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<v Speaker 1>Hi, there, just to say. This is a short snippet

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<v Speaker 1>from this week's main episode, which was published on Wednesday.

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<v Speaker 1>As always, if you want the full episode, you can

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<v Speaker 1>find it just below this one. Yellow Integral also has

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<v Speaker 1>a developmental view. What does basically mean is that you

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<v Speaker 1>realize that human beings are unfolding through developmental stages, and

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<v Speaker 1>this becomes baked into your worldview and your understanding of

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<v Speaker 1>self and others, to the point where it's really unavoidable,

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<v Speaker 1>like you cannot unsee the developmental trajectory and other people. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>often this can be accompanied by or it can be

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<v Speaker 1>hastened by studying development. Like studying people like me, you

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<v Speaker 1>talk about the levels of development all the time. If

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<v Speaker 1>you do that, of course, you're more likely to see

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<v Speaker 1>you're more likely to have a developmental view. But what

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<v Speaker 1>they found is that, as far as we know, this

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<v Speaker 1>developmental view is actually baked into the level of consciousness.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not it's not just because you study it. It's

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<v Speaker 1>more like the actual perception becomes possible at this level

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<v Speaker 1>of development where was before you don't really see development,

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<v Speaker 1>like you don't see the you know, you might learn

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<v Speaker 1>about it at school and university, and like a psychology class,

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<v Speaker 1>but you don't grasp the depth of it. Like if

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<v Speaker 1>you look, most people do not under they do not

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<v Speaker 1>have a developmental view, like the levels of consciousness are

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<v Speaker 1>not baked into the perception. You can tell just by

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<v Speaker 1>talking to them about the world, about human history, about

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<v Speaker 1>current society, about themselves, about others, they do not have

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<v Speaker 1>this developmental view. Does this mean that you have you

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<v Speaker 1>go around quoting spiodynamics or quoting me or quoting Ken

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<v Speaker 1>Wilbur all the time. Not necessarily. It means that even

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<v Speaker 1>if you don't have a formal understanding of the stages,

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<v Speaker 1>it's like you understand that people are going through development,

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<v Speaker 1>like you can see the spectrum that becomes obvious to you.

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<v Speaker 1>And of course you can look back on your own

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<v Speaker 1>life history and you can see how you yourself went

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<v Speaker 1>from well, since we're using these levels in this way,

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<v Speaker 1>we can say you look back on your own life,

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<v Speaker 1>you see how you went from pre conventional to conventional

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<v Speaker 1>to post conventional and none of it was just accidental.

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<v Speaker 1>But this is one of the things I realized when

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<v Speaker 1>I learned about these levels for the first time. It's like, Wow,

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<v Speaker 1>my life was not accidental, Like my entire trajectory. Although

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<v Speaker 1>we can't explain absolutely everything, we can explain a lot

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<v Speaker 1>from the levels of development. It wasn't just this random process,

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<v Speaker 1>even though it felt rather random at the time. You

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<v Speaker 1>then look at your current self as sort of the

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<v Speaker 1>developmental result of this process, and you realize that you,

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<v Speaker 1>yourself right now are occupying one or two dominant stages.

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<v Speaker 1>And this makes when we are talked about how your

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<v Speaker 1>mind and your ego and your psyche become more transparent

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<v Speaker 1>with post conventional development, will it yellow integral? It becomes

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<v Speaker 1>more transparent in the sense that you realize that you,

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<v Speaker 1>yourself right now are occupying certain levels of consciousness that

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<v Speaker 1>basically guide as we spoke about in the very first

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<v Speaker 1>episode of this series, it guides a large part of

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<v Speaker 1>your motivations, your worldview, your moral development, your ego development,

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<v Speaker 1>your sense of self and other and so on and

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<v Speaker 1>so forth. Like you can no longer pretend it's like

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<v Speaker 1>you no longer take it for granted, and you no longer

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<v Speaker 1>think it's the best because you realize it it's a

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<v Speaker 1>developmental thing. It's not absolutely better or worse. Because of

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<v Speaker 1>this developmental view, you relax your incessant rejection of human life,

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<v Speaker 1>because green is very cynical, it's very nehilistic, it rejects

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<v Speaker 1>the modern world. At yellow, you really relax that you

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<v Speaker 1>can see the green perspective. You can see that, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of aspects of modern life and of orange,

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<v Speaker 1>the orange achiever stage are rather unhealthy and unwholesome, and

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<v Speaker 1>we're going to have to move beyond them. But it relaxes,

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<v Speaker 1>like you're not going around all the time hating the

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<v Speaker 1>world as green post modern often does, you see others

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<v Speaker 1>as occupying levels of development rather than just being being

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<v Speaker 1>a certain personality type or being the way they are

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<v Speaker 1>because of how they were brought up and so on,

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<v Speaker 1>and this transforms your understanding of them because imagine you

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<v Speaker 1>know your partner or your family or your friends. You

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<v Speaker 1>realize that they are at levels of consciousness that are

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<v Speaker 1>either beyond yours or they're where you came from. Like

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<v Speaker 1>it's sort of it's not that you have to like

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<v Speaker 1>whitewash what that means, but it means you understand them

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<v Speaker 1>in a way that you didn't before because you realize

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<v Speaker 1>that they are subject to the same levels of consciousness

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<v Speaker 1>that you are. And so while you one of you

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<v Speaker 1>might be higher than the other. It doesn't mean that

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<v Speaker 1>you're inherently like superior. And then all their personality type,

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<v Speaker 1>their personality traits become more understandable because you understand that

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<v Speaker 1>they are at a certain level of consciousness. You also

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<v Speaker 1>see these dynamics and cultures and countries, and you'll start

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<v Speaker 1>to understand things in terms of developmental dynamics. Like certain

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<v Speaker 1>political movements will no longer surprise you because you'll be like, well,

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<v Speaker 1>seventy percent of the world, say, are at blue conformist,

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<v Speaker 1>so we shouldn't we shouldn't be surprised that all of

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<v Speaker 1>a sudden there's some like ethnocentric, you know, religious fundamentalist

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<v Speaker 1>leader coming into power, even in a relatively advanced country.

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<v Speaker 1>That won't surprise you anymore. I mean, it doesn't become

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<v Speaker 1>any less shocking, I suppose, but it's like, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>you just expect the levels of consciousness to do what

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<v Speaker 1>they do because that's what they do. They impose themselves

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<v Speaker 1>on the world and they create chaos, especially the first

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<v Speaker 1>tier one. So it's like things stop surprising you so much.

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<v Speaker 1>I really encourage you to, like, look at how listening

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<v Speaker 1>to this series of episodes and the levels of consciousness.

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<v Speaker 1>Notice how it alters your experience of self, others, and

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<v Speaker 1>the world, and you'll realize that in those effects are

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<v Speaker 1>the direct effects of understanding things in terms of development yourself, others,

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<v Speaker 1>in the world, because it's like you can't unsee it.

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<v Speaker 1>But once you start seeing everything in terms of developmental dynamics,

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<v Speaker 1>it is like you cannot go back to just seeing

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<v Speaker 1>things as you previously saw them. And so I encourage

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<v Speaker 1>you to look at, even if it's subtle changes in

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<v Speaker 1>how you're understanding your world, that these things will add

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<v Speaker 1>up over time and eventually you might look back and

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<v Speaker 1>realize that you have a very different view of humanity

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<v Speaker 1>than you used to have. HI there just to say.

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<v Speaker 1>This is a short snippet from this week's main episode,

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<v Speaker 1>which was published on Wednesday. As always, if you want

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<v Speaker 1>the full episode, you can find it just below this one.