Very interesting! I was working on a somewhat similar philosophy that I use in my life that I just called 'Conscious Living' which treated the vessel i.e. mind & body. It revolves around the idea that your consciousness is your most valuable asset, and your vessel is the sacred temple that houses it.
I am constantly asking my self when making decisions “How does this choice affect my vessel optimization, consciousness expansion, and longevity?"
Everything I do in my life revolves around the idea that every choice becomes an act of stewardship- honoring the vessel that enables my consciousness to operate at its highest capacity for as long as possible.
I feel like the system of life that you presented supports this kind of philosophy. I'm excited to read more about it!
Ah, a student of Leo Guru's spiral dynamics gone on to create his own model. Very interesting.
I use the Kriya Yoga system of clearing the five energy bodies (physical, etheric, emotional, mental, spiritual) and 12 chakras simultaneously. Similar effect, different model.
You can work on all levels slowly, together, for holistic balance. You're only as strong as your weakest point, after all, and it shows up during time of stress.
The dividing of self actualization into thirds, quarters, and twelves is more important than the actual labels and models themselves. Because regardless of how you cut it up or where you start, you can triangulate effectively from there (depending on individual skill/awareness).
I refer to Human 3.0 as Homo Galacticus. A new human free from lower chakra survival (time-space-limitation) concerns.
But one glaring hole I think is occurring in your model is the downplaying of the interpersonal quadrant.
Conflating it with spirituality and ecology is narrowing the potentiality of the intersubjective space.
As we are fast-tracking into a teal level collective now, we are going to see both an increase in hyper-independence and also a massive and overwhelming increase in complexity.
Beige 2.0, right.
Surviving in a overwhelming world.
Bot now rather than biology providing the that overwhelm, it's technology.
What comes next... Turquoise.
Magenta 2.0
Tribe 2.0
The only solution to the complexity of the world will be to band together with other humans in a more tightly interdependent way than ever before.
This will be the next layer of thriving, and requires increasing focus on the potentiality of the intersubjective space..
It's interesting that personal development is such a huge industry now.
But interpersonal development is hardly regarded at all... I mean relationships aren't even a category on pretty much every platform.
That's crazy considering how central they are to human existence.
Have you ever explored Circling? Authentic Relating? T-Group? Or any other intersubjective practices?
There is much jedi-level possibility there as you can imagine exists in your own body or mind.
Careful not to downgrade the interpersonal and lump it in with the spiritual.... it's a wildly different category and has an entirely different set of rules, practices and skillsets necessary to develop.
Anyways I have the Integral model embedded underneath my relational work (yes I talk about this in my own work)... but don't explicitly talk about it as much as I'd like (yet).
Love the NPC – Player – Creator arc you laid out. I myself, I've been sick of refusing the calls and being the NPC in my own life for a while.
The real challenge now: how do we get people to not just consume: read a blog or watch a video; but to actually step outside, explore, play, build, mess up, fail, and grow? To activate people not just mentally, but also make them move physically. For them to get sick of being the NPC in their story too.
Ive seen flash mobs of people dancing to a song in a street. Ive seen protest marches etc. People are getting out and doing things. Do you mean how to get everyone in an entrepreneurial mindset building businesses? Or to get people in soical activism?
Hi Gary, thanks for the reply! Well, for instance, I work at an airport where many ppl are complaining about all the things they wanted to do in life, but never did. Like learn to play an instrument, learn a different language, travel the world, etc. They keep telling themselves 'maybe someday', but then that day never comes. I know what it's like to build up a lot of those maybe somedays (the refusal of the call in terms of hero's journey), and the 'negative energy' it builds up. So I myself turned that around and nowadays say 'F YES!!!' a lot. It 'hurts' me to see these ppl stay stuck in unfulfilling lives, so I made a game out of that: The Mission Game. It's a deck of cards with activities for ppl to actually do, to give their life a new twist. Actually the flashmob dance is in there as one of the missions, and the protest more or less as well. So yeah: many people doing plenty amazing things in life, but also still many ppl living on autopilot / NPC mode.
I really wanted call this cringe, but it actually resonates on many levels, really distils the predicament that so many young people are in nowadays... whilst also showing a way out.
This is really well thought out, thank you for posting.
Question: I feel the dissonance but whenever I try to go on the quest and build my skills and experience I’m never “obsessed”. I find myself halfheartedly applying myself instead of fully committing.
The desire to build skills and knowledge must be married/connected with "meaning" - the spirit quadrant. Thats what energises your being NESS in the world. If getting healthy was with say for example connected with getting pregnant then you would easily motivate yourself to get healthy because you had deep desire for motherhood (meaning) . Acquisition of skills and knowledge happen easily when you are working in your own business because its connected with a deep desire and goals to build your business etc.
The specific problem I am facing is I'm equipped with enough knowledge to grow my 4 stats but lacking the resources to take it into the next level.
All I'm doing is collect resources and maintaining those stats since I can't afford to grow. This is a phase of despair for me. I know my potential yet All I can do is wait and work on a job.
Till I get the paycheck and buy proteins and devices to bodybuild, create content and make free time in my day for mind and relationship development.
It Maybe obstacle in the journey or a testing mechanism for filtering out the mediocre.
Sometimes you need to heavily focus on one area with energy and attention. You don't abandon other areas but you cant up-level all areas at same speed and time . Build savings $ so you can spend on skill and knowledge acquisition = increases career options and income levels. Money flows into all quadrants because it is needed for survival
I love your work Dan, and respect your acknowledgement of Ken Wilbur. I look forward to participating and hopefully contributing. How does this significantly differ from Wilbur's work? One suggestion perhaps, is to provide actionable steps for those struggling with the basics of the economic dimensions? Thanks for all you do!
Pretty much all my current suffering can be distilled to this passage:
“Individuals can also regress to a lower level during a temporary period of stress or when a problem outside their current level comes into their life. This explains why you may look back to a time where "things felt better" and you yearn to bring that sensation back to the present.”
Hey! my name is Arthur, 18yo at this moment, from Brazil.
I have been doing exactly this for my self. I have been structuring my notes in folders and as I figure out a piece of the puzzle, it changes the whole structure. It is truly a magnificent orchestration.
I would be happy to help, as I have already ~155,000 words, from metaphysics to new models of economy and how to make things right for ourselves individualy.
How can we get in touch?
Many thanks for bringing up something I was excited to do.
Build your model locally in your city. Develop a business project or not for profit organisation charity which displays your model in action. Then scale it.
this is incredible. You are putting into words the journey I'm on. I feel completely aligned with every word your newsletters have been giving. Its exciting to have this journey reflected back to you in a comprehensive manner. Cant wait to keep downloading this.
Phases start with Dissonance but isnt it like assuming the only phase you can be in is being dissonant at first place. What if someone is in a level like ok with black and white thinking and doesnt want to change out of that level. What phase would that person be in? For example if someone accepts her body the way it is and doesnt want to change at all forever in their life?
Paul Chek's Spirit Gym would help you develop this model to whole new level.
Sounds right up my alley, will check it out, thank you sir🙏
Ohhh, shit. Dan's gonna go down the Paul Chek rabbit hole 🙌
He is the GOAT and I've often wondered if you've heard of him... He has been a big part of my journey in the last decade.
Love this whole thing. Can’t wait to see what you unpack next
Very interesting! I was working on a somewhat similar philosophy that I use in my life that I just called 'Conscious Living' which treated the vessel i.e. mind & body. It revolves around the idea that your consciousness is your most valuable asset, and your vessel is the sacred temple that houses it.
I am constantly asking my self when making decisions “How does this choice affect my vessel optimization, consciousness expansion, and longevity?"
Everything I do in my life revolves around the idea that every choice becomes an act of stewardship- honoring the vessel that enables my consciousness to operate at its highest capacity for as long as possible.
I feel like the system of life that you presented supports this kind of philosophy. I'm excited to read more about it!
Ah, a student of Leo Guru's spiral dynamics gone on to create his own model. Very interesting.
I use the Kriya Yoga system of clearing the five energy bodies (physical, etheric, emotional, mental, spiritual) and 12 chakras simultaneously. Similar effect, different model.
You can work on all levels slowly, together, for holistic balance. You're only as strong as your weakest point, after all, and it shows up during time of stress.
The dividing of self actualization into thirds, quarters, and twelves is more important than the actual labels and models themselves. Because regardless of how you cut it up or where you start, you can triangulate effectively from there (depending on individual skill/awareness).
I refer to Human 3.0 as Homo Galacticus. A new human free from lower chakra survival (time-space-limitation) concerns.
This is fascinating and I’m going to save it so I can dissect it piece by piece. Thank you for this interesting piece
This is what I do with Dan Koe’s articles I spend time analysing it because there is so much in it. You can’t just read once and be done.
I love playing with AQAL...
But one glaring hole I think is occurring in your model is the downplaying of the interpersonal quadrant.
Conflating it with spirituality and ecology is narrowing the potentiality of the intersubjective space.
As we are fast-tracking into a teal level collective now, we are going to see both an increase in hyper-independence and also a massive and overwhelming increase in complexity.
Beige 2.0, right.
Surviving in a overwhelming world.
Bot now rather than biology providing the that overwhelm, it's technology.
What comes next... Turquoise.
Magenta 2.0
Tribe 2.0
The only solution to the complexity of the world will be to band together with other humans in a more tightly interdependent way than ever before.
This will be the next layer of thriving, and requires increasing focus on the potentiality of the intersubjective space..
It's interesting that personal development is such a huge industry now.
But interpersonal development is hardly regarded at all... I mean relationships aren't even a category on pretty much every platform.
That's crazy considering how central they are to human existence.
Have you ever explored Circling? Authentic Relating? T-Group? Or any other intersubjective practices?
There is much jedi-level possibility there as you can imagine exists in your own body or mind.
Careful not to downgrade the interpersonal and lump it in with the spiritual.... it's a wildly different category and has an entirely different set of rules, practices and skillsets necessary to develop.
Anyways I have the Integral model embedded underneath my relational work (yes I talk about this in my own work)... but don't explicitly talk about it as much as I'd like (yet).
Love the NPC – Player – Creator arc you laid out. I myself, I've been sick of refusing the calls and being the NPC in my own life for a while.
The real challenge now: how do we get people to not just consume: read a blog or watch a video; but to actually step outside, explore, play, build, mess up, fail, and grow? To activate people not just mentally, but also make them move physically. For them to get sick of being the NPC in their story too.
Ive seen flash mobs of people dancing to a song in a street. Ive seen protest marches etc. People are getting out and doing things. Do you mean how to get everyone in an entrepreneurial mindset building businesses? Or to get people in soical activism?
Hi Gary, thanks for the reply! Well, for instance, I work at an airport where many ppl are complaining about all the things they wanted to do in life, but never did. Like learn to play an instrument, learn a different language, travel the world, etc. They keep telling themselves 'maybe someday', but then that day never comes. I know what it's like to build up a lot of those maybe somedays (the refusal of the call in terms of hero's journey), and the 'negative energy' it builds up. So I myself turned that around and nowadays say 'F YES!!!' a lot. It 'hurts' me to see these ppl stay stuck in unfulfilling lives, so I made a game out of that: The Mission Game. It's a deck of cards with activities for ppl to actually do, to give their life a new twist. Actually the flashmob dance is in there as one of the missions, and the protest more or less as well. So yeah: many people doing plenty amazing things in life, but also still many ppl living on autopilot / NPC mode.
This is awesome. Never heard of a model like this, but it seems to be the most accurate self improvement model I've seen.
I really wanted call this cringe, but it actually resonates on many levels, really distils the predicament that so many young people are in nowadays... whilst also showing a way out.
You can identify your stage of development with his model from your initial desire to call it cringe??
This is really well thought out, thank you for posting.
Question: I feel the dissonance but whenever I try to go on the quest and build my skills and experience I’m never “obsessed”. I find myself halfheartedly applying myself instead of fully committing.
How should I address and work on that issue?
The desire to build skills and knowledge must be married/connected with "meaning" - the spirit quadrant. Thats what energises your being NESS in the world. If getting healthy was with say for example connected with getting pregnant then you would easily motivate yourself to get healthy because you had deep desire for motherhood (meaning) . Acquisition of skills and knowledge happen easily when you are working in your own business because its connected with a deep desire and goals to build your business etc.
The specific problem I am facing is I'm equipped with enough knowledge to grow my 4 stats but lacking the resources to take it into the next level.
All I'm doing is collect resources and maintaining those stats since I can't afford to grow. This is a phase of despair for me. I know my potential yet All I can do is wait and work on a job.
Till I get the paycheck and buy proteins and devices to bodybuild, create content and make free time in my day for mind and relationship development.
It Maybe obstacle in the journey or a testing mechanism for filtering out the mediocre.
Sometimes you need to heavily focus on one area with energy and attention. You don't abandon other areas but you cant up-level all areas at same speed and time . Build savings $ so you can spend on skill and knowledge acquisition = increases career options and income levels. Money flows into all quadrants because it is needed for survival
I love your work Dan, and respect your acknowledgement of Ken Wilbur. I look forward to participating and hopefully contributing. How does this significantly differ from Wilbur's work? One suggestion perhaps, is to provide actionable steps for those struggling with the basics of the economic dimensions? Thanks for all you do!
Pretty much all my current suffering can be distilled to this passage:
“Individuals can also regress to a lower level during a temporary period of stress or when a problem outside their current level comes into their life. This explains why you may look back to a time where "things felt better" and you yearn to bring that sensation back to the present.”
Thanks!
Hey! my name is Arthur, 18yo at this moment, from Brazil.
I have been doing exactly this for my self. I have been structuring my notes in folders and as I figure out a piece of the puzzle, it changes the whole structure. It is truly a magnificent orchestration.
I would be happy to help, as I have already ~155,000 words, from metaphysics to new models of economy and how to make things right for ourselves individualy.
How can we get in touch?
Many thanks for bringing up something I was excited to do.
@arthur.canabrava
Build your model locally in your city. Develop a business project or not for profit organisation charity which displays your model in action. Then scale it.
Thanks
this is incredible. You are putting into words the journey I'm on. I feel completely aligned with every word your newsletters have been giving. Its exciting to have this journey reflected back to you in a comprehensive manner. Cant wait to keep downloading this.
Phases start with Dissonance but isnt it like assuming the only phase you can be in is being dissonant at first place. What if someone is in a level like ok with black and white thinking and doesnt want to change out of that level. What phase would that person be in? For example if someone accepts her body the way it is and doesnt want to change at all forever in their life?