Chart 1: Wilber Correlations
Chart 1: Wilber Correlations
The book's own master correlation chart, redrawn here as text instead of a scanned page image. It lines up Wilber's basic structures/levels (the "Great Nest" spine used throughout his work) against several parallel readings of the same territory: the self-sense and its defenses at each level, the felt affect and the corresponding scope of moral consideration, the fulcrum/pathology/treatment picture used in his psychotherapy model, and — a genuinely separate developmental line — gender identity and the worldview that goes with it.
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Structures, self-sense, defenses, affect, and exchange
| Level | Structure | General self-sense | Specific aspects | Defenses | Affect | Levels of "food" (relational exchange) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sensorimotor | Matter (subatomic → atomic → molecular → polymer) | Material self | Pleromatic | Distortion | — | Material exchange |
| Sensation | Material self | Uroboric | Delusional projection, hallucination | Reactivity | Food, labor | |
| Perception | — | — | Wish fulfillment | Sensations | — | |
| Exocept | Bodyego | — | — | Physiostates | Touch, temperature, pleasure, pain | |
| Phantasmic-emotional | Impulse/emotion | Bodyego | Axial-body, pranic-body (typhonic) | Selfobject fusion | Protoemotions | Emotional exchange |
| Image | — | Image-body (magical) | Projection | Tension, fear, rage, satisfaction | Sex, safety, power | |
| Symbol | — | — | Splitting | — | Belongingness, care | |
| Rep-mind | Endocept | Persona | Name-self | Isolation, repression, reaction formation | 2° emotions: anxiety, anger, wishing, liking, safety | Mental exchange |
| Concept | — | Concept-self, membership-self (mythic) | Displacement, duplicitous transaction, covert | — | Membership, discourse | |
| Conop | Rule/role, early | Persona | Early | Intentions | 3° emotions: love, joy, depression, hate | Self-reflective exchange |
| Rule/role, late | — | Middle–late | Suppression | Belongingness | — | |
| Formop | Formal, early | Ego | Mature ego | Anticipation, sublimation | 4° emotions: universal affect, global justice, care, compassion, all-human love, world-centric altruism | Autonomous exchange |
| Formal, late | — | — | Inauthenticity, deadening | — | — | |
| Postformal | Vision-logic, early | Centaur | Existential, integrated self | Aborted self-actualization, bad faith | — | Soul exchange |
| Vision-logic, middle | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Vision-logic, late | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Psychic | Early (vision) | Soul | Psychic self | Psychic inflation, split-life goals, pranic disorder, yogic illness | Awe, rapture, all-species love, compassion | Psychic vision, God communion |
| Late | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Subtle | Early (archetype) | — | Subtle self (soul) | Failed integration, archetypal fragmentation | Ananda, ecstasy, love-bliss, saintly commitment | God union |
| Late | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Causal | Early (formless) | Spirit | Pure Self (Witness) | Failed differentiation, Arhat's disease | Infinite freedom-release, bodhisattvic compassion | Spiritual exchange, Godhead identity |
| Late | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Nondual | Early | — | Nondual | — | One taste | Sahaja |
| Middle | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Late | — | — | — | — | — |
Fulcrums, pathology, treatment, and moral span
A coarser, ten-fulcrum version of the same territory — this is the spine of Wilber's psychotherapy model, roughly aligned with (but not row-for-row identical to) the structures table above. "BPM" (Basic Perinatal Matrices) is Stanislav Grof's term, adopted here for the pre-birth/birth stage below F-1 — see Chart 2 for Grof's own fuller scheme.
| Fulcrum | Possible pathology | Treatment | Moral span (those deemed worthy of moral consideration) |
|---|---|---|---|
| BPM / F-0 | Psychosis | Intense regressive therapies | — |
| F-1 (physical self) | Psychosis | Pacification | Autistic, symbolic-self-only |
| F-2 (emotional self) | Borderline | Structure-building (unification, optimal disillusion) | Impulsive, magical, narcissism, hedonic — "me" |
| F-3 (self-concept) | Neurosis | Uncovering (interpretation) | Safety-power, mythic-membership |
| F-4 (role self) | Script | Script analysis | Conformist, sociocentric, rational-reflexive — "us" (family, group, tribe, nation) |
| F-5 (mature ego) | Ego | Introspection | Universal-global, worldcentric — "all of us" (all humans without exception) |
| F-6 (centaur) | Existential | Existential therapy | Panhenic, all earthly beings (yogic) — worldcentric |
| F-7 (psychic) | Psychic | Path of yogis | Panentheistic, all sentient beings in all realms without exception (saintly) — theocentric |
| F-8 (subtle) | Subtle | Path of saints | Bodhisattvic — all manifest and unmanifest reality |
| F-9 (causal) | Causal | Path of sages | Buddhic — always/already reality (sage/siddha) |
| Ground | — | — | — |
Gender identity and worldviews
A distinct developmental line — not a restatement of the basic-structures spine above — correlating gender identity with the worldview typically associated with each stage.
| Gender identity | Worldview (name) | Worldview (general characteristics) |
|---|---|---|
| Morphological-genetic givens | Archaic | Undifferentiated, pleromatic |
| Undifferentiated | Archaic-magical | Hallucinatory wish fulfillment, subject-object fusion ("selfobject") |
| Differentiated basic-gender identity | Magical | Egocentric, word magic, narcissistic; locus of magic power = ego |
| Gender conventionality (norms) | Magic-mythic (literal) | Concrete-literal myths; locus of magic power = deified Other — ethnocentric |
| Gender consistency | Mythic-rational | Rationalization of mythic structures, demythologizing, formalizing — ethnocentric |
| — | Formalism | Static universal formalism, static systems/contexts — worldcentric |
| Gender androgyny (trans-differentiated) | Pluralistic-relativism | Pluralistic systems, dynamic-multiple contexts/histories — worldcentric |
| — | Holistic-integralism | Integrates multiple contexts/paradigms, cross-paradigmatic, dialectical developmentalism as World Process — worldcentric |
| Archetypal gender union (tantra) | Psychic (shamanic, yogic) | Union with creatrix of gross realm; nature mysticism; gross realm unity — theocentric |
| — | Subtle (archetypal, saintly) | Union with source of manifest realms; deity mysticism; subtle realm unity — theocentric |
| Beyond gender | Causal (formless, sage) | Union with formless; formless mysticism; causal realm unity |
| — | Nondual (siddha) | Union of form and formless, Spirit and World Process; nondual mysticism |
See Also
- Waves and Streams — the basic-levels/developmental-lines distinction this chart's row spine and column groupings are built on.
- The Psychic, Subtle, Causal, and Nondual — the four transpersonal stages that make up the bottom of this chart's spine.
