Let’s move from levels to lines. Developmental lines occur in all 4 quadrants, but because we are focusing on personal development, we can look at how some of these lines appear in the Upper-Left quadrant. As we saw, there are over a dozen different multiple intelligences or developmental lines. Some of the more important include:
- the cognitive line (or awareness of what is)
- the moral line (awareness of what should be)
- emotional or affective line (the full spectrum of emotions)
- the interpersonal line (how I socially relate to others)
- the needs line (such as Maslow’s needs hierarchy)
- the self-identity line (or “who am I?,” such as Loevinger’s ego development)
- the aesthetic line (or the line of self-expression, beauty, art, and felt meaning)
- the psychosexual line, which in its broadest sense means the entire spectrum of Eros (gross to subtle to causal)
- the spiritual line (where “spirit” is viewed not just as Ground, and not just as the highest stage, but as its own line of unfolding)
- the values line (or what a person considers most important, a line studied by Clare Graves and made popular by Spiral Dynamics)
He also has a Psychograph with five and another with six!