by Marinus Jan Marijs
Levels of consciousness
This corner represents:
Individual, interior, subtle
Content: Individual consciousness, intentionality, subjective experience,
involves the psychological cognitive processes involved in making meaning,
constructing identity, structuring reasoning, self-awareness
thoughts, feelings, self-concept, felt experience
Structure: Different levels of consciousness
Vertical development: To transform to higher levels of consciousness
Lateral development: The increase of structuration, lateral growth, develop awareness
Related disciplines: Psychology
Related methods: Cognitive therapy, self-reflection, structuralism,
phenomenology (explores direct experience)
Researchers: William James, Husserl, Jean Gebser (structures of consciousness)
Known by: Introspection, contemplation and self-inquiry, individual subjective
Validity claim: Sincerity
Subtle energy fields
This corner represents:
Individual, exterior, subtle
Content: Mental and mystical subtle energies, energies that form the bridge
between a biological system and a kosmic background and by that
make consciousness possible, memories and developed capacities of
previous lives, mystical energies, visible states of mind, thoughts and
feelings are perceived here as objective spatial structures, the soul
Structure: Different individual subtle energy fields (auras)
Vertical development: To develop subtle energies on the different
ontological levels, activated level by level.
Lateral development: Degrees of field activation
Related disciplines: Parapsychology, philosophy
Related methods: Cross-cultural validation, introspection, subtle energy field
scanning, non-sensory observation
Researchers: academic: J.J.Poortman, Charles Tart
phenomenological: C.W. Leadbeater, Dora van Gelder Kunz
Known by: Nonphysical visual perception, spirituality
Validity claim: Correspondence
This corner represents:
Individual, exterior, physical
Content: Brain, biological organism, genetic inheritance, objective behaviour,
physical skills, information processing
Structure: Brain structures, brain networks, functional levels, hardware
Vertical development: Developing higher structure functions
Lateral development: Skill building, complexification
Related disciplines: Neurology, behaviorism, biology
Related methods: Brain scans, EEG records, empiricism (explores measurable
behaviours), autopoiesis (explores self-regulating behaviour)
Researchers: Neurophysiologists, behaviorists
Known by: Empirical observation, measurement
Validity claim: Representation
Physical world/technological-geographical area
This corner represents:
Collective, exterior, physical
Content: Social systems, production systems, technology, natural environment
community institutions (schools, healthcare systems, justice systems,
religious institutions, etc.) community infrastructure (transportation,
housing, social planning), programs and services, ecological systems,
economic systems, organizational systems and structures, governance
systems and structures, communication, networks, geography
Structure: Different levels of social and technological development
Vertical development: Social and technological transformations
Lateral development: Technological-geographical growth
Related disciplines: Sociology, economy, political systems, ecology,
legal frameworks, healthcare systems
Related methods: Quantitative research, scientific studies, statistical analysis,
mathematical models, historical analysis, systems theory, scientific
discoveries, structural-functionalism, social-autopoiesis, network
mapping, computer simulations
Researchers: Ervin Laszlo, Habermas
Known by: Systemic analysis
Validity claim: Functional fit
Non-physical worlds
This corner represents:
Collective, exterior, subtle
Content: Higher ontological worlds, clairvoyance, Out of the body states,
(temporarily) and after death (permanent)
Plato’s Intermediate Objects (within space and time)
Structure: Different worlds on different ontological levels
Vertical development: Multidimensional existence
Lateral development: Degrees of access
Related disciplines: Parapsychology, philosophy (substance dualism /pluralism), theology
Related methods: Academic intercultural research, meta-analysis, mysticism
Researchers: Phenomenological: Robert Monroe,
Academic: Pim van Lommel, Bruce Greyson, Kenneth Ring,
Michael Sabom, Russell Noyes Jr, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross,
Raymond A. Moody, Sam Parnia
Known by: Out of the Body Experiences and Near death Experiences, inter-subjectivity
Validity claim: Phenomenology
This corner represents:
Collective, interior, subtle
Content: The Logos (= rational principle governing the universe). The transcendent realm of forms, collective consciousness, abstract objects, property or quality, which exist independently of physical objects, independently of us and outside of space and time, archetypes or perfect models for all of the properties that are present in material objects.
Non-local resonance, this concerns the transfer of information (for example feelings, thoughts and higher dimensional resonance) between individuals by other means than the physical senses. It is characterized by a (distinctly appreciated) direct connection between two or more individual sentient beings. The experience is characterized by union.
Structure: Different levels of union, David Bohm’s implicate orders, De Broglie-Bohmian hidden variables, Platonic realm(s), abstract mathematical objects, Universals, organizing principles of the universe. laws of nature which are relations among universals, Hilbert space.
(“Roger Penrose contends that the foundations of mathematics can’t be understood absent the Platonic view that “mathematical truth is absolute, external and eternal, and not based on man-made criteria … mathematical objects have a timeless existence of their own…”)
Morphogenetic resonance.
Vertical development: Evolving levels of union
Systematically Interconnected: The platonic forms comprise a system leading down from the form of the Good from more general to more particular, from more objective to more subjective. This systematic structure is reflected in the structure of the dialectic process by which we come to the knowledge of the forms
Lateral development: Degrees of access
Related disciplines: The concept of non-locality can be found in several
academic disciplines:
In mathematics: The Twistor theory – Roger Penrose
In psychology: Synchronicity – Carl C. Jung/ Wolfgang Pauli/ F. David Peat
In biology: Morphogenetic fields – Rupert Sheldrake
In parapsychology: Extra-sensory perception
In theology: The concept of omnipresence
In physics: Bell’s theorem, Alain Aspect’s 1982 experiment,
David Bohm’s ontological interpretation of Quantum theory
In philosophy: Predicate dualism /pluralism
In technology: Entanglement in Quantum computers,
Quantum cryptography (which is actively being used by
banks in sending banking information over telephone lines
over a distance. That’s an aspect of entanglement that’s
being utilized now).
Related methods: Parapsychological research, empathic resonance
Researchers: Dean Radin, Charles Tart, Dick Bierman
Known by: paranormal experiences, Bell’s theorem
Validity claim: Meta-analysis within parapsychology, and Alain Aspect’s 1982
experiment
Collective worldviews
This corner represents:
Collective, interior, physical
Content: Culture and worldview, involves collective worldviews, social norms,
laws, policies, protocols, customs and shared values that structure
relationships, community processes, mutual understanding, and social
appropriateness, cultural development, art, music, storytelling
Structure: Different levels of worldviews, cultural development, art
Vertical development: Cultural transformation, perspectives shift towards a
more socio- and world-centric awareness
Lateral development: Cultural growth
Related disciplines: Philosophy, cultural anthropology, literature, ethics
Related methods: Spiral dynamics value memes analysis, Hermeneutics
Researchers: Socrates, Plato, Clare graves, Kohlberg
Known by: Intersubjective shared meaning
Validity claim: Justness
Maturation / subconscious processes
This corner represents:
Individual, interior, physical
Content: Self structure, memories, algorithms, reflexes, stored patterns,
instincts, software, habitual psychological structures which organize,
limit, select and interpret perceptional incentives, the processes in the
mind that occur automatically and are not available to introspection,
Unconscious phenomena include repressed feelings, automatic skills.
subliminal perceptions, thoughts, habits, and automatic reactions, and
also complexes, hidden phobias and desires
Structure: Different levels of unconscious processes
Vertical development: Maturation, development over the life span
Lateral development: Different stages of accessibility
(semi-conscious / pre-conscious / subconscious / unconscious)
Related disciplines: Depth psychology
Related methods: Psychoanalysis, word association test
Researchers: Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Jean Piaget, Noam Chomsky
Known by: Indirect by stored pattern recognition
Validity claim: Maturation
