Chart 2: Basic Structures in Other Systems
Chart 2: Basic Structures in Other Systems
Correlates the basic-structures spine against eleven other systems: Huston Smith, Plotinus, the Buddhist vijnanas, Aurobindo, Kabbalah, and the General Great Chain on the familiar individual-development spine; Stan Grof, John Battista, the chakras, and James Mark Baldwin on Grof's own perinatal-matrix spine; and Vedanta's own sheaths/states scheme correlated with William Tiller, Leadbetter (Theosophy), and Adi Da.
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Huston Smith, Plotinus, and the Buddhist vijnanas
| Level | Structure | Huston Smith (levels/planes) | Plotinus | Buddhist vijnanas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sensorimotor | Matter | Body (terrestrial) | Matter | (levels of consciousness) |
| Sensation | Sensation | 1–5. Five senses | ||
| Perception | — | — | ||
| Exocept | — | — | ||
| Phantasmic-emotional | Impulse/emotion | — | Pleasure/pain images | — |
| Image | — | — | ||
| Symbol | — | — | ||
| Rep-mind | Endocept | Mind (intermediate) | — | — |
| Concept | Concepts, opinions | — | ||
| Conop | Rule/role | — | — | — |
| (late) | — | — | ||
| Formop | Formal | — | Logical faculty | 6. Manovijnana (gross-reflecting mind) |
| (late) | — | — | ||
| Postformal | Vision-logic, early | — | Creative reason | — |
| (middle) | — | — | ||
| (late) | — | — | ||
| Psychic | Early (vision) | Soul (celestial) | World soul | 7. Manas (higher mind) |
| Late | — | — | ||
| Subtle | Early (archetype) | — | Nous | 8. Tainted alayavijnana (archetypal) |
| Late | — | — | ||
| Causal | Early (formless) | — | — | |
| Late | — | — | ||
| Nondual | Early | Spirit (infinite) | Absolute one | 9. Nondual consciousness as suchness |
| Middle | — | |||
| Late | — |
Stan Grof, Battista, the chakras, and Baldwin
A different spine — Grof's own perinatal-matrix-derived stages, not the individual basic-structures spine used elsewhere. "BPM" (Basic Perinatal Matrices, Grof's term for the stages of the birth process itself) — "BPM: oceanic to birth" — brackets the first two rows.
| Stan Grof | John Battista | Chakras | General Great Chain | James Mark Baldwin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Somatic (BPM: oceanic to birth) | Sensation, perception | 1. Material | Matter | Prelogical |
| Aesthetic (BPM: oceanic to birth) | Emotion | 2. Emotional-sexual | — | |
| Psychodynamic (Freudian COEX systems) | Cognition | 3. Intentional-mind, power | Mind | Quasilogical |
| Existential / death-rebirth (cf. BPM) | Self-aware | 4. Community-mind, love; 5. Verbal-rational mind | Logical | |
| Astral-psychic / extra-human | — | 6. Psychic-mind, ajna (vision) | Extralogical | |
| Identifications / archetypal / deity / luminosity | Union | 7. Sahasrara, transcendental consciousness, light (higher shabd chakras, to cessation) | Soul | Hyperlogical |
| Universal mind / supracosmic void | — | — | — | |
| Ultimate | Absolute | (Release of all chakras in the Real) | Spirit | — |
The General Great Chain, Aurobindo, and Kabbalah
Back to the familiar individual basic-structures spine.
| Level | Structure | General Great Chain | Aurobindo | Kabbalah |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sensorimotor | Matter | Matter | Physical | Malkhut |
| Sensation | Sensation | — | ||
| Perception | Perception | |||
| Exocept | — | |||
| Phantasmic-emotional | Impulse/emotion | Body → Mind | Vital-emotional | Yesod |
| Image | — | — | ||
| Symbol | — | |||
| Rep-mind | Endocept | — | Netzach/Hod | |
| Concept | Lower mind | |||
| Conop | Rule/role, early | Concrete mind | — | |
| (late) | — | |||
| Formop | Formal | Logical mind (reasoning) | Tiferet | |
| (late) | — | |||
| Postformal | Vision-logic | Soul (psychic and subtle) | Higher mind (systems) | — |
| (middle) | — | — | ||
| (late) | — | — | ||
| Psychic | Early (vision) | Illumined mind | Chesed/Gevurah | |
| Late | — | |||
| Subtle | Early (archetype) | Intuitive mind | Chokhmah/Binah | |
| Late | — | |||
| Causal | Early (formless) | Spirit (causal and nondual) | Overmind | Keter, Ayn |
| Late | — | |||
| Nondual | Early | Supermind, satchitananda | Ein, Sof | |
| Middle | — | |||
| Late | — |
Vedanta, William Tiller, Leadbetter, and Adi Da
Vedanta's own state/body/sheath spine (waking/gross, dreaming/subtle, deep sleep/ causal, turiya), not the individual basic-structures spine.
| Vedanta state | Vedanta body | Vedanta sheath | William Tiller | Leadbetter (Theosophy) | Adi Da |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waking | Gross | 1. Material (annamayakosha) | Physical | Physical | 1. Physical body |
| Etheric | Etheric (fine physical) | — | |||
| 2. Emotional-sexual (pranamayakosha) | Astral | Astral (emotional) | 2. Emotional body | ||
| Dreaming | Subtle | m-1 (lower mind) | — | — | |
| 3. Middle mind (manomayakosha) | m-2 (intellectual mind) | Mental | 3. Lower mind, willpower, gross-mind | ||
| — | Causal (higher mind) | — | |||
| 4. Higher mind (vijnanamayakosha) | m-3 (spiritual mind) | Buddhic (illumined mind) | 4. Higher mind, psychic opening; 5. Supramental psychic/subtle | ||
| Deep sleep | Causal | 5. Bliss mind (anandamayakosha) | Spirit | Atmic (universal spirit) | 6. Formless cessation, nirvikalpa |
| Turiya | Turiya | Brahman-Atman (turiyatita) | — | Monad/logos | 7. Sahaja bhava |
See Also
- Chart 1: Wilber Correlations — the same basic-structures spine, correlated against a different set of systems
- Sri Aurobindo — one of the systems correlated here
- James Mark Baldwin — appears here against Grof's spine rather than the usual basic-structures one
