Spiral Dynamics: Important Insights & Nuances

https://www.actualized.org/forum/topic/2665-actualizedorg-video-summaries/?page=17#comment-1092574

Sloppy application of spiral dynamics:

• Is a very complicated, nuanced and rich model, and that makes it so powerful
• Maybe after 30-40 hours of trying and applying it your own life and see where you're making mistakes and getting corrections to all that only then this model reveals it's whole potential
• It's easy to use this model to judge, classify, pigeon hole people and not get the whole fruit of it
• It takes dozens of hours of studying and application to understand the nuances of this model and how it gets misapplied

3 lines: additional ways to slice and dice the same thing and talk about human development and evolution of consciousness( additional vocabulary to understand evolution of mankind)

Lines of development: additional vocabulary to understand the evolution of mankind

Moral development & Cognitive development

• These can be developed individually

Moral:

Egocentric - about myself

Ethnocentric - all about my community

World-centric - concerned about the world

Cosmo-centric - concerned about all cosmos

Circle of concern is expanding wider and wider with each of these stage

Cognitive:

Sensorimotor - basic cognitive development that toddler child goes through

Emotional - also toddlers and babies go through