e philosophers, scientists, and mystics exploring its implications.
To many, it is simply a compelling philosophy, uniting the revelations of science and spirituality in a way that no other theory can. But others, like Aurobindo before them, are beginning to reach beyond a theoretical discussion to wonder: What might human life and culture look like if we fully took to heart the reality of this view?
Freed from the mythic dogmatisms of premodern religion, transcending the materialistic biases of modern scientific thought, and liberated from the narcissistic self-absorptions of postmodernity, what kind of new world could human beings aligned with the trajectory of a spiritually evolving cosmos actually create?
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r determining the most moral course in any situation.The four basic rules for understanding the four levels are ...
1. Everything in the universe can be assigned to one of the four Levels.
2. You assign things to the correct Level based not on the properties of the thing, but on what that thing values.
3. Everything has its place. Nothing can end up with no Level, though some things do reside in more than one.
4. The Levels have a hierarchical or evolutionary relationship to each other.
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s suggested in the
Wonders of Life - for the scientific community to
explain the spirituality which forms the basis of
each and everyone of our belief systems NEVER forgetting of course that Rupert Sheldrake's mindset
of 'realism' was significantly influenced by his friendship with
Terence McKenna, who for me will be forever remembered for
his proposal in respect of marijuana that "The mystery IS IN the
Body and the way the Body Works itself", which for me has had
the most significant influence on my practice of Tai Chi; and of
course " IF the words LIBERTY and the PURSUIT of HAPPINESS
don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness,
then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was
written on"
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ral hierarchies [holarchies], systems, and forms. Flexibility, spontaneity, and functionality have the highest priority. Differences and pluralities can be integrated into interdependent, natural flows. Egalitarianism is complemented with natural degrees of ranking and excellence. Knowledge and competency should supersede power, status, or group sensitivity. The prevailing world order is the result of the existence of different levels of reality (memes) and the inevitable patterns of movement up and down the dynamic spiral. Good governance facilitates the emergence of entities through the levels of increasing complexity (nested hierarchy). 1% of the population, 5% of the power. 8. Turquoise: Holistic . Universal holistic system, holons/waves of integrative energies; unites feeling with knowledge; multiple levels interwoven into one conscious system. Universal order, but in a living, conscious fashion, not based on external rules (blue) or group bonds (green). A "grand unification" [a "theory of everything" or T.O.E.] is possible, in theory and in actuality. Sometimes involves the emergence of a new spirituality as a meshwork of all existence. Turquoise thinking uses the entire Spiral; sees multiple levels of interaction; detects harmonics, the mystical forces, and the pervasive flow-states that permeate any organization. 0.1% of the population, 1% of the power. With less than 2 percent of the population at second-tier thinking (and only 0.1 percent at turquoise), second-tier consciousness is relatively rare because it is now the "leading-edge" of collective human evolution. As examples, Beck and Cowan mention items that include Teilhard de Chardin's noosphere, chaos and complexity theories, universal systems thinking, integral-holistic theories, Gandhi's and Mandela's pluralistic integration, with increases in frequency definitely on the way, and even higher memes still in the offing.... Mark Michael Lewis - Ken Wilber Summary of Spiral Dynamics model
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