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Dorset NLP Forum May 2012 - Evolution
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Evolution
Mike Forte - J.O.A.T.; M.O.N.
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...Brain
...Brain
...Brain
...Natural Selection
...Natural Selection
...Natural Selection
...Holons
...Holons
...Holons
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Part 1...
...Brain stuff...
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4. NLP Dorset Forum – May 31, 2012 Blame Amidala...!!!
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5. NLP Dorset Forum – May 31, 2012 The Amygdala made me do it...!!!
• The choices we make in day-to-day life are prompted by impulses
lodged deep within the nervous system — to put the matter plainly
— we have no idea what we’re doing.
• ...[There are]...two modes of thinking: System 1 is intuitive, System 2
is logical.
– System 1 “operates automatically and quickly, with little or no
effort and no sense of voluntary control.” We react to faces that we
perceive as angry faster than to “happy” faces because they
contain a greater possibility of danger.
– System 2 “allocates attention to the effortful mental activities that
demand it, including complex computations.” It makes decisions
— or thinks it does. We “normalize” irrational data either by
organizing it to fit a made-up narrative or by ignoring it altogether.
made-
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6. NLP Dorset Forum – May 31, 2012
Blame Amygdala...!!!
From: Scientific American April 2012 NLP Dorset Forum - Thursday May 31st 2012 6
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Blame Amygdala...!!!
From: Scientific American April 2012 NLP Dorset Forum - Thursday May 31st2012
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Blame Amygdala...!!!
MuShin No Shin
Mind of ‘no mind’
From: Scientific American April 2012 NLP Dorset Forum - Thursday May 31st2012
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Welcome to your brain...
• Brain Regions and functions:
– Frontal lobe - self-control, judgment, emotional
regulation; restructured in teen years
– Parietal lobes - integrate auditory, visual, and tactile
signals; immature until age 16
– Occipital lobe - the visual processing centre
– Temporal lobes - emotional maturity; still developing
after age 16
– Cerebellum - motor control. It may also be involved
in some cognitive functions such as attention and
language, and in regulating fear and pleasure
responses,
– Corpus callosum — connects the left and right
cerebral hemispheres - intelligence, consciousness
and self-awareness; reaches full maturity in 20’s
– Amygdala(e) - almond-shaped groups of nuclei
located deep within the medial temporal lobes of the
brain in complex vertebrates, including humans.
Shown in research to perform a primary role in the
processing and memory of emotional reactions. Fight,
Flight, Freeze function
– Hippocampus - consolidation of information from short-
term memory to long-term memory and spatial navigation
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Pruning and tuning...
The brain is still developing during the teen years Dr. Jay Giedd of
the NIMH has reported that brain “maturation does not stop at
“maturation
age 10, but continues into the teen years and even into the 20’s.
What is most surprising is that you get a second wave of
overproduction of gray matter, something that was thought to
happen only in the first 18 months of life (Begley, 2000).”
...Following
...Following the overproduction of gray matter, the brain undergoes
a process called “pruning” where connections among neurons
in the brain that are not used wither away, while those that are
used stay—the “use it or lose it” principle.
stay—
...It is thought that this pruning process makes the brain more
efficient by strengthening the connections that are used most
often, and eliminating the clutter of those that are not used at all.
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White... The new Grey...
Time-lapse MRI images of human-brain
development between ages five and 20
show the growth and then gradual loss
of gray matter, which consists of cells
That process information. (Red areas
contain more gray matter, blue areas less.)
Paradoxically, the thinning of gray matter
that starts around puberty corresponds to
increasing cognitive abilities. This probably
Reflects improved neural organization, as
the brain pares redundant connections and
benefits from increases in the white matter
that helps brain cells communicate.
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Nerve Insulation...
[in teenagers]...the frontal lobes — are not fully connected.
It's the part of the brain that says: 'Is this a good idea? What is the consequence of
this action?’ It's not that they don't have a frontal lobe. And they can use it. But
they're going to access it more slowly.
That's because the nerve cells that connect teenagers' frontal lobes with the rest of
their brains are sluggish. Teenagers don't have as much of the fatty coating
called myelin, or "white matter," that adults have in this areaarea.
Think of it as insulation on an electrical wire. Nerves need myelin for nerve signals
to flow freely. Spotty or thin myelin leads to inefficient communication between
one part of the brain and another...
Human and animal studies, have shown that the brain grows and changes
continually in young people—and that it is only about 80 percent developed in
people—
adolescents. The largest part, the cortex, is divided into lobes that mature from
back to front. The last section to connect is the frontal lobe, responsible for
cognitive processes such as reasoning, planning, and judgment. Normally this
mental merger is not completed until somewhere between ages 25 and 30 30—
much later than these two neurologists were taught in medical school.
– Prof. Frances Jensen – Harvard University – Professor of Neurology - Expert on Epilepsy
and Brain Development...
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13. NLP Dorset Forum – May 31, 2012
Part 2...
...The BIG Stuff...
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So...
Is it Evolution or Creation?
Your final answer please...
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God Particle... Or God?
“...In very simple terms, physicists have to break
stuff to find stuff. They get to use the scientific
“If you don’t know me by now...
principles of a 2 year old toddler and smash
things together to see what comes off… albeit in
a much more ‘controlled’ environment.
The ‘God Particle’, or ‘Higgs Boson’ as it is
scientifically referred to, is a hypothetical
particle which physicists believe gives atomic
particles, and as a result everything else, mass.
Physicists across the globe are conducting
experiments to try and prove it’s existence.
Right now, nobody knows why particles acquire
mass, and that is a hole that has existed in the
standard model for 50 years...”
(and if it has been a hole for 50 years then we can
assume that the hole was there for time immemorial Then you’ll never, never, never,
before that... Right...?) know me ahaaahhhh...”
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Creation ...
The Universe and stars.. Pretty... Planets.. That’s nice...
Mountains and streams..
Are you sure about this one...
On a roll here...!!! I have serious misgivings...
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Entropy v Change
Disorder is
More probable
than order...
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/therm/entrop.html
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Evolution ain’t easy...!
Let’s take the Development of the bird’s wing:
• First off... Remember that most mutations are harmful, if not deadly...
They lead to one thing... You’re dinner...
• A wing is a modified forelimb... Okay... Got that bit...
• Think about the number of mutations that would be needed to develop
a single feather...
• On a single forelimb... On a single pre-bird creature...
pre-
• Now extrapolate that to multiple feathers symmetrically arranged on
both forelimbs...
• On two individuals
• Of the OPPOSITE sex...
• ...and they meet.... Have dinner... Fall in love... Etc...
• Maybe Evolution doesn’t totally exclude Divine Intervention?
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Nothing’s perfect ...
Sorry guys...
Evolutionary dead
end... Let’s go back...!
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And on the eighth day ...
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Part 3...
...Holon a minute...!
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22. NLP Dorset Forum – May 31, 2012 Time to meet ‘Holon’...
Hold on... What’s a Holon?
Well... Pretty much everything is a Holon...
(including YOU...!)
Which is just as well really, as it is the building block of
the Theory of Everything (ToE)
The term ‘Holon’ was coined by Arthur Koestler in 1967, in his seminal book
‘The Ghost in the Machine’...
He defined a Holon as ...” something that is simultaneously a whole and a
part”...
One of the characteristics of Holons is that they arrange themselves into
‘Holarchies’...
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23. NLP Dorset Forum – May 31, 2012 A ‘Holarchy’...
Each Holon, at each level in the Holarchy is the sum of all the Holons beneath
it in the Holarchy (that’s why Holarchies are different from Hierarchies)
The Holons ‘Sub-atomic particles’ are constituents of the Holon ‘Atom’;
The Holons ‘Atoms’ are constituent parts of the Holon ‘Molecule’;
The Holons ‘Molecules’ are constituent parts of the Holon ‘Cells’...
And so on...
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24. Depth
NLP Dorset Forum – May 31, 2012 A ‘Holarchy’...
Span
Holarchies are measured in terms of span and depth. The higher up the Holarchy
you look, the greater the depth.
As a general rule, the higher you go up the Holarchy, the smaller the span.
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25. NLP Dorset Forum – May 31, 2012 A ‘Holarchy’...
THESE CAN NO LONGER EXIST
But the layers below would continue to exist
Remove this layer...
If you remove a layer of Holons in a Holarchy, all of the layers above it will cease to exist;
but the reverse is not true.
So, if you were to destroy all molecules in existence, then cells could not exist...
But atoms could.
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26. NLP Dorset Forum – May 31, 2012 Other examples of Holarchies...
Library Cycle City Pope
Series Concert Suburb Cardinal
Book Symphony Neighbourhood Archbishop
Chapter Variation Estate Bishop
Page Movement Road Priest
Paragraph Piece Block of Flats Deacon
Sentence Passage Flat Family
Phrase Phrase Dining Room Parishioner
Word Bar Table Wallet
Letter Note Table Leg £10 Note
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...”A significant feature of Koestler's concept of holarchy is that it is open ended both in the
macrocosmic as well as in the microcosmic dimensions. This aspect of his theory has
dimensions.
several important implications. The holarchic system does not begin with strings or end
with the multiverse. Those are just the existing limits of the reach of the human mind in the
multiverse.
two dimensions at the present time. Those limits will be crossed later on because they do
not encompass the whole of reality. “
“Popper (Objective Knowledge) teaches that what the human mind knows and will ever
know of truth at a given point of time and space is verisimilitude - something like truth, and
that the human mind will continue to get closer to reality but never reach it. In other words,
the human quest for knowledge is an unending journey with innumerable grand sights
ahead but with no possibility of reaching the journey's end. “
The work of modern physicists designed to discover the theory of everything (TOE) is
reaching deep into the microcosm under the assumption that the macrocosm is eventually
made of the microcosm. ..”
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...Jung//Graves...
Graves...
...Jung / Graves...
...Jung
...Spiral Dynamics...
...Spiral Dynamics...
...Spiral Dynamics...
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Part 4...
...Carl and Clare...
...What a pair!!!
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30. NLP Dorset Forum – May 31, 2012 Schools of thought on
Inherited social memory...
Joseph Campbell /
Alexander Eliot-
Eliot-
The Hero’s Journey /
The Monomyth /
Global Myths
Nikolaas Tinbergen/
Konrad Lorenz /
Jungian Psychology -
Paul Ekman–
Ekman–
Collective
Evolutionary Psychology /
Unconsciousness /
The Human Condition /
Archetypes
Cultural Universals / Micro-
Micro-
Expressions / Ethology
Clare Graves / Ken Wilber /
Don Beck–
Beck–
Spiral Dynamics /
Theory of Everything /
AQAL / Integral
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31. NLP Dorset Forum – May 31, 2012 The Jung Man’s View
Collective Unconscious -
Universal Archetypal Processes
Anima / Animus –
Opposite Sex Qualities
Shadow –
Denied Psychic Material
Subconscious Memories
Persona –
Projected Image / Mask
Conscious Ego –
Own Self Image
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Archetypes
These symbolic primordial images reflect basic
patterns or universal themes common to us all which
are present in the unconscious and exist outside space
and time.
We’re all pre-programmed to look for
pre-
archetypes in our everyday lives, because they
serve as a framework for our understanding of
the world.
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33. NLP Dorset Forum – May 31, 2012 Individuation
• Jung believed that a human being is inwardly whole, but that most of us have lost touch with
important parts of our selves.
• Through listening to the messages of our dreams and waking imagination, we can contact and
reintegrate our different parts.
• The goal of life is individuation, the process of coming to know, giving expression to, and
harmonising the various components of the psyche.
• If we realise our uniqueness, we can undertake a process of individuation and tap into our true self.
• Each human being has a specific nature and calling which is uniquely their own, and unless these
are fulfilled through a union of conscious and unconscious, the person can become sick.
• Jung argued that the alchemical process was the transformation of the impure
soul (lead) to perfected soul (gold), and a metaphor for the individuation process.
process.
Individuation = Transformation = Alchemy
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34. NLP Dorset Forum – May 31, 2012 Actualisation
•Archetypes seek actualisation within the context of an individual's
environment and determine the degree of individuation. Jung also used the
individuation.
terms "evocation" and "constellation" to explain the process of actualisation.
•Thus for example, the mother archetype is actualised in the mind of the child
by the evoking of innate anticipations of the maternal archetype when the child
is in the proximity of a maternal figure who corresponds closely enough to its
archetypal template.
template.
•This mother archetype is built into the personal unconscious of the child as a
mother complex. Complexes are functional units of the personal unconscious, in
complex.
the same way that archetypes are units for the collective unconscious.
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A Man called Clare...
• “Briefly, what I am proposing is
that the psychology of the mature
human being is an unfolding,
emergent, oscillating, spiralling
process marked by progressive
subordination of older, lower -
behaviour systems to newer
higher-
higher-ordered systems as man’s
existential problems change.”
Clare W Graves
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36. NLP Dorset Forum – May 31, 2012 Jung / Graves Model
or Graves / Jung Model
• Graves took the Jungian concepts of
Archetypes and Individuation and created a
(much needed!) sequence which applied to
humans both individually and collectively...
• ..and so was born the Dynamic Spiral...!!!
• ... and Integral theory...
• ...and AQAL...
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37. NLP Dorset Forum – May 31, 2012 Graves / Jung Model...
L8-Turquoise The colour of the oceans and Earth as viewed from space
L7-Yellow Solar power and alternative technologies
L6-Green Green politics, forests, and ecological consciousness
L5-Orange Radiating energy of steel in an industrial furnace
L4-Blue The sky, the heavens, and the “true blue” believer
L3-Red Hot blooded emotions and the “fire in your eyes”
L2-Purple The royal colour of tribal chiefs and monarchs
L1-Beige Savanna grasslands
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Level 1
L1-Beige Savanna grasslands
Stage One: Survivor/Transitional-Object
Consciously, the first stage consists of surviving, the psychological base of
existence.
Whether or not adult humans ever had this as their highest stage, even
today infants who have not yet formed a trusting bond with their caregivers
are principally engaged in mere survival.
Since this stage gives no opportunity to the social instinct, the latter is
repressed to the unconscious, from whence it may gradually emerge in
attachment to some personified object, (e.g., a favourite cuddly toy).
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Level 2
L2-Purple The royal colour of tribal chiefs and monarchs
Stage Two: Truster / Trickster
This stage arises when fantasy proves so inadequate that individuals
seek real families/tribes, for which fantasies have partly prepared them
by letting them practice with extensions of themselves.
Stage Two requires trust, the sine qua non of tribal life, dependent on
having sufficient faith in its culture to acquire a language, mythology, and
other normative patterns.
Graves’s phrase for this stage was “Sacrifice Self Now for the Tribe….”.
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Level 3
L3-Red Hot blooded emotions and the “fire in your eyes”
Stage Three: Unscrupulous Competitor/Hero
While developing from infancy to early childhood, individuals usually evolve from
trustingly basking in the family or tribe (Stage Two) to competing with one another
for attention and with their parents for authority (Stage Three).
In societies, Stage Three arrives when internal or external problems cause what was
a tribe to learn the military techniques to conquer its neighbours and the political
ones to turn its temporary war chief into a permanent monarch (with a pecking
order of lesser winners beneath him or her).
Graves phrased Stage Three: “Express self now, the hell with others.” Since healthy
maturation constantly adds skills, Stage Three should retain caring for kin (learned
at Stage Two), but this places no restraint on exploitation of strangers; and if the
entrant into Stage Three comes from a dysfunctional family or tribe, even kinship
ties may be ineffective.
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Level 4
L4-Blue The sky, the heavens, and the “true blue” believer
Stage Four: the Virtuous/the Shadow
Very young children simply trust that what they are told is right (Stage Two) and
slightly older ones think that they only have to obey people who are bigger,
stronger, and less sensitive than they are (the conscious side of Stage Three).
According to Piaget, between five and seven, children develop elementary desire to
play with logical organization and from twelve on they may amplify this into mature
skills with abstractions.
Opportunities to develop organizational skills nonetheless depend on one’s culture.
Tribes (Stage Two) have no openings for accountants (Stage Four). Eventually,
however, a large kingdom needs a bureaucracy of educated clerks (at Stage Four) to
administer and promulgate the rules.
At Stage Four, actions are either correct or incorrect (not somewhere in between).
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Level 5
L5-Orange Radiating energy of steel in an industrial furnace
Stage Five: Materialistic Analyst of Things/Anim(a/us)
This stage recognizes that there are so many exceptions to the rules of
Stage Four that some principles must be demoted to superstitions, while
science yields new ones, fostering technology and a vast economic
infrastructure.
Before Stage-Five can dominate a society, four must have produced
sufficient peace and order for commerce so that money and other material
rewards start to be the measure of everything.
Examples of its analysis include the industrial division of labour and the
scientific method itself. This stage expands mental horizons, but social
affections become obscured in the vast bookkeeping of physical details.
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Level 6
L6-Green Green politics, forests, and ecological consciousness
Stage Six: Empathizer with Every Person/Wise One
This stage translates the previous appreciation of life into an ecological
empathy with every being.
People dissatisfied with Stage Five’s mere accumulation instead cultivate
empathy, generating social structures ranging from liberal government to
secular charities (e.g. Friends of the Earth).
At Stage Six, a sympathetic effort to befriend each entity on his, her, or its
own terms replaces dogma. Stage Six’s insistence on “political correctness”
(i.e. politely presupposing universal equality) condemns any effort to
classify people—such as Graves’s system itself (a product of Stage Seven).
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Level 7
L7-Yellow Solar power and alternative technologies
Stage Seven: Distancer /Self
The stages themselves become evermore inclusive through Stage Seven, which tries to
comprehend life in all its paradoxes, not just the occasional intuitions that satisfied Stage Six. Some
institutions (e.g. the ashrams of India, monasteries of ancient China, and government think tanks)
permit people to distance themselves from the preoccupations of the lower-numbered stages.
For many people, a final state (often in old age) is to retire from the present squabble and look at
the larger picture—how all the turmoil fits together. If they have reached Stage Seven, this is not a
single materialistic analysis (Stage Five) but a synthesis of many processes combined with the
empathy mastered at Stage Six and everything else that has been learned along the way.
The conscious mind, however, flounders in such complexity. Science supplements human brains
with computers yet even so finds much of the world disconcertingly unpredictable.
Graves provided a vague description : “Express Self Now, but not at the expense of Others or the
World, so that Life May Continue.”
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Level 8
The colour of the oceans and Earth as viewed from
L8-Turquoise
space
Stage Eight and beyond....
Although Graves never had clinical evidence for any stage above seven, he
speculated that there might be an infinite number of higher stages and he guessed
that the eighth would be the “global village” predicted by McLuhan.
This is simply to say that Graves’s system—where odd-numbered stages are self-
expressive and even-numbered ones social—suggests that stage eight might itself
form a community (if it ever came into existence).
As far as Graves’s clinical evidence extended, however, it agreed with Jung’s: seven
stages in the human condition up to their time.
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Part 5...
...Spiral Dynamics...
...Round and round
and round she goes...
...Where she stops...
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Spiral Dynamics
...”A conceptual framework for understanding the
cultural stages through which individuals and
social systems evolve as they adapt to their life
conditions...”
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• Spiral Dynamics reveals the
hidden complexity codes that
shape human nature, create
global diversities, and drive
evolutionary change.
• These dynamic spiral forces
attract and repel individuals,
form the webs and meshes that
connect people within groups,
communities and organisations,
and forge the rise and fall of
nations and cultures.
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Spiral Dynamics
provides information
about:
• HOW people think about things (as
opposed to “what” they think)
• WHY people make decisions in different
ways
• WHY people respond to different
motivators
• WHY and HOW values arise and spread
• The nature of CHANGE
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SPIRIT (We)
GUARDIAN (I)
GLOBAL (We)
SYSTEMS (I)
INCLUSION (We)
ENTERPRISE (I)
ORDER (We)
POWER (I)
MEMBERSHIP (We)
SURVIVAL (I)
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The Beige vMeme
SPIRIT (We)
SURVIVAL (I)
GUARDIAN (I)
GLOBAL (We)
Worldview:
SYSTEMS (I)
The world is a state of nature
INCLUSION (We)
ENTERPRISE (I)
People:
ORDER (We) Behave instinctively, much like
other animals according to biological urges
POWER (I)
and drives. Contact with others is centered on
MEMBERSHIP (We) the survival of the self. Self Focus
SURVIVAL (I)
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The Purple vMeme
SPIRIT (We)
MEMBERSHIP (We)
GUARDIAN (I)
GLOBAL (We) Worldview:
SYSTEMS (I) The world is mysterious and
INCLUSION (We)
frightening. A magical world view where the
intention is to appease the spirits/gods.
ENTERPRISE (I)
ORDER (We) People:
POWER (I)
Placate spirits and join together for safety;
MEMBERSHIP (We)
follow ancestors’ ways. Tribes are formed,
chiefs and elders are obeyed, rituals are
SURVIVAL (I) adhered to and customs are preserved for the
greater good of the survival of the tribe.
Safety/Tribalistic
Safety/Tribalistic
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The Red vMeme
SPIRIT (We)
POWER (I)
GUARDIAN (I)
GLOBAL (We)
Worldview:
SYSTEMS (I)
The world is tough and hard like a jungle; it’s
jungle;
INCLUSION (We)
eat or be eaten
ENTERPRISE (I)
ORDER (We)
People:
POWER (I)
People must fight to survive and
dominate others without guilt and
MEMBERSHIP (We)
so as to avoid shame. Opinionated and
SURVIVAL (I)
requiring others to submit, if necessary by the
use of force. Focus on self-gratification.
self-
Egocentric.
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The Blue vMeme
SPIRIT (We)
ORDER (We)
GUARDIAN (I)
Worldview:
GLOBAL (We)
The world is divinely controlled and guided
SYSTEMS (I) with a distinct right and wrong according to a
plan. Order is achieved by establishing order
INCLUSION (We)
and justice by following “The One True Cause”
ENTERPRISE (I)
ORDER (We) People:
POWER (I) People obey rightful higher
MEMBERSHIP (We)
authority and find meaning and
purpose in sacrifice for later reward. Blue
SURVIVAL (I) wants stability and meaning for everyone.
Saintly/Sacrifice/Salvation.
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The Orange vMeme
SPIRIT (We)
ENTERPRISE (I)
GUARDIAN (I)
GLOBAL (We) Worldview:
SYSTEMS (I) The world is full of viable options
and plenty of alternative choices.
INCLUSION (We)
Independence and Strategic . Striving for
ENTERPRISE (I) progress through research and competition
ORDER (We)
People:
POWER (I)
People need to test options for
MEMBERSHIP (We) greater autonomy and compete for success
and influence in life. Risk taking and success
SURVIVAL (I)
orientated. A belief that the more able will
prevail. Materialistic.
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The Green vMeme
SPIRIT (We)
INCLUSION (We)
GUARDIAN (I)
GLOBAL (We) Worldview:
SYSTEMS (I) The world is the habitat for all
INCLUSION (We)
humanity to share together.
ENTERPRISE (I)
People:
ORDER (We)
People join in communities to
POWER (I)
experience growth for self and
MEMBERSHIP (We)
others for collective benefits. Green hopes to
save mankind from his own greed and injustice
SURVIVAL (I) through education, caring and sharing. Focus
is on saving the planet and spreading love all
around
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The Yellow vMeme
SPIRIT (We)
SYSTEMS (I)
GUARDIAN (I)
GLOBAL (We) Worldview:
SYSTEMS (I) Systemic and Complex. The world is at risk of
INCLUSION (We)
collapse because of human excess. The
first Meta Perspective in human existence.
ENTERPRISE (I)
ORDER (We) People:
POWER (I)
People seek to learn and discover what it is to
MEMBERSHIP (We)
be human without doing harm to others or the
environment;
environment; sustainability. Flexibility and
SURVIVAL (I) functionality are the keys to restoring viability
to a disordered world. Accepts chaos and
change as inevitable facts of life.
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The Turquoise vMeme
SPIRIT (We)
GLOBAL (We)
GUARDIAN (I)
GLOBAL (We) Worldview:
SYSTEMS (I) Focus on difference and integrative process.
INCLUSION (We)
Global identity. Holistic world view.
ENTERPRISE (I)
People:
ORDER (We)
People develop highly specialised roles and
POWER (I)
different functions within complex systems.
MEMBERSHIP (We)
Self is viewed as both distinct and a blended
part of a larger connected whole. Experiential.
SURVIVAL (I) “Sacrifice self now so that life may continue”
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The Coral vMeme
SPIRIT (We)
GUARDIANSHIP (I)
GUARDIAN (I)
GLOBAL (We) Worldview:
SYSTEMS (I) Connected to Universal energy, love for all beings,
entrusted to guard life in all its forms.
INCLUSION (We)
ENTERPRISE (I) People:
ORDER (We)
See selves as connected to Universal energy,
POWER (I)
entrusted to guard life in all its forms. Conflict is seen
as a path to harmony. Seek confluence with energy
MEMBERSHIP (We) of others and energy of environment. See
relationships (power & interpersonal) as inter-related
inter-
SURVIVAL (I) ecology of relationship with other radiant, charged,
vibrating beings. Do not seek power over others.
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Where are we going now?
• Humanity is facing up to some hard
truths. We have some powerful choices
to make.
• All will be predicated on the Spiral,
whether we recognise it at the time or
not. A little knowledge is a dangerous
thing, but ignorance is worse.
• If you are now awakening to Spiral
Dynamics, you hold the handle of a
versatile tool.
• Merge it into your wisdom and other
insights. Then use it wisely and well.
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The Teal vMeme
SPIRIT (We) SPIRIT AND LIFE CONNECTING (We)
GUARDIAN (I)
GLOBAL (We) Worldview:
SYSTEMS (I) Connected to ....?
INCLUSION (We)
ENTERPRISE (I)
People:
ORDER (We)
See selves as ....?
POWER (I)
MEMBERSHIP (We)
SURVIVAL (I)
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SPIRIT (We)
GUARDIAN (I)
GLOBAL (We)
SYSTEMS (I)
INCLUSION (We)
ENTERPRISE (I)
ORDER (We)
POWER (I)
MEMBERSHIP (We)
SURVIVAL (I)
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Charts
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Notas del editor
Jung taught that the psyche consists of various systems including the personal unconsciouswith its complexes and a collective unconscious with its archetypes. Jung's theory of a personal unconscious is quite similar to Freud’s creation of a region containing a person's repressed, forgotten or ignored experiences. However, Jung considered the personal unconscious to be a "more or less superficial layer of the unconscious." Within the personal unconscious are what he called "feeling-toned complexes." He said that "they constitute the personal and private side of psychic life.” These are feelings and perceptions organized around significant persons or events in the person's life. Jung believed that there was a deeper and more significant layer of the unconscious, which he called the collective unconscious, with what he identified as archetypes, which he believed were innate, unconscious, and generally universal. Jung's collective unconscious has been described as a "storehouse of latent memory traces inherited from man's ancestral past, a past that includes not only the racial history of man as a separate species but his pre-human or animal ancestry as well.” Therefore, Jung's theory incorporates Darwin's theory of evolution as well as ancient mythology. Jung taught that this collective unconscious is shared by all people and is therefore universal. However, since it is unconscious, not all people are able to tap into it. Jung saw the collective unconscious as the foundational structure of personality on which the personal unconscious and the ego are built. Because he believed that the foundations of personality are ancestral and universal, he studied religions, mythology, rituals, symbols, dreams and visions.
Does not seek power with others. Seeks only to express the intent of the energy of the Universe as expressed in personal acts of presence, art, movement, love--guardianship. Life and death are approached with an attitude of non-attachment and joy. The core motivation is Service: to the Universe, to others, to life. Body and mind function as an integrated system. Multiple intelligences and expanded senses are fully developed. Learning and work are both expressed as play. Intention forms the core of all action. Anarchistic.
Does not seek power with others. Seeks only to express the intent of the energy of the Universe as expressed in personal acts of presence, art, movement, love--guardianship. Life and death are approached with an attitude of non-attachment and joy. The core motivation is Service: to the Universe, to others, to life. Body and mind function as an integrated system. Multiple intelligences and expanded senses are fully developed. Learning and work are both expressed as play. Intention forms the core of all action. Anarchistic.