Material.
Consciousness is determined by material conditions.
Physical comfort, money, bodily needs, and living conditions form the primary basis
for values, decisions, and priorities.
At moderate levels, this appears as a practical, grounded orientation toward everyday life, where stability, work, and tangible well-being are treated as central.
Ideal.
Consciousness is guided by ideas, principles, and meanings.
Material comfort can be neglected or subordinated for the sake of values,
beliefs, or purpose.
At moderate levels, this appears as principled, value-driven living, where actions are justified primarily by what is considered right, true, or meaningful.
Egocentric.
The self is asserted over others.
The individual actively imposes their will, views, or conditions,
often treating their own perspective as primary or superior.
Depersonalized.
The self is minimized or absent.
The individual does not consciously assert agency and mainly reacts to impulses,
circumstances, or external forces.
Neither domination nor dissolution of the self — a conscious state.
Neither material reduction nor ideal abstraction — an integral state.
Metaxis represents a mode of being in which agency is present without coercion, and meaning is held without detachment from reality.