04-10-2009, 12:15 AM
(04-09-2009, 02:56 PM)Quantum Wrote: Hello zenmaster,There are certainly many aspects to the human condition, and all of these may follow an identifiable, evolutionary path. Evolutionary, meaning some condition has been subsumed or transcended to a more all-encompassing or advantageous new condition. For example, there are evolutions of intention, behavior, culture, and society in Wilber's 4 quadrant model. In the "lower right" quadrant, the "social" quadrant, the developmental line has a recognizable hierarchy with: survival clan, ethnic tribe, feudal empire, early nation, corporate state, value communities, holistic commons, integral meshworks, etc. This line is also based on another developmental line of foraging, horticultural, agrarian, industrial, informational, etc.
I have taken it upon myself once again to view your recommendations. Thank you for a 2nd time. It seems very congruent indeed, and almost a heeding of sorts as a means of avoiding the trappings and pitfalls of what I have come to name "Metaphizzler Consciousness" which may do no more harm than simple daydreaming without substance of a better world, to an outright arrested spiritual development.
Allow me to direct you to an an interesting model that irpsit, as a biologist, has delved into on "The Harvest" : What is Everyone's Gut Feeling on 2012 as though by coincidence to the Spiral Dynamics model that Ken Wilbur discusses. Pay particular attention to his breakdown of man in 3D to see the similarity.
Each developmental level may have both healthy (supportive) and pathological (destructive) manifestations. For example, "Metaphizzler Consciousness" and shortcut thinking are pathological conditions associated with the "Green vMeme" level of the Spiral Dynamics model. It's as if one meets a part of themselves there, for the first time, and gets "stuck" in a kind of trap. So there is slowed progress towards that jump to "2nd tier" thinking or feeling. As Ra said: "In order for the Transformation of Mind to occur, one principle governing the use of the deep mind must be abandoned."
Have you considered this:
subdensity - SD vMeme - Logos Archetype - Mind - Body - Sprit
1 - Beige - Matrix - Magician - Justice - Devil
2 - Purple - Potentiator - Priestess - Hermit - Tower
3 - Red - Catalyst - Empress - Wheel - Star
4 - Blue - Experience - Emporor - Strength - Moon
5 - Orange - Significator - Heiorphant - Hanged Man - Sun
6 - Green - Transformation - Lovers - Death - Judgement
7 - Yellow - Great Way - Chariot - Temperance - World