Type One—More Depth by Level

Healthy Levels
Level 1(At Their Best): Become extraordinarily wise and discerning. By accepting
what is, they become transcendentally realistic, knowing the best action to take in each
moment. Humane, inspiring, and hopeful: the truth will be heard.

Level 2: Conscientious with strong personal convictions: they have an intense sense of
right and wrong, personal religious and moral values. Wish to be rational, reasonable,
self-disciplined, mature, moderate in all things.

Level 3: Extremely principled, always want to be fair, objective, and ethical: truth and
justice primary values. Sense of responsibility, personal integrity, and of having a higher
purpose often make them teachers and witnesses to the truth.

Average Levels
Level 4: Dissatisfied with reality, they become high-minded idealists, feeling that it is
up to them to improve everything: crusaders, advocates, critics. Into "causes" and
explaining to others how things "ought" to be.

Level 5: Afraid of making a mistake: everything must be consistent with their ideals.
Become orderly and well-organized, but impersonal, puritanical, emotionally
constricted, rigidly keeping their feelings and impulses in check. Often workaholics—
"anal-compulsive," punctual, pedantic, and fastidious.

Level 6: Highly critical both of self and others: picky, judgmental, perfectionistic. Very
opinionated about everything: correcting people and badgering them to "do the right
thing"—as they see it. Impatient, never satisfied with anything unless it is done
according to their prescriptions. Moralizing, scolding, abrasive, and indignantly angry.

Unhealthy Levels
Level 7: Can be highly dogmatic, self-righteous, intolerant, and inflexible. Begin
dealing in absolutes: they alone know "The Truth." Everyone else is wrong: very severe
in judgments, while rationalizing own actions.

Level 8: Become obsessive about imperfection and the wrong-doing of others, although
they may fall into contradictory actions, hypocritically doing the opposite of what they
preach.

Level 9: Become condemnatory toward others, punitive and cruel to rid themselves of
"wrong-doers." Severe depressions, nervous breakdowns, and suicide attempts are
likely. Generally corresponds to the Obsessive-Compulsive and Depressive personality
disorders.
Type Two—More Depth by Level
Healthy Levels
Level 1 (At Their Best): Become deeply unselfish, humble, and altruistic: giving
unconditional love to self and others. Feel it is a privilege to be in the lives of others.

Level 2: Empathetic, compassionate, feeling for others. Caring and concerned about
their needs. Thoughtful, warm-hearted, forgiving and sincere.

Level 3: Encouraging and appreciative, able to see the good in others. Service is
important, but takes care of self too: they are nurturing, generous, and giving—a truly
loving person.

Average Levels
Level 4: Want to be closer to others, so start "people pleasing," becoming overly
friendly, emotionally demonstrative, and full of "good intentions" about everything. Give
seductive attention: approval, "strokes," flattery. Love is their supreme value, and they
talk about it constantly.

Level 5: Become overly intimate and intrusive: they need to be needed, so they hover,
meddle, and control in the name of love. Want others to depend on them: give, but
expect a return: send double messages. Enveloping and possessive: the codependent,
self-sacrificial person who cannot do enough for others—wearing themselves out for
everyone, creating needs for themselves to fulfill.

Level 6: Increasingly self-important and self-satisfied, feel they are indispensable,

although they overrate their efforts in others' behalf. Hypochondria, becoming a
"martyr" for others. Overbearing, patronizing, presumptuous.

Unhealthy Levels
Level 7: Can be manipulative and self-serving, instilling guilt by telling others how
much they owe them and make them suffer. Abuse food and medication to "stuff
feelings" and get sympathy. Undermine people, making belittling, disparaging remarks.
Extremely self-deceptive about their motives and how aggressive and/or selfish their
behavior is.

Level 8: Domineering and coercive: feel entitled to get anything they want from others:
the repayment of old debts, money, sexual favors.

Level 9: Able to excuse and rationalize what they do since they feel abused and
victimized by others and are bitterly resentful and angry. Somatization of their
aggressions result in chronic health problems as they vindicate themselves by "falling
apart" and burdening others. Generally corresponds to the Histrionic Personality
Disorder and Factitious Disorder.
Type Three—More Depth by Level
Healthy Levels
Level 1 (At Their Best): Self-accepting, inner-directed, and authentic, everything they
seem to be. Modest and charitable, self-deprecatory humor and a fullness of heart
emerge. Gentle and benevolent.

Level 2: Self-assured, energetic, and competent with high self-esteem: they believe in
themselves and their own value. Adaptable, desirable, charming, and gracious.

Level 3: Ambitious to improve themselves, to be "the best they can be"—often become
outstanding, a human ideal, embodying widely admired cultural qualities. Highly
effective: others are motivated to be like them in some positive way.

Average Levels
Level 4: Highly concerned with their performance, doing their job well, constantly
driving self to achieve goals as if self-worth depends on it. Terrified of failure. Compare
self with others in search for status and success. Become careerists, social climbers,
invested in exclusivity and being the "best."

Level 5: Become image-conscious, highly concerned with how they are perceived. Begin
to package themselves according to the expectations of others and what they need to do
to be successful. Pragmatic and efficient, but also premeditated, losing touch with their
own feelings beneath a smooth facade. Problems with intimacy, credibility, and
"phoniness" emerge.

Level 6: Want to impress others with their superiority: constantly promoting

themselves, making themselves sound better than they really are. Narcissistic, with
grandiose, inflated notions about themselves and their talents. Exhibitionistic and
seductive, as if saying "Look at me!" Arrogance and contempt for others is a defense
against feeling jealous of others and their success.

Unhealthy Levels
Level 7: Fearing failure and humiliation, they can be exploitative and opportunistic,
covetous of the success of others, and willing to do "whatever it takes" to preserve the
illusion of their superiority.

Level 8: Devious and deceptive so that their mistakes and wrongdoings will not be
exposed. Untrustworthy, maliciously betraying or sabotaging people to triumph over
them. Delusionally jealous of others

Level 9: Become vindictive, attempting to ruin others' happiness. Relentless, obsessive

about destroying whatever reminds them of their own shortcomings and failures.
Psychopathic, murder. Generally corresponds to the Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
Type Four—More Depth by Level
Healthy Levels
Level 1 (At Their Best): Profoundly creative, expressing the personal and the
universal, possibly in a work of art. Inspired, self-renewing and regenerating: able to
transform all their experiences into something valuable: self-creative.

Level 2: Self-aware, introspective, on the "search for self," aware of feelings and inner
impulses. Sensitive and intuitive both to self and others: gentle, tactful, compassionate.

Level 3: Highly personal, individualistic, "true to self." Self-revealing, emotionally

honest, humane. Ironic view of self and life: can be serious and funny, vulnerable and
emotionally strong.

Average Levels
Level 4: Take an artistic, romantic orientation to life, creating a beautiful, aesthetic
environment to cultivate and prolong personal feelings. Heighten reality through
fantasy, passionate feelings, and the imagination.

Level 5: To stay in touch with feelings, they interiorize everything, taking everything
personally, but become self-absorbed and introverted, moody and hypersensitive, shy
and self-conscious, unable to be spontaneous or to "get out of themselves." Stay
withdrawn to protect their self-image and to buy time to sort out feelings.

Level 6: Gradually think that they are different from others, and feel that they are
exempt from living as everyone else does. They become melancholy dreamers,
disdainful, decadent, and sensual, living in a fantasy world. Self-pity and envy of others
leads to self-indulgence, and to becoming increasingly impractical, unproductive, effete,
and precious.

Unhealthy Levels
Level 7: When dreams fail, become self-inhibiting and angry at self, depressed and
alienated from self and others, blocked and emotionally paralyzed. Ashamed of self,
fatigued and unable to function.

Level 8: Tormented by delusional self-contempt, self-reproaches, self-hatred, and

morbid thoughts: everything is a source of torment. Blaming others, they drive away
anyone who tries to help them.

Level 9: Despairing, feel hopeless and become self-destructive, possibly abusing

alcohol or drugs to escape. In the extreme: emotional breakdown or suicide is likely.
Generally corresponds to the Avoidant, Depressive, and Narcissistic personality
disorders.
Type Five—More Depth by Level
Healthy Levels
Level 1(At Their Best): Become visionaries, broadly comprehending the world while
penetrating it profoundly. Open-minded, take things in whole, in their true context.
Make pioneering discoveries and find entirely new ways of doing and perceiving things.

Level 2: Observe everything with extraordinary perceptiveness and insight. Most

mentally alert, curious, searching intelligence: nothing escapes their notice. Foresight
and prediction. Able to concentrate: become engrossed in what has caught their
attention.

Level 3: Attain skillful mastery of whatever interests them. Excited by knowledge: often
become expert in some field. Innovative and inventive, producing extremely valuable,
original works. Highly independent, idiosyncratic, and whimsical.

Average Levels
Level 4: Begin conceptualizing and fine-tuning everything before acting—working
things out in their minds: model building, preparing, practicing, and gathering more
resources. Studious, acquiring technique. Become specialized, and often "intellectual,"
often challenging accepted ways of doing things.

Level 5: Increasingly detached as they become involved with complicated ideas or

imaginary worlds. Become preoccupied with their visions and interpretations rather
than reality. Are fascinated by off-beat, esoteric subjects, even those involving dark and
disturbing elements. Detached from the practical world, a "disembodied mind,"
although high-strung and intense.

Level 6: Begin to take an antagonistic stance toward anything which would interfere
with their inner world and personal vision. Become provocative and abrasive, with
intentionally extreme and radical views. Cynical and argumentative.

Unhealthy Levels
Level 7: Become reclusive and isolated from reality, eccentric and nihilistic. Highly
unstable and fearful of aggressions: they reject and repulse others and all social
attachments.

Level 8: Get obsessed yet frightened by their threatening ideas, becoming horrified,
delirious, and prey to gross distortions and phobias.

Level 9: Seeking oblivion, they may commit suicide or have a psychotic break with
reality. Deranged, explosively self-destructive, with schizophrenic overtones. Generally
corresponds to the Schizoid Avoidant and Schizotypal personality disorders.
Type Six—More Depth by Level
Healthy Levels
Level 1 (At Their Best): Become self-affirming, trusting of self and others,
independent yet symbiotically interdependent and cooperative as an equal. Belief in self
leads to true courage, positive thinking, leadership, and rich self-expression.

Level 2: Able to elicit strong emotional responses from others: very appealing,
endearing, lovable, affectionate. Trust important: bonding with others, forming
permanent relationships and alliances.

Level 3: Dedicated to individuals and movements in which they deeply believe.

Community builders: responsible, reliable, trustworthy. Hard-working and persevering,
sacrificing for others, they create stability and security in their world, bringing a
cooperative spirit.

Average Levels
Level 4: Start investing their time and energy into whatever they believe will be safe
and stable. Organizing and structuring, they look to alliances and authorities for security
and continuity. Constantly vigilant, anticipating problems.

Level 5: To resist having more demands made on them, they react against others
passive-aggressively. Become evasive, indecisive, cautious, procrastinating, and
ambivalent. Are highly reactive, anxious, and negative, giving contradictory, "mixed
signals." Internal confusion makes them react unpredictably.

Level 6: To compensate for insecurities, they become sarcastic and belligerent, blaming
others for their problems, taking a tough stance toward "outsiders." Highly reactive and
defensive, dividing people into friends and enemies, while looking for threats to their
own security. Authoritarian while fearful of authority, highly suspicious, yet,
conspiratorial, and fear-instilling to silence their own fears.

Unhealthy Levels
Level 7: Fearing that they have ruined their security, they become panicky, volatile, and
self-disparaging with acute inferiority feelings. Seeing themselves as defenseless, they
seek out a stronger authority or belief to resolve all problems. Highly divisive,
disparaging and berating others

Level 8: Feeling persecuted, that others are "out to get them," they lash-out and act
irrationally, bringing about what they fear. Fanaticism, violence.

Level 9: Hysterical, and seeking to escape punishment, they become self-destructive

and suicidal. Alcoholism, drug overdoses, "skid row," self-abasing behavior. Generally
corresponds to the Passive-Aggressive and Paranoid personality disorders.
Type Seven—More Depth by Level
Healthy Levels
Level 1 (At Their Best): Assimilate experiences in depth, making them deeply
grateful and appreciative for what they have. Become awed by the simple wonders of
life: joyous and ecstatic. Intimations of spiritual reality, of the boundless goodness of
life.

Level 2: Highly responsive, excitable, enthusiastic about sensation and experience.

Most extroverted type: stimuli bring immediate responses—they find everything
invigorating. Lively, vivacious, eager, spontaneous, resilient, cheerful.

Level 3: Easily become accomplished achievers, generalists who do many different

things well: multi-talented. Practical, productive, usually prolific, cross-fertilizing areas
of interest.

Average Levels
Level 4: As restlessness increases, want to have more options and choices available to
them. Become adventurous and "worldly wise," but less focused, constantly seeking new
things and experiences: the sophisticate, connoisseur, and consumer. Money, variety,
keeping up with the latest trends important.

Level 5: Unable to discriminate what they really need, become hyperactive, unable to
say "no" to themselves, throwing self into constant activity. Uninhibited, doing and
saying whatever comes to mind: storytelling, flamboyant exaggerations, witty wise-
cracking, performing. Fear being bored: in perpetual motion, but do too many things—
many ideas but little follow through.

Level 6: Get into conspicuous consumption and all forms of excess. Self-centered,
materialistic, and greedy, never feeling that they have enough. Demanding and pushy,
yet unsatisfied and jaded. Addictive, hardened, and insensitive.

Unhealthy Levels
Level 7: Desperate to quell their anxieties, can be impulsive and infantile: do not know
when to stop. Addictions and excess take their toll: debauched, depraved, dissipated
escapists, offensive and abusive.

Level 8: In flight from self, acting out impulses rather than dealing with anxiety or
frustrations: go out of control, into erratic mood swings, and compulsive actions
(manias).

Level 9: Finally, their energy and health is completely spent: become claustrophobic
and panic-stricken. Often give up on themselves and life: deep depression and despair,
self-destructive overdoses, impulsive suicide. Generally corresponds to the Bipolar
disorder and Histrionic personality disorder.
Type Eight—More Depth by Level
Healthy Levels
Level 1 (At Their Best): Become self-restrained and magnanimous, merciful and
forbearing, mastering self through their self-surrender to a higher authority.
Courageous, willing to put self in serious jeopardy to achieve their vision and have a
lasting influence. May achieve true heroism and historical greatness.

Level 2: Self-assertive, self-confident, and strong: have learned to stand up for what
they need and want. A resourceful, "can do" attitude and passionate inner drive.

Level 3: Decisive, authoritative, and commanding: the natural leader others look up to.
Take initiative, make things happen: champion people, provider, protective, and
honorable, carrying others with their strength.

Average Levels
Level 4: Self-sufficiency, financial independence, and having enough resources are
important concerns: become enterprising, pragmatic, "rugged individualists," wheeler-
dealers. Risk-taking, hardworking, denying own emotional needs.

Level 5: Begin to dominate their environment, including others: want to feel that
others are behind them, supporting their efforts. Swaggering, boastful, forceful, and
expansive: the "boss" whose word is law. Proud, egocentric, want to impose their will
and vision on everything, not seeing others as equals or treating them with respect.

Level 6: Become highly combative and intimidating to get their way: confrontational,
belligerent, creating adversarial relationships. Everything a test of wills, and they will
not back down. Use threats and reprisals to get obedience from others, to keep others off
balance and insecure. However, unjust treatment makes others fear and resent them,
possibly also band together against them.

Unhealthy Levels
Level 7: Defying any attempt to control them, become completely ruthless, dictatorial,
"might makes right." The criminal and outlaw, renegade, and con-artist. Hard-hearted,
immoral and potentially violent.

Level 8: Develop delusional ideas about their power, invincibility, and ability to
prevail: megalomania, feeling omnipotent, invulnerable. Recklessly over-extending self.

Level 9: If they get in danger, they may brutally destroy everything that has not
conformed to their will rather than surrender to anyone else. Vengeful, barbaric,
murderous. Sociopathic tendencies. Generally corresponds to the Antisocial Personality
Disorder.
Type Nine—More Depth by Level
Healthy Levels
Level 1 (At Their Best): Become self-possessed, feeling autonomous and fulfilled:
have great equanimity and contentment because they are present to themselves.
Paradoxically, at one with self, and thus able to form more profound relationships.
Intensely alive, fully connected to self and others.

Level 2: Deeply receptive, accepting, unselfconscious, emotionally stable and serene.

Trusting of self and others, at ease with self and life, innocent and simple. Patient,
unpretentious, good-natured, genuinely nice people.

Level 3: Optimistic, reassuring, supportive: have a healing and calming influence—

harmonizing groups, bringing people together: a good mediator, synthesizer, and
communicator.

Average Levels
Level 4: Fear conflicts, so become self-effacing and accommodating, idealizing others
and "going along" with their wishes, saying "yes" to things they do not really want to do.
Fall into conventional roles and expectations. Use philosophies and stock sayings to
deflect others.

Level 5: Active, but disengaged, unreflective, and inattentive. Do not want to be

affected, so become unresponsive and complacent, walking away from problems, and
"sweeping them under the rug." Thinking becomes hazy and ruminative, mostly
comforting fantasies, as they begin to "tune out" reality, becoming oblivious.
Emotionally indolent, unwillingness to exert self or to focus on problems: indifference.

Level 6: Begin to minimize problems, to appease others and to have "peace at any
price." Stubborn, fatalistic, and resigned, as if nothing could be done to change
anything. Into wishful thinking, and magical solutions. Others frustrated and angry by
their procrastination and unresponsiveness.

Unhealthy Levels
Level 7: Can be highly repressed, undeveloped, and ineffectual. Feel incapable of facing
problems: become obstinate, dissociating self from all conflicts. Neglectful and
dangerous to others.

Level 8: Wanting to block out of awareness anything that could affect them, they
dissociate so much that they eventually cannot function: numb, depersonalized.

Level 9: They finally become severely disoriented and catatonic, abandoning

themselves, turning into shattered shells. Multiple personalities possible. Generally
corresponds to the Schizoid and Dependent personality disorders.