The Consciousness as Level-of-Care model describes an individual’s motive level-of-care as existing along a spectrum from egocentric to ethnocentric, leading to worldcentric and eventually to the state of open and appreciative compassion for the evolution of all conscious beings. The four care levels are (as levels of integrated conscious awareness):

1. Egocentric - care about self.
2. Ethnocentric - care about group, tribe, nation.
3. Worldcentric - care about everyone [in a specifically recognized and acknowledge world space].
4. Open Inquiry (Universally-Centered) - open and active inquiry as an expression of conscious care about the truth and the evolving whole. Care about the truth is care about what is really going on in the world (and in the universe), and its impact on all living systems.

From The Integral Vision by Ken Wilber:

To grasp what is involved with levels or stages, let’s use a very simple model possessing only 3 of them. If we look at moral development, for example, we find that an infant at birth has not yet been socialized into the culture’s ethics and conventions; this is called preconventional stage. It is also called egocentric, in that the infant’s awareness is largely self-absorbed.

But as the young child begins to learn its culture’s rules and norms, it grows into the conventional stage of morals. This stage is also called ethnocentric, in that it centers on the child’s particular group, tribe, clan, community, or nation, and it therefore tends to exclude those not of its group.

But at the next major stage of development, the post-conventional stage, the individual’s identity expands once again, this time to include care and concern for all peoples, regardless of race, color, sex, or creed, which is why this stage is also called worldcentric.

Thus, moral development tends to move from “me” (egocentric) to “us” (ethnocentric) to “all of us” (worldcentric).¹

Another way to picture these 3 stages is as body, mind and spirit. Those words all have many different and valid meanings.

Explore the content in the "You", "Community" and "World" diagram popups to understand how this model can be applied specifically to those stages.

¹ Wilber, Ken. The Integral Vision: a Very Short Introduction to the Revolutionary Integral Approach to Life, God, the Universe, and Everything. Boston: Shambhala, 2007. Print.

Stage 1 - "the individual - is dominated by my gross physical reality; it is the "body" stage (using body in its typical meaning of physical body). Since you are identified merely with the separate bodily organism and its survival drives, this is also the “me” or egocentric stage."¹

¹ Wilber, Ken. The Integral Vision: a Very Short Introduction to the Revolutionary Integral Approach to Life, God, the Universe, and Everything. Boston: Shambhala, 2007. Print.

Stage 2 - "the community - is the “mind” stage, where identity expands from the isolated gross body and start to share relationships with many others, based perhaps on shared values, mutual interests, common ideals, or shared dreams. Because I can use the mind to take the role of others - to put myself in their shoes and feel what it is like to be them - my identity expands from “me” to “us” (the move from egocentric to ethnocentric)."¹

¹ Wilber, Ken. The Integral Vision: a Very Short Introduction to the Revolutionary Integral Approach to Life, God, the Universe, and Everything. Boston: Shambhala, 2007. Print.

"With stage 3 - the world - my identity expands once again, this time from an identity with “us” to an identity with “all of us” (the move from ethnocentric to worldcentric). Here I begin to understand that, in addition to the wonderful diversity of humans and cultures, there are also similarities and shared commonalities. Discovering the commonwealth of all beings is the move from ethnocentric to worldcentric."¹

¹ Wilber, Ken. The Integral Vision: a Very Short Introduction to the Revolutionary Integral Approach to Life, God, the Universe, and Everything. Boston: Shambhala, 2007. Print.

Stage 4 - the New Frontier or universally-centered stage involves open and active inquiry as an expression of conscious care about the truth and the evolving whole. Care about the truth is care about what is really going on in the world (and in the universe), and its impact on all living systems.

Applying the tools of automation to laborious and monotonous tasks so the community can spend more time self-actualizing.

The automation of enjoyable tasks or social interactions.

Through efficient design and engineering we can fulfill everyone’s needs, not just those of some.

Complete access to information and resources, like a library of everything.

Access does not mean no privacy or security. You cannot access someone without consent or something someone else is using.

We all have more with less responsibility.

Working together to find a way to solve design challenges (problems) that are agreeable to all.

Competition

Shifting from solving challenges against each other to solving challenges with each other is much more efficient,rewarding and reduces conflict.

Access to the tools and information that will allow us to be lifelong learners and follow our interests.

Pursuing all experiments and technologies because we can, regardless of whether we should.

Letting people pursue their interests in their own way is a more effective method of acquiring knowledge.

Using Cradle to Cradle Design we can maximize our resource use and reuse, long into the future, possibly indefinitely as matter cannot be destroyed, only transformed.

Extreme utilitarianism, hoarding, mass production, no choice, sameness

Rather than optimizing profit which artificially and inadequately represents a healthy economy, we can directly optimize the real basis of an economy: resources.

Self-directed freedom is the ability to consciously arrive at decisions without manipulation or conditioning.

Freedom is access to an internal state of integration and non-attachment, absent of the effect of impulsiveness and compulsion.

Freedom is present when individuals have the resources, probable opportunities, and cooperative organizations available to fulfill their individual and social needs in a self-directed, participative, and volitional manner. In other words, freedom is access.

Freedom from consequences or the right to infringe upon others freedom; impulsiveness and compulsion

With the dissolution of control, everyone obtains safe/stable freedom to live and participate, including those previously in charge as well as laborers.

Creating an environment where your body is able to heal and perform optimally.

Beauty/vanity, youth; reactional medicine

A healthy body allows for a healthy mind, creating a healthy person. Healthy people makeup healthy communities and healthy communities foster a healthy world, and so on...

Intrinsic motivation is when one is motivated by internal factors, such as autonomy, mastery and purpose.

External drivers of extrinsic motivation or the tools of domination: money, force, threats, conditioning, manipulation, coercion, rent, taxes, etc.

What needs to be done gets done in a more productive and enjoyable way for all.

The ability to find appreciation and compassion for all life and beings.

Presents, commitment, loyalty, sacrifice, chocolate

Understanding that what’s best for the individual is also best for everyone.

Caretaking our environments to be sustainable/regenerative to ourselves and the planet, as nature does when left alone.

Using pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, xenocides, or any other -cides on/in our planet.

Needs in both the short and long-term are satisfied for us and future generations.