Where is the first force situated on Ken Wilber’s spectrum of consciousness model?

Ken Wilber’s spectrum of consciousness model comprises the following four levels: shadow, ego, existential, and mind. To come right to the point, the behavioral force is situated on the existential level. In this level, Wilber (1975) expounds that human beings are identified with their psychophysical organism, and the organism is regarded as the existence in space and time. Put Wilber’s remarks more simply, in this level, human beings come to acquire rational thought and will power which separate self and other, and organism and environment.

This description of human beings is almost the same as behaviorism’s definition. The basic concept in behaviorism is that human beings have thinking ability, and their thoughts, emotions, and feelings are all considered as “behaviors.” In other words, human beings obtain a rational mind to differentiate the internal world from the outer environment, though human thoughts are reduced to the word “behaviors.”

Although Wilber’s spectrum of consciousness model doesn’t directly refer to behaviorism, for the reasons mentioned above, I think the first force (behaviorism) is categorized into the existential level in Wilber’s model.  

Reference:

1 Wilber, K. (1975). Psychologia perennis: The spectrum of consciousness. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology. 7(2), 105-132.

2 The Spectrum of Consciousness