Speaker 1: Hi, there, just to say. This is a short snippet
Speaker 1: from this week's main episode, which was published on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: As always, if you want the full episode, you can
Speaker 1: find it just below this one. Yellow Integral also has
Speaker 1: a developmental view. What does basically mean is that you
Speaker 1: realize that human beings are unfolding through developmental stages, and
Speaker 1: this becomes baked into your worldview and your understanding of
Speaker 1: self and others, to the point where it's really unavoidable,
Speaker 1: like you cannot unsee the developmental trajectory and other people. Now,
Speaker 1: often this can be accompanied by or it can be
Speaker 1: hastened by studying development. Like studying people like me, you
Speaker 1: talk about the levels of development all the time. If
Speaker 1: you do that, of course, you're more likely to see
Speaker 1: you're more likely to have a developmental view. But what
Speaker 1: they found is that, as far as we know, this
Speaker 1: developmental view is actually baked into the level of consciousness.
Speaker 1: It's not it's not just because you study it. It's
Speaker 1: more like the actual perception becomes possible at this level
Speaker 1: of development where was before you don't really see development,
Speaker 1: like you don't see the you know, you might learn
Speaker 1: about it at school and university, and like a psychology class,
Speaker 1: but you don't grasp the depth of it. Like if
Speaker 1: you look, most people do not under they do not
Speaker 1: have a developmental view, like the levels of consciousness are
Speaker 1: not baked into the perception. You can tell just by
Speaker 1: talking to them about the world, about human history, about
Speaker 1: current society, about themselves, about others, they do not have
Speaker 1: this developmental view. Does this mean that you have you
Speaker 1: go around quoting spiodynamics or quoting me or quoting Ken
Speaker 1: Wilbur all the time. Not necessarily. It means that even
Speaker 1: if you don't have a formal understanding of the stages,
Speaker 1: it's like you understand that people are going through development,
Speaker 1: like you can see the spectrum that becomes obvious to you.
Speaker 1: And of course you can look back on your own
Speaker 1: life history and you can see how you yourself went
Speaker 1: from well, since we're using these levels in this way,
Speaker 1: we can say you look back on your own life,
Speaker 1: you see how you went from pre conventional to conventional
Speaker 1: to post conventional and none of it was just accidental.
Speaker 1: But this is one of the things I realized when
Speaker 1: I learned about these levels for the first time. It's like, Wow,
Speaker 1: my life was not accidental, Like my entire trajectory. Although
Speaker 1: we can't explain absolutely everything, we can explain a lot
Speaker 1: from the levels of development. It wasn't just this random process,
Speaker 1: even though it felt rather random at the time. You
Speaker 1: then look at your current self as sort of the
Speaker 1: developmental result of this process, and you realize that you,
Speaker 1: yourself right now are occupying one or two dominant stages.
Speaker 1: And this makes when we are talked about how your
Speaker 1: mind and your ego and your psyche become more transparent
Speaker 1: with post conventional development, will it yellow integral? It becomes
Speaker 1: more transparent in the sense that you realize that you,
Speaker 1: yourself right now are occupying certain levels of consciousness that
Speaker 1: basically guide as we spoke about in the very first
Speaker 1: episode of this series, it guides a large part of
Speaker 1: your motivations, your worldview, your moral development, your ego development,
Speaker 1: your sense of self and other and so on and
Speaker 1: so forth. Like you can no longer pretend it's like
Speaker 1: you no longer take it for granted, and you no longer
Speaker 1: think it's the best because you realize it it's a
Speaker 1: developmental thing. It's not absolutely better or worse. Because of
Speaker 1: this developmental view, you relax your incessant rejection of human life,
Speaker 1: because green is very cynical, it's very nehilistic, it rejects
Speaker 1: the modern world. At yellow, you really relax that you
Speaker 1: can see the green perspective. You can see that, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of aspects of modern life and of orange,
Speaker 1: the orange achiever stage are rather unhealthy and unwholesome, and
Speaker 1: we're going to have to move beyond them. But it relaxes,
Speaker 1: like you're not going around all the time hating the
Speaker 1: world as green post modern often does, you see others
Speaker 1: as occupying levels of development rather than just being being
Speaker 1: a certain personality type or being the way they are
Speaker 1: because of how they were brought up and so on,
Speaker 1: and this transforms your understanding of them because imagine you
Speaker 1: know your partner or your family or your friends. You
Speaker 1: realize that they are at levels of consciousness that are
Speaker 1: either beyond yours or they're where you came from. Like
Speaker 1: it's sort of it's not that you have to like
Speaker 1: whitewash what that means, but it means you understand them
Speaker 1: in a way that you didn't before because you realize
Speaker 1: that they are subject to the same levels of consciousness
Speaker 1: that you are. And so while you one of you
Speaker 1: might be higher than the other. It doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: you're inherently like superior. And then all their personality type,
Speaker 1: their personality traits become more understandable because you understand that
Speaker 1: they are at a certain level of consciousness. You also
Speaker 1: see these dynamics and cultures and countries, and you'll start
Speaker 1: to understand things in terms of developmental dynamics. Like certain
Speaker 1: political movements will no longer surprise you because you'll be like, well,
Speaker 1: seventy percent of the world, say, are at blue conformist,
Speaker 1: so we shouldn't we shouldn't be surprised that all of
Speaker 1: a sudden there's some like ethnocentric, you know, religious fundamentalist
Speaker 1: leader coming into power, even in a relatively advanced country.
Speaker 1: That won't surprise you anymore. I mean, it doesn't become
Speaker 1: any less shocking, I suppose, but it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: you just expect the levels of consciousness to do what
Speaker 1: they do because that's what they do. They impose themselves
Speaker 1: on the world and they create chaos, especially the first
Speaker 1: tier one. So it's like things stop surprising you so much.
Speaker 1: I really encourage you to, like, look at how listening
Speaker 1: to this series of episodes and the levels of consciousness.
Speaker 1: Notice how it alters your experience of self, others, and
Speaker 1: the world, and you'll realize that in those effects are
Speaker 1: the direct effects of understanding things in terms of development yourself, others,
Speaker 1: in the world, because it's like you can't unsee it.
Speaker 1: But once you start seeing everything in terms of developmental dynamics,
Speaker 1: it is like you cannot go back to just seeing
Speaker 1: things as you previously saw them. And so I encourage
Speaker 1: you to look at, even if it's subtle changes in
Speaker 1: how you're understanding your world, that these things will add
Speaker 1: up over time and eventually you might look back and
Speaker 1: realize that you have a very different view of humanity
Speaker 1: than you used to have. HI there just to say.
Speaker 1: This is a short snippet from this week's main episode,
Speaker 1: which was published on Wednesday. As always, if you want
Speaker 1: the full episode, you can find it just below this one.