Unitive

Witnessing experience as a flow; universal compassion; no fixed separate self. Constructs are seen through and no longer fought; the sacred and the ordinary are one.

How it sounds

Each of us is the whole universe waking up to itself in a particular shape.

Every voice here, including the angry one, is life trying to care for itself.

Signs in writing

• timeless, universal perspective
• compassion for all positions including 'lower' ones
• ordinary language for extraordinary awareness
• no need to be right
• thoughts and feelings witnessed as passing events rather than taken as the self, without striving to get anywhere

Staying healthy at this stage

• ordinary life lived fully
• service

Growth edge

• deepen embodiment and ordinariness

How to be heard at this stage

• meet them in silence and simplicity

The same altitude in other models

Mapped by altitude, not measured: models track different lines.

• Integrated Loevinger
• Cross-paradigmatic Commons
• Universalizing Fowler
• Self-transforming mind Kegan
• Ironist Torbert
• Coral Spiral Dynamics
• Universal ethical principles Kohlberg
• Indigo Wilber

Stage descriptions are paraphrased summaries for orientation, written for Worldview Lens; they are not the official scoring manuals. Example sentences were written to illustrate each stage.