tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89629537965486692792024-03-13T08:59:29.076-07:00ExploringSecondandThirdTier"Amplifying Divine Light in All" Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879359445645380055noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8962953796548669279.post-7358335208659382542024-01-31T05:58:00.000-08:002024-02-08T10:42:42.920-08:00Using Morphic Fields - Part 1: What is a Morphic Field?<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Using Morphic Fields - </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Part 1: What is a Morphic Field?</span></b></p><p>In the context of this blog on exploring Second and Third Tier, I thought I would finally write about a concept that makes sense starting only in the Second-Tier Turquoise worldview, to the extent one can stretch into that.<br /></p><p>Morphic Field is the shorthand term for morphogenetic field. If you want the official version of what they are, read the author who identified the concept, in 1981: <a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=sheldrake+morphogenetic+field" target="_blank">Rupert Sheldrake</a>. </p><p>I have not actually read his book, partly because when I heard of the concept I understood it well. I've been employing my understanding of it usefully and practically for about 30 years, despite mainstream materialistic science's ridicule and dismissal of the concept.</p><p>Go ahead and read about it from Sheldrake and others. Here is my personal view. I will go on in future posts to describe many kinds of morphic fields and how I use them, and how anyone might benefit from using them. They are easy to use.</p><p>They are similar to electromagnetic fields, gravitational fields, or heat fields. Such a field is not as definite a space as a bubble, nonetheless there is a something which occupies space, is invisible and generally intangible, and has certain general characteristics of its kind of field (heat vs gravity) and of that unique field in particular. It has a particular size with fuzzy boundaries, and it has particular but always-increasing content. It is a "something," an "it." Morphic fields can contain smallelr morphic fields, and they tend to aggregate into natural holarchies of size and content.<br /></p><p>If you learn how, you can detect a field, upload content, and download content from the field into your own consciousness. Therein lies the usefulness.<br /></p><p>The morphic fields I use are in the "space" of "consciousness." All of consciousness, which we could say forms the "field of field of fields" of every experience of any conscious being. The morphic fields I focus on are independent of any particular person, and are composed of the experiences of many people around a particular matter, such as a particular concert, or a mantra, or the field of the experience of all birthing mothers over all of human history. More on the "matters" in a later blogpost.</p><p>As the Wikipedia article on Sheldrake indicates, morphic fields are related to telepathy, precognition, etc. This is because, as suggested above, all of consciousness is one field. Everyone is it and is in it all the time, and everyone is creating it all the time, and everyone is actually using it all the time, especially when it shows up as "inspiration." (And it goes beyond human consciousness, but I won't ask you to stretch that far right now.)</p><p>You can think of a morphic field as a library on a subject, intangible and immediately available to anyone who chooses to tap into it. The Internet itself is like a vast morphic field, but more tangible. </p><p>Morphic fields, as I experience them, are not identities or entities. They are more like thought-forms or egregores, which may be morphic fields. They are also related to the phenomena of collective intelligence, collective memory, collective subcionscious, or archetypes.</p><p>In not having self-identity or self-awareness morphic fields are different from teams or groups of higher-dimenisonal entities. Morphic fields don't have the same agency or will as such groups or teams, but they do in my experience have some ability to respond to requests or intentions. </p><p>For example I have placed/integrated my body into the morphic field of bodies that people have regenerated from very bad health into strong vital healthiness. Having done that, the field is "working on me" and giving me encouragement, hope, support, and direct healing, and sending resources into my awareness. </p><p>Another example is that a field can accept information someone requests it to include, and can provide the relevant information requested from someone for some situation or matter. Sort of like a ChatGPT. More on all that in the blogpost on "uses" in this series.</p><p>When I've decided to tap into one ongoingly, all manner of related
inspirations and synchronicities show up in my life. The explanation for
why and how that is depends on one's metaphysics or cosmology, I
suppose. <br /></p><p>Do morphic fields ever go out of existence? From what I've read, probably not, because they are like pure vibrating information in the quantum field. Nor are they diminished in any way by being accessed and downloaded from, nor does the quality of the information signals in them degrade over time. </p><p>I imagine one can go pretty dormant, however. A concert held 200 years ago, not photographed or filmed, and no one who attended is alive, would be a pretty dormant field. Yet if the music is still played by others, that concert field is still part of the field of the music itself. And if the concert changed someone's life in a significant way, their descendents are still involved in its morphic field.</p><p>Fields can be robust or vulnerable to being disrupted or disturbed, but that's a later blogpost.<br /></p><p>To be in touch with a morphic field all I have to do is think of the subject-content and assume I am in contact. That works, and I will say more about that in a later blogpost in this series.</p><p>Yet my mind cannot grasp the whole of any morphic field. Being in contact, or tapping into it, is like reading a book in the library or reading a page on a website. And not just reading: it can affect me emotionally, but that's a later subject also.<br /></p><p>Please ask any questions as a comment below so this explanation can become clearer and more complete! I'm not interested in debate, after 30 years of experience, so contentious or disrespectful comments will not be posted.<br /></p><div style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-size: medium;"><b>By Rev. Alia Aurami, Ph.D., Head Minister, Amplifying Divine Light in All Church</b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
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This means please respect our creatorship.</b></span></span></div><p></p><p><br /></p>"Amplifying Divine Light in All" Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879359445645380055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8962953796548669279.post-91937472039730898612022-05-28T09:58:00.004-07:002022-05-28T10:37:49.698-07:00Ruminations on Peace<p><b> <span style="font-size: large;"> Ruminations on Peace</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr7QwMgDAT1wcN471Z3Bw-UkWAr4iU_oOHphncvh-32S7-pLtdIAVMfvMULheaw-Y-q5cy5tQJZ0ylm8dzZGc4myGSgZ89JDNXReZlTJbtScHRHiBchelrnKJGA-abOm197VdRnr8lPGsGyeOrPCaj2kS8z5dU_adz5ldgJMPUmyiDqpr1H0NamNZNBQ/s1518/rain-5213306_1920.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="998" data-original-width="1518" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr7QwMgDAT1wcN471Z3Bw-UkWAr4iU_oOHphncvh-32S7-pLtdIAVMfvMULheaw-Y-q5cy5tQJZ0ylm8dzZGc4myGSgZ89JDNXReZlTJbtScHRHiBchelrnKJGA-abOm197VdRnr8lPGsGyeOrPCaj2kS8z5dU_adz5ldgJMPUmyiDqpr1H0NamNZNBQ/s320/rain-5213306_1920.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">These ruminations came while participating in a guided meditation on Peace, with music, at Integral European Conference 2022, by Katelin Gátfalvi and Dr. Olga Kiss.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">These ruminations contain echoes from all the focus on Peace in previous conference moments.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Peace is complete non-resistance to, and non-judgment, of what is. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And what is includes my resistance to and judgment of, what is. It includes my desire for something else. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It includes all my feelings and thoughts about what is, be they love or hatred or aversion. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Peace is complete non-resistance to all of that. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">All of it. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Peace is complete non-resistance to and non-judgment of, what is, what is leaving, and what is emerging, in each instant.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Flowing with every note of music is easy peace. Flowing with water in a stream is easy peace. Flowing with grass as it grows, is easy peace. Flowing with clouds as they move and shift, is easy peace.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Flowing with conflict, war, hatred, suffering, and all of my thoughts and reactions to those, is not easy peace, until I let go and flow. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then I have all the power to change things that the universe has as it makes each moment different from the next.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ever-present peace becomes present in my awareness when I grow large enough to contain war and its suffering and my/our fierce insistence of "no more" of that. </span></div><p></p><p><br /></p><div style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-size: medium;"><b>By Rev. Alia Aurami, Ph.D., Head Minister, Amplifying Divine Light in All Church</b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
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Divine Light in All" is a completely independent church fostering
empowerment of people to co-create loving, thriving God-realized lives,
and wellbeing for everyone, on a clean, peaceful Earth.</span></b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-size: medium;"><b>Our
main religious purpose and mission is to amplify the Divine Light in
everyone. When you read this article, you will agree or disagree with
its various points, and then you will know more about what is true for
you. Knowing more of your own Truth amplifies your Divine Light. Thus
providing/presenting this article is one way for us to accomplish our
purpose and mission. </b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
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one possible perspective which might prove useful for you. All results
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Please note these
descriptions are entirely my own, and might not be agreed with even by others
who have extensively and deeply studied Spiral Dynamics for 15 years or more,
as I have.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Please note the different
worldviews are stages of maturation of consciousness. None can be skipped
because they are cumulative. It is also true that both individuals and
communities are operating from several worldviews at a time: some are being
outgrown, some are being learned and matured, and some are coming in. Also which
one is in the foreground of experience and behavior varies with situation, as
we can draw on all our earlier worldview skills and capacities to best deal
with any current situation. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>For each worldview stage, the
following are described:</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span>What the predominant
relationship between individual and community looks like</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span>What limitations
begin to prompt maturation to the next worldview stage</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span>What the primary
individual vs community tension is within that worldview</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span>What capacities,
perspectives, and skills related to creating community get acquired in that
worldview and are available in all later worldviews. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>The
result is a flyover of the subject, and your comments to help expand
the conversation are invited below. In particular, far more could be
said about group decision-making methods as those evolve through the
stages.<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>BEIGE</span></b></span><span> Worldview stage </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span> </span>There aren’t BEIGE individuals or communities
available in our experience today, but the following points relevant to this
topic might be made:</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>No community can be healthy
and functional all the way down to our human roots, unless the following BEIGE
capacities and concerns are adequately included in the community design:</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span>Personal safety is,
if not fostered by being in community, at least not endangered by it</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span>Ability to meet
basic survival needs are not diminished by the community, and ideally are fostered
by it</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span>Ways of sensing
and adjusting to differences in perceived status of various individuals, for
various reasons and according to various criteria, are made transparent and
brought into accord with shared community values</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span>A deep sense of
embeddedness in Nature is part of the fabric of the community. The community
itself is sustainable within its physical and social environments.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>PURPLE</span></b></span><span> Worldview stage</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>We in our modern lives are
unlikely to encounter any actual groups or individuals predominantly in this
stage, but as maturation is cumulative, we all have some PURPLE consciousness operating
within us.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>There is no sense of self
or of community</span></b><span>. They are fused,
undifferentiated. It is nearly impossible for a modern human to get into this
worldview perspective on self and community. The self is one’s role in the
community, and the community is me/us versus “them” in another tribe.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>This worldview begins to
be outgrown</span></b><span> when there is a dawning
differentiation, often of “will.” There appear feelings of difference and
disagreement with the elders who run the show or the gods that must be appeased
for tribal survival. A sense of self distinct from family and tribe begins, and
this new self rejects any community not defined by or oriented around self.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>The primary self-community
tension</span></b><span> in PURPLE is
probably that individuals do have enough sense of self to be sometimes
disgruntled with the results of the default community decision-making
methods of doing what the elders, or chief, or shaman (who knows what
the gods want and need) specify. <br /></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>What gets carried forward</span></b><span> from PURPLE into RED is the capacity to feel a sense
of belonging, and the desire and ability to be a useful contributing member of
a community, adapting one’s own impulses to community needs for survival and
thriving of the community itself and of the individuals involved.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>RED</span></b></span><span> worldview stage </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>The relationship of
individual to community</span></b><span> is that it’s
all about me, and I define my community of people who are loyal to me. I impose
my will on the community, and am ok using force to do that. It has to be what I
want it to be, and if you don’t go along, you are out. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>This worldview perspective
on individual and community begins to be outgrown</span></b><span> when the survival advantages of being in a more
cooperative group, drawing on the skills and wisdom within the group, become
more valued than the imposition of my own will on what the group does.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>The primary self-community
tension</span></b><span> in RED can
sometimes be torn loyalties between various groups one owes (or is
forced) obedience to, and can sometimes be that since decisions are made
by the strongest person, even with wise advisors, those decisions can
be met with rebellion by individuals not aligned. <br /></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>What gets carried forward</span></b><span>
from RED into BLUE is self-awareness of personal wants,
needs, likes and dislikes, and of personal boundaries. And the capacity
for
self-expression honoring one’s own integrity and authenticity. RED (with
some BLUE bureaucratic methods) is capable of forming and operating
vast empires, which include nested and inter-related communities, so
what gets carried forward compared to the PURPLE tribal scale is that
individuals become capable of operating in more than one community at a
time.<br /></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>BLUE</span></b></span><span> Worldview stage </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>The relationship between
self and community</span></b><span> tips in favor of
inhibiting self-expression to conform to the design created by accepted
authorities. Community is composed of like-minded people who accept the same
authorities and their dictates about behavior. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>This begins to be outgrown</span></b><span> when limitations on self-expression become annoying, and
when one’s own truth begins to differ from that of the authority. Also personal
desires and goals begin to feel more important than the goals of the community/authority.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>The primary self-community
tension</span></b><span> in BLUE is possibly related
to the need to suppress much of the self to abide by the “One Right Way” to
live, feel, think, and behave as specified by their ideology or religion or the
design of the authority. This gets to be an inherently uncomfortable level of
self-censorship or self-suppression for individuals maturing out of BLUE.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>Capacities carried forward</span></b><span> from BLUE into ORANGE and later worldviews include
the ability to subordinate personal will to something larger than one’s own
person. To see self as part of a bigger picture, and to desire to serve a
greater purpose. Also within BLUE we learn to regard social rules, designs,
plans, and agreements as being sourced from self; in BLUE this involves
subordination of self, and while it continues to change through the stages, not
until somewhere in TUQUOISE does this become a lived experience of the
relationship of self and community.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>ORANGE</span></b></span><span> Worldview stage</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>The relationship between
self and community</span></b><span> is that self predominates,
but not the RED self. It’s been tempered through BLUE community focus and cause
focus. In healthy ORANGE, self is seen in relationship to an even larger
community beyond “the faithful:” we are all of humanity. Self has the
flexibility to “go with the program” where that will contribute to personal
achievement and success, and to use the program to further personal goals. ORANGE
can create communities focused on living a better (outstanding, extraordinary,
better than others’) life, or creating a better world for everyone.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>People seek to align others
to their community by argument and persuasion. Rationality and mental ways of
functioning are highly valued. Agreements are sacrosanct and are the primary
way the community operates. The resulting predictability of behavior enables
the community to focus on how to achieve its goals, rather than on coping with
surprises constantly.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Consensus material reality is
seen to be the ultimate arbiter of truth, and the difference between consensus
or scientific fact and individual opinion is seen to be a central issue in all
kinds of relationships, including communities. The scientific method is the
ultimate way to know truth, and if that fails, then the BLUE-oriented fallback
is to check with the experts who ought to know, and let them say what is the
truth on the matter.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>This begins to be outgrown</span></b><span> when “me” begins to feel isolated and empty, dry. A
shared cause or vision or a shared authority or plan isn’t sufficient because people
in the community don’t know or care about one another personally. If they don’t
know or value the others, they won’t adapt their behavior to achieve community
purposes.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>The primary
individual-community tension</span></b><span>
in ORANGE
might be that ORANGE communities tend to be simply one-dimensional. They
are
caught up in procedures, behavior, tasks, and progress/success/goals.
They
leave out many aspects of our humanity, which leaves the self feeling
invisible
and inauthentic. Also, majority rule, which is an advance over BLUE
authority-rule, leaves the minority feeling unrepresented. ORANGE
developed Constitutions and representative democracy (republic) to
attempt to mitigate the divisiveness of majority rule. <br /></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span> </span><b>What gets carried forward</b> from ORANGE into
GREEN is the organizational skills to coordinate people on a large scale, the
ability to cooperate in more complex ways, and even stronger realization of the
necessity to preserve individual wellbeing and individual thriving, within a
group context. Also carried forward is the sense that individual progress and
group progress can be aligned for mutual benefit that can also be aligned with
the benefit of very large groups, such as country or humanity.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>GREEN</span></b></span><span> Worldview stage </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>Community is defined</span></b><span> as people I share feelings with: we focus on our
feelings, share them with one another, and we have similar feelings and values.
I get to know myself by seeing me as others see me. Together we can change the
world to care about what we care about. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>This worldview begins to
be outgrown</span></b><span> when
exclusive focus on relationships
and feelings is seen to impede making group decisions and getting things
done
that we and I want to get done for the better life and better world.
Also it’s
exhausting to always be needing everyone to agree with each other, and
everyone
outside our community to agree with our community. Consensus
decision-making arises in GREEN and its unworkability soon becomes
apparent. There is also in GREEN a certain
subordination of “me” to “us” which also generates tension of wanting to
be
more “at cause” in the relationship of self and community.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>The primary
individual-community tension </span></b><span>in GREEN
is that “we-think” becomes restrictive after awhile. It occurs to a person they
can care about others, even be in community with others, and yet not feel all
the same, or think all the same. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>What gets carried forward from
GREEN into Second Tier YELLOW</span></b><span> is </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span>self-awareness
(how others see me and how I see myself,) </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span>a constant
ability to be aware of how one’s behavior is affecting (or could affect) others,
</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span>shifting
behaviors so that current and potential negative effects on others are avoided,
</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span>a deep capacity
for caring not just for individuals but for group wellbeing, and</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span>a variety of
effective methods of facilitating community and of resolving conflicts </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span>the ability to
accomplish complex tasks and achieve shared goals in a well-coordinated way, all
the while taking into account people as real, not just means to my ends or our
ends, and</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span>the principle of
seeking feedback and revising anything that isn’t working for the individual or
the community. Nothing is sacrosanct if it doesn’t contribute to constant
growth and increased success.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>YELLOW</span></b></span><span> (first worldview in
Second Tier) </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>In
this worldview, individuals have a huge sense of responsibility to make
community work</span></b><span> by allowing everyone
to be who they are, and designing community systems that allow them to
contribute meaningfully and importantly without changing. In other words, diversity
is honored not by “our way or the highway” but by flexibly designing the system
to not just accommodate or tolerate differences, but synergize them toward the
purpose.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>The
potential value of everyone to further community goals can be harvested, in a
YELLOW-designed community, even if there is no shared wording about what those
goals are. YELLOW can communicate meaningfully to all earlier worldviews and
align them on a purpose that might be fully understood only by YELLOW. It goes
without saying that the purpose of a community in YELLOW worldview is to help
the world be a better place while also fostering the growth and thriving of all
the individuals involved. YELLOW draws on all previous capacities, to make that
happen. YELLOW has the capacity to see how individuals are shaped by community.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>YELLOW
begins to be outgrown</span></b><span> when the
dynamics of what happens in a system cannot be fully explained by psychological
or social factors. There seems to be something else affecting things, and
attention turns to subtle energies that are operating, such as through
telepathy, or group fields of subtle energies that affect everyone but in
different ways.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>The
primary individual-community tension</span></b><span>
in YELLOW is how individuals can manage the complexity of all the
interdependent causes and effects, for the benefit of individuals and shared
purpose. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>Capacities
that get carried forward</span></b><span> from YELLOW available
for use in TURQUOISE include all the ones mentioned above.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>TURQUOISE</span></b></span><span> (second worldview
stage in Second Tier)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>Individuals
and communities</span></b><span> develop practices, methods,
for becoming more aware of subtle energies. Opening meetings with silent attunements
to the group, group meditative practices to sense a shared field, learning to
both influence and allow unseen forces to affect outcomes desires by the group,
are all learned in TURQUOISE. The relationship of the individual to the
community spreads beyond consensus material and social reality and becomes more
fluid in space and time.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Early
TURQUOISE is focused on methods and on controlling outcomes to be as desired.
Late TURQUOISE is more focused on intention and allowing emergent unexpected
outcomes. “Leading from the emergent future.”</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>In
TURQUOISE things get more non-linear and post-rational, and agreements between
people become much less important, as what happens is seen to be influenced by
other factors. In fact, agreements are seen to actually inhibit and limit the
potential beneficial happenings that can emerge.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>This
worldview begins to be outgrown</span></b><span> when
both individuals and groups are facile at moving in and out of ordinary and
subtle-energy ways of creating outcomes, and practices and prediction feel
unnecessarily restrictive of what can emerge.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>The
primary individual-community tension</span></b><span>
in TURQUOISE is exactly where does one end and the other begin? In TURQUOISE
one’s identity is becoming both as the individual and as the group. This is
paradoxical to earlier worldviews, but in TURQUOISE it begins to be a lived
reality. “I am” me and “I am” this community.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>What
gets carried forward</span></b><span> from TURQUOISE
into Third Tier CORAL: Everything described above. The ability to both act and
allow, to merge self and community in a way that actually enhances and
amplifies individual sense of self and contribution to the whole. The
realization that there is a larger cosmological context with invisible forces
that we can cooperate with, so our goals are in service to far vaster goals
that we might not be aware of.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>CORAL</span></b></span><span> (first worldview stage
in Third Tier) </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>The
relationship of individual and community</span></b><span>
in CORAL takes off from TURQUOISE and goes further. Each individual realizes
they are involved with and contributing to a vast number of visible and
invisible communities, and that not all of them need conscious attention or
conscious behavioral participation. There is a deep trust of the emergent
trajectory of evolution of the universe, and the focus becomes on what each
individual feels called to do in any moment. There is no need for any
agreements, any predictability in behavior. People experience that their life
is organized by a larger (or Divine) intelligence and people experience life as
a series of synchronicities that work for the best interest of everyone, even
if predicted behaviors don’t occur. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>This
worldview stage begins to be outgrown</span></b><span>
when all “practices” no longer feel necessary. The lines between individual and
community become hopeless to draw because “community” has become everyone on
many scales of existence, many of them outside of ordinary or subtle awareness.
Paradoxical to earlier worldviews, CORAL begins to appear to focus on their own
calling, their own joys, their own playfulness and humor. This is because the “self”
is so vast over time and space, and outside of time and space, that focus on “self”
far transcends the inclusion of this particular embodiment.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>The
primary individual-community tension</span></b><span>
in CORAL is the last vestiges of any sense of a self that is separate from All
That Is, from others, from any particular group. The final relaxation of any
such tension appears in TEAL worldview, which resolves all paradoxes into individuation
instead of separateness, and individuation as another facet of unity or
unification, of a shared universal Self.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>What
gets carried forward from CORAL into TEAL</span></b><span> worldview stage is the paradoxical relaxing of effort to produce any
particular shared or individual outcome, yet bringing to bear all of one’s
creative powers on preferred outcomes. Plus what has just been mentioned.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span><span style="font-size: x-large;">TEAL</span> </span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Since
we are unlikely to see or experience anyone in this worldview stage, I won’t go
into it here, although I do in my second book Ten Worldview Stages in Living
Color. You can probably make some guesses based on extrapolating the trajectory
of maturation of consciousness, so far.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">
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{margin-bottom:0in;}</style></p>"Amplifying Divine Light in All" Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879359445645380055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8962953796548669279.post-88441577041946051762021-11-25T18:30:00.001-08:002021-11-25T18:30:56.785-08:00The Experience of "Oneness" in Ten Worldview Stages<p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><span style="font-size: large;"></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>The Experience of “Oneness” </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>in
Ten Worldview Stage</span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>“Oneness”
as a perceived relationship between self and other can include first a
recognition of essential similarities with the other. (By “essential” I don’t
mean “centrally necessary.” I mean “essenc=ial:” “springing from or related to
the essence of something/someone.”) </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Then it can mature into an actual
identification with the other, with various degrees of distinguishability from
the other, various degrees of individuation within the One identity. In other
words, there is a spectrum of the degree of sensed or experienced “Oneness.”</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Everything
said below is presented as informed speculation “for what it’s worth” to you
for your purposes in your life—and with the hope it contributes somehow to more
people maturing further into more mature experiences of Oneness that will
generate a kinder, freer, more thriving world for us all.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Remember
that each worldview stage is cumulative; each is present in all the later ones,
foundationally, colored by the current predominant worldview. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Remember also
that in addition to the cumulative nature of worldviews, each individual person
and each group with one worldview predominant in their consciousness and behavior
has the consciousness of earlier and even later worldviews sprinkled through,
showing up in various circumstances; we are “mosaics.” </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>BEIGE</span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>In
BEIGE there is what’s called an “oceanic fusion” kind of identification as One
with the other. There are no conscious differentiations, no “essential
similarities”-based sense of Oneness within this identification, although there
obviously is an experienced difference between “my group” and “other group,”
and an experienced difference from other species. This is obvious from
different behaviors directed toward other groups or other species.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>We
can infer there is also a very instinctual sense of individual identity, as
each individual acts like an individual with their own unique relationships to
the others. For example, they do not mistake another’s body for their own. It
is not the fused individual identity of an infant or some mentally ill people
who literally cannot differentiate their body from what’s outside it.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>PURPLE</span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Here
my analysis has to get nuanced because there is still the “oceanic fusion” kind
of Oneness in BEIGE, but there is also a layer of Oneness with “my tribe, my
village,” that is <i>somewhat</i> more consciously chosen, as evidenced by the
fact that this sense of Oneness can be transferred or at least expanded to a
different tribe or village. It is still, however, I suspect, on the level of fused
identification, and not based on “perceived similarities.”</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>PURPLE
also is fused-identified with all of the natural surroundings and forces of
nature, which has the beneficial effect of a respect for the natural world that
begins to get lost in RED. It is reclaimed, at a higher-order integration of
complex differentiations, somewhere starting perhaps in GREEN but greatly
maturing after that. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Please
understand that the words I’m using here such as “my tribe” cannot convey the
actual PURPLE worldview-consciousness experience. Probably none of us are
capable of having that experience un-colored, unaltered by our current
predominant worldview. The ORANGE-GREEN words I use don’t refer to it, they
point to it, suggest it, indicate it, hint at it. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>RED</span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>RED
consciousness and identity represents a first step into non-fused individual
identity and therefore the first opportunity for a new kind of “Oneness”
experience. That new kind gradually shifts and expands and matures through the
YELLOW stage/worldview, in my opinion, and then there is a shift into a third
kind of Oneness perceived similarities in TURQUOISE which gradually matures
into an identity of Oneness on through CORAL and TEAL.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Probably
the only “identification” of Oneness in RED is with family, and perhaps with
some people a person might have a blood oath of loyalty with, meaning the
person would sacrifice their life for the other or the other’s “cause” such as
their throne or kingdom.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>RED
would be capable of experiencing essential similarity with others who share the
same geographical area, the same bloodline, possibly the same “trade” or role
in life, or the same leader to whom loyalty has been pledged. What this
perceived essential similarity might generate in experience and behavior is loyalty, cameraderie, and friendship.<br /></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>As
RED is famous for having slaves, there are huge categories of people,
especially including those who have been conquered by physical force, with whom
there is not any sense of Oneness except a most basic realization that they are
more like myself than some other animals are. Enslaved peoples are often regarded as sub-human, not fully human.<br /></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>BLUE</span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>The
obvious Oneness in BLUE is that I am One with those who <i>believe</i> as I do
about important matters in life: about the meaning and purpose of life, about
the source of Truth, about the rules we must live by. (Contrast with GREEN
Oneness with people who <i>feel </i>as I do.) </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>So
the circle of care and concern generated by a Oneness similarity or
identification is greatly expanded compared to BLUE, and for the first time can
significantly transcend geographical location and even basic human
characteristics such as race. (Although the RED Roman Empire had loyal members
in far-flung corners of the Earth, to be sure. That was a similarity of pledged
loyalty to a leader and to a set of rules or beliefs, and not an experienced
Oneness of identity.)</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>ORANGE</span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>ORANGE
can actually identify with the oneness of all humans, unless there is a RED
shadow dehumanizing some in the face of narrow self-interest, allowing them to
be treated differently, with different ethics. That is a common shadow in
ORANGE that gives the whole worldview a bad name for some people who are
shifting into GREEN. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>This
actual identification with all humans is why mature ORANGE is the worldview in
which people find it natural to regard people of differing race, sexual
orientation, ethnicity, religion, and gender as all being equally human and
deserving of equal human rights. It is ORANGE which finally disengaged from
human slavery and stopped dehumanizing certain people it was OK to own and
control as slaves, under threat of death or imprisonment or other worse fate.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>ORANGE
is about self-interest, and many never reach the fully-mature ORANGE which is
aware of the inter-dependence underlying true self-interest. That
inter-dependence is not an identity, but it is moving in the direction of a Oneness
identity. The inter-dependence is perceived along the lines of supply-chains or
food-chains or even monetary-chains as in “Follow the money.” It is not yet the
inter-dependence of parts of a whole “system” which in real in the reality of
YELLOW. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>GREEN</span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>In
GREEN the “Oneness” is when we have the same feelings. People who feel as I do,
I am One with, in recognition of our similarity, but not in actual
identification. An actual identification with people who feel as I do can
happen in GREEN—especially for people who have a strong need to belong, with an
unmet personal need for “my tribe” leftover from not-fully matured PURPLE—but I
suspect it requires the intangibility of subtle-energy sharing that’s real only
starting with TURQUOISE. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>People
who do not feel as I do, as we do, need to be persuaded or otherwise
manipulated into feeling as we do, or they are definitely “Other,” probably
dangerous to “us” and not deserving of the same ethical considerations as “us.”</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>GREEN
can mature into and through having an identified Oneness with “my
relationships” on the personal scale; maturation can expand that scale of
embodied identity of “my relationships” considerably.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>GREEN
does experience a Oneness identification or at least perceived participation of
self with “The Web of Life” which harkens back to PURPLE but has a more complex
understanding and experience, more differentiated and then integrated. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>YELLOW</span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>The
experienced sense of Oneness in YELLOW has a larger scope of both perceived
similarities and actual identification. The perceived similarities transcend
all the factors that linger to create “otherness” in GREEN and are largely
experienced as that we are all parts of a complex whole that is a system of
inter-connected and inter-dependent parts. This can include a “living systems”
perspective, not just mechanical. However, it is not what is meant by the more
mature Oneness perceived similarities (or even identification) captured in the
term “inter-being.” </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>YELLOW
makes a great leap in the circle of caring and concern, removing all the
inconsistencies, gaps, and hypocrisies of earlier worldviews, and truly
enabling a person to experience essential similarities with all living things,
non-living things, the whole “Web of Life” in both its tangible and intangible
manifestations and operations.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>The
actual Oneness experienced directly in a YELLOW identity might begin as the
experience of perceived similarities just mentioned, but can mature into a
direct embodied identification with all that—which still is missing the next
piece of the puzzle that emerges in TURQUOISE: the subtle realms not recognized
as real by mainstream science. YELLOW is still within the reality defined by
mainstrem science. The “We” of the Oneness of YELLOW is fully describable in
terms of social science, of social “fields” which consist of relationships. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Don’t mistake the intangibility of social fields with the directly experienced
intangible (but experienced bodily as sensations, feelings, images, sounds,
etc.) subtle-energy fields that are real in TUQUOISE.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>TURQUOISE</span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>In
addition to what has been already said about the experiences of Oneness within
the TURQUOISE worldview, the following speculations can be made.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>TURQUOISE
has the maturational task of creating a mature reintegration of Oneness with
intangibles experienced especially in BEIGE and PURPLE, further moved along in
GREEN and YELLOW, and yet in TURQUOISE going beyond those to beginning to
experience essential similarities based on the beyond-“reality” reality of
subtle energies. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>For example, a non-human Being can be experienced as
“essentially similar to me” based on the similarity of experienced subtle
energies of their embodiment, transcending anything heretofore recognized as
part of The Web of Life—such as extra-terrestrials, angels or demons, etc. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>By
late TURQUOISE and into CORAL, a person can expand their personal identity to a
wider scope than is available to earlier worldviews. That wider scope not only
includes greater quantity of “others” experienced as “self” but more diverse
qualities of being included as “self,” all the while maintaining a healthy
grounded identity in their physical embodiment. (Or perhaps, unfortunately, “spacing
out” sufficiently to become unfunctional in practical life.) </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>If
my identity can include for example experiences of “past life selves,” “selves
on other planets and in other dimensions of reality,” as well as all the selves
and qualities regarded as “bad” or “evil,” I have quite a Oneness experienced
identity indeed. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>CORAL</span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>The
experience of Oneness shifts from being based on any perceived similarities, no
matter how foundational or essential, except for one similarity: existing.
Being. Anything or anyone who can be perceived as separate “other” is
identified as self in that we both exist, we both are manifestations of the
Creative Force/Source of Being and of All That Is. We are distinguishable,
individuated, but not separate. That’s what “Oneness” means here—not
homogenized milk.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>It’s
important to understand that we’re talking about worldviews here. That means
what I am calling the experience of Oneness in a worldview (whether as
perceived essential similarities or as identity of self) is ongoingly
experienced in consciousness and fully embodied in body and behavior, not just
understood intellectually or glimpsed or experienced occasionally or while
“practicing.” </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>TEAL</span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>The possible evolution of the
"Oneness" experience beyond CORAL would be experienced, or more
accurately said "apprehended," Oneness of identity not only with all
that exists, but with the very Force or Power that creates all that exists (my
terms for “Source” or “the Ground of Being.”)</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>That identity would be apprehended or
experienced in each moment, as background if not as foreground in a person’s
consciousness. This Force or Power would be both inseparable from and
indistinguishable from, whatever is being experienced, whatever is happening,
whatever “self” is experiencing, in every instant, and of necessity, inherent
in the nature of Beingness and whatever gives rise to Beingness. (That’s the
ultimate or third kind of Non-dual Realization, but that’s another blogpost.)</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>A
couple of the many related complexities</span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>There
are some other Oneness related experiences I should mention. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>Oneness with Nature</span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>One
is the direct experience of the Oneness of Nature and the person’s inclusion in
that Oneness. That often happens spontaneously rather than from being achieved
or induced and it can happen to a person within any predominant worldview. It
is often called “Enlightenment,” though that would be a simplistic notion of
Enlightenment. It generally doesn’t last, but it can certainly can leave
permanent effects on one’s beliefs and attitudes. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>That
experience of Oneness is most likely to stabilize as an ongoing embodied
awareness in someone whose predominant worldview is TURQUOISE, I believe.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>Oneness with other people or creatures, Empathy</span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>There
sometimes can be a temporary or longlasting sense of being merged in
consciousness with another person or creature (such as a pet.) The experience
of this is as if the other were co-occupying one’s inner space, so their
thoughts, sensations, and feelings are vividly present, and one can even be
aware of the other’s sensory experiences: what they are seeing, hearing,
sensing, etc. If one is a not-mature empath, the other’s thoughts and feelings
can be difficult to distinguish from one’s own.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>This
experience of Oneness can happen for example during sexual interactions, or
just from walking by someone on the street that you sense you’d like to rescue
from unhappiness in some way, or during a psychic reading or healing, or
temporarily if someone you love is in crisis, or various other possible
circumstances. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>This is what’s called a “state” experience, being temporary and
not constantly embodied, rather than a “stage” or worldview-related experience,
in which case it would be ongoing, embodied, and accessible easily to the
person’s conscious awarenesss. I would expect that could begin in TURQUOISE and
increase from there. However, there certainly are people who have an abiding
experience of being merged with someone(s) within earlier worldviews;
parent-child relationships or spousal relationships might be the most common
arenas for such experiences.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>I
regard this Oneness sense as a merging of astral-plane subtle-energy bodies.
This can go on with or without the person’s conscious awareness of it. One
circumstance in which it can go on is that some advanced spiritual
practitioners (who might be in any worldview) are psychically merged with many
people whom they are non-verbally and intangibly “transmitting” subtle
energies/expanded consciousness to, all the time. The “guru” is generally not
vividly conscious of all their astral-plane activities; it would be too
distracting for good practical functioning in the world. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>Conclusion</span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Do
you recognize anything I’ve said? Are these descriptions helpful to you in
navigating your experiences? Do these descriptions help you understand yourself
and your inner journeys? Do they help you understand others you might want to
be helpful to? </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>If you’re wanting to facilitate someone moving along the
trajectory, it’s helpful to know where they are, what they’ve already
experienced, and what might be their very next step forward.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>That’s
my hope and purpose for sharing these musings!</span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #006600;">By Rev. Alia Zara Aurami-Sou, Ph.D.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="color: #006600;">This article is presented and provided to you by "Amplifying Divine Light in All" Church<br />Our
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Turquoise Working Groups</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> <span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">TURQUOISE
we-spaces of a “working group” can have a profound felt-sense (to participants
and observers) of calmness and serenity, but there can also be passion,</span><span style="color: red;"> </span><a href="http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2013/11/urgency-nonduality-eros-and-conscious.html"><span style="color: red;">urgency</span></a><span style="color: red;">,</span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> and extraordinarily efficient
operating toward a purpose (because in a way, the individual minds are “melded”
into one, so differences and divisions when they show up are synergistic, not
hindrances.)</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span>TURQUOISE
loves to spontaneously discover projects and people to work with in ways that
include the systemic integrations found in YELLOW projects and go beyond to
include “invisible realms” of phenomena that are perceived and influenced to
produce results. (PURPLE “magic” is the roots of this, but in TURQUOISE there
is far more knowledge of how the social and natural world works, as complex
systems, and more consistently benevolent intent in the use of invisible
forces.)</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span>Even
more profoundly than in GREEN, TURQUOISE is drawn to accomplishing practical,
productive work in teams.</span><a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>The characteristics of an individual who can
work in teams composed of people predominantly in the TURQUOISE worldview might
include these:<span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br /></div><ul style="margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;" type="disc"><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="circle"><li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Automaticall</span><span>y senses and works directly with group
energies and energy flows</span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin-bottom: 4.0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-themecolor: text1; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Uses “invisible realm”
actions/intentions/flow to accomplish ordinary outcomes such as
purpose-setting, marketing outcomes, project management, etc. This is far
beyond affirmations and visualizations.</span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin-bottom: 4.0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-themecolor: text1; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Is grounded with a balanced life,
values physical life, health, and relationships</span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin-bottom: 4.0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Has a work/life attitude of creativity,
playfuln</span><span>ess, and joy, not
hesitant to experiment and make mistakes</span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Is a good “team player," </span><span>with profound commitment to "working on the
relationship" of the team itself, in high-consciousness ways</span></span></li></ul></ul><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span>o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span>Is
emotionally/socially mature, including not flaky or flighty, can keep
agreements made (or inform others of changes in plans,) no sharp edges, no
subtle hypocrisy, etc.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span>o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span>Can talk
about use of energy techniques, has an intellectual framework for their work. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Even though this ability
to put things into words develops through the time spent maturing through
TURQUOISE, by late TURQUOISE it is balanced by three realizations. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>First, that "there are mysteries in play
behind the scenes" (quote from an editorial in
Mysterious Ways magazine) that can simply not be understood in words, or
by the mind, and sometimes can't even be sensed. The territory is that vast. So
the person is content to only partially "know" what they are doing,
or what's happening, or what the results are. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>Second, this means they understand that it is
not their personal will, their personal manipulation of subtle energies, which
is creating most of what happens and the results. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>Third, by late TURQUOISE there is a clear
grasp of the contextual nature of word meanings, so whatever words they might
use to describe what they are doing, their framework is always just an
incomplete map. However (because they have matured through YELLOW and gained
this skill already) they still can communicate something meaningful to almost
anyone they choose to communicate about their work with.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="circle"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin-bottom: 4.0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Always
open, always learning</span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin-bottom: 4.0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Always
engaged in emotional and spiritual growth</span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin-bottom: 4.0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Consciously
in service to planetary or larger evolution</span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin-bottom: 4.0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Has
significant skills and capacities from earlier stages, especially from
BLUE, ORANGE, and YELLOW that keep energy work grounded</span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin-bottom: 4.0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Has
significant flight-time logged in participating in higher we-space groups</span></span></li></ul></ul><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span>o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span>Able to
function on multiple levels and layers of reality/consciousness simultaneously,
so the work is grounded and focused plus the detail work is grounded in vast
spaciousness of cosmic evolution. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span>Some
individuals and groups mostly in BLUE work in “teams” composed of humans and
angelic (or “demonic”) Beings. Some groups and individuals in GREEN teams also
work with various invisible Beings as participants in the team, such as (echoed
up from PURPLE) Nature spirits of various kinds, totem animals, or angelic or
other “spirit-beings.” </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>A TURQUOISE team is likely to be found consciously relating to <i>all</i>
of those as team participants, plus, possibly, ancestors, ascended masters,
upper-dimensional (spirit-realm) extra-terrestrials, archetypes, morphic
fields, and more. In TURQUOISE these relationships and interactions involve
conscious practices of invocation and communication. In CORAL the integration of
all those with the people—in their lives and work—is habitual, automatic,
seamless.</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>If all this appeals to you, get in touch with me to explore possibilities!</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> <br /></span></span></p><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Tahoma, "Lucida Grande", Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-size: small;"><b>by Rev. Alia Aurami, Ph.D., Head Minister, Amplifying Divine Light in All Church</b></span></div><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">"Amplifying
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empowerment of people to co-create loving, thriving God-realized lives,
and wellbeing for everyone, on a clean, peaceful Earth.</span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-size: small;"><b>Our
main religious purpose and mission is to amplify the Divine Light in
everyone. When you read this article, you will agree or disagree with
its various points, and then you will know more about what is true for
you. Knowing more of your own Truth amplifies your Divine Light. Thus
providing/presenting this article is one way for us to accomplish our
purpose and mission. </b></span></div><span style="font-size: small;">
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Many people long for community. The “cool color” worldviews especially include
this longing. In TURQUOISE the longing is even more poignant because there are
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{margin-bottom:0in;}</style></p>"Amplifying Divine Light in All" Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879359445645380055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8962953796548669279.post-41580742761021278832020-09-27T07:59:00.010-07:002020-09-29T20:22:12.668-07:00Exploring Ego, Power-over, Impulse Control, Social Control - Through the Spiral<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <b>Exploring Ego, Power-over, Impulse Control, Social Control - Through the Spiral</b></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here are some
explorations and ruminations about the way these change up the Spiral
in First Tier. It's all speculation. Use my thoughts to catalyze your own thoughts on these matters,
for whatever benefit that could bring to your life!<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> </b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>BEIGE</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Alpha
male in BEIGE does not get ego gratification from his power-over. He is
not doing it to cover psychological insecurity. He is not doing it for
the joy of lording it over others. He is not actually CHOOSING to do it.
He simply got to his position by being who he is, which is stronger and
smarter in physical fights than others. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The
alpha female gets her position by being the chosen mate of the alpha
male. She too is just being who she is. Both are simply living and
expressing the impulses that arise in their consciousness, much like
human infants. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Others
in the tribe seem to internally inhibit some of their impulses for fear of getting
smacked, damaged, hurt, or exiled/shunned. But neither those actions toward
them, nor their fear, are in any way psychological or personalized.
There is not that much consciousness of individual identity. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>PURPLE</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In
PURPLE, social control is via tradition and fear. The fear is not of actions of others, it is of
the actions of the spirits that are believed to cause all human experiences, even causing all that
happens. Priests and shamans remind people, but do not exert personal
power and control and don't get personal gratification from their
influence. There is again not that much individual identity. Each is
acting according to the role in the tribe that life put them in to. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">There
are still alpha males and alpha females, and fringe bachelors, etc.,
but these are backgrounded to the magical, religious, ways of relating
and interacting based on "larger forces" that everyone regards as "real"
or "the way it is" (but without the conscious thought implied by using
those words.)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Impulse
control, to whatever extent it is necessary (because "indoctrination"
of children is quite thorough; rarely does an individual consciousness
rise out of the cultural mindset,) comes from fear of bringing harm to
the group. <br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>RED</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> In
Red, social control is now a mixture of sheer physical force to cause
bodily harm, and the power of the religious clergy, the interpreters and
messengers of the will of the gods or God, and there does appear to be
some personal gratification from the exertion of such power-over, for
both the physical-force lords, tyrants, dictators, royalty, aristocracy,
etc., and the religious "leaders." </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">To
whatever extent there is a personal psychology that includes
long-standing insecurity, low self-esteem, desire for revenge on imposed
force early in life, etc., then gaining social power-over (on any
scale) can be used to compensate. Scheming to gain power and status
becomes possible, probably for the first time in the spiral, in the
maturation of the worldviews.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Power-over
is exerted by the religious authorities partly because they have the
power to physically harm people and partly because they can use the
religion to intimidate people and get the people to control themselves. <br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Impulse control comes from the mixture of fear of physical harm and the fear of bringing harm to the group.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In
Red, the physical power-over of BEIGE is combined with the more
consciousness-based power-over related to religious beliefs, so
societies have pharoahs and other types of monarchs who wield their
physical power-over "authorized" by the gods. Their commands, their
dictates, carry both levels of power-over.<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>BLUE</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In
BLUE, social control shifts from predominantly the method of physical
force backed up by consciousness-related control via religious beliefs,
to predominantly consciousness-related control. Relgiious beliefs tend
to get encoded in "the law" which operates by threat or action of
physical harm (fines, jail, death) but basically people take on the
beliefs and control their own impulses from inside, without direct fear
of force. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In
other words, society has shifted from an external kind of
impulse-controlling to a more internal thought-policing. People regard
their own thoughts as good or bad, and repress or suppress thoughts as
well as controlling their action impulses. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This
results in less physical violence, a more "peaceful" society from the
external point of view, but the internal violence goes way up.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> And the previous methods of social control, of impulse control, are still present and operating, just more in the background.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> The
possibilities for exerting power-over are greatly expanded, as there
can be personal gratification from one's power to enforce the law, in
the criminal justice system, thus compensating for insecurity, or
seeking revenge, in ways described above for RED.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">ORANGE</span></span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
In ORANGE the possibilities and opportunities available in the course
of ordinary living to anyone for exerting power-over for personal
gratification are again greatly expanded. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Those
opportunities result from the further shift away from power-over based
on strength used for physical harm, away from inherited power-over such
as monarchs and aristocracy, and away from power-over based on internal
thought-policing based on beliefs adopted from ideological, religious,
or other consciousness-based authorities.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Impulse
control continues to shift toward internal policing, as many people
gain more actual personal control over their survival and well-being,
and learn to be aware of the increasingly subtle threats to those: one's
boss can fire one, but other jobs are probably available, so the threat
is definite, but not definitive.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Power-over
is thus exerted in myriad ways, and the ability to use that for
personal psychological reasons, becomes almost universally available and
universally used. Almost everyone has power-over someone, and is
subject to power-over by many.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The
psychological strain on individuals, of keeping track of and seeking to
mitigate all the potential threats, and of dealing with whatever inner
conflicts arise from exerting power-over, probably underlies a great
deal of the epidemic "stress" of "modern life."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">GREEN</span></span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">All
the above is still going on. There seems to be a sort of reversion to
PURPLE in this sense: being included in a group is super-important, so
internal impulse control amps up a notch further than even in ORANGE. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Unlike in PURPLE, however, the fear here is of being extruded from the good emotions and good relationships
of one's groups, from the "belonging" experienced by the "self" that has matured through all the previous stages. <br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Unlike the undifferentiated self-other in PURPLE, self and other are
excruciatingly differentiated now, but also excruciatingly
undifferentiated in that personal identity is very much dependent on
one's identity in one or more groups.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Thus
individual internally-generated impulse-control is far more complex,
far more related to emotional/personal relationships than ever
before--and still involves everything matured through up to this point.
More cause for stress!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Power-over
includes all the previous and even more possibilities, by manipulating
people emotionally subconsciously. For example, advertising manipulation
has many more avenues by which to grab people.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The
desire to "fit" in, combined with being subject to economic power-over
that operates ever more universally and subtly, opens the door for many
of the tyrannies and dictatorships operating in various countries that
are basically accepted by the people themselves, "voluntarily."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">SO WHAT?</span></span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I
wish I could conclude with words of wisdom based on new insights from
the above that would help in maintaining both one's social cohesion and
one's personal sovereignty. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Those haven't emerged yet. Surely they would
emerge by carrying this inquiry along the maturational spiral, to see
"what's next," from YELLOW and later.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Stay tuned here, AND add your own wisdom or speculations, via a comment!!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <br /></span></span></p><div style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;">
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everyone. When you read this article, you will agree or disagree with
its various points, and then you will know more about what is true for
you. Knowing more of your own Truth amplifies your Divine Light. Thus
providing/presenting this article is one way for us to accomplish our
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Exploring New Conversations</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Are you among the many people moving through Green and into Yellow/Teal who are getting impatient or bored with trivial, banal, "small-talk?" That seems to be one of the markers of this transition. It seems to me worthwhile to walk around this phenomenon and explore it from several angles. The risk I see is throwing out the baby with the bathwater.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Four kinds/levels/stages of conversation</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One very rich and growthful angle is to study Otto Scharmer's "<a href="http://www.mspguide.org/tool/4-types-conversations" target="_blank">4 kinds of conversations</a>" analysis. I cannot recommend your study of this strongly enough. (The linked page is a short introduction.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May you be lucky enough to find a practice group built around this exploration, as I did. It was quite the eye-opener, to deliberately practice each of the 4 kinds of conversation and see what each did to my consciousness.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These 4 kinds of conversations represent a spectrum, or actually several spectra, of development, of purposes for the conversation, etc. They range from "talking nice" (no self-reflection, nothing new) to "debating" to empathetic yet subjective/inquiry-curiosity dialogue, to generative dialogue for co-creation, built on primacy of the whole and aimed at enacting emerging futures. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It seems to be characteristic of Yellow-consciousness businesses and organizations that the small communications that used to be called "politeness" that "greases the social wheels" are common. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Perhaps that's more necessary in online communications than skin-life conversations, where there is parallel subliminal body-language perceptible conveying the response to a communication. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Online, the "netiquette" or "culture" in Yellow consciousness seems to be hitting Reply and sending a smile, or brief words like Got it, Wow, Thanks, Hmmmmm, or anything else, often conveyed via an emoticon--that all serves the purpose of letting the sender/speaker know their communication hasn't disappeared into the black hole of internet hyperspace.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The function of smalltalk for Wholeness and Bond-building</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yet another angle is to see that in Yellow consciousness, all previous stages can be drawn upon to form a richer, stronger relationship that is multi-colored. That means seemingly trivial "small talk" about seemingly trivial matters can actually be bond-building, by including all facets of our humanity in the relationship, whether it's about the weather or sports or our relatives. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All four kinds of conversation in the Scharmer model have their usefulness for bond-building and as "community glue."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of course, we have a tolerance limit for trivial talk, most of us can attest. And I would suggest that the greater our <b>in</b>tolerance of anything but "meaningful conversation," the more we might be exhibiting a regression to, or hangover from, the "what's in it for me" limited perspective of First Tier--rather than the diversity-embracing, bond-building perspective of Second Tier. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A good question is: Am I focused only on what I personally find interesting or exciting, or am I sensing what the relationship might benefit from, given my purpose in the relationship, or given my caring for the other person? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I again <b>strongly</b> recommend reading and studying the reference above to the 4 kinds of conversations because they represent different stages in the development of consciousness.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Greasing the social wheels" can start as relationship advice to the teenager (or as "say 'Thank You'" to the toddler) from mother in Blue, and continue in Orange from the perspective of a way of getting to my goals via other people. It can show up in Green as empathy, respect, and community-bonding. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(We might even see it in Red as formal bows, ritual acknowledgments, and attempts to appear or behave as similar to others.) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In Yellow, it seems to have more a flavor of "we are a single system co-creating our shared purpose, so let's communicate as completely as we can, optimize our information flow, for that."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And perhaps in Turquoise, there is more of a felt sense of such responses to communications without the need for overt behavior, even in online situations. "I knew you got it, and I felt your response of amazement/puzzlement/annoyance....."</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can this be a meaningful conversation?</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What else could be said for a "generative dialogue?" Leave a comment below!</span></span><br />
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Exploring the common tendency to seek cross-mapping, especially common among folks exploring the early territory of Second Tier, variously named Teal or Yellow. Cross-mapping is the new crossword puzzle hobby!</div>
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If like me you're bumping up against some challenges, here are some insights that might amplify your understanding, as they did mine.</div>
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We start with the understandings that <b>"the map is not the territory" and that a territory can usefully be mapped in many ways. </b>For example, a section of land that's a city: we can map the topography, the transportation system, the neighborhood names, the parks, etc. </div>
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The separate maps are very useful, depending on your purpose. Those maps can also be cross-mapped, because they are maps of the same territory, the land. The layers of maps visible in Google maps shows this kind of cross-mapping.</div>
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However, when we're talking about cross-mapping of <b>systems of thought, of conceptual frameworks, then it's too easy to assume the territory is the same</b>, and seek our fun in cross-mapping. But then we get bogged down, halfway through the crossword puzzle, with pencil in hand, and conclude that we don't know enough to complete the cross-mapping. </div>
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What if the challenge is really that the territory which SEEMS the same in both systems, is really too different to permit cross-mapping? What if both frameworks SEEM to be for example about the development of consciousness, but they really are about different territories within that broad arena? </div>
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Cross-mapping is extremely useful, besides great fun. <b>Cross-maps advance human understanding very significantly.</b> So we who love it, do it often, and don't give up easily. </div>
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I'm suggesting that when a particular cross-mapping attempt is tooooo challenging, we take a step back and assess: <b>Am I just missing something, should I try harder, do I just lack the skills? Or are these really SUCH different territories that no useful cross-map will be forthcoming</b> even if I try for years, or get help from others to try for years?</div>
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When a cross-map attempt is started but not working, those observers of the attempt who know both territories look at it and kinda squint. Hmmm, this glass slipper doesn't fit; <b>this integration feels awkward, forced</b>; things are being called similar which aren't. That's a clue that the territories are actually too different.</div>
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An example might be that trying to cross-map the transportation system of a city onto the religions of the inhabitants; it just might not work. </div>
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I address these musing to many of us studying Terri O'Fallon's <a href="https://www.stagesinternational.com/" target="_blank">Stages model</a>, and trying to cross-map that with several other systems/frameworks around "the development/maturation of human consciousness." We're having challenges, but seem to be assuming those are due to our own limitations of skill. </div>
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I'm now thinking: maybe that's not the source of the challenges. <b>What if the territory of consciousness is so vast that there are territories within it--even within a named arena like "development"-- which are simply not cross-mappable? </b> </div>
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So we might give up on trying to advance human knowledge by producing that particular cross-mapping. <b>Wouldn't it be more generative, more usefully advancing of human knowledge, to seek to identify whether we're looking at a difference in territories, rather than reduce them to being regarded as only differing maps of the same territory?</b></div>
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What do you think?</div>
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P.S. I cite this historical example of how cross-mapping attempt led to the useful, generative awareness that the territories were indeed too different: Ken Wilber started developing his framework of the development of consciousness with "concrete, subtle, psychic, causal, nondual" at the apex. Then it became clearer to him and many that those referred to a territory they called STATES which were differentiated from the territory called STAGES. The <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Wilber-Combs+Lattice&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-ab" target="_blank">Wilber-Combs Lattice</a> was one attempt to cross-map those. </div>
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Then Terri O'Fallon came along and added another dimension to that two-dimensional cross-map indicating that the <a href="http://www.pacificintegral.com/docs/statestagesofallon.pdf" target="_blank">territory was even more complex</a>, and that the Lattice itself was an insufficient attempt at cross-mapping. (My interpretation of what she said.)</div>
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<b>So at this point we have three named, discretely mapped territories: states, state-stages, and structure-stages. And cross-mapping attempts continue.</b></div>
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My ending comment is that by all means I encourage us all to persist in attempts at cross-mapping when we feel called. And at some point, <b>if challenges abound, we could step back and consider whether the territories are different. How might we advance human knowledge by identifying them rather than by producing our desired cross-map? </b></div>
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"Amplifying Divine Light in All" Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879359445645380055noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8962953796548669279.post-42729659697905939732017-12-08T00:50:00.001-08:002017-12-08T00:51:09.202-08:00What Makes a Community?<div>
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While this post isn't specifically about exploring Second and Third
Tier, it contains a wealth of information useful for satisfying the
longing for "community" that is so widespread among everyone--and that is especially poignant for those on the fringes of societal mainstream, like most readers here.<br />
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of the information is old, as I have copied this from a private blog in an online forum that I
did back when, but I offer it in the spirit of helpfulness, and would
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For some reflections more specifically on Second and Third Tier "community" you might check out these other blogposts:</div>
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<a href="http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-spectrum-of-online-community.html" target="_blank">A Spectrum of Online Community Interactions</a></div>
<a href="http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2016/12/exploring-group-shadows-of-teal.html" target="_blank">Exploring Group Shadows of Teal Groups/Organizations</a><br />
<a href="http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2012/04/how-second-tier-functioning-might.html" target="_blank">How Second Tier Functioning Might Show Up in Group Processes</a><br />
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<b>Are we really a community, or are we just a collection of people who choose to be in the same section of cyberspace?</b>
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The people riding a bus are not a community. The people viewing a
movie in a theatre are not a community. The cast of a play might or
might not be a community. A family might or might not be a community. </div>
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The people living in the same town are called "a community" but are they
always? The people in a church might or might not be a community. The
people within a business might or might not be a community, usually not.
A sports team might or might not be a community. A social club or
common-interest group (which perhaps we are the closest to) might or
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An organization gathered "for a cause" might
or might not be a community. Sometimes a collection, like people on the
same cruise ship, can become what might be called a "community" in an
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<b>Reasons for thinking about definitions of community: What would be benefits of this exploration be, for our community??</b></div>
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I think it would be very worthwhile for us together to look at some
definitions of "community", because the more we know about who we are,
the easier it might be to come up with our Vision, Mission, Purpose, and Values which are the foundation for our co-created structure and processes<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">.</a></div>
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Another reason for arriving at a common shared definition of our
community-ness is so new people can sense whether they belong here, and
can have realistic expectations for what their experiences here might
be, so they don't end up disappointed because we aren't the "kind of
community" they were expecting us to be. </div>
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Obviously, with so many diverse
meanings to the term (see below) there is plenty of room for clashing
expectations of who we are. Some commonality would promote harmony here. </div>
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<b>Different kinds of community, and what makes a community?</b></div>
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Everything below is from Wikipedia. I have <b>bolded the ideas or phrases</b>
which I personally feel are most relevant to the kind of community we
are or could become, and it's easy to get lost in so many options
described, but I believe it's worth reading them <b>so we understand the
CONTEXT in which our Community might exist. We can know more about
the kind of community we have chosen to be, out of the many options
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<b>Here's Wikipedia's summary of the concept of "community" (and longer discussion) at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community</a> </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> [links
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In biological terms, a community is a group of interacting species sharing a populated environment. <b>In
human communities, intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs,
risks, and a number of other conditions may be present and common,
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<a name='more'></a>In sociology, the concept of community has led to significant
debate, and sociologists are yet to reach agreement on a definition of
the term. There were ninety-four discrete definitions of the term by the
mid-1950s.... Traditionally a "community" has been defined as a group
of interacting people living in a common location. The word is often
used to refer to <b>a group that is organized around common values and is attributed with social cohesion within a shared geographical location,</b> <i>[from Alia: hey, cyberspace is a geography!]</i> generally in social units larger than a household. The word can also refer to the national community or global community....</div>
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The word "community" is derived from the Old French communité which
is derived from the Latin communitas (cum, "with/together" + munus,
"gift"), a broad term for fellowship or organized society.</div>
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Since the advent of the Internet, the concept of community no
longer has geographical limitations, as people can now virtually gather
in an online community and share common interests regardless of physical
location.</div>
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<b>Here is further down in the Wikipedia article, on the matter of Sense of Community:</b></div>
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<b>Sense of community</b></div>
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<b>Main article: Sense of community <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_of_community">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_of_community</a></b></div>
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<b>To what extent do participants in joint activities experience a sense of community?</b></div>
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In a seminal 1986 study, McMillan and Chavis identify <b>four
elements of "sense of community": 1) membership, 2) influence, 3)
integration and fulfillment of needs, and 4) shared emotional
connection.</b> They give the following example of the interplay between these factors:</div>
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Someone puts an announcement on the dormitory bulletin board about
the formation of an intramural dormitory basketball team. People attend
the organizational meeting as strangers out of their individual needs
(integration and fulfillment of needs). The team is bound by place of
residence (membership boundaries are set) and spends time together in
practice (the contact hypothesis). They play a game and win (successful
shared valent event). While playing, members exert energy on behalf of
the team (personal investment in the group). As the team continues to
win, team members become recognized and congratulated (gaining honor and
status for being members), Influencing new members to join and continue
to do the same. Someone suggests that they all buy matching shirts and
shoes (common symbols) and they do so (influence)</div>
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A Sense of Community Index (SCI) has been developed by Chavis and
colleagues and revised and adapted by others. Although originally
designed to assess sense of community in neighborhoods, the index has
been adapted for use in schools, the workplace, and a variety of types
of communities.</div>
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Studies conducted by the APPA show substantial evidence that young
adults who feel a sense of belonging in a community, particularly small
communities, develop fewer psychiatric and depressive disorders than
those who do not have the feeling of love and belonging.[citation
needed]</div>
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<b>Here's further info about "Sense of Community"</b></div>
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For Sarason, psychological sense of community is <b>"the perception
of similarity to others, an acknowledged interdependence with others, a
willingness to maintain this interdependence by giving to or doing for
others what one expects from them, and the feeling that one is part of a
larger dependable and stable structure"</b> (1974, p. 157).</div>
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McMillan & Chavis (1986) define sense of community as <b>"a
feeling that members have of belonging, a feeling that members matter to
one another and to the group, and a shared faith that members' needs
will be met through their commitment to be together."</b></div>
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Gusfield (1975) identified two dimensions of community: territorial and relational. <b>The relational dimension of community has to do with the nature and quality of relationships in that community,</b>
and some communities may even have no discernible territorial
demarcation, as in the case of a community of scholars working in a
particular specialty, who have some kind of contact and quality of
relationship, but may live and work in disparate locations, perhaps even
throughout the world. </div>
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Other communities may seem to be defined
primarily according to territory, as in the case of neighborhoods, but
even in such cases, <b>proximity or shared territory cannot by itself constitute a community; the relational dimension is also essential. <i>[from OM this means being a member of this network does not mean you are or feel you are a member of a community here.]</i></b></div>
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<b>Community-building and organizing (continuing from Wikipedia)</b></div>
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In The Different Drum: Community-Making and Peace, Scott Peck argues that the almost <b>accidental sense of community that exists at times of crisis can be consciously built.</b> <b>Peck
believes that conscious community building is a process of deliberate
design based on the knowledge and application of certain rules</b>. He states that this process goes through four stages:</div>
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<b>Pseudo-community:</b> Where participants are "nice with each
other", playing-safe, and presenting what they feel is the most
favourable sides of their personalities.</div>
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<b>Chaos:</b> When people move beyond the <b>inauthenticity of pseudo-community</b>
and feel safe enough to present their "shadow" selves. This stage
places great demands upon the facilitator for greater leadership and
organization, but Peck believes that "organizations are not
communities", and this pressure should be resisted.</div>
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<b>Emptiness:</b> This stage moves beyond the attempts to fix, heal
and convert of the chaos stage, when all people become capable of
acknowledging their own woundedness and brokenness, common to us all as
human beings. Out of this emptiness comes</div>
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<b>True community:</b> <b>the process of deep respect and true listening for the needs of the other people in this community.</b>
This stage Peck believes can only be described as "glory" and reflects a
deep yearning in every human soul for compassionate understanding from
one's fellows. </div>
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<b>Internet communities</b> (from same article on Community)</div>
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To a growing part of people the meaning of <b>the word "community"
indicates a smaller or larger group of internet users signing up to
become members of a community page/system on internet</b>. Examples of internet communities include:</div>
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A business community is often an administrative community with possibilities to add CV's and other business-related information.</div>
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<b>An interest community is a based on specialized areas such as art, golf or bird watching.</b></div>
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<b>A general community is wider in its range - opening for its users to create areas, pages and groups.</b></div>
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<b>Community of interest</b> summary below, main article here: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_interest">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_interest</a></div>
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In some contexts, "community" indicates <b>a group of people with a common identity other than location. Members often interact regularly.</b> Common examples in everyday usage include:</div>
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A "professional community" is a group of people with the same or
related occupations. Some of those members may join a professional
society, making a more defined and formalized group. These are also
sometimes known as communities of practice.</div>
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<b>A virtual community is a group of people primarily or initially
communicating or interacting with each other by means of information
technologies, typically over the Internet, rather than in person. These
may be either communities of interest, practice or communion.</b> Research interest is evolving in the motivations for contributing to online communities.</div>
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<b>Summary of the Community of Interest article: </b></div>
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<b>A community of interest is a community of people who share a
common interest or passion. These people exchange ideas and thoughts
about the given passion, but may know (or care) little about each other
outside of this area. Participation in a community of interest can be
compelling, entertaining and create a ‘sticky’ community where people
return frequently and remain for extended periods. Frequently, they
cannot be easily defined by a particular geographical area.</b></div>
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Other types of community:</div>
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Community of action</div>
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Community of circumstance</div>
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Community of inquiry</div>
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Community of place</div>
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Community of position</div>
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Community of practice</div>
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Community of purpose</div>
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<b>Following up on Community of Purpose, here is the summary of the item at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_purpose">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_purpose</a></b></div>
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<b>Community of purpose</b></div>
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<b>A community of purpose is a community of people who are going
through the same process or are trying to achieve a similar objective.
Such communities serve a functional purpose, smoothing the path of the
member for a limited period surrounding a given activity.</b> For
example, researching a topic on Wikipedia.org, buying a car on
autobytel.com, antique collectors on icollector.com or individual
investors on fool.com. <b>Members of the community assist each other by
sharing experiences, suggesting strategies and exchanging information on
the process in hand.</b></div>
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<b>Communities of purpose enable and empower people to get stuff done.</b> From Amazon to eBay to Get Satisfaction, <b>the community's purpose revolves around allowing people to accomplish something they want or need to do</b> whether it’s buying something, selling something, fixing something, dating, or the like. </div>
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The design and implementation of a community of <b>practice</b> depends on the intended outcomes the site serves. <b>The
aspect of community that empowers a community of purpose has to do with
the ways in which the people who participate nudge, assist, and inform
others along the path from having an un-satiated want to achieving their
goals, objectives, and tasks.</b></div>
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From user generated reviews or collaborative filtering on a site
such as Amazon.com which help people decide what to buy to the
reputation system at eBay which gives you a sense of who you’re dealing
with before you transact, <b>the community fuels accomplishment.</b> </div>
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<b>The gravity of the given community of purpose is directly
proportional to how much it makes possible for the people who are there
to get something done. While the size of the community matters it has a
lot more to do with how effective the participants in the community are,
in fact.</b> </div>
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<b>However, the size and scale of the active community
participation are important as it relates to fulfilling the needs of
those who around and are willing to engage to get what they want.
Effective communities of <i>practice</i> are balancing act between offering the right capabilities and ensuring sufficient capacity to deliver efficiently.</b> With the possible exception of electronic commerce, media consumption, search, and research (as in Wikipedia) <b><i><u>communities of purpose are the most underdeveloped properties on the Internet.</u></i></b></div>
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Before I started my research, I would have said most kinds of
community that I would want required two characteristics: shared purpose, and caring about
one another. Now I think, I might want to add a few more items to
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"Amplifying Divine Light in All" Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879359445645380055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8962953796548669279.post-6928659954407930572017-01-09T22:37:00.000-08:002017-01-09T22:46:40.177-08:00Why Green is not just a minor transition phase between Orange and Teal<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Why Green is not just a minor transition phase between Orange and Yellow/Teal*</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I hear some folks <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">interested in</span> Teal<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span>organizations <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">who are </span>suggesting the view that Green is not a true stage of development but merely a transition phase. <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That view wouldn't be tenable after rea<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ding</span></span> the <a href="http://www.spiraldynamics.com/book/book.htm" target="_blank">original Spiral Dynamics book</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, in my <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">opinion</span>, <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">but short of <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">such a</span> reading, here's my own attempt to respond, out of my own distress.</span></span><br /><br />I've been distressed hearing that view because I feel it is dangerous: it will cause failure and suffering for those who attempt to live by it.** I'd like to try to articulate why I feel that way. I haven't the bandwidth now to go hunting for examples, but they are visible in the pages of <a href="http://www.enliveningedge.org/" target="_blank">Enlivening Edge Magazine</a>. Perhaps you, a reader, can <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">make a comment below with one.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Green is not only a full stage, it is the necessary foundation of the Teal stage. Green is the capstone of the First Tier, and the only basis from which one can move fully and healthily into Second Tier's first stage, which is Yellow/Teal. It is the only healthy springboard into Second-Tier consciousness. <br /><br />I think to view Green as a mere phase is to not fully "get" the huge difference between 1st and 2nd Tier, and the role of Green in making that difference possible. <b>Green is where the heart comes online in human development, put most simply.</b> It is a radical expansion of the capability of a wide circle of concern. It is, we could say, a huge move in widening individual ego's scope of concern, awareness, and care. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Without that foundation, one cannot truly move into the scope of care and concern and awareness required for the leap into Teal/Second Tier, which involves building on that concern with wider systems-awareness, but with a quantum leap beyond any previous stage leap. <br /><br />That's why Graves called it a Tier leap, not a stage development, between Green and Teal. Green still has the right-wrong, either-or mentality, despite how inclusive its values are. <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Green</span> is, for example, very intolerant of intolerance. Teal and 2nd Tier is where <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">inconsistencies like that</span> disappear, for the first time in human development. <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Teal</span> is the first FULL<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span>universality of care and concern. <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Because others are fully real in their wholeness, Teal devel<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ops a "both-and" synergistic approach to life.</span></span></span></span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /><br />But without the move from relatively narrow Orange, and the maturation through the learning, mastery, embodiment of that universality via all the Green heart-felt, empathy-growing, emotionally-maturing, group-functioning-learning practices and experiences, <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">healthy</span> Teal cannot develop. <br /><br />Orange itself broadens the scope of care and concern compared to Blue; it is Orange that first preaches and implements universal rights, for example. But there are still limits and inconsistencies. It is Green, not Teal, which irons out most of those inconsistencies. (See below about logic<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> versus empathy as the basis of care.)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>A move directly from Orange to Teal without a<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">full healthy maturation t<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">hrough the Green stage </span></span></span>would produce heartless systems-thinkers who only superficially care about "the whole."</b> To such a person, people would be still cogs in a machine; there would not be the empathy that having all the time and experiences of Green consciousness brings online. There would not be the genuine ability to accept, and design for using, all the gifts of all the previous stages, which is a marker of Second-Tier consciousness. <br /><br />Green is still in either-or thinking about the previous stages, and looks down on them, but it is the only place from which one can step into the true ability to think in both-and terms, which is another hallmark of Second Tier. <br /><br />Attempts to "act Teal" and even partial Teal consciousness are going to bog down and cause problems, without sufficient maturation through Green. My recent blogpost about the <a href="http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2016/12/exploring-group-shadows-of-teal.html" target="_blank">16 group shadows of Teal groups</a> I've observed, gives examples. <br /><br />Of COURSE bits of Teal consciousness show up earlier. That's the way maturation goes. We are all "mosaics" of the stages. But without sufficient maturation in that capstone Green consciousness, attempts to embody Teal are going to fall flat eventually, and cause suffering. A <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ten</span>-year-old can wear high heels, but that doesn't enable her to be a teenager or adult. She's gonna fall flat.<br /><br /><b>Why I think that view about Green as a mere phase arises:</b> A lot of folks in Orange organizations are personally Green. They are the ones who feel the urge to develop into Teal. But their own maturation into Green is invisible to them; no one has pointed it out. So they take it for granted, and minimize its importance when they hear about Teal and resonate strongly. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I believe I know many of those folks, and I believe that's the reason they're not, in my opinion, realizing the importance of Green. Took me a while to get to that insight. I now call folks in the Orange world who read about Teal and resonate strongly and long for that consciousness, or feel at home in it, "the invisible Greens," LOL! Exit-Green, is the SD name for that phase of that stage of consciousness/worldview. Does that make sense?<br /><br /><b>Here's another angle on why Green is non-trivial, and a true stage. </b>In Spiral Dynamics framework, there is a swing between two orientations, a swing that forms a progression in development. Some stages help a person differentiate themselves from a group and master being an individual at a certain maturity of consciousness. <br /><br />That starts at Red, and gets done in a more mature way at Orange. Other stages help that more mature self-individual re-integrate into new kinds of groups <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">possible only with</span> others at that same stage. The individual whose self-sense has developed, learns the various ways to be social, to function reciprocally and then interwoven-ly in groups and relationships. When that is matured enough, then a new differentiation into an even more mature self-sense is possible. <br /><br />Those group phases are Purple, Blue and Green, in First Tier. Each is absolutely necessary. Without the learning to function from a healthy Orange self-sense into a healthy Green group-sense, the foundation for Second Tier and Teal is incomplete. Teal is the exploration and maturation of someone with all the Green relating skills, in applying those skills to the welfare of a new scope of "all." <br /><br />It can get blurred if Turquoise is already showing up sometimes for some folks who are usually in Teal, because that is the next group/social-oriented stage, and brings an emphasis on/interest in/desire for community, teams, social fields. It's different from the wide social concerns of the Teal individual, even eco-systems concerns! Concern for an ecosystem and for certain kinds of collective intelligence is quite different from both the Green group-consciousness and the Turquoise group-consciousness. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"We're all in this together. Each of us is important." <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Those viewpoints, matured in the Green worldview, are</span> a necessary foundation for Teal, which is <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">can be <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">described as </span>e</span>mpo<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">wering and <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">e</span>nlivening the Whole by enhancing and synergizing the <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">P</span>arts. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In other words, the value of each of <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">individual<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> must be int<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">imately, emotionally real to me, be<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">fore </span></span></span></span></span>I can <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ethically and effectively regard and work with them as parts of a whole system, and before I can care for the<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">whole by caring for <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">m <b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">as</span> parts</b>.
Orange regards individuals as means to ends, usually my own ends, and
their reality as emotional beings to whom I can relate via my emotions,
is simply not yet a matured pe<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">rspective</span>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The progression is: </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">others as means to my or our shared goals; </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">others as full, rich, <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">humans
like me who are emotionally real to me as we work toward my or our
goals; </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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which <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">can work toward shared goals as emotionally real compatriots</span>. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /><b>Here's a cartoon-level walk through the swings from group to individual, as the stages of consciousness develop, from the perspective of an individual. </b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When I rediscover where I originally saw this way of describing the maturation of consciousness, I will post the exact place in a comment.</span> I've found it extraordinarily useful to see the maturational sequence from this angle.<br /><br /><b>P<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">urple to Red:</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span>At Purple, there is a "we" but it is not composed of "I's." It is the fused "we" of the infant. The step into maturity compared to Beige, is the more-conscious awareness of the "we." After long enough in that, there comes a sense that "I" am more than my role in the tribe. The "Terrible Two's" begin. The Red world is still the same dangerous world as the Purple world, but now I am not subject to/fused <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and merged with</span> the gods or my tribe. I am going to make it on my own. I am going to explore my personal power to keep myself safe, and I am going to discover and learn to express my own unique needs and desires. <br /><br /><b>Red to Blue:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After long enough in a social setting of others Red like that, the downsides become apparent (violence and instability, for example) and the individuation has been consolidated, so the new "I" wants to live in a less chaotic and more orderly social setting. People like <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that new "I"</span> create rules and authorities to limit my/our self-expression. We individuals with a self-sense matured by our time in Red, are now a "we" serving a cause larger than ourselves, from whence the rules and authorities come. Life becomes <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">more predictable and thus feels safer</span>.<br /><br /><b>Blue to Orange:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With the foundation of learning to live together somewhat more peaceably than in Red, and being concerned with more than my own self, the person feels ready to step out of the Blue constrictions and restrictions on self-expression again, and move into a more socially-aware version of individual development, in a somewhat safer world where -- in the Orange worldview stage -- I can be successful and get what I want, and find out more about who I am, through the use of my mind and through exchanges with others based on our individual wants. I also see (but rationally, logically, not emotionally) that others are like me in many ways, and have rights like mine. I'm maturing into and through Orange worldview.<br /><br /><b>Orange to Green:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With enough maturity in self-ness through being with others in Orange, comes the realization that I feel a bit like a superficial self, that part of who I am is not being paid attention to. I have feelings, and others do, and I want to explore relating more from and through feelings. So I move into Green, and we do that in depth. And we extend our circle of concern and care to many who were invisible to us in Orange but we now realize are just like us, through our feelings, n<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ot just our logic</span>. We have empathy for a lot more folks. <br /><br /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's the key to Green as the capstone of First T<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ier: </span></span>Orange can logic-and-science its way to universal human concern. Humans are observably "the same." But Orange does not FEEL that sameness. <b>ONLY in Green do we learn to feel<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> and directly</span> experience the reality of our shared humanity and the intrinsic value of other<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> people and <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">other lives. </span></span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And without that feeling-reality, Teal is shallow, hollow, and heartless systems-thinking, <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and the three Teal organizational breakthroughs of wholeness, self-managem<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ent, and Evol<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">utionary Purpose are shallow pro-forma exercises, lip-service, name-only</span></span></span>. Even manipulative. </span></span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />We in <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Green</span> learn to function as a group, in groups, even sometimes to the point of ignoring our own well-being, but the value of group functioning with selves that are as differentiated as we <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">became</span> in our Orange stage, is now quite apparent and wonderful.<br /><br /><b>Green to Teal:</b><br />With enough experiences in that, a person starts to feel bogged down again by the needs of the group, and the way that things aren't getting done because of endless focus on feelings. Concern for the group now requires a further assertion of self at a far more mature level of both differentiation and integration. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Self begins to assert that everyone's well-being would be better served by aligning around purpose, and beginning to set priorities among feelings, wants, needs, processes -- within oneself and within the group. It's a subtle shift but a quantum leap, from an amorphous "we" to "the whole of us." </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The TIER leap into Teal/Yellow allows people with the emotional maturity gained in Green to set to work alongside one another, in a new kind of group able to see the needs of others in a way that they can DO something about those needs<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--</span>sy<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">nergistically, not sacrificing one for another; Green </span>doesn't know how to do <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">anything but either-or</span>. Both-and, comes online in Yellow/Teal. It's something like the shift from teenager to adult.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Teal to Turquoise:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Eventually with enough of that experience, the person begins to be able to see below the surface of actions to more subtle kinds of interactions going on, and realize that underlying the surface of teams, groups, organizations, networks, ecosystems, is something beyond human emotions and actions, beyond human mind and feelings. Something else seems to be going on. The "whole" is vaster and works somewhat differently from what I first thought as a Teal-stager! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With the foundation of the more mature "I" formed from acting for the benefit of a very complex whole AND all its parts, the person is ready to explore a new and seemingly (to the one going in) paradoxical kind of "we" in which the whole is much vaster and more subtle than the Teal "I" could have discerned or imagined! <br /><br />But in the Teal work, some limits of actions and systems and designs have become apparent, and anomalies like synchronicities and shared co<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">nsciousness</span> have showed up, pointing to something "beyond" which becomes my focus of exploration. Turquoise is emerging as my worldview, a more consciousness-oriented way of "being" with others while still being "me" -- a way that I could not have begun to "grok" without all my experiences in Teal.<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span>("I" is not me the author speaking, but a proposed generic "I" speaking.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And this continues into Third Tier<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">.</span> I've touched on th<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ose</span> stages <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in some of my other blogposts, for example <a href="http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2013/11/third-tier-we-spaces-coral-and-teal.html" target="_blank">this one</a></span>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can see how each stage offers a perspective and experience on the individual-collective relationship which builds on <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and
requires incorporating the previous perspective and experience. The
individual moving into each stage of a more collective-oriented
worldview is a different individual from the one who entered the
previous collective-oriented stage. And each collective-ori<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ented stage requires indi<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">viduals with differing capacities and or<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ientations to one another as to who they are.<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For example, <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">t</span>he
self-experienced identity of the individual in Orange worldview is
quite different from the self-experienced identity of the individual in
Red worldview, but is not healthy without the sense of empowered
self-sense and self-expression available only by maturing through <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the Red stage. (Remember that Red is a <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">maturation out of undifferentiated, "oc<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">eanic" fusion with "the tribe," (or the mother,) with no real individual identity-boundaries at all.)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And for another example, the self-experienced id<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">entity of the indiv<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">iduals in a Teal wo<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">rldview requi<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">re maturation through what it's like to be a Green individual in a Green collective.</span></span> </span>Otherwise<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, as I've said, in such a ps<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">eudo-Teal <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">perspective/worldview, </span>the person sees</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a
systemic collective, but <b>the individuals within it are not emotionally
rich and real and valued for who they are</b>; they are merely parts to be
manipulated in the name of "Evolutionary Purpose."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">is your view of all this? What d<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">id you gain from this exploration, and what remains for you?</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>*</b> As in my other blogposts, Yellow is the Spiral Dynamics term for this stage;<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Te<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">al is the Integral/Wilberian/L<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">aloux term for the stage. I <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">mean them as equivalent.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>**</b> Of course there is a partial truth in the view. I invite anyone to give a <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">long</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">de<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">scription and rationale for <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the view</span></span>, so I and others can discern and enrich our own views with that truth.</span></span></span> </span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Exploring "Promises" </span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Through the Spiral of Development</span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 106%;">(Here, Teal = Yellow.)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 106%;">Here's a riff to continue a conversation I'm having with friends! </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 106%;">On page 34 of his book</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.asmallgroup.net/pages/images/pages/CES_jan2007.pdf" target="_blank">Civic Engagement and the Restoration of Community:Changing the Nature of the Conversation</a>,</span><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 106%;"> outlining the A Small Group process, Peter Block says</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 106%;">“Promises
that matter are made to peers, not those made to those who have power
over us (parents, bosses, leaders). The future is created through the
exchange of promises at the local level with whom we have to live out
the intentions of the change. </span></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 106%;">It is to these people that we give our
commitments, and it is they who decide if our offer is enough – for the
person and for the institution. Peers have the right to declare that the
promise made is not enough to serve the interests of the whole. As in
each act of refusal, this is the beginning of a longer conversation.”</span></span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 106%;">He also says:</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Commitment is a promise made with no expectation of return. It is the willingness to make a promise independent of either approval or reciprocity from other people. </span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The distinction is between a promise made for its own sake and a barter agreement. Barter is an exchange of agreements that are contingent on the actions of another. I will do this if you will do that. </span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This means that we hold an "out" for ourselves dependent on whether other people fulfill their part of the bargain. This reciprocity works as an element of commerce.</span></span></span> <span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It falls short of the level of commitment that creates a new future.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The declaration of a promise is the form that commitment takes and is the action that initiates change. The word promise brings a sacred element into the conversation and this is what generates power and new energy." </span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 106%;"><span style="line-height: 106%;">Promises in First Tier Worldviews:</span></span></span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 106%;"><span style="line-height: 106%;">In my view, this is
healthy Green-consciousness, coming out from healthy Orange. The value of keeping
one's word starts with the Red emphasis on loyalty, sworn oaths of
allegiance. It moves in Blue as dedication/loyalty to the authority and
the "cause," to the "contract" created by a higher authority that is "take it or leave it," being an unquestioning part of the "us."<br /><br />Particularly
Orange emphasizes making and keeping agreements with equals, as
"contracts between individuals" are the basis for many relationships
within Orange. The system of Orange-consciousness in society depends on people keeping
their word, doing what they said they would do, being honest, etc.
That's basic to healthy Orange; as Block said it, reciprocity works as an element of commerce. <br /><br />In my view, the wording used by Block takes
it into Green by talking about creating the future (the implication is,
TOGETHER,) and "peers with whom we have to live out the
intentions...." </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 106%;"><span style="line-height: 106%;">The phrase "the interests of the whole" probably shades
into Yellow/Teal, but IMO just dipping the toe in. In fact, it might even be a Blue "shadow,"
if the interests of the whole are viewed as <b>opposed</b> to the interests of the individual! Yellow/Teal knows how to harmonize those interests.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As far as I can see, the
reason people value making and keeping promises is that it makes
life, and especially other people's behavior, predictable. For a human, predictable
means safe: less danger and less stress, greater health and longevity. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I see promises as a matter of <i>wanting to feel</i> safer and a <i>means to</i> <i>be</i> safer, from the dangers in this world.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(Is there an additional purpose for Second Tier? Beyond predictability/safety? I'm not sure. There almost certainly would be. What is it?) </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In Yellow/Teal, it is
not so much the promises we make to one another that are important. It is our
<b>internal commitment to understanding the whole</b> of the system we are in,
and to <b>acting in a way that benefits the whole and the parts</b>. When we do
that, actions naturally align, harmonize, synergize. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is no need
to make promises/agreements to one another, but we seem to do that anyway because we are
used to it, from our time in First Tier, and it adds to our comfort level.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />So, one possible Yellow/Teal version of a commitment query: <b>What is needed for/by the whole and its parts, as distinguishable with their own needs, but inseparable from the whole? What is my promise to that? What is my part to commit to?</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another possible Yellow/Teal version of the commitment query:</span></span></span><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <b>What
commitment from me that I am now making [or willing to make] (and that I
want from others) would enable us to live and work in a way that I
understand as "Teal" or "next-stage consciousness in action."</b></span></span></span> </b></span></span></span></div>
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early Turquoise, there is a shift from "whole" to "Field." Another way to describe this is that the "system" of Yellow becomes a "living system." Living systems change dynamically, often, in small adjustments made by those involved.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The
relationship of the parts of the whole shifts into being parts of a
subtle-energy field, operating beyond behavior and what can be detected
with the five senses. In Yellow/Teal, it's only the 5 senses available and
that's "reality." </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In
early Turquoise, making promises turns into our internal commitment, by
each of us, to sense the Field AND to act in accord with what we sense as <b>emergent</b>. Sensing, valuing, talking over together, and flowing together naturally with what is "emergent" reflects Turquoise consciousness, not Yellow/Teal. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Side note: In Yellow/Teal there is a precursor to the Turquoise focus on what is dynamically "emerging" in the living system. It is a sense of where the "system" is going if nothing changes, and where I and others might want it to go and where we could "make it go." </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is not yet a sense of the future emerging into the present ("but just not evenly distributed," as Otto Scharmer said) and of our birthing that, midwifing it into existence. The earlier Yellow/Teal approach is captured by the concept of "co-creating."</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">So
it is important not to ask Yellow/Teal to function as Turquoise. I strongly believe that all talk of
"sensing the Field" is Turquoise. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">In Yellow/Teal, the earlier version of "sensing the Field" is "grokking" the
relationship of the whole and the parts in a new way that Green can't
see (as a "system.") </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">Yellow/Teal consciousnes also includes extending one's circle of care and
behavior by taking differences into account in a new way that Green
can't understand. That means seeing the partial truth and partial value in EVERY
person, even every behavior, and adjusting the system to harvest that
value for the good of the whole!!</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here
is a checklist of some Teal-group <span class="m_-8890375787686569656gmail-il">shadows</span> I have observed over the years.
A group shadow is a pattern of group interactions (involving some or all the group members) which can be observed to be detrimental to the well-being of the group and to its actions/results/expression of its Evolutionary Purpose. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These are patterns I've seen and experienced in groups nominally or even predominantly operating in Teal/Yellow consciousness. At the end below, I talk briefly about how this list might be USED by a group.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1.
Someone comes up with a tension and others assume or discern it is individual, "from ego,"
or "defensive," instead of actually looking to see whether it is indeed a systemic/group
matter/tension. It could be valid and useful for the group to consider EVEN IF the individual is coming
from ego-<span class="m_-8890375787686569656gmail-il">shadow</span>. Both-and, not either-or. By "shooting the messenger" down (into silenced invalidation) without reflecting, potential collective intelligence is
lost.</span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">LEFTOVER HABITS AROUND POWER AND DECISIONS</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2. Individuals in a </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">self-management environment </span>are often still tethered to old habits of consciousness/behavior, and, for example, seek consensus before acting
(Green) or seek permission before acting (Orange.) This becomes a group shadow if others, due to their own individual shadows, don't realize
this and call attention to it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One effect detrimental to the group is that things don't get done even though
they might have been good for the group. Also, the self-inhibiting breeds resentment in
those who won't act without consensus or permission; that
contaminates the relational space and reduces their enthusiasm for
contributing to the thriving of the whole group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">3. A not-fully-mature Green <span class="m_-8890375787686569656gmail-il">shadow showing up in a Teal-oriented group</span> is that who is accountable/responsible for doing
what, is unclear, and no one--for whatever reason--seeks to clarify. Or
someone seeks to clarify and others resist and seek to perpetuate the unclarity,
because it gives room for their own <span class="m_-8890375787686569656gmail-il">shadow</span> to play out, such as for
example making power moves.<br /><br /><b>OFFICE POLITICS INSTEAD OF CONSTRUCTIVE ACTION</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">4. "Office politics" happens
within the group, instead of the Teal group consciousness which would
create behaviors showing self-empowerment, compassion, and alignment with Evolutionary Purpose and with
good of the whole. People complain or gossip, but don't
act to remediate, and no one calls them on it. People play victim to
others or to the systems of the group, instead of claiming the
self-empowerment which a Teal group offers them, and no one calls them on that.</span><br />
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A related <span class="m_-8890375787686569656gmail-il">shadow</span> is that an outside observer can often see relational interplays going on, perhaps even below the level of
anyone's awareness, which inhibit the self-empowerment which CAN be
claimed in the group without negative consequences. Everyone is acting
out of old habits from earlier life, and no one within the group is
capable of being fully aware of these. Self-management, self-organization, self-generativity, leadership emergence -- all suffer, making the organization less Teal and less effective.</span></div>
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Someone who contributes a great deal to the group also has habitual subconscious (or rationalized) behaviors that are detrimental to others' well-being thus reducing their enthusiasm for the
group's endeavor. But that person is perceived by several in the group to be unwilling to
recognize this detrimental effect. Everyone dances around the elephant
in the room, rather than naming and compassionately challenging it. Calling attention to
the relational dynamic happening would allow the possibility of the individual/group/system
adjusting in a healthier way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">7.
Another group <span class="m_-8890375787686569656gmail-il">shadow</span> which can show up in Teal is also from lack of enough Green-maturation. In general, I believe that lack of enough Green-maturation turns Teal into a heartless system, this being one instance of how that plays out. Members of a nominally Teal group don't show compassion, and adjust
their expectations, and even adjust the group systems, when someone is
in a crisis or temporary tough situation in life that reduces their
contribution to the group's Evolutionary Purpose. The EP becomes a
tyrant, not a way toward a more loving world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">8.
A similar group <span class="m_-8890375787686569656gmail-il">shadow</span> which can show up in Teal from insufficient Green-maturation
is around what used to be called "performance evaluations," whatever
self-management method is used for those. If degree of contribution to the Evolutionary Purpose of a
role or the group is the only criterion, the group will suffer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There could be a compassionate inquiry into the circumstances, when someone's contribution seems to fall short, with every
reasonable attempt to adjust the <b>system</b> so as to optimize the potential
contribution of someone. If there is no inquiry and attempt to shift the system, the group as a whole loses
collective intelligence that a bit of compassion could have made
available.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">LACK OF SELF-AWARENESS OF OTHERS' PERCEPTIONS</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">9.
Another common group <span class="m_-8890375787686569656gmail-il">shadow</span> in Teal is that -- from insufficient time
spent maturing through healthy Green -- individuals just don't realize how they are
showing up for others. Often this is combined with other dynamics that inhibit compassionate
clarity calling attention to the way the person is often perceived. Thus the person doesn't get the necessary feedback that
their comments are, for example, so often perceived as snarky and critical,
rather than educational and helpful. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>EVOLUTIONARY PURPOSE EXCLUDES PLAY AND HUMOR</b></span></div>
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Yet another <span class="m_-8890375787686569656gmail-il">shadow</span> held over from Orange is "nose to the grindstone."
Even an Evolutionary Purpose can become a grindstone, if the Teal values
of playfulness, humor, curiosity, co-creativity, collective learning, are not
consciously cultivated. Again, anyone in the group could call attention
to this, but our old habits magnetize and hypnotize us, so we tend to
fall back even after that, and even expect others to be "nose to grindstone."</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">STATUS CONSIDERATIONS HAVE DETRIMENTAL INFLUENCE</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">11.
Yet another <span class="m_-8890375787686569656gmail-il">shadow</span>, this one from way down in Beige, is consciousness
of "status" differences among individuals, and playing into those, in
complex relational space dynamics, all quite subliminal, below
awareness. As "higher apes" we have various criteria for quickly
assessing whether someone is higher status than us, or lower, and
automatically adjusting our behavior accordingly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This sometimes creates behaviors
contrary to the behaviors which a Teal consciousness would produce (deference to perceived-but-not-factual "authority," for example.) But
I venture to say this <span class="m_-8890375787686569656gmail-il">shadow</span> plays out in every group, possibly even in
every individual who has not spent sufficient time in Green rooting it
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A group <span class="m_-8890375787686569656gmail-il">shadow</span> I observed some years ago was a Second-Tier-aspiring
group which gave a lot of lip service and preached all that, but the
system was set up so that the leader was the only "valid" source of
interpretations of the group agreements. That unfortunately combined
with the leader's natural power-over mode of relating. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After years of
calling attention to discrepancies and hypocrisy, I realized the members
of the group were totally comfortable, and didn't want anything to
change. They didn't want to remove the "power-over" group dynamic. It
played into their own needs just fine. They in fact attempted to
neutralize or just ignore, any attempt to clarify the group dynamics.
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">TYPOCENTRIC BEHAVIOR RULES</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">13.
Yet another "insufficient Green" group <span class="m_-8890375787686569656gmail-il">shadow</span> arises when some or most
of the group are not healthily aware of their own individual <span class="m_-8890375787686569656gmail-il">shadow</span> and
their own individual "types," and how those show up in our daily
behavior, and how they often affect others. This area of self-knowledge,
or lack of it, hugely impacts how a group as a whole functions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Enough
self-knowledge enables individuals to spot and either prevent or
counteract, their own typological or <span class="m_-8890375787686569656gmail-il">shadow</span> habits that others typically
react negatively to. "Oh, there I go, being the bossy Eight again.
Forgive me." It also enables others to compassionately label those
behaviors and perhaps humorously call our attention to it: "Yes, boss."</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">EVOLUTIONARY PURPOSE LEADS TO OVERWHELM AND BURNOUT</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">14. Evolutionary Purpose can become an excuse for all kinds of dirt and dust accumulating in the relational space of an organization. Insufficient Green-maturation means here that task-orientation of "expressing our Evolutionary Purpose" becomes a slave-driver within and between individuals. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This shows up often as taking on too many projects as individuals or a group, resulting in overwhelm and burnout. It also can show up as not attending to the wellbeing of the group's relational space -- "no time for that" -- or even as devaluing of wellbeing in comparison to "saving the world." Relational space, people's feelings, simply aren't regarded as important in the grand scale of the group's work.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">MEMBERS AT EARLIER STAGES ARE DEVALUED</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">15. Teal/Yellow consciousness, when mature and healthy, makes room for the valued contribution from all previous stages, and the group members whose "center of developmental gravity" is still First Tier. Early Teal/Yellow has a tendency to still be rejecting where it came from. (This is typical in early phase of any stage, and Second Tier is not exempt, I've observed.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thus, the group as a whole doesn't really design its systems to accommodate and use the gifts from members who are predominantly in earlier stages. Those folks are marginalized, or looked down on as "LESS valuable." Whatever they say is regarded automatically as less valid and less valuable -- another instance of shooting the messenger.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">GROUP SPACE DOESN'T INCLUDE ALL OUR INNER STAGES</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">16. Another expression of the same shadow is that the group doesn't design its systems to allow the healthy expression, within the group space, of the earlier stages represented in everyone. You would think that would be the first and joyful design task of a Teal group, but it's actually quite rare, in my experience. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is lip-service to "wholeness," but the systems of the organization contain no spaces for group experiences for example in healthy Beige (a coffee room doesn't do it) or Purple (office parties don't do it.) How do people go about expressing, and using for the Evolutionary Purpose of the organization, their healthy transcended-and-integrated Beige, Purple, Red, Blue, Orange, or Green? That usually doesn't happen by accident in a Teal organization; it needs to be designed in. Group immaturity <b>or</b> group shadow could underlie that omission.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <br /><b>CONCLUSION </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Awareness of group <span class="m_-8890375787686569656gmail-il">shadow</span>, and willingness to deal with it, helps the
group relational space. The enacting and expressing of a group's
Evolutionary Purpose takes place IN relational space. So group <span class="m_-8890375787686569656gmail-il">shadow</span>
work allows that space to become increasingly cleaner and clearer, thus
more effective in expressing the group's EP.</span><br />
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are merely a few potential group <span class="m_-8890375787686569656gmail-il">shadows</span> which can show up in a
Teal-aspiring group and impede the expression of their shared
Evolutionary Purpose. Contemplating this checklist together could offer
one way into beginning such <span class="m_-8890375787686569656gmail-il">shadow</span> work. The group can co-create its own
ways to spot other group shadows, and its own ways of helping to "unstick" these
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Same topic as <a href="http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2016/02/beyond-teal-organizations-what-might_9.html" target="_blank">Part 1</a> of this exploration, different day, different angles.</div>
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I begin this exploration by saying that my descriptions are based on my actual experience as a participant in one organization and a number of groups operating from the Turquoise stage of consciousness -- experience over the last 5 years. I have also read about and heard about many other such groups, and a couple of organizations. So this description is not simply abstract theoretical conjecture.<br />
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Anyone exploring "Teal" stage of organizational consciousness probably has their own speculations, possibly based on enough experience within predominantly Teal organizations to both sense the limits of that stage, and the wonderful new characteristics emerging here and there, now and then. </div>
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So this little bare beginning to meant as a conversation-starter, a catalyst, an invitation to sense into your own notion about what a Turquoise organizational consciousness might be like, and share that, so that we move along thereby to strengthen the Morphic Field/creative template of that which is available to humanity, hastening the day it appears in more of our experiences! </div>
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I'm also interested in gathering stories about the "limits" experienced in organizations predominantly at Teal consciousness which prompt the evolution toward Turquoise functioning.<br />
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The
"reality" in which the organization operates shifts, from
people-actions-objects-relationships to fields of subtle creative energy
which are the same as aliveness/consciousness and in which people,
actions, relationships, and objects are expressions of the Purposes of
Morphic Fields of conscious creative subtle energy. Those purposes are
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The organization metaphor is now Morphic Field.<br />
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The three breakthroughs might be:</div>
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Wholeness of individuals uplevels to
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2. Evolutionary Purpose uplevels to Transpersonal/Cosmic Purpose</div>
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3. Self-Management uplevels to Flow/Shared Consciousness</div>
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"The
emergent future" becomes the touchstone for what people choose to sense
and what guides actions, but actions are not "decided on," they flow as
natural impulses and inclinations. <br />
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Coordination of actions and
decisions for Purpose is done not in conscious awareness but in
"super-conscious" or in the shared morphic field of awareness. This
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There is a paradoxical (to earlier stages) relationship of individual and group, a merging without loss of individuality.<br />
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There
is a huge jump in the "trust" factor of Teal organizations, which now
could be characterized as "surrender without loss of sovereignty" and it
goes beyond human relationships, to trust in, surrender to, the Larger
Purpose of Life/Morphic Field/Conscious Creative Force-Energy --
purposes which are always life-enhancing.<br />
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Groups which are exploring, experimenting with, and using "higher-consciousness we-space" are prototyping Turquoise organizations. In particular, from a slightly different angle, see <a href="http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2013/11/second-tier-we-space-yellowteal-vs.html" target="_blank">my previous description of Turquoise higher we-spaces versus Yellow/Teal</a>. <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span>Also check the tag/label "we-space" in the right column of this blog for many of my thoughts about that, my current favorite topic!</div>
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What are your experiences, longings, comments? Please continue the conversation below!<br />
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If you are experiencing the "strange attractor" of any aspects of Turquoise for your organization, I'm available to explore amplifying those: http://organizationalintelligences.blogspot.com/ </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The context for this exploration is the massive global movement energized by the publishing of Frederic Laloux's book <a href="http://www.reinventingorganizations.com/" target="_blank"><i>Reinventing Organizations</i></a>, in which, using Ken Wilber's developmental framework terminology, he traces stages of development of organizational consciousness through Teal/Yellow/Integral, characterizing the positive breakthroughs of each stage compared to the previous one.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now "going Teal" is <a href="http://www.enliveningedge.org/" target="_blank">all the rage</a>, and it might be time to take an exploratory peek ahead. What is the "next stage" after "the next stage?" What might a Turquoise organization be like? What might be the "Turquoise breakthroughs?" And what limits on Teal would prompt those?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Let's explore these questions. This is a helicopter trip around the tip of an iceberg. So much more could be said. But it's a question which is going to begin to arise as more and more organizations move toward Teal as their "next-stage consciousness." What's the "next stage" after Teal? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Laloux's
"breakthroughs" of each stage of organizational consciousness were
discerned empirically, by his observing organizations and forming
generalizations. There are really few Turquoise organizations, but I know of
two, and am part of one, and have observed any number of Turquoise
groups, so my descriptions are formed empirically from generalizing
also. The descriptions might be sharper, probably are even "missing the
point" in some ways. But I offer them as a springboard for those who think they
might be moving beyond Teal somehow, and want a bit of a map to the new
territory. (<a href="https://vimeo.com/28953271" target="_blank">This video</a> is Ken Wilber's delightful description of the functions and limitations of (verbal) maps of new territories of consciousness.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">My fervent hope would be for some map-makers to engage with one another to chart THIS territory as well. Some excellent maps already exist in the many articles and books emerging on "Higher We-spaces" from within the Integral community; those can easily be transferred to guiding us within new organizational territories. I'm just making a tiny beginning of doing that.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">If the overall metaphor
for a Teal organization is "a living system," then the overall metaphor
for a Turquoise organization might be "a web/morphic field of consciousness."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Evolutionary
Purpose, even though it is "discovered/sensed" and not "decided upon"
in Teal, is not experienced as having "agency" as a single
consciousness, until Turquoise. At Turquoise, we might call that
consciousness a morphic field, which is composed from "parts" which are
the "wholeness" of every person involved, but is not a <a href="http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2013/04/exploring-phenomenon-of-collective.html" target="_blank">simple aggregate collective intelligence</a>;
it is more than the sum of the parts. It is a synergistic new emergent
holon, a collective intelligence, which has its own consciousness, its own identity or Beingness, if
you will. The flow of consciousness, information, and meaning is
bi-directional, to and from the people involved -- actually
multi-directional, in the "web," as people are attuned to others through
the morphic field of shared higher consciousness. Likewise, the flow of "will" or "choice" or "agency"
is multi-directional. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Individual and
group/organization have a relationship of identities which is
paradoxical, or impossible, when viewed from previous stages. The
individual is amplified in their wholeness, yet "not separate" from the
larger consciousness of the organizational "soul"/Being. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So
"self-management" also morphs, as the relationship of the Self of the
organization and the selves of the individuals and units/teams, becomes
paradoxically part-whole as well. When perceptions and choices are
multi-directional, actions simply flow around the "web." Trust in the
flow becomes radical, so that "deep design" processes LINK are the
normal ways of functioning and decision-making. Conscious control is
relinquished in favor of trusting the flow of the Whole. Plans, even
memories, are not important.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">There is also a shift
in perception of the "environment" of the organization. Other
organizations, groups, networks, are also perceived as "Peer Spirits" in
an even larger Morphic Field/web of consciousness, and these are
related to through sensing and discerning potential synergies. "Follow
the energy" becomes the principle for moving ahead, for checking out
possibilities, for making choices.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ultimately, the
organization is seen to be a fractal of a web of consciousness ranging
from the individual, through families, relationships, groups,
organizations, communities, cities, to the entire planet, and
Evolutionary Purpose likewise scales up, and down, forming a synergistic
Wholeness.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">One other hallmark of a Turquoise
organization: Not all actions are made in the visible, concrete world.
In the web of consciousness, intention is experienced as efficacious,
even efficient, action, with results in the visible concrete world. Even
relating and conversations, can take place in the realms of subtle
energies, and often do take place there, with visible effects which are
not dismissed as "coincidence."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So the three Turquoise organizational breakthroughs might be characterized as: </span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Subtle-energetic morphic fields, </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">communication via consciousness, and </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">a Wholeness which is planetary in scope. </span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Undoubtedly, those are off the mark as the essence of the Turquoise breakthroughs, but hey, we have to start somewhere!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">What limitations of Teal would prompt folks to be ready for something else? The move to Turquoise, as I see it right now, is not so much a result of bumping up against limitations or experiencing dissatisfactions as it is that the "next step" becomes obvious. It starts to show up AS people's experience, and the joys and advantages of it are "strange attractors" calling people to "more!"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you are experiencing the "strange attractor" of any aspects of
Turquoise for your organization, I'm available to explore amplifying
those: http://organizationalintelligences.blogspot.com<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">)</span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The move to Turquoise is basically what we might call activating <a href="http://organizationalintelligences.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">the "spiritual intelligence" of the organization</a>. From the instances I have seen of that move, it happens gradually, as glimmers of Turquoise show up, and there are folks involved who are receptive to them, even folks aware of them enough to foster and fan them, spark by spark.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oh, did I almost forget to mention one facilitative influence of the shift into Turquoise? (Rolls eyes with mischevous grin.) The little matter that functioning in this organizational/group space is ecstatic? Now<i> that's</i> a not-so-strange attractor!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">From a slightly different angle, in a different helicopter, the tip of this iceberg is explored in <a href="http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2013/11/second-tier-we-space-yellowteal-vs.html" target="_blank">my previous description</a> of Yellow/Teal higher we-spaces as differentiated from Turquoise higher we-spaces.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Groups which are exploring, experimenting with, and using
"higher-consciousness we-space" are prototyping Turquoise organizations.
Check the tag/label "we-space" in the right column of this blog for
many of my thoughts about that, my current favorite topic! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Have you any relevant experiences? What do you expect a Turquoise organization might be like?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I hereby make all the usual caveats, that not everyone in the organization needs to be at the same stage of consciousness, etc. etc. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've gone over some of these same ideas on a different day, in <a href="http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2016/02/beyond-teal-organizations-what-might.html" target="_blank">Part 2 of this topic</a>. I invite you to read and share there, too! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Please be sure you check the comments to this blog entry. Some further conversation there, great stuff! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Exploring Exploration: Contemplation vs Inquiry</b></span></div>
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There are of course many ways to "explore" something. In the realm of the "subtle," (as distinguished from "concrete" or "empty/causal") both contemplation and inquiry are often used, particularly as spiritual practices in "spiritual" explorations. I've found it useful to make a distinction between contemplation and inquiry, though they are often equated, so here's my exploration of the difference, for whatever value that might be to you.<br />
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In a nutshell, "contemplation" is simply resting attention on a single object: a person, thing, situation, concept, emotion, sensation, and returning attention to that, when it wanders, and allowing whatever arises in awareness, to be noted. Inquiry, on the other hand, is the same thing, but with a question in mind, as a focus, a question to which attention is returned when it wanders, and noting whatever "answers" to the question arise.<br />
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Contemplation is NOT the kind of single-focus attention used by some meditators to "quiet the mind." In this kind of contemplation, there is no effort to quiet the mind. Simply quiet openness, in which busy-mind arises and operates, or not. The "yang" aspect is the returning to quiet openness of awareness, when attention is discovered to have "narrowed" or "wandered" but it's not the same as "I must not be thinking thoughts."Nor is it the same as the "thoughts are clouds passing in the sky" of mindfulness meditation, because whatever particular arises in contemplation is of interest; it's just something to make note of, however, not to mull about or think about during the time of contemplation. <br />
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I've found contemplation very useful for exploring places I feel stuck in my spiritual growth. For example, a long-term contemplation of the single word/concept "suffering" has yielded awesome insights and catalyzed wonderful non-verbal shifts. <br />
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Inquiry is more structured because of the grammar of a multi-word question. However, beyond that, it's basically the same. Attention rests, things arise and pass, the question gets repeated. Answers appear, and are noted, but not "chewed and digested." I have found inquiry to be very useful, also, with a different flavor, and different results, from simpler contemplation.<br />
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Both can be combined with writing, though inquiry lends itself to writing better. The challenge is that what arises in both inquiry and contemplation can be non-verbal, and can often be most useful to own's growth if left that way, rather than worded. However, a stream-of-consciousness writing of an inquiry can be extraordinarily useful, especially if the question is allowed to shift, flow, and morph into other questions, according to what arises. Pursuing a natural series of questions "down the rabbit hole" can unravel a lot of tangled thinking, in my experience!<br />
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The spiritual teacher <a href="http://www.adyashanti.org/" target="_blank">Adyashanti</a> called this distinction to my attention. Brief descriptions from his book <a href="http://www.adyashanti.org/index.php?file=productdetail&iprod_id=533" target="_blank">The Way of Liberation</a>, are these:<br />
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(These are isolated sentences excerpted from pages 26ff.)<br />
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<b>Inquiry</b><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> To hold a question inwardly in silent and patient waiting....</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Although rooted in stillness, inquiry is the dynamic counterpoint to True Meditation. Meditation is soft, allowing surrender, while Inquiry demands bold and fearless questioning.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> ...Inquiry belongs entirely to the realm of the soul, [rather than [my words] separate-sense-of-self-ego drives] that dimension of <i>being</i> born of stillness and light that seeks Truth <i>for its own sake</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> [The most-recommended inquiry question is Who am I? or What am I.]</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Inquiry clears away misperceptions and illusions, making one available to the movements of grace.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Investigate each question slowly and deliberately. Place each question into the stillness of your being. Do not grasp for quick answers. Do not jump to conclusions. Instead, let each question reveal your hidden beliefs and opinions.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Bring each question the mind poses into the ground of stillness. Meditate on it, ponder it; take your time. Don't answer it with your mind. Be still with only the question. Be very, very still.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> [Truth] is simply awaiting recognition.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Question your thoughts. Question your stories. Question your assumptions. Question your opinions. Question your conclusions. Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness, and joy. The keys to freedom are in <i>your</i> hands. Use them.</span></span><br />
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He goes on for several more pages about Inquiry.<br />
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<b>Contemplation</b><br />
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About Contemplation, he says (pages 31ff.)<br />
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<span style="color: purple;">Contemplation is the art of holding a word or a phrase patiently in the silence and stillness of awareness until it begins to disclose deeper and deeper meanings and understandings.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"> [Contemplation transcends logical and linear thought, and opens us to wisdom and Truth as revelation.]</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"> Take a <i>short phrase</i> as your object of contemplation and simply hold it in your awareness for some time. Do not analyze or philosophize about it. And do not get lost in your imagination either. Just hold the phrase in awareness. Then be still. Let its meaning germinate within you. Then bring the word or phrase back into awareness again. Hold it there for some time, then let it go and be still again. With a little practice you will get the hang of it and find your own rhythm.</span><br />
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He goes on to suggest many thoughts, phrases, words which are exceptionally fruitful for spiritual growth, using contemplation and inquiry.<br />
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What is your experience with these methods? Does the distinction seem useful to you? Comments invited below! <br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">in 2nd and 3rd Tier WS</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">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</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">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.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: purple;">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.) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We-space occurs in
all four quadrants of individual experience: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">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; </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">UR - the behaviors of the practice we find
ourselves engaging in while in a we-space, and in carrying out the various "injunctions;" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">LL - the cultural meanings and values we share with others
in such higher We-spaces, and especially the experience of the paradoxical new <a href="http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2013/10/collective-intelligencewe-space.html" target="_blank">"dominant monad"</a> which can speak as an "I"; </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">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. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">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. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The descriptions below are organized more by stages than by
quadrants, but I believe all quadrants are explicit or implicit there. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Developmental
state-stages and structure-stages</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">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 (<a href="http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2013/12/definitions-and-spectrum-of-we-space.html" target="_blank">here</a> for 1st Tier, <a href="http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2013/11/second-tier-we-space-yellowteal-vs.html" target="_blank">here</a> for 2nd Tier, and <a href="http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2013/11/third-tier-we-spaces-coral-and-teal.html" target="_blank">here</a> for 3rd Tier. I have made what I consider some useful distinctions among purposes: <a href="http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2014/12/we-space-collective-intelligence-groups.html" target="_blank">Exploration, Experimentation, and Employment</a>. ) </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">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.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Many
people report these same full-developmental-spectrum felt experiences <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">as the texture, the fabric, perhaps even the
picture woven into the tapestry of Zone 1 and Zone 3 experience of higher
We-spaces. </span>Here's a very partial list, and nothing here seems unique to me; I hear others reporting each of these, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="mso-comment-date: 20150221T2036; mso-comment-reference: RA_3;">at various times in various places. </a></span><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: comment;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For
our <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Beige</b></span>, 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 </span></div>
<a name='more'></a>peacefulness, centeredness,
groundedness.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When I open to the subtle energies, it feels as if "the air
is thicker or denser." My heart gets literally warm, and I feel safe to
express myself. My normal interpersonal fears seem less relevant or important,
in a physical relaxation underneath the exhilaration and fascination I feel
going on in my body. I'm humming with vibrant energy. The intensity can verge
on unbearable. So often there's just a sense of a big "YESSSSSS!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For
our <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Purple</b></span>, a profound sense of
belonging and utter magicalness/delighted enchantment, with the ancient
satisfaction of “rituals” of injunctions and practices. When it's time to end
the group interaction, no one wants to end it or leave. They tend to sit just
looking silently, or to continue talking nonstop long past the nominal
"ending" time. There is the ancient echo also, of often sitting "in circle," as around the fire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For
our inner <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Red</b></span>, there is the paradox
that full-out utterness of self-expression and sense of (s)elfhood is not Other
than the emergent Whole of "Us" -- an amazing and paradoxical
personal yet transpersonal empowerment. I feel caught up in something
"larger than me" yet I also feel vividly alive and active as my own
unique self. Related to the feeling of safety, is a sense of, an embodied
flavor of, expansive freedom, in which I can abandon myself, entrust myself to,
expand into endlessly as me and as losing "me." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Like many
others, we find these We-spaces hold us in the paradox of "being" the
emergent "it" of the We, while simultaneously experiencing our unique
developed and developing selves amplified and more fully present and alive than
ever before: while transcended, also intimately and inextricably included as
transmuted.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our <span style="font-size: large;">Blue</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
delights in awareness of Divine Order and service to the Wholeness -- a
delicious and paradoxical balance between our Red's wild creativity and
unpredictability, yet our Blue's humble obedience and “surrender” to the larger
awareness field (but not as a separate authority.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Orange</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
is activated as both inclusion of our individual knowledge, skills, and
rational abilities and our desire for useful action results, but without need or
pressure -- the heart&mind-grabbing possibility of using this
capacity of consciousness to address global-sized practical challenges. Nay, it
is often experienced not as a mere possibility, but as a gut-grabbing
imperative with unstoppable momentum through us as us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Because my ordinary mind
is in the background, things get a little "dream-like" and despite
the intense value I sense in what is being spoken and co-created, it gets hard
to remember the specifics, later. And note-taking is out of the question. So
recording seems to be the best way if recapturing specifics is
important. But there's an odd sense in which people (including me) have
simply absorbed whatever is relevant for them, and they go forth inspired to do
whatever the Emergent We would like to manifest through them, as them. This
does not require much if any left-brain thinking about the whole thing
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Orange-Green</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">:
I seem to understand things more clearly than ever, but without any mental
struggle. My mind chatter doesn't go away, but it kinda recedes into the
background, and I feel very "present" and not thinking about what was
said, or planning what I will say. So I'm able to listen more softly and
openly. I trust that whatever crosses my mind as valuable to say soon, will
come out of my mouth at the appropriate or optimal time, and maybe it will get
communicated only on the subtle-energetic level we are interacting on, so I
don't try to keep it in mind.<br />
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Most clearly, our <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Green</b></span> is
constantly smiling at the heart-space it palpably swims in, the amazing deep
bond which forms among people who regularly co-create and flow with a shared
field which becomes itself a familiar companion over time, and fully occupies
our shared heart-energies as well as our shared mental energies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Communication
is, with our intention and focus, becoming ever-increasingly valuable,
interesting, significant, though the goal or end-point –- if there is one -- is
not clear. The process of intense mutual creativity is as
important/interesting/valuable/enjoyable as any "product."</span> </div>
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I,
and others, speak the same things at the same times, or someone expresses a
thought or feeling or sense I just had, or vice-versa, as if mind-melded. I say
surprising, unplanned things I didn’t know I knew, and are wiser than I am. "Synchronicities"
show up in conversation, bigtime.</div>
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And our <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Yellow/Integral</b></span> is both
witness to and in ecstasy at the constant dynamic integration of so much
forming the Whole of We. How satisfying it is to be able to generate we-spaces
which can embrace and embody a diversity of stages and individuals, and to
systematically explore together the practices and their results, moving into
the Turquoise view/direct experience of the we-space as a conscious living
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Also to Yellow’s
delight, it's all spontaneous and unpremeditated, yet everything connects
exquisitely, and builds magnificently. The beauty and complexity of what
emerges in each moment is always stunning, and often gives us
"chills." Flow is easy, natural, effortless, never-stopping, even
during comfortable silences. Group doesn’t get trapped in eddies, drawn into
whirlpools, or flung out in tangents. Despite the sense of ease, things are
going too fast for my mind to keep up with all the implications and
connections. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At times, we experience even the <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Turquoise</b></span> sense of the Field's true agency and its participation
with, Oneness with, all other higher-consciousness We-spaces on this planet, as
the conscious-evolutionarily emergent capacity for humanity. In that, is the
naturalness of functioning in and as a shared and co-created but transcendent
“it” field of awareness, and allowing our unique sense of self to express it as
our “dominant monad.” Someone can "speak as" that emergent conscious
Being, and everyone "recognizes" what’s said is entirely resonant
with their own consciousness at the time. Sometimes I can "pick
up" on qualities a particular "we-space" has, for example,
masculine- or feminine-flavored, younger or older. </span></div>
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Some moments could be <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Coral and Teal</b></span>
state-stage experiences – the utter simplicity, playfulness, joy, exuberance,
and exhilaration of the total naturalness of functioning in our ultimately most
true and natural state of awareness, the “Many/One” – as Being, not as
Practice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The love and joy in/of all these feelings
and experiences form the "juiciness" of our conscious choice to be in
these groups for "conscious evolution" and guide us to know the
importance of allowing evolution to express through us as us, this way. And
from reports I hear, it is the same for essentially all of us.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not all experiences are pleasant, by
any means. Frustrations I have experienced first-hand, which lead me to be motivated to address these in my work with others:</span></b></div>
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<li>lack of LR support for evolution through exploration/experimentation/and especially employment phases of group’s purpose evolution </li>
<li><a href="http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2014/05/moving-beyond-insular-exclusionary.html" target="_blank">perceived relative slowness</a> of LL and LR growth of intergroup connectivity and integration and co-creation -- as well as slowness of communication among we-space community leaders/teachers (See also <a href="http://www.integraleuropeanconference.com/iec-2014/conference-program/2-general-presentation/por-higher-we-spaces/" target="_blank">this reference</a> and <a href="http://community-intelligence.com/2014/04/emergence-higher-spaces/" target="_blank">this blogpost</a> by George Por.)</li>
<li>relative absence of self-generativity focus in some groups (teacher, top-down), which appears inconsistent with the way a Higher WS operates</li>
<li>inadvertently getting stuck for awhile in earlier function- stage kinds of groups who are <a href="http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2014/12/we-space-collective-intelligence-groups.html" target="_blank">exploring and experimenting</a> when my passion is the evolutionary/macro USE of WS for collective large-scale problem-solving (for example, see <a href="http://www.researchgate.net/publication/228085779_Towards_a_Federated_Framework_for_Self-evolving_Educational_Experience_Design_on_Massive_Scale_%28SEED-M%29" target="_blank">this extraordinary paper</a> by George Por.) </li>
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<b> Yellow to Turquoise, Individual to Collective, Parts to Whole?</b><br />
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Hey, an insight which might prove heuristic for me and for you -- about
the swings between individual-focus and group-focus as worldviews
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was contemplating a difference between Yellow and Turquoise. Yellow is
focused on the health, wellbeing, getting-along, working-together, systemic harmonization, of
EACH, EVERY, and ANY person or group of persons no matter where they are
on the spiral. Yellow is coming from that perspective, and developing
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Turquoise,
we might say, then focuses on the health, wellbeing, getting along,
working together of ALL persons and/or groups. The shift is from Every
to All. This is often listed as one instance of the swing along the
spiral between "warm" colors which are characterized as more
"individual-concerned" and cool colors which are more
"group/collective-concerned." The word "whole" is often used with
respect to Turquoise: focus on the whole planet, the whole of humanity,
taking a holistic perspective.<br />
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<b>However, I don't remember hearing anyone characterize the "warm" phases as focused on "parts of next whole."</b>
It is noted in Integral Theory that each "collective" gets larger in
some ways (smaller in other ways) along the spiral, thus each
"collective" transcends and includes the previous wholes which are now
parts. Well, it seems to me that is what a new "emergent holon" is.<br />
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The insight which blossomed in my awareness this morning with respect to Yellow and Turquoise is that
<b>Yellow is developing its capacity to deal well with many <i>parts</i>.</b>
"Curating" them, if you will, to use a term I got from Marilyn Hamilton,
author, consultant and movement-leader of Integral City (.com.)<br />
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With
enough skill at fostering good working connections among the previous
worldviews, among individuals and groups holding them, there is in the Yellow
consciousness developing into Turquoise perhaps what we could call a "coalescing" of these into a
new emergent Whole of subtle Energies of the planet which is then the focus of attention/work and the arena of development of new capacities at a new scale.
Or we might language it as that there is a "zooming out" and seeing the
individuals as an energetic Whole when viewed from "further out" (whatever that might mean; don't try to pin me down on it here!) in
consciousness.<br />
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They turn out to be able to be seen as <i>parts</i> only in retrospect, of course; only when the new Whole is perceived, are the objects of attention, having capacities developed to deal with them, seen to be related in that way. At the time of the warm worldview, they are merely various objects of attention.<br />
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I just said "I don't remember hearing anyone characterize the 'warm' phases as focused on 'parts of the next whole.'"
It could very well be that indeed Ken Wilber said this, or it was
explicit or implicit in Terri O'Fallon's StAGES training I took last
June. It has happened before in my life, that I read something, and then
months or years later, it pops up as "new." So I might have encountered
the seed idea, or in its plant or bud form, or even the blossom itself,
previously. I'm open to discovering that.<br />
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For
now, however, it seems quite logical to regard movement along the
Spiral of development of consciousness as not only having the theme of
<i>individual or collective</i>, but to further characterize the theme as <i>
parts or wholes</i>. So perhaps we could say the times of the "warm"
worldviews are times of developing capacities around managing certain
parts of life, of experience, of the world, and then part of the natural
movement into the next "cool" time is when so much familiarity with and
skill with those particular parts, catalyzes a natural coalescing or zooming out, and
the pieces of the puzzle are no longer pieces, they are part of a
picture which is now seen, now grokked, even if quite implicitly.<br />
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The
next steps in this exploration would be to try to characterize the
"parts" involved in the warm worldviews, and their emergent Whole in the
next cool worldview, all the way from Beige to Teal (first in First
Tier, last in Third Tier.) That is a task for another day. I suspect it
would not be a lengthy task. I'd look first to characterizations of the
"scope of caring" of each worldview, for clues.<br />
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Whaddaya think? It makes logical sense, right? <br />
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And
no need to get hung up that a worldview is not a holon; the term
"holon" is used imprecisely when heuristic in many contexts these days, I
notice, so I am comfortable with playing with it as a framework here.
Maybe just "that which transcends and includes previous elements" would
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As I look around the landscape of the groups I know involved in
higher-consciousness we-space practices, I notice a distinction which
could be unfolded as differences in purpose. In this blogpost, I'll
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The four purposes are:</div>
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1. Creating/experiencing/exploring</div>
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2. Experimenting/refining</div>
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3. Using, working with/as</div>
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4. Living in/as<br />
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I'm sure these are large baskets which could be further differentiated!</div>
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In
my mind, these four purposes form a spectrum. A group could move
through them, in order. Experiencing lays a foundation for
experimenting, and experimenting lays a foundation for living as a
collective consciousness group.<br />
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However,
very importantly IMO, each purpose is an end in itself, and a group
need not move beyond its current purpose. The members might be quite
content to continue with the current purpose, and will, IMO, gain
important insights and information which, if shared with others, will
make any important contribution to the evolution of humanity's capacity
to engage in/use/live as, shared higher-consciousness (by whatever
designation we use for that, other terms are possible) -- which ideally will be brought to bear on our shared challenges as a species.</div>
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Also,
it appears to me that some groups move around among these purposes at
various times; the purposes are far from being mutually exclusive. </div>
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Examples of each kind of purpose:<br />
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<b>1. Creating/Experiencing/Exploring</b></div>
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One example is: Andrew Carter MacDonald's "High Meadow" monthly conference call groups, <span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.soulworkcommons.org/" target="_blank">http://www.soulworkcommons.<wbr></wbr>org/</a>
</span>spun off from George Por's Mindful Together group on Facebook. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/mindfultogether/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/mindfultogether/ </a></div>
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The only stated purpose
to the groups is to create and experience "the field of shared
consciousness." Participants report on what they feel or think in that
field, express themselves from the field, and explore to the extent of
gaining experience of what being in that field is like. However, there
is little interest in trying out new injunctions to see what difference
they make, which to me is the hallmark of the 2nd purpose.<br />
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Another example might be the Integral Living Room <a href="http://www.integrallivingroom.com/">http://www.integrallivingroom.com</a></div>
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series of events. Perhaps the most relevant exploration of the ILR within these distinctions is this one:</div>
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My experience in the first ILR, and impressions of the others, is that one primary purpose is allow people to perhaps get their first taste of a collective awareness, and to find out what that's like, and to develop an interest in further learning about it. The event is sort of like "Here's what relating at/in Second Tier is like; let's begin to learn how to live this way more and more often in our lives." And part of that Second Tier relating, is moments or minutes, of a real, coherent field of shared higher-consciousness.<br />
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However, the Integral Living Room event designers also (IMO) definitely have an experimental attitude toward various higher we-space injunctions, so their purpose blends into the second one I've distinguished: experimenting and refining. </div>
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<b>2.
Experimenting/refining</b></div>
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The experimenters/refiners are familiar enough with the experience, and
are curious how to "tweak" the field in various ways. They engage in
trial and error. They try different instructions, different invocations,
different guidelines. They might try varying who is leader, or who is
members. They might experiment with varying lengths of time, or varying
platforms. <br />
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Besides their enjoyment of the experiencing, they are
scientists, checking out what variables are important, what changes in
what variables have what effects -- not for any ultimate purpose (such
as usefulness for particular work) but simply for the joy of discovery,
of refinement, of greater richness of knowledge and understanding of
this phenomenon.</div>
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Often, though, experiments are
aimed at such purposes as assessing how to make a group "field" more
robust to incoherent inputs (people who don't fit, technological
disruptions, challenging emotions that arise, etc.) Or how to get a
group going faster, or with less sophisticated participants, or how to
make a group function well in cyberspace, or across asynchronous
communications. These are all, IMO, "hot research topics."<br />
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I
don't currently know of any groups which are devoted solely or
primarily to this purpose, but I suspect many of the groups facilitated
by Andrew Cohen and his students in previous years, were primarily with
this purpose. (Reference Appendix Two of <i>11 Days at the Edge</i>, by Michael Wombacher) <br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Days-Edge-Spiritual-Evolutionary-Enlightenment-ebook/dp/B003YL4KXU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418885891&sr=8-1&keywords=wombacher+11">http://www.amazon.com/Days-Edge-Spiritual-Evolutionary-Enlightenment-ebook/dp/B003YL4KXU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418885891&sr=8-1&keywords=wombacher+11</a></div>
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<b>3. Using, working with/as</b><br />
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An
example of this is the Gaia's Human Hive Integrators (aka Core Team)
for the Integral City enterprise <a href="http://www.integralcity.com/">http://www.integralcity.com</a>. A shared
field is cultivated (and experimented with) for the purpose of making
decisions about which projects to engage in, what next steps might be,
etc. The method used to create a shared field has been Systemic
Constellation Work (as being developed/adapted for work in organizations
by Diana Claire Douglas <a href="http://www.inspiritworks.com/Pages/default.aspx">http://www.inspiritworks.com/Pages/default.aspx</a>
-- but the group's intention is to operate AS a shared field, even
outside of the official delimited times of a constellation.<br />
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I
am sure there are many examples of this purpose in business and sports.
Just for an anecdote, I heard a report on the radio here in Seattle
that in the National Football League 2014 National Champs, our own
Seattle Seahawks, coaches were working with the players to "think less
and trust more" in making decisions of what to do in the moment on the
field, and it was clear that "trust more" involved the premise of a
shared consciousness. The example was basically, throwing a ball just
knowing that a receiver was positioned right for catching it, rather
than spending time looking over the turf and seeing where people were
and consciously deciding when and where to throw the ball. Act on
impulse, and trust, were the injunctions, and the assumption was, in my
words, "our shared field of awareness knows what will work best for our
purpose of scoring. We must learn to tap into it and then trust it to
prompt and guide our behavioral decisions."<br />
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I am sure more and more business groups are operating this. I hope you'll share some examples.<br />
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Thomas
Hubl's various groups all over the world, <a href="http://www.thomashuebl.com/en/?lang=en">http://www.thomashuebl.com/en/?lang=en</a></div>
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which have slightly varying purposes depending
on who leads them, seem to me to be examples of those who "use" this way
of relating, primarily for the purpose of individual and/or collective "shadow
work," for clearing (in his languaging framework) energy blocks.
Ultimately, this is intended to pave the way for what I am calling the 4th purpose, living naturally and
easily in a shared higher consciousness, and (therefore automatically)
using it to meet humanity's challenges.</div>
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<b>4.
Living as/in/from a shared field of higher consciousness. </b></div>
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This is for
people who have practiced so long, and so well, that they simply embody
this kind of shared consciousness. Sort of, living in our natural state of relating. (I explored that definition in this blogpost: <a href="http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2013/12/we-space-simplicity-beyond-complexity.html">http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2013/12/we-space-simplicity-beyond-complexity.html</a>)</div>
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They
have experienced, experimented with, used, this way of being and
relating, and it's even beyond "automatic practice." It is simply who
they are. (Probably, in my terms, operating as a group in the Third Tier
We-space. <a href="http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2013/11/third-tier-we-spaces-coral-and-teal.html" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr>exploringsecondandthirdtier.<wbr></wbr>blogspot.com/2013/11/third-<wbr></wbr>tier-we-spaces-coral-and-teal.<wbr></wbr>html</a>)<br />
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The only folks I know
whose explicit purpose is this one, are with Patricia Albere's
Collective Evolutionary Collective/Mutual Awakening work.
<a href="http://evolutionarycollective.com/courses/mutual-awakening-ebook-download/">http://evolutionarycollective.com/courses/mutual-awakening-ebook-download/</a><br />
While
she facilitates groups with the first purpose listed above, she is also
working longterm and indepth with a much smaller group or groups, to
cultivate an actual community, ongoingly and constantly operating this
way even while separate in space and time.<br />
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<b>General Thoughts about these distinctions:</b><br />
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One
usefulness of these distinctions is to not assume that every group
involved in shared-consciousness explorations has all the purposes, and
to not expect any group to have them all, or more than one. And to know
which you are about to investigate or get involved with, so your
expectations are in line with your probable experiences.<br />
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Are
the injunctions/guidelines used to establish "the field" in each kind
of group different? Almost certainly, but I don't presently have much to
say about which is which, or how they differ. Can you say something on
that?</div>
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What
is the relationship of this developmental spectrum of groups to the
"stages" of we-spaces I've explored elsewhere (links to several
blogposts listed below) and which Andrew Venezia explored in his
Masters' Thesis on We-space groups. <a href="http://newwaysofhumanbeing.com/2013/10/13/finally-my-thesisfinal-project/">http://newwaysofhumanbeing.com/2013/10/13/finally-my-thesisfinal-project/</a></div>
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What do you think? Are these distinctions useful? What
challenges do they pose to you, and/or what refinements could you
offer? Or what additional questions arise for you from this exploration?</div>
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Some explorations of stages of we-spaces:<br />
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<a href="http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2013/12/definitions-and-spectrum-of-we-space.html" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr>exploringsecondandthirdtier.<wbr></wbr>blogspot.com/2013/12/<wbr></wbr>definitions-and-spectrum-of-<wbr></wbr>we-space.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2013/11/second-tier-we-space-yellowteal-vs.html" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr>exploringsecondandthirdtier.<wbr></wbr>blogspot.com/2013/11/second-<wbr></wbr>tier-we-space-yellowteal-vs.<wbr></wbr>html</a><br />
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<a href="http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2013/11/third-tier-we-spaces-coral-and-teal.html" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr>exploringsecondandthirdtier.<wbr></wbr>blogspot.com/2013/11/third-<wbr></wbr>tier-we-spaces-coral-and-teal.<wbr></wbr>html</a><br />
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<a href="http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2013/11/we-space-states-vs-we-space-stages.html" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr>exploringsecondandthirdtier.<wbr></wbr>blogspot.com/2013/11/we-space-<wbr></wbr>states-vs-we-space-stages.html</a></div>
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<a href="http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2013/11/we-spaces-parameters-of-description.html" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr>exploringsecondandthirdtier.<wbr></wbr>blogspot.com/2013/11/we-<wbr></wbr>spaces-parameters-of-<wbr></wbr>description.html</a></div>
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I've
just had a sobering realization, which might be called pessimistic,
except that I've now seen something potentially useful, and that could
foster optimism. I'll let you decide. One pointer to optimism is that I
don't think I am the first person to have this insight/realization. I've
just never heard it clearly articulated before. If you can find other
articulations, please help change the world by sharing them here!!!!</div>
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(As
with all my blogs, this one is not meant as a presentation of truth,
even "my" truth. It is intended as speculation to serve as a
conversation-starter.)</div>
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This
sharing is aimed at people who are passionate about "changing the
world" and who have the broadest view, a view at least global in scope
if not larger, of what is happening, what might help, and what could
happen that they want to have happen.</div>
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The
framework I'm going to use for talking about this is the Spiral
Dynamics one of "life conditions" which naturally lead people to
experience "problems" for which they seek solutions, and by which they
are naturally led to not just different actions or behaviors, but
eventually, if they don't "crash and burn," to an evolutionary expansion
of the capabilities of their consciousness, which we can describe as
their 'worldview." A "worldview" is one's felt, experienced, and lived
(not usually conceptualized or languaged) answers to the basic questions
of life: Who am I? What is reality? What is life about? How am I to
live? How am I to relate?</div>
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So
here's the thing. People whose scope of awareness in those answers is
large in terms of time, space, and objects/creatures included, see huge
global-scope problems such as climate change, depletion of earth's
resources on which our lives depend, etc. AND those people see how the
problems they see, are going to impact EVERYONE. So they go about
proposing solutions, both action/behavior and "how we must change our
consciousness in order to survive as a species on earth." (My most
current instance of this is <i>Leading from the Emerging Future -- From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies: Applying Theory U to Transforming Business, Society, and Self</i>, by Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer.)</div>
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What
rocked me back this morning is the realization that so many of the
world-changer-authors I read, especially the Integrally-informed
authors, (me among them, often) are
addressing ears of the people they perceive as causing the problem, ears
which cannot hear that description of the problem. Authors like this
are also proposing problem-solutions their problem-causers can't do. </div>
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So many of these
authors, and I so far see Scharmer and Kaufer as among them, are perceiving/describing/analyzing certain "life conditions"
from within their own worldview and answering the evolutionary
imperative to move to THEIR OWN NEXT STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT OF
CONSCIOUSNESS, and putting forth that move as "the solution" which is
needed by everyone, and should be/must be engaged in by everyone, in
order for us as a species to survive.</div>
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For example, it appears to me, in Spiral Dynamics language,
that Scharmer and Kaufer attribute the global-life-threatening problems
they describe (pp. 1-13) to (unhealthy) Orange-stage "me with no regard
for you" "ego-centric thinking." And the move they propose is a move to
Yellow "seeing the whole system and care for all the parts" "eco-system"
thinking. Well, that probably won't work, without the ability to see
and care deeply for others, which comes with living through the Green
stage. <br />
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Not only that, but I haven't yet (as of p. 29, so that
might change) seen Scharmer and Kaufer, or others (exception noted
below) asking: "OK, I see this problem from within my worldview. How
might the same problem be seen, if indeed it shows up at all, from
earlier worldviews?" For example, imagine you ask a lot of people "What
is the biggest problem you face in your life, what's causing it, and
what is the solution you see; what have you tried and what are you
thinking of trying, for solutions?"</div>
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For
a lot of people, the biggest problem in their existence is that their
drinking water is making them sick, but they believe they can't move.
What they want, is someone to solve this problem for them. For a lot of
people, the biggest problem in their existence is the infidels who
pollute the world with their ideas, and the only imaginable solution, is
to kill them all. For others, the biggest problem they experience is
there is not enough love in the world, and their only imaginable
solution is to force or persuade everyone to engage in their idea of
loving behavior.</div>
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Not
only are those differing problems, not all of them are among
subjectively-perceived "life conditions" which begin to motivate people
to go beyond new tactics and new strategies, and shift ever so
gradually, piece by piece, into the next natural scope of worldview/way
of being available to humans.</div>
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So
my sobering realization is that in the framework of Spiral Dynamics,
not everyone sees what to one is a "given circumstance" affecting
everyone, in the same way. AND, unfortunately, the calls to greater
awareness are not addressing that not only is not everyone is seeing the
same problem, but also not everyone is experiencing the same life
conditions. Thus, the calls for change of consciousness from one stage
to another, fall on deaf ears.<br />
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For example, climate change. Some
people see it on the global scale, and can see present and potential
impacts on food supply, water supply, weather-related disasters,
potential destruction of large cities, etc. If, like Scharmer, they
attribute the problem to the cause of "ego-centric consciousness," and
their proposed solution is a call to "world-centric consciousness,"
there is too big a stage-gap. The ego-centric people supposedly causing
the problem, cannot answer the call to jump to worldcentric
consciousness. One of the realities of maturation, thus of Spiral
Dynamics' view of the evolution of consciousness, is that one cannot
skip stages. More precisely, <b>trying</b> to skip a stage generates an unhealthy resulting consciousness which itself will be the source of problems.<br />
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Now,
some of the people with world-centric consciousness do realize that
what THEY perceive as problems, might or might not manifest in some way
among the most subjectively pressing problematical "life conditions"
experienced by people at earlier stages. Example: Gail Hochachka and her
international development team [as described in Dustin DiPerna and H.B.
Augustine, eds. <i>The Coming Waves</i>) sat down with villagers to
discover how they might be directly experiencing a life-challenge, which
to Gail's team was "climate change." To the villagers, it was that an
old river had dried up, creating a hardship for them. The "solution"
co-created was not for the villages to shift from tribal-scope to
global-scope consciousness; the solution was to expand slightly in scope
of consciousness in order to figure out some actions which would give
themselves better access to water.<br />
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There's
another eddy in this stream of insight about problems, change, and
solutions. We also know from Spiral Dynamics that people faced with a
problem will first try <b>trial-and-error behaviors</b>, more of the
known ways, to solve it. (Single-loop learning, in some frameworks of
discourse.) If that doesn't work, they might step back, zoom out in
perspective, reflect a bit, and try a different <b>strategy</b>, come at it from a different angle. (Double-loop learning.) Both of those can be comfortably engaged in <b>within</b> their worldview and do <b>not</b>
reflect their awareness of a "life condition" which would lead to
questioning the worldview itself, to a deep impulse to begin to expand,
to look for new answers to life's questions, to be willing to shift who
they are <b>being</b>, in order to solve (or dissolve) the problem. (Triple-loop learning.)<br />
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So
unfortunately, if we think all our wonderful insightful
"Integrally-informed" books and articles about THE nature of THE
problem, and THE nature of THE solution, are going to make a difference
<b>on a massive scale</b>, we'll be disappointed. </div>
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Please note, this is important: I am not ignoring The Butterfly Effect; I grant that to make changes on a "massive scale," we do not need to address everyone, enroll everyone, change everyone. The whole point of this blogpost is to offer some perspectives that might help us more intelligently target our communications for greatest potential impact, effectiveness, leverage in making "massive" changes.</div>
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The first reason we'll be disappointed is because we are
naming/describing "<b>the</b> problem" as we see it from our zoomed-out
perspective, not naming/describing "<b>the</b> problem" as perceived by most of
humanity. <br />
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Second, we are also often proposing a solution which is
perhaps more ours, not necessarily theirs: move to greater world-centric
awareness and shift your way of BEING, your identity and thus your whole
consciousness into that particular scope/stage. <br />
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Third, we
often aren't taking into account that they might need to exhaust all the
potential solutions available within their worldview to the problems
they perceive within their worldview. IOW, even if they can perceive
their own experience of the "problem" we experience in our way, this
might not be a "life condition motivating evolution of consciousness"
for them even though our perception is that profoundly growthful, for
us.<br />
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Fourth, we are often not seeming to take into account that
the worldview we propose as a 'solution' is OUR next step, but not
necessarily the next natural evolutionary step for the people whose
consciousness-level we perceive as 'causing' the problems we perceive.
Also, even if they tried what we propose, which they have no incentive
to do, they would be trying to "skip a stage," (or two or thee)
resulting in suffering for themselves and others.<br />
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here's what I am going to be doing henceforth in my own
world-changing-motivated communications, based on these musings, and
what you might do too.</b></span></div>
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If I see a problem (or a potential -- this blog would be too long if I explored that angle,) I would ask myself what worldview would perceive it in the same way I do.<br />
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I
would ask myself whether to me this is just a problem, or whether it
feels like a limitation of my worldview which I have just bumped up
against, and which is therefore one of my own perceived "life
conditions" fostering my own willingness to grow my worldview.</div>
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As
part of that inquiry, I would ask myself which kind of response I am
feeling motivated to engage in with respect to the problem. (Spiral
Dynamics names stages: alpha, beta, gamma, etc. and others describe the
different loops of learning; different frameworks can be used.)</div>
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If I am seeking to enroll others in engaging toward some kind of solution, I would ask myself <br />
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<li>WHO, WHICH OTHERS, I am wanting to communicate with, and </li>
<li>what stage of consciousness they are in, and thus </li>
<li>whether
they can perceive the problem at all, whether they can perceive it as I
do, how they might be perceiving it, and </li>
<li>whether the problem as they perceive it is actually
among their (what we might call) currently psycho-active "life conditions," and </li>
<li>what level/stage of <b>kind</b> of response to the problem they perceive, they are ready for (single, double, or triple-loop learning.)</li>
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I would shape my communications to specific others, based on my perceived answers to those questions about them.</div>
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Make sense? All the above is my invitation to you, for a conversation. What do you have to say, reflect, suggest, expand, etc.? Am I mis-perceiving something, mis-characterizing, oversimplifying, etc?</div>
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It might sound above as if I'm regarding individual people as being entirely in one stage or another, and therefore unable to have parts of themselves one or even two stages higher than their "center of gravity" stage; in truth, I'm aware of that "mosaic effect," and <b>it's "thinking" not "people" which form the object of my discourse above</b>. A deeper conversation on this topic would take that complexity into account. This is a blogpost, not a book.</div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">I note this blogpost fell out from a "perfect confluence" of recent participation in reading the two books noted above, listening to MetaIntegral's just-concluded four-part <a href="https://academy.metaintegral.org/minicourse-content" target="_blank">minicourse</a> on Vital Skills for Thriving in a Wild, Complex World (where Enrollment conversations were discussed,) [email me divinelightchurch at gmail dot com for shareable copies of the audios, I can't find good links right now] and my ongoing conversations/collaborations with world-class world-changers George Por (<a href="http://blogofcollectiveintelligence.com/">http://blogofcollectiveintelligence.com/</a>)and Marilyn Hamilton (<a href="http://integralcity.com/">http://integralcity.com</a>).</span><br />
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If you'd like to explore my own deeper dive into the concepts of the loops of learning, it's here: <a href="http://organizationalintelligences.blogspot.com/p/learning-more-intelligently-and.html">http://organizationalintelligences.blogspot.com/p/learning-more-intelligently-and.html</a></div>
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I do align with the favorite quote from Einstein among Integrally-interested folks, that a problem cannot be solved from the same level of thinking which created it. Therefore, I am not arguing against analyses of problems perceived, say from within the Integral worldview as affecting everyone, and having those analyses pinpoint the "level of thinking which created the problem" as a much earlier stage of consciousness development. That seems eminently realistic. </div>
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What I am seeking to point out is that the "solutions" proposed FROM a stage two or three stages later than the "cause"-stage, won't get much traction if they directly attempt to move those people into the later-stage thinking directly, for all the reasons described above. Solutions proposed FROM wider-scope worldviews have to be aimed at particular people in ways which are skillfully shaped to motivate and foster the desired internal and external changes, and that could be quite complex, design-wise. </div>
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<br />"Amplifying Divine Light in All" Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879359445645380055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8962953796548669279.post-6075154466401812582014-07-20T03:58:00.000-07:002014-07-23T16:10:35.286-07:00Facilitating Prototyping of Small Social Systems: Is a Meta-model Possible?<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, Simon Okelo, a young man in Kenya, because of who he is, gets the idea of creating a new kind of music school in his city slum. And he pulls it off; the school is thriving and morphing into new forms and activities for the past eight years: <a href="http://onevibeafrica.org/">onevibeafrica.org</a>. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Simon wants his endeavor to become a prototype.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Great! <b>But what's involved in being a good, easily-useable prototype?</b> What resources are available for him and for those who might seek to replicate his endeavor, either in all specifics, or in some aspects? Suppose a young musician in Brazil wants to use Simon's school as a prototype for something in his city slum. Where does he start? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The traditional method when there is a particularly successful pioneering effort in some social system</b>, such as a business, organization, school, or program, is that others interested in adopting it travel, visit onsite, observe, study, have conversations, take notes, then go back home and try to duplicate the system. Sometimes the new effort writes itself up, describes its history and current situation, and publishes that, even engages in teaching and spreading it. (Such as Brian Robertson with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holacracy">Holacracy</a> and <a href="http://holacracy.org/">holacracy.org</a>). Or others do the writeup and help spread the word, the description of the project/endeavor/creation. (For example Frederic Laloux in <a href="http://www.reinventingorganizations.com/">Reinventing Organizations</a>. See especially pp. 206-7.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>But does anyone, on either side, understand exactly what makes the innovative system successful? Does anyone know what is essential, and what is actually not essential, to success in some other social setting or context?</b> Does anyone really have a complete description of the parameters relevant to success? Does anyone know what parameters can be tweaked, and still have success elsewhere, or how far they can be tweaked? (Seeking answers to these questions about certain highly successful pioneers in human consciousness transformation is what led to the creation of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurolinguistic_programming">Neurolinguistic Programming</a>, a highly successful meta-model.) Does anyone know which kinds of parameters would have to be adapted to the new situation, and how to do that and preserve whatever is essential to success? Does "success" even need to look the same in both situations?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let's zoom out a bit. <b>Why is this an important issue?</b> As we look around our world, we see old systems dying, dissolving, being plowed under. New systems, mostly spontaneous, organic emergents on the grassroots level, abound. By the hundreds of thousands, if <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiser.org">Paul Hawken</a> is correct. Many of them have served as prototypes for others. Or want to. Or will want to. Or will be asked to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If we want our new world "online" as quickly, easily, inexpensively, and ecologically-balanced with all other human and natural systems rapidly appearing in the same world, <b>then we had best pay some attention to the process of prototyping</b>: <b>how to make it efficient and effective, in as many different situations and contexts as possible.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is there some better alternative to self-descriptions and others' descriptions? If not, and it seems not, then what would be involved in creating/co-creating something?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are a budding number of endeavors which seek to help grassroots organizations/projects synergize with one another. (Hawken's <a href="http://wiser.org/">Wiser.org</a>, and the proposed <a href="http://theaselfvision.blogspot.com/2009/10/short-aself.html">ASELF Vision</a>, are two of many). What framework or meta-model do they use to accomplish that? I don't know yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What I do know is that "my hair is on fire" with this quest, this new (additional) ministry for my church. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Based on what I learned about Simon's endeavor, in an evening presentation he made, I created (and shared with him which he found helpful) a "description" of his project which is in terms that might translate to a similar project elsewhere, but this was just a guess at the relevant parameters. Also, it didn't take into account Simon himself; could someone without his unique constellation of experiences, contacts, and personal wisdom and knowledge, pull off the same success? No way to predict what it would take.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>So, what's next, what's next? Is there even such a thing possible</b>, as I am imagining, which might be useful in a variety of situations? Is this quest quixotic? There actually might not be any useful meta-models for prototyping which are of sufficient generality to be helpful. I'm betting there are. Do you know of anyone who is engaged in this inquiry?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">I seek to gather any information you might have, relevant to this quest. And your reflections, comments, questions, suggestions, cautions, etc.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Naturally, I'm thinking about a Second-Tier approach to this Holy Grail "Meta-model for Prototyping Small Social Systems." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's one Turquoise-consciousness consideration, although it could be phrased in other terms:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A prototype cannot be transplanted or seeded into non-fertile soil. That soil not only includes various factors in all 4 quadrants, it also includes whether there is something in the new place's energetic field which offers fertile soil. <b>Or, to use a new buzzword, the new endeavor has to be already-emergent, energetically, for worldly success in implementing a prototype to assist its emergence. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It seems to be part of the approach of Apithology (Will Varey, Founder)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in considering various factors in facilitating a system toward greater thriving, to assess what is "emergent" and I am wondering whether in this way, and other ways, Apithology might have something to offer my quest.</span><br />
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"Amplifying Divine Light in All" Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879359445645380055noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8962953796548669279.post-80981691594238024542014-05-30T20:33:00.001-07:002014-05-30T20:33:27.554-07:00Exploring We-space: A Collection of My Blogposts on the Topic<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To stimulate conversation so we can continue to grow our capacity and our understanding on this important facet of human consciousness, I've made a collection of (almost) all my blogposts on this topic of We-space prior to May 6, 2014, for ease of reading them all. It's a downloadable (and readable online) pdf hosted on Google Drive. It's about 25 blogs and runs about 145 pages. It's in approximate order of fundamentality, most general and basic near the top!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I greatly hope you will go and read and come back here to comment on any of it, or put comments about any particular blogpost at that post; there are plenty of links out within the document.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(And remember if you want to read them all here, including the ones written after May 6, just look for the link on the right side of the page above the list of tags/titles, or click on the "tag" "we-space" in the list of tags on the right side of the page.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am currently creating a shorter compilation specifically on the topic "<b>Exploring Markers of Second-Tier We-spaces</b>" and will let you know when that is ready!! It will be a smaller subset of the longer collection, on the specific topic of "What makes a We-space 'Second Tier'?" (Hint, there is no universal answer to the question because it depends on the Kosmic Address of who's asking!!) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you everyone who is engaged in this passionate exploration with me! The "we" truly is exploring this frontier of its evolution, at an ever-increasing pace, on this planet. It's an exciting journey!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've just come from an in-person presentation of her current work by Terri O'Fallon of <a href="http://www.pacificintegral.com/">Pacific Integral</a>, and have a bunch of "Aha's" about ways of viewing we-spaces!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(I'm presuming my reader here knows about the phenomenon/capacity I am referring to as "we-space" which is different from the "collective" or "plural" quadrants or aspects of an individual person. See the Basics section of <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-bjccwO4tuIcEkySWRaUlVBSE0/edit?usp=sharing">this document</a> with my 6 introductory blogposts on the topic, or read <a href="http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2012/06/exploring-phenomenonexperience-of.html">this one introductory blogpost</a>.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In a word, I see that the frameworks available for viewing we-spaces as having, displaying, or expressing developmental stages, have been very primitive so far, compared to the framework Terri is making available. Her framework is extraordinarily granular compared to the very general Spiral Dynamics/Integral framework I've had available so far and have used thus far in <a href="http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2013/12/we-spacecollective-intelligence-topic.html">my two-dozen blogposts so far</a> about Collective Intelligence/We-spaces. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I shall be studying this new "StAGES" framework <a href="http://www.pacificintegral.com/new/resources/#31/1/list">via online resources</a> (you might have to create an account to see the resource documents) </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and I shall be taking the in-person 5-day in-depth training in June here in Seattle. I characterize the frameworks available thus far as kindergarten-level knowledge about human developmental sequences, and what Terri is offering is at least high school if not graduate school !!!! It's not a different framework entirely; it seems to subsume all the others available to humanity so far. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This seems to me to be humanity's cutting edge of self-understanding around the development of individual consciousness and it needs to be quickly applied to understanding (and thus fostering) humanity's cutting edge of group-consciousness, which is higher-consciousness CI/we-spaces. </span></span><br />
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I did realize during the evening, that different granularities of frameworks for understanding humans and their development are appropriate for different purposes. This extreme granularity would, for example, not be necessary (and perhaps even be <b>less</b> useful) for marketing purposes, for which a system like Spiral Dynamics/Integral would be quite adequate to bring a useful level of sophistication to one's marketing copy and methods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, for teachers, coaches, spiritual counselors and others who work with individuals and groups, this newly-available level of granularity is quite exciting in its potential to help us be more helpful!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since humanity's objective examination and self-understanding about we-space kinds of consciousness is really just beginning, even the notion that we-spaces display developmental stages is not at all common (as far as I have been able to tell) among the many groups exploring their own versions of producing, experiencing, and perhaps using we-space consciousness. (An example of the beginning around the notion of we-spaces having stages is in Dustin DiPerna's chapter on we-spaces in the new book <a href="http://www.thecomingwaves.org/">The Coming Waves: Evolution, Transformation and Action in an Integral Age</a>. I'll be blogging about that book soon.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thus, the simpler frameworks available up to now are probably more than sufficient, if applied in our analyses of we-space consciousness, to greatly increase the <b>sophistication</b> of our understanding -- and thereby increase the <b>usefulness</b> of that understanding for contributing to what I am seeing as the worldwide explosion of this human phenomenon/capacity into new stages of expression, indicated partly by the explosion of <b>interest</b> in the higher-consciousness we-spaces among so many people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The occurrence of higher-consciousness we-spaces is expanding seemingly exponentially among "even ordinary" people nowadays, including within the larger Integral-interested community. Thus I expect analysis/contemplation/research about what is happening will probably expand exponentially also, which means we will quickly feel the need for more sophistication/granularity and more intellectual/research robustness in our frameworks used for understanding we-space phenomena/characteristics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's a cutting edge of humanity which calls loudly to me as part of my own highest service. How about you?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I identified these as a result of contemplating some things I observed at the recent <a href="http://integrallivingroom.com/">Integral Living Room</a> event. These are interpersonal dynamics I saw operating several times during the event, and have managed to find words to express. What do you think????</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, now that we are among some extraordinary people, sometimes they say things which at first glance (forgive the wrong metaphor) appear to be the same as what we’re used to hearing. So we tend to knee-jerk interpret and respond as if we were hearing the same old thing again.</span></div>
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"Humanity needs to start living in expanded collective consciousness. We, the XYZ Group, are teaching people to do that, so if you want to learn it, join us!"</div>
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I'm writing this blog today out of sadness and bewilderment. I am aware of a lot of groups which are exploring, practicing, teaching, and facilitating the discovery, embodiment, living, and working in, a rapidly-expanding capacity of humanity involving collective emergent (<a href="http://exploringsecondandthirdtier.blogspot.com/2013/04/exploring-phenomenon-of-collective.html">not aggregate</a>) consciousness. In the last 3-5 years, even the last 2 years, there is an explosion of interest in this way of living, articles and groups and mentions are constantly popping up into my attention from everywhere. Some have been happening a long time already, and many are rather new. It appears to me that explosion of interest is because the phenomenon of that expanding capacity is being experienced, directly, immediately, and spontaneously, by more and more people, most of whom don't even "know what hit them."</div>
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Another part of the background or context I am viewing all this from, is Paul Hawken's work, articulated awhile back in his 2007 book <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Blessed-Unrest-Largest-Movement-Restoring-ebook/dp/B000QCSA40/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1399272556&sr=1-1&keywords=blessed+unrest+hawken">Blessed Unrest</a></i> (and greatly elaborated ongoingly since then, see the websites <a href="http://www.blessedunrest.com/">http://www.blessedunrest.com</a> and <a href="http://wiser.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">wiser.org</a>,) in which he describes how tens or hundreds of thousands of GROUPS, all over the world, are each spontaneously arising to work toward a better world. He uses the metaphor of these groups as humanity's "immune system" cells activating naturally to improve humanity's failing health as a species on this planet.</div>
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Another part of the background or context is Arjuna Ardagh's sociological survey/description of expanding human consciousness, an expansion which is simply happening and which groups and individuals are both examples of and contributors to. (See <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_16?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=the%20translucent%20revolution&sprefix=The+Translucent+%2Cstripbooks%2C237&rh=i%3Astripbooks%2Ck%3Athe%20translucent%20revolution">The Translucent Revolution</a></i>, 2004 and <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=the+translucent+revolution+pdf&oq=The+Translucent+Revolution&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l2.9541j0j4&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=119&ie=UTF-8#q=the+translucent+revolution">these references also</a>.)</div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Those of us who monitor the way this global phenomenon shows up in/is active in/is exemplified in the people who are interested in Integral approaches to living, and to consciousness, see abundant interest: many groups, many experiments, many experiences showing up as part of other experiences (example from Integral Theory Conference 2013: Venita Ramirez, MA, Pacific Integral Geoff Fitch, MA, Pacific Integral, and Terri O’Fallon, PhD, </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Pacific Integral: Causal Leadership: A Natural Emergence from Later Stages of Awareness (p. 23 of </span><a href="https://foundation.metaintegral.org/sites/default/files/Abstracts%20and%20Bios_ITC%202013.pdf" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">this document</a><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">) actually facilitated a group higher-consciousness we-space during their presentation.)</span><br />
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And in the wider circle of those interested in humanity's spiritual and environmental consciousness-expansion, there are easily visible a huge number of such groups and endeavors, often under the banner "We are One."</div>
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However, and here comes the sad part: For my taste, too many such groups and endeavors I run across, have a promotional/marketing self-description/message which runs along these lines:</div>
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"The world needs a new consciousness. Our group is starting that. If you want it, join us."</div>
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Their message is not:</div>
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"The world is developing a new consciousness. Our group is among those teaching that. If you like our particular approach, join us." </div>
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Which of those messages "walks the talk" of emergent collective consciousness and "higher consciousness we-space"??????</div>
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Because some of the former type are actually among the groups I think are doing the best work toward the expansion and deepening/embodiment of this capacity of human consciousness, I feel awkward about citing examples of their wording or promotional materials. But they do include some of Ken Wilber's recent talks (such as that at the <a href="http://new.livestream.com/integralcenter/events/2507065">Integral Living Room, November 1, 2013</a>) and they do include much of the promotional messaging of the <a href="http://evolutionarycollective.com/">Evolutionary Collective</a> work of Patricia Albere and Jeff Carreira, (especially the email to their mailing list on March 30, 2014, which triggered this blog) among MANY others. I treasure, admire, and value the work of those two groups, they are among my "top 5 facilitators of higher collective consciousness." But in their languaging, something ofen feels to me to be "off." There's a discrepancy between the medium and the message, or between the end and the means. On the wider front, I sense this exclusionary languaging sometimes in what <a href="http://barbaramarxhubbard.com/">Barbara Marx Hubbard</a> puts out, as valuable as I think her work is in helping to create a better world, and as much as I admire her awesome dedication over the decades.</div>
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I would like to simply alert you to this aspect or dimension of self-descriptions of their work, by groups who are working toward a better world. Notice whether their languaging <b>implies</b> (by omission of mention of others or the larger context) that they are IT for humanity, they are the ONLY ones working toward their goal. Or whether their languaging acknowledges their context, their many peer groups, the worldwide evolution in which their particular endeavor plays A role, but not THE role.</div>
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Among those I could cite who are in my opinion "walking the talk" is Pacific Integral. Check out this languaging <a href="http://www.pacificintegral.com/new/about/approach/">from here</a> on their website:</div>
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In all facets of human life, we are seeing a new consciousness and social order emerging. Compassionate, skillful, visionary individuals with an emerging global awareness are finding each other, building communication networks, and forming collaborative partnerships to bring about new more effective, sustainable and equitable approaches to human existence. We serve this emerging consciousness by convening and supporting extraordinary individuals who are ready to step into their fullness as practitioners and leaders.</div>
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And another example of inclusionary languaging is from <a href="http://globaltransformingensemble.org/">http://globaltransformingensemble.org/</a><br />
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To identify, encourage, link, and support at least one million people worldwide in living <a href="http://globaltransformingensemble.wordpress.com/presence-centered-evolutionary-leadership/?csspreview=true" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">presence-centered evolutionary leadership</a> by December 2012—thus enhancing community vibrancy and accelerating societal transformation.</div>
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And here's a third shining example of the kind of inclusive, context-acknowledging, peer-acknowledging wording I would love to see more often, this from the San Fransisco Bay Area <a href="http://wepractice.org/">"WEpractice" group</a>.<br />
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I am deliberately not speculating much as to cause of this discrepancy except to suggest it MIGHT simply be a phase of maturing out of an insular, exclusionary worldview, and out of decades of FEELING like "the lone wolf" or more accurately, like "the voice crying in the wilderness" to a humanity which is deaf, and out of not being able to hear the chorus of OTHER lone wolves doing the same thing at the same time. However, nowadays, such ignorance has to be increasingly a choice to not perceive others. Why?</div>
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Why? My one other speculation is the need for funding of each endeavor, which incentivizes an insular approach, "we are THE ones doing this, so if you want the goal of a better world, fund us, buy us."</div>
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So my purpose for this blog is simply to raise the reader's awareness around this distinction, and I intend that awareness to ripple out in beneficial but unpredictable ways.</div>
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And lest you point out that I am demonstrating the very blindness or discrepancy I point to, by not citing others who have spotted this discrepancy, I will say that I am sure there are others beginning to be aware of this discrepancy AND I have not run across more than a portion of a sentence from one or two people once or twice, showing awareness of it.<br />
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And I would MORE than welcome, examples you know of: people/groups who are teaching collective consciousness of some way, shape, or form, who explicitly acknowledge they are already part of a planetary-wide happening in which there are others also, simultaneously, making valuable contributions to the teaching/learning/practicing.</div>
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This particular blogpost of mine is meant to be complementary to George Por's current and near-future writing about the Integral-related "trailblazing practice communities" of higher-consciousness we-space/collective intelligence. <a href="http://blogofcollectiveintelligence.com/2014/01/31/the-emergence-of-higher-we-spaces/">http://blogofcollectiveintelligence.com/2014/01/31/the-emergence-of-higher-we-spaces/</a> </div>
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Just to make my ultimate goal totally clear: These groups sabotage their own planetary-scale success by staying blind to others, because a planetary collective consciousness requires these <b>groups</b> to not just synergize, but far beyond that: to become elements, ingredients, unique selves within the emergent collective consciousness which is the planet herself, not just humanity, but all living things and all sentient energies.</div>
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I'm eager to see us move into the next phase, transcending this insular, exclusionary approach which undercuts and sabotages the very thing being taught and encouraged! Gathering whatever wisdom this internally inconsistent phase has to offer, and MOVING ON!! As <a href="http://www.pacificintegral.com/new/about/team/terri-ofallon/">Terri O'Fallon</a> is fond of saying, "Waking up, growing up."<br />
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<b>Part Two: Moving toward inclusionary relating</b><br />
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Part One was based partly on my response to public languaging by various higher-consciousness we-space practice groups, and partly on what little personal knowledge I have of their relationships among one another.<br />
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I suspect the leaders of these Integral-related groups are far more collaborative than I am aware of -- even though I am a participant in some of them -- based on how they co-teach, or interview one another, etc. However, it seems to me that these interactions all-too-rarely reach the level of public languaging along the lines of<br />
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"X group is doing xyz, and we're building on that going in a different direction by doing abc."<br />
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So for whatever usefulness it might be as a guide to viewing increasing kinds and amounts of interacting, I have generated a spectrum of kinds/degrees of interactions these groups might have. These are not in exact sequence; there is more of a building of closeness as the list goes down.</div>
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At present, among the over-a-dozen groups around the world exploring higher-consciousness we-spaces based on or related to Integral ideas, only a handful are more than a third of the way along this spectrum as far as I am aware, granted my awareness is extremely limited; please comment on instances you know of!</div>
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Framework for the sake of relatively simple wording, is Group A and Group B. Group structures vary a lot, but perhaps this framework can be adapted.</div>
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Someone(s) (leaders or participants) in Group A are aware of Group B.</div>
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Participant or leader in A mentions B in public.</div>
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Folks in A and B are in contact with one another, perhaps via email or members who know each other. Or group leaders simply know each other, perhaps even interview each other.</div>
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Participant or leader in A mentions B's work in <b>general </b>in public as relevant to A's we-space work. "B is working on this area too."</div>
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A references <b>specifics or particulars</b> of B's work in public, as related to A's work. "B does this or that specific."</div>
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A compares or cross-references generals or particulars of B's work, in public, as related to A's work. "B does this or that compared to our doing that or this."</div>
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Leaders and participants in A and B are in general communication with one another. </div>
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A and B are in dialogue with one another.</div>
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A incorporates some of B's specifics or generalities in their own work, and acknowledges this to B and the public.</div>
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A actually builds further into the development of higher we-space capacities based on B's work and acknowledges this in public and to B.</div>
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A and B are in collaborative communication, with the shared intention of enriching one another's work. This can be facilitated by shared members.</div>
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A and B engage in real-time collaboration such as co-teaching, merged group meetings and practices, co-writing</div>
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When higher-consciousness we-space practitioners A and B begin to operate as a single conscious we-space, privately and publically, THEN they are indeed "walking their talk" in my view!</div>
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The "object of the game" that you would like, I think, and me too, is for every group to be both an A and a B to every other group!!!!! And be moving along this spectrum!!!!!!</div>
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What do you think?</div>
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As usual, I welcome, invite, solicit, and request, comments and dialogue!!!!<br />
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