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Pelle : Sometimes I get the feeling that IN/II/IL place to big a burden ontheir shoulders. Everything has to be perfectly 'integral' andgroundbreaking. Why not let go of all that and simply do something thatis... More »
Do you really think II is at risk of collapse now? and if so, Why? I am not disagreeing, mind. I wrote this over on the IL board a while ago...and I suppose there are... More »
Hey everybody, Have been listening to Don Beck talk about spiral dynamics to get a better understanding of what it is really saying. Basically I understand better spiral dynamics having had the background of listening... More »
David: " Rick : Qualitative data on really anything, but on vMemes especially . I'm sure more data would help, but I don't think we can dismiss the work of Clare Graves, Don Beck, Carol... More »
Rick : Qualitative data on really anything, but on vMemes especially . I'm sure more data would help, but I don't think we can dismiss the work of Clare Graves, Don Beck, Carol Gilligan, Lawrence... More »
YES: Timothy Garton Ash. co-founder of European Council on Foreign Relations said this last year, and right he is: "history of national anthems is a history of embarrassment. They show up, like an x-ray, all... More »
Quo Vadis A perspective for extended thinking and action area of Dorothea room and Don E. Beck “I love this country! ”, Federal President Horst Köhler in its inaugural speech said 2004. Nobody laughed... More »
I'm not an "advaitaist", but I will jump on this anyway. :-D I don't think there is only one , right "way". I believe every person has their way, and not even individually there is... More »
e: "So you have not read SD? How many of Wilber’s books have you read cover to cover? I am only asking because your welcomed criticisms would be a bit more accurate if you actually... More »
The Pools by Charlotte Joko Beck The Pools teisho by Charlotte Joko Beck, Sensei Copyrights (c) by Charlotte Joko Beck and Zen Center of San Diego, USA Let's picture if we can two landscapes.... More »
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Introduction This blog post grew out of a discussion that began here on the Integral Archipelago pod. As the reader can see, David, who cultivated that chain of islands, asked me a series of questions.... More »
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Neri just informed me about a new 6part video about work of Don Beck. So here it is again. Dr. Don Beck, an international consultant to government and business leaders and author of Spiral Dynamics,... More »
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CHE Synnervation now constist of 15 Synnervators interconnecting and vitaliseing people, organizations and communities. One of them is Dylan Newcomb . Dylan is a professional dancer and choreographer who has been doing research on... More »
Albert
One more insightful article from NYT journalist David Brooks. He ends his article with this resume: "The correct response to these dynamic, decentralized, emergent problems is to create dynamic, decentralized, emergent authorities: chains of local... More »
Alain
The Dutch node of the Center for Human Emergence has a new website . Latest development in CHE-NL you can find there. It also offers a calendar with activities, projects, courses and salons. CHE global... More »
Albert
Marianne Williamson blogged about miracle power for Middle East. am re-posting it here in sympathy, however with critical distinctions. Peace/conflict processes of all kind -in personal as much as global large scale matters - are... More »
Albert
A great example for Meshworking from Peter Merrys Blog. You can get the whole report from his homepage. I took the Abstract and one more explanation what meshworks are and how they are guided for... More »
Albert
As G 20 Summit this year in UK/London is coming nearer its good to look at the radar screen in a way Alan Tonkin from Global Values Network does for Integral Leadership Review, Issue March... More »
Albert
In a situation when even balanced journalists like David Brooks show nervosity and some confusion about the current global financial crisis its good to see the TOP SPECIALIST of integral large scale blueprints and natural... More »
Albert
I am glad to introduce the blog section of Dr. Don Beck who started to do so in 2008. This entry is referring to a 2008 piece of NYT columnist David Brooks who commented a... More »
Intelligent Practice always deals with just one thing: the fear at the base of human existence, the fear that I am not. And of course I am not, but the last thing I want to know is that. I am impermanence itself in a rapidly changing human form that appears solid. I fear to see what I am: an ever-changing energy field. I don't want to be that. So good practice is about fear. Fear takes the form of constantly thinking, speculating, analyzing, fantasizing. With all that activity we create a cloud to keep ourselves safe in make-believe practice. True practice is not safe; it's anything but safe. But we don't like that, so we obsess with our feverish efforts to achieve our version of the personal dream. Such obsessive practice is itself just another cloud between ourselves and reality. The only thing that matters is seeing with an impersonal spotlight: seeing things as they really are. When the personal barrier drops away, why do we have to call it anything? We just live our lives. And when we die, we just die. No problem anywhere.
No more prizes for predicting the rain, only prizes for building the arks
Cultures, as well as countries, are formed by the emergence of value systems (social stages) in the response to life conditions. Such complex adaptive intelligences form the glue that bonds a group together, defines who they are as a people, and reflects the place on the planet they inhabit. These cultural waves, much like the Russian dolls (a doll embedded within a doll embedded within a doll) have formed, over time, into unique mixtures and blends of instructional and survival codes, myths of origin, artistic forms, life styles, and senses of community. While they are all legitimate expressions of the human experience, they are not "equal" in their capacities to deal with complex problems in society.
Once a new social stage appears in a culture, it will spread its instructional codes and life-priority messages throughout that culture's surface-level expressions: religion, economic and political arrangements, psychological and anthro-pological theories, and views of human nature, our future destiny, globalization, and even architectural patterns and sports preferences. We all live in flow states; there is always new wine, always old wineskins. We, indeed, find ourselves pursuing a neverending quest.
It’s not that we need to form new organizations. It's simply that we have to awaken to new ways of thinking. I believe it makes no sense to spend a lot of time attacking the current realities. It is time to create the new models that have in them the complexity that makes the older systems obsolete. And to the extent that we can do that, and do that quickly, I think we can provide what will be necessary for a major breakthrough for the future.
We are the Center for Human Emergence,(CHE) Mexico and Latinamerica, and we are starting to find leverage... More »
Open discussion board dedicated to exploring Dr. Don Beck's via Dr. Clare Grave's ideas/theories of Spiral Dynamics. This is... More »
In 2004 we started conscious Integral activity in Israel. In 2006 we Invited Dr. Don Beck to... More »
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