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Ken Wilber · Altitude — the general level of consciousness across lines

Integral Altitude: Wilber

Wilber's color-coded altitude, used here as the shared yardstick all other models are mapped onto. Upper levels (Indigo to Clear Light) are drawn from The Religion of Tomorrow.

The stages, earliest to latest

  1. Infrared (Archaic) IRPhysiological survival.
  2. Magenta (Magic) MgMagic, animistic, tribal.
  3. Red (Magic-Mythic / Egocentric) RdEgocentric power; me first.
  4. Amber (Mythic / Ethnocentric) AmEthnocentric; conformist rules and roles; one true way.
  5. Orange (Rational / Worldcentric begins) OrRational, scientific, achievement-oriented; universal rights begin. One objective frame, applied to reach goals or explain.
  6. Green (Pluralistic) GrPluralistic, relativistic, egalitarian; every perspective is valid; deconstructs hierarchies and centres feelings and inclusion.
  7. Teal (Integral / Holistic) TlThe writer themselves integrates: on a live issue, weighs several worldviews as each true but partial, including their own, and designs a response that honours each. Distinguishes healthy from dominator hierarchy.
  8. Turquoise (Super-integral) TqFelt, not only thought, unity of systems: the writer experiences the whole field as one living process while still acting in it.
  9. Indigo (Para-mind) InBeyond systems of systems; illuminated awareness begins.Too rare to read reliably from writing.
  10. Violet (Meta-mind) ViIntuitive, direct apprehension of wholes.Too rare to read reliably from writing.
  11. Ultraviolet (Overmind) UVAwareness identified with the whole manifest realm.Too rare to read reliably from writing.
  12. Clear Light (Supermind) CLEmbraces all previous levels and states; nondual; the God's-eye view.Too rare to read reliably from writing.

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