first=Stephen |title=Philosophy and the Flow of Presence |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YtcxBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA100 |year=2014 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=978-1-4438-6454-1 |pages=100–101 |access-date=2019-11-18 |archive-date=2024-10-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241002224413/https://books.google.com/books?id=YtcxBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA100#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>