2. Stages of Vertical Change Life Conditions Awakened vMEMEs The Alpha Fit The Beta Condition “Something’s Wrong” REFORM Evolutionary Change REVOLT Revolutionary Change “Everything’s Falling Apart” The Gamma Trap BARRIERS The Delta Surge “Free at Last” TRANSFORMATION The New Alpha Fit “We’ve Sorted It All Out”

3. Seven Variations of Change Horizontal –CV 1 – Fine TUNE Thinking and assumptions remain essentially the same, but techniques and information improve –CV 2 – Expand OUT Elaborate basic vMEME system to include more contents and flesh out its repertoire. Form of enrichment, enhancement and development. Oblique –CV 3 – Stretch DOWN Stay in basic vMEME position while reawakening earler vMEME systems on a temporary basis in an attempt to deal with a pressing situation. –CV4 – Stretch UP Dominant thinking stays in original vMEME position but incorporates elements of some more complex vMEMEs.

4. Seven Variations of Change Vertical –CV 5 – Break OUT Characterizes REVOLUTIONS, generally used to attack barriers that need to be blown away and reforming to something anew. –CV 6 – UP Shift Describes a shift in the critical mass from one vMEME level to the next on the Spiral, generally in the form of an EVOLUTIONARY change as a new layers is added. –CV 7 – QUANTUM There is a movement in a number of vMEMEs at the same time. Integral to successful nation-building, community integration and functioning in a global marketplace. Seen in era-like shifts like the Industrial Revolution or Information Age.

6. Themes of Change Horizontal –Spiral itself remains stable Oblique –Some inter-vMeme turbulence Vertical –Shifts from vMeme to vMeme

7. The v MEME Map * The Survival Self The Power Self The Enterprising Self The Integrated Self The Tribal Order The Absolute Order The Egalitarian Order The Global Order Tier 1 Tier 2 * The emergent, cyclical double helix model of adult biopsychosocial development

8. The Yin & The Yang EXPRESS SELF –Individual/Elite Pole I, ME, MINE Take charge, make changes, move against nature, control the external world, rely on the power of self EXPLORE THE OUTSIDE DIVERSITY GENERATING CENTERED INTERNALLY SACRIFICE SELF –Communal/Collective Pole WE, US, OURS Accept the inevitable, live within natures constraints, focus on coming to peace with who one is, seek authority from outside FIX THE OUTSIDE CONFORMITY GENERATING CENTERED EXTERNALLY

9. Tier 1 v/s Tier 2 How systems get awakened –Systems are awakened – based on Life Conditions – Time, Place, Problems, Circumstances, Capacities to process the intelligences Normal human brain comes with Latent systems –systems need to be turned on Tier 1 v/s Tier 2 bell curves

11. So what do we have here? Human Nature is not fixed We have natural capacities to construct new conceptual worlds Thus we have the Spiral with its prime directive being to maintain the health of the spiral Healthy (Transcend and include), Unhealthy (Transcend and Eradicate) We have “complex adaptive intelligences” – that respond to natural concepts of –Regeneration, –Renewal, and –Replication via - Language, Architecture, Music, Philosophy, Politics, Icons, Fads, Literature, Sport, Fashion, Religion………… Non discriminating containers –For example – the blue container can have Christianity, Judaism, Islam…