I’m hungry for as many examples of lines of development as possible. Ken says:

“ALL of the major developmental models have actually examined a particular developmental line . Piaget studied the cognitive line; Kohlberg, the moral line; Loevinger, the line of self-concept development; Graves, the developmental line of values; Maslow, the developmental line of needs; Gilligan, the moral line in females; and so on. Each of those developmental lines were shown to unfold in stages or levels.

In Integral Spirituality KW gives ten examples of lines that “appear in the Upper-Left quadrant.” Here they are:

• Cognitive (awareness of what is)
• moral (awareness of what should be)
• emotional or affective (the full spectrum of emotions)
• interpersonal (how I socially relate to others
• needs (such as Maslow’s needs hierarchy
• self-identity (who am I?)
• aesthetic (self expression, beauty, art, meaning)
• psychosexual “which in it’s broadest sense means the entire spectrum of Eros (gross to subtle to causal) <—– !?!?
• spiritual (where “spirit” is viewed not just as Ground, and not just as the highest stage, but as it’s own line of unfolding)
• values (what a person considers most important ie Spiral Dynamics)

I think it would be very interesting to see a plethora of examples like this in the other three quadrants. Any takers?

Also, I feel that i’m fuzzy on how to define the characteristics that make up any given line… I mean, what are the criteria? I can imagine any area of interest–i.e. astronomy–that has contained within it much development over time, but astronomy itself isn’t a developmental line is it? Are there lines within astronomy for example?

Illustrations of the quadrants such as this that sometimes have the correlating lines in each quadrant suggest lines with names like “culture” and “worldview” (Lower-Left), “Social Systems” and “Environment” (Lower-Right), and “Brain” and “Organism” (Upper-Right). Thos are great, but I’d love to see more. I think it would be a great tool that would allow comparison of lines over each of the levels–to be able to stick the cognition line with a summary of all it’s levels next to the brain/organism line for instance…

Aside from that can anyone lend a guy an injunction for spottings lines in any quadrant?