How Can I Color When There Are No Lines? Vicki Toale, OP, D.Min

YWYSIWYGYWYSIWYG you What you see is what you get!! Seated Woman

Premodern Prerational

Modern Rational

Seated Woman Picasso Postmodern

CULTURE INVISIBLE FORCE A shared set of assumptions: the way we see the world

"Let us make human beings in our image, make them reflecting our nature so they can be responsible for the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the cattle, and, yes, Earth itself, and every animal that moves on the face of Earth.”

Premodern

STATE

Church

What we have here is a failure to communicate

Engagement? Compassion?

At the end of a successful semester a student asked Clare Graves, “Which psychological theory is the correct one?” Unable to answer, he began a massive study that resulted in his theory of the levels of human existence -> Spiral Dynamics. AN ANSWER Clare Graves ( )

“At each stage of human existence adults are on a quest to find a way of life to solve their problems.” We have a problem -->> we find a solution!!! Theory of the Levels of Human Existence

“Yet at every stage the solution to existence is not the perfect solution they sought. It is simply that as they solve one set of human problems they find a new set in its place. The quest is never ending ” The solution is so successful -->> it actually causes a new problem This cycle has been repeated seven times in human history and it parallels the development of the human person

Each new level transcends and includes the best of all previous levels. RED PURPLE BLUE BEIGE ORANGE GREEN BUT those who choose to move to the next level see their former view as deficient and those left behind see the new worldview as a betrayal

A Hierarchy of Consciousness Culture Tech

Population Comparison 2% 6% 15% 40% 30% 5% 2%. 5% 3% 13% 42% 30% 10% 1%

POWER / PASSION SENSITIVITY / EGALITARIANISM TRIBAL LOYALTY ORDER / RULES INDUSTRY/CREATIVITY Relativism Greed/Inequality Superstition/selflessness Rigid Conformity Violence “Religion” “Science”

INTEGRAL CONSCIOUSNESS

“Spiral Wizards” call forth the healthy aspects of each level of consciousness Truly engaged [at level of consciousness]

Transrational Beyond the lines Caveat

Irrational Without regard for the lines

Of course we’re still generating new problems…