Actualized.org - Self-Help, Psychology, Consciousness, Spirituality, Philosophy Spiral Dynamics - Important Insights
Nov 19, 2018
A deep dive into Spiral Dynamics and why it is often misapplied. Exploration of stages as cognitive upgrades and how people and societies mix them. Discussion of moral and cognitive development lines and the central role of perspective-taking. Examination of societal pulls, privilege in stage emergence, and practical methods to accelerate growth.
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Stages Are One Line Among Many Development Lines
- Spiral stages map to multiple development lines: cognitive, moral and others, so a person can be high in one line and low in another.
- Leo maps cognitive stages (FORMOP, post-formal, vision-logic, psychic, non-dual) to value stages like orange, green, yellow.
Center Of Gravity Explains Mixed Stage Behavior
- Most people and societies have a center of gravity at one stage, with spillover into adjacent stages rather than being pure single-color entities.
- Leo explains an individual “center of gravity” example: ~50% orange, ~25% green, ~25% blue, so stages stack and mix in practice.
Transcend And Include Is Nonjudgmental Progress
- Each stage is necessary and stacks on earlier stages; higher stages must include healthy elements of lower ones rather than demonize them.
- Leo emphasizes "transcend and include": bring forward functional lessons and drop pathologies when moving up the spiral.