We-space: Felt Experiences in 2nd and 3rd Tier WS

 We-space: Felt Experiences 

in 2nd and 3rd Tier WS

I don't know about you, but for me, conceptual exploration at some point has to give air time to the juicier first-person reports and descriptions. The descriptions here are supplementary to, but with some overlap, to the much longer and more detailed first-person experiences I put in my first blogpost on the subject of we-spaces, in June of 2012. http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2012/06/exploring-phenomenonexperience-of.html

For the sake of convenience, I've organized the following descriptions sorta within the Integral AQAL framework, using at least Q-quadrants and L-"levels" (which I now prefer always to call "stages"), but using the Spiral Dynamics stage labels which I much prefer to the ever-changing Integral labels for stages.

PLEASE note: I have also, along with other authors in various places, been exploring descriptions of stages of the we-spaces themselves (see many of the blogposts listed on the right of this page.) For the purposes of THIS post, I'm blurring those distinctions into some vague conglomeration of 2nd and 3rd Tier. It is unlikely of course, that some of the latter experiences described below, will be had in we-spaces which themselves are below those 2T-3T stages.) 

Quadrants

We-space occurs in all four quadrants of individual experience: 

UL - the subjective experiences in physical body sensations, mental experiences, feelings/emotions, on concrete, subtle, subtle-energetic, and causal levels of awareness and stages of awareness-growth; 

UR - the behaviors of the practice we find ourselves engaging in while in a we-space, and in carrying out the various "injunctions;" 

LL - the cultural meanings and values we share with others in such higher We-spaces, and especially the experience of the paradoxical new "dominant monad" which can speak as an "I"; 

LR - the systemic, objective, larger-scale factors that are derived from and also influence felt experiences and can both create and reflect, our motivations. These include for example the technological, digital, electronic media of communication a we-space uses and sometimes even creates for its own use. These also include the space-time parameters of our we-space, such as whether we meet in big groups or small groups in person, etc.

As for others, the planetary-scale driving felt-experienced passion for fostering an evolution for a humanity in crisis is for many of us not primarily a results/benefits-driven interest, but is profoundly an expression of the evolutionary impulse moving through/as us on the level of our own life-purpose, identity, passion, and self-actualization through and as, practicing this capacity. 

The descriptions below are organized more by stages than by quadrants, but I believe all quadrants are explicit or implicit there. 

Developmental state-stages and structure-stages

Our felt experiences reflect and derive from all the developmental stages each of us has access to, and also reflect stages and particular purposes of a WS itself. (Stages of WS have been explored in previous blogs (here for 1st Tier, here for 2nd Tier, and here for 3rd Tier. I have made what I consider some useful distinctions among purposes: Exploration, Experimentation, and Employment. )

Our deeply felt irresistible and constant draw​ to participate often in a variety of higher-conscious we-spaces is an evolutionary call. We know that not just from our cognitive understanding of the role and potential of collective consciousness in humanity's conscious evolution. We identify that the call as evolutionary also because our full humanity is also irresistibly drawn: motivating feelings/experiences are generated from every developmental stage of consciousness we have access within us to, in their transmuted version as us now.

Many people report these same full-developmental-spectrum felt experiences as the texture, the fabric, perhaps even the picture woven into the tapestry of Zone 1 and Zone 3 experience of higher We-spaces. Here's a very partial list, and nothing here seems unique to me; I hear others reporting each of these, at various times in various places.

For our Beige, there is the oft-reported palpable "safety, trust, warmth, comfortableness" as well as a naturalness of Oneness of inner and outer -- being "out there" beyond space and time yet grounded in our body, having it become one of our sensors of the larger We. My breathing slows and deepens; the experience is like group meditation except we are speaking spontaneously. Along with extraordinary aliveness and exhilaration, even ecstasy, is a paradoxical

Third Tier We-spaces: Coral and Teal

Third Tier We-spaces: Coral and Teal

As usual, please regard these notions as useful, or not, rather than true, or not. And regard this blogpost as an invitation to a conversation!

I explored the difference between YELLOW and TURQUOISE We-spaces in a previous blogpost, and much of what is in my exploration of Collective Emergent Intelligence actually corresponds best with the TURQ We-space description. I strongly recommend you read that blogpost because there is a lot there which I am not repeating here, but pertains to this subject. I also explored some general YELLOW/TURQ differences here.

So this blogpost is a continuation, and you'll understand it best if you read the CEI descriptions and YELLOW/TURQ distinctions first.

Note I use the Spiral Dynamics color labels here, but I have my own interpretations of what they mean. I use them rather than Wilber's current labels because I "grok" the SD terms and do not grok the Wilber labels, due to lack of study of them.

CORAL WE-SPACE

In CORAL We-spaces, the “field” is experienced as far closer to being a “dominant monad.” Subjectively that is experienced as the paradoxical “me and IT” becoming less separate while not losing differentiation. (That starts at TURQUOISE and gets stronger here in CORAL.) It is observable in that the group is far more seen to be far more able to speak as a single voice, a single mind, a single heart, and to operate as a single Will.

Added on Nov. 22:

Also subjectively, the feelings, which began at TURQ, intensify here, and become "background" at TEAL, are of "ecstasy," felt physically and emotionally. With increasing frequency and strength, bodies feel empty, light, out-of-gravity, relaxed.

If the group is moving together, there is a flowing synchronous quality observable and felt by the members, and if the movements are free-form, some of them end up having a healing effect on some members. This started at TURQ and intensifies at TEAL.

If the group is free-form toning together (making sounds, and not restricted to humming or to "om-ing" but allowed to be any vocal sounds at all) then, again starting at TURQ, intensifying and becoming more common here, and "ordinary" at TEAL, there is both the observable and subjective experience of "one voice" through many throats, and the sounds themselves have healing and uplifting effects on everyone who produces them or hears them.

There are fewer and fewer subjective experiences which either disrupt it or seem to fall outside of the “field” shared experience. It can be said to be more “robust.” We might say that the “state” of emergent collective consciousness-field is becoming a “state-stage.” It tends to emerge in individuals when they are in the least proximity to one another, without “practice” and without consciously adopting or abiding by “injunctions,” which have become habits now. Individuals experienced in CORAL We-space, tend to act as automatic “inducers” so the phenomenon starts to show up via transmission or radiation, in other contexts of their life, even at the bank or school, for example. (This goes double for TEAL.)

Group decisions are more easily made, as the same thoughts and feelings tend to occur even more often simultaneously in the different individuals than was the case in TURQUOISE groups. Less needs to be said in order for decisions to be made; there seems to simply be some kind of “flow” of consciousness in which all members are equally swept along.

CORAL We-space groups tend to work even less on the observable 3-D, “Gross” world level, and more of their effect in the world is on the subtle-energetic levels. Thus they are beginning to interact with other groups which are in similar states, outside the limits of space-time, and the effects of their work just “show up” in other groups and individuals, invisible as to cause. Often, the group members are not even consciously aware of what they are doing on these subtle energy levels. (This all goes double in TEAL we-space participants.)

To whatever extent the actions, goals, and effects of the group are visible, they can be seen to involve compassion and “service” to high values such as Life, Evolution, the planet, etc. This of course goes double for TEAL we-space groups.

Thus there is a sense in which the effects of the group are invisible to both the group members and those affected; this “transparency” amps up considerably in TEAL we-spaces.

TEAL WE-SPACE

In contrast to CORAL, TEAL we-spaces are not engaged in any visible practices or injunctions. Beyond having become “habits,” these former practices and injunctions are now simply fully embodied transparently AS the people. There is very little difference observable between we-space and non-we-space functioning as individuals constantly occupy the relevant states of consciousness, which move to the foreground of individual awareness and behavior as called for by situations, and move to the background otherwise.

In this sense, a contrast to CORAL is that a group goes from being a ‘community of practice” at CORAL (though less so than one at TURQUOISE) to being a “system of influence,” in Margaret Wheatley’s terms. And that influence is exerted in both visible and invisible ways, on every imaginable scale and some scales beyond imagining!

One of the hallmarks of TEAL groups is their visible sense of playfulness, freedom, childlike innocence, spontaneity, irreverence, and (to the extent one really looks) their mind-blowing efficiency and effectiveness/potency in achieving things, with “effortless effort” and “goalless goals.” They each simply flow, as themselves, and as whatever group/collection/unit serves The Flow. The “Unique Self” is fully operational all the time. Leadership functions move fluidly in time throughout any group, optimizing the use of the talents and gifts of each person for each situation’s needs or demands.

There is some challenge to the observer in spotting TEAL we-spaces and their members, because it is all so natural that it can look like any other stage on the Spiral, indeed as those colors light up depending on conditions. It is the “ordinariness” of enlightened people.

At CORAL, a “we-space” is still identifiable as such, when and where it occurs, though less obviously than at TURQUOISE. At TEAL, you really can’t say “This here now, or that there then, is or was, an instance of a we-space.” The phenomenon pervades the lives of those capable of inhabiting that altitude of we-space. Thus, in a sense, it becomes invisible or disappears as a discussable “we-space” instance.

I would recommend you check out my descriptions of online communities at these altitudes, because those descriptions map into this discussion perfectly. http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-spectrum-of-online-community.html

What can you add or amend or applaud, in my suggestions above?

by Rev. Alia Aurami, Ph.D., Head Minister, Amplifying Divine Light in All Church

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Third Tier Relationship Agreement

Third Tier Relationship Agreement

A Sample Third Tier (Coral-to-Coral) Relationship Agreement 

for a Close Relationship

by Rev. Alia Zara Aurami-Sou, Ph.D.

Head Minister, “Amplifying Divine Light in All” Church

Version July 13, 2013, based on version 1/19/07


INTRODUCTION/PURPOSE

Sometimes, in a close relationship like a friendship, work partnership, or romantic partnership, it is helpful to clarify where each person is coming from with respect to the relationship, what their intentions are, what their operating principles and guidelines are, so these can be compared, and potential sources of friction from differences, can be dealt with up front or more consciously/explicitly.

This is not meant to be set up as a legal contract, although it could morph into one. Rather than having the terms of one's relationship set according to the government, a couple can set their own, which might include matters of finances, property, criteria for maintaining vs dissolving the relationship, and terms and manner of any dissolution. Right now, these are all set by "the marriage laws."

This DRAFT is intended to be a cafeteria or the building materials from which you can design and create your own version which suits you and the other person. It can also be a catalyst as you add in things of importance to you, or modify things to suit you.