Spiral Dynamics - Stage Yellow Notes

https://www.actualized.org/forum/topic/108329-spiral-dynamics-stage-yellow-notes/

With Yellow we finally reach Tier 2. Before Yellow we have all the other stages, which summarize the conventional way of thinking which represent almost 99% of mankind. With Yellow we shift into tier 2.

What is tier 2?

• Tier 2 represents a quantum leap in one's awareness of reality!
• It's an awakening to systems thinking and holism.
• Recognizing that everything within reality is deeply interconnected in ways that Tier 1 couldn't even imagine!
• Tier 2 is opening up to awareness of the spiral itself.
• Tier 2 is a shift from survival into being.
• A shift from needy perception into being perception. Being perception means looking at a thing and seeing it for what it really is.
• Needy perception means looking at a thing as to how it can serve you.
• Tier 2 derives its values from the magnificence of existence itself rather than from selfish interests or group interests.
• With tier 2 there is a much wider and deeper perspective of life. You are no longer concerned only about your personal survival problems or how to acquire personal success, rather you are concerned with the problems of the entire mankind or problems of the entire globe.
• Ideas become multi-dimensional in tier 2. There is a lot of layers and complexity to things.
• There is now an awareness of one's own perspective. You realize that your perspective is partial and that there are also many other valid perspectives besides your own.
• The problem with tier 1 is that they think that only their perspective is valid and only their perspective is based in absolute truth and all the other perspectives are false. In tier 2 you realize that that way of thinking is flawed. There is no such thing as objectivity.
• Tier 2 does away with judgement, demonizing, blaming and scapegoating. At tier 2 demonization becomes untenable. Nobody looks like a demon anymore. Evil ceases to exist.
• Tier 2 is non moralistic
• Tier 2 replaces fear with curiosity and care
• Tier 2 is basically what Abraham Maslow described as the self-actualizing individual.