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How Can I Color When There Are No Lines?
Vicki Toale, OP, D.Min
WYSIWYYG
What you see is what youyou
get!!
Seated Woman
Premodern
Prerational
Modern
Rational
Seated Woman Picasso
Postmodern
CULTURE
INVISIBLE FORCE
A shared set of A shared set of assumptions: the way assumptions: the way
we see the worldwe see the world
"Let us make human beings in our image, make them reflecting our nature so they can be
responsible for the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the cattle, and, yes, Earth itself, and every
animal that moves on the face of Earth.”
Premodern
STATE
Church
What we have here is a failure to communicate
Engagement?
Compassion?
At the end of a successful semester a student asked Clare Graves, “Which psychological theory is the correct one?”
Unable to answer, he began a massive study that resulted in his theory of the levels of human existence -> Spiral Dynamics.
AN ANSWERClare Graves (1929-1986)
“At each stage of human existence adults are on a quest to find a way of life to solve their problems.”
We have a problem -->> we find a solution!!!
Theory of the Levels of Human Existence
“Yet at every stage the solution to existence is not the perfect solution they sought. It is simply that as they solve one set of human problems they find a new set in its place. The quest is never ending. . . . . . . . .”
The solution is so successful -->> it actually causes a new
problem
This cycle has been repeated seven times in human history and it parallels the development of the human person
Each new level transcends and includes the best of all previous levels.
REDPURPLE
BLUE
BEIGE
ORANGEGREEN
BUT those who choose to move to the next level see their former view as deficient and those left behind see the new worldview as a betrayal
A Hierarchy of Consciousness
Culture Tech
Population Comparison
0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%
100%
World US
Holistic
Integrative
Egalitarian
Scientific
Mythic Order
Empires
KinSpirits
SurvivalSense
2%6%15%
40%
30%
5%2%
.5%
.5%3%13%
42%
30%
10%1%
POWER / PASSION
SENSITIVITY/EGALITARIANISM
TRIBAL LOYALTY
ORDER / RULES
INDUSTRY/CREATIVITY
Relativism
Greed/Inequality
Superstition/selflessness
Rigid Conformity
Violence
“Religion”
“Science”
INTEGRAL CONSCIOUSNESS
“Spiral Wizards” call forth the healthy aspects of each level of consciousness
Truly engaged
[at level of consciousness]
Transrational
Beyond the lines
Caveat
Irrational
Without regard for the lines
Of course we’re still generating new problems…
