Spiral Dynamics - Important Insights
By Leo Gura - November 19, 2018 | 16 Comments
Additional insights and nuances for how to apply Spiral Dynamics properly
Mayur says: There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don’t need to work on themselves.
-Terence McKenna
Kartik says: Hey leo , i am a student and want to ask how to stay present while studying as i find it very hard to understand this?
Andrew says: Just get involved in studying what’s so difficult about it !
Watch Leo’s “How to study” episode.
David Turcot says: Im from Canada and I must say I am worried. Because of Donald Trump. He his the purest Orange ever. USA citizens are mmore evolved than him. Why is he the president? I Will never understand this as a Canadian…
David Turcot says: Actually I understand and its fine. I am fine, who am I to Judge and whats the point of judging if i’m not acting on it. Jiddhu Krisnamurti was probably coral and he his the ultimate example, but I have to work on where I am, One step at the time. I dont know where I am. Im a rainbow.
David Turcot says: I’m beige most of the time but I know it and I dont act on it most of the time. I know I am a fool thinking than I am more evolved than I actually am. Knowing it is the first step.
Clay Pulley says: David,
False humility is a bigger barrier to growth than arrogance.
Make an honest assessment of yourself.
You are not beige.
Green is quite prone to the disease of false humility.
rami says: Leo No! Your view of hunter gatherer societies is not as educated as it can be and it colors a few of your videos in incorrect misleading thinking.
Please read the work of Daniel Quinn. I think he mastered yellow and teaches the most important lesson that needs to be taught in yellow.
Read ‘Ishmael’ first, then ‘Story of B’, then ‘My Ishmael’, Then ‘Beyond Civilization’.
Tristan says: Spiral Dynamics NOTES
This model is not 100% inclusive to everyone’s beliefs however it is the most accurate model possible and most if not all of us reside on multiple parts of this spectrum. Think of it as ‘levels of self-awareness’. It also correlates with Abraham Mazlow’s hierarchy of needs and he talks about spiral dynamics in many of his works. NOTE: This is not a chart used for stereotyping people rather it is to be used for a greater understanding of how these thought processes work. For me it’s helped me be more compassionate. Thank you so much Leo!
Stage beige the most primitive and basic. Those on stage beige only depend on survival and nothing more and they have no awareness of themselves nor do they have any goals or ambitions.
Stage purple is the tribalist survivalist stage. This stage evolves from an individualistic standpoint to a collectivist standpoint and at this stage is tribes are formed and wars are fought. The survival of the collective is essential.
Stage Red again switches back from a collectivist standpoint to an individualistic standpoint. Authority and superiority take the forefront and it is at this stage where idol worship holds a key factor. Personal willpower and courage are huge components to those at stage red, and at it pique you see hierarchy, authoritarian dictatorships or in worst cases anarchy. Selfishness is the virtue at this stage.
Stage Blue is the fundamentalist stage. This is where consciousness evolves to follow a divine or absolute truth outside of physical idol worship. This shifts back to a collectivist mindest as those at stage blue value family, tradition and morality. They are often very humbled and hard-working but at worst cases, societies at stage blue can lead to theocracy and moral police states.
Stage Orange switches yet again to an individualist stage. Those at this stage value individual achievement and self-mastery over the collective. At stage Orange, dogmatic divine truths are replaced with scientific insight and love of materialism. At this stage, a strong sense of Nihilism and pragmatism are often embraced. Selfishness makes a grand return as in the worst cases greed overtakes all and the love of personal success overshadows the environment and equality within the collective.
Stage Green returns to collectivism. This is the evolution into a love for others, art, intimacy, as well as the environment nature, and an overall more liberal mindset. The love of science is still there but in more extreme cases stage green can lean more towards spirituality and curiosity towards life. People at stage green value equality, and peace. At worst cases stage green can lead to extreme sensitivity as well as passivity.
Stage Yellow is when the spiral model enters tier 2. This is more advanced levels of thinking. Stage yellow follows the pattern and switches yet again to a more individualist mindset. People at this stage become aware of the spiral it’self and become aware of the conscious evolution that led to this stage. It is a deep questioning of reality it’s self and is what Abraham Mazlow called ‘self-actualization (being the top of the hierarchy of needs pyramid.). People at this stage have radical open-mindedness and they hear from all perspectives and evolve passed the desire to be correct about a particular topic rather they see every belief as having speckles of truth. It is a stage that takes years of self-development to reach.
Stage Turkoise is the final stage which is not included above ‘self-actualization’ on Mazlow’s pyramid because this stage transcends the ‘self.’.. Like the stages before it, stage turquoise makes a final switch to collectivist thinking as those who reach this stage through years of self-inquiry, psychological development, deep questioning, experimentation with psychedelics and meditation begin to unravel the entire human ego. It is the realization of the collective being whole, and being one.
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not evil or wicked says: Of any of the stages, I’m at stage beige since I’m a survivor, at least I don’t show my money to anyone.
not evil or wicked says: All the wars are holy wars of religion or anti-religious beliefs, it’s all to go fighting the wrong religion, but how do you know what the right religion is? There’s thousands of religions, all the believers think their religions are the right religions, Jews think Judaism’s the right religion, Mormons think the Baptists are the wrong religion, Baptists think the Anabaptists are the wrong religion, it’s all about following your sect. It’s a very different thing being a lumberjack, from being a computer programmer, in the future there’ll be more bullshit, murderous robots, novel religions that lie to the masses, history of crucifying repeating itself, cults that take pride in creepy things, like Christianity does, false humility, false religions, war again and again, killing of other religious masses, retention of those religions returning, and more wars in those areas over religions.
Max the shithead says: It turns out that Leo Gura’s flavour of spirituality makes it a challenge to drop all your beliefs, yes I’m unevolved, but if people give me a chance and some time to untangle my old ways, I would have to change my diet a little bit, if I got into my psychology I would change my diet a little, foods that don’t put you to sleep, my diet’s going to be simple: veg, dates, a few olives, cheese, bread, weak wine, and water, having a good meal (not fine foods), and eating a bit of fish, bivalves, etc, and eating abstemiously. Reality’s not real? That’s funny, it’s not the same structure as a dream, it’s in the structure of the waking world. Death is another structure altogether, there’s only life and death, nothing beyond. We’re not here for a purpose or some grand master plan, that’s people doing things that aren’t for everyone, as for cognitive development I need to change other things besides my diet, like my morals, my sciences (into religion), other survival patterns stated in the video “How Survival Shapes Who You Are”, yeah, I was raised at stage beige as needing survival, not success or warfare, not altruism, and I’m staying there, because my mother does that, my mother became selfish and I’m becoming selfish, it’s called intangible cultural heritage. As for enlightenment, that means I’m fully conscious, fully awake, with stage blue people like my emotionally crippled housemate in a wheelchair, and like my mother, it’s going to be hard being a Buddhist when I could then get yelled at and attacked verbally, why do you think starting anti-religion starts wars? Yes, at this stage blue religion (Buddhism) Buddhists would cling to Buddhism, they think because Buddhism says it that it’s a fact, that it must be the truth, they’re convinced of this as much as the Christians are convinced of this with Christianity. One thing about the harsh reality, if you’re not careful you can be verbally attacked, being yelled at by someone if you keep pushing this perspective whatever perspective of yours, against the grain, too far, if you’re not careful, having a different stage from the people you’re with, they’ll rip your books, destroy your specs and even break your liquor glasses, and even your mugs, you should be closer to them in your stage, or maybe not, it’s not as harsh now with my Anthony Robbins success as it was a few years ago, back then it was terrible, I’m at beige, blue, and orange, and I was threatened at that stage and sunk to blue, it took until about the start of this year to know how to believe in God, religion, and Christianity and be religious, I’m convinced things will turn ugly and if not destroying my success stories (Tony Robbins and so forth), it will be something else, maybe my reputation as a writer, maybe while I’m trying to draw, but something will click for my housemate to try, and fail, to destroy it. Do you see that the central left couldn’t sink any lower?, taxing the wealthy, progressivism bullshit, targeting corporate executives for the way they make their money, and destroying it, or attempting to, by having workers who don’t get paid any money, ultra-leftists do that, an ultra-leftist boss running a business mightn’t pay you if you work for them, because wage labour, which it rejects, is erroneously interpreted as employees working without pay, an ultra-leftist boss mightn’t boss their employees around, they might leave it up to them how they should work, understandably it’s a breed of anti-authoritarian Marxism, and rejects parliamentary democracy, electoralism, trade unionism, and the state and state socialism, to name a few, as an ultra-leftist myself, I only hope for something of a radical libertarianism under the umbrella of left communism.