Each of our first-tier memes thinks that its worldview is the correct or best perspective. Wilber flat-out says none of the first-tier memes can “fully appreciate the existence of the other memes. We are all still first-tier passengers, as it were. But, we are still here, short of the “momentous leap” though our present moment certainly appears to be ominous. Not just a new era of consciousness but a novel way of consciousness. One can therefore, for the first time, vividly grasp the entire spectrum of interior development, and thus see that each level, each meme, each wave is crucially important for the health of the overall Spiral.” (page 11) “With the completion of the green meme, human consciousness is poised for a quantum jump into 'second-tier thinking.' Clare Graves referred to this as a 'momentous leap,' where 'a chasm of unbelievable depth of meaning is crossed.' In essence, with second-tier consciousness, one can think both vertically and horizontally, using hierarchies and heterarchies. But Wilber sees something wondrous ahead. (Never mind that Wilber's population percentages add up to 110.01%, I guess there's some room for waffle there, keeping moving.) These make up what Wiber terms “first-tier” consciousness, representing human development up to the present day. Life has all-powerful meaning and purpose. Wilber offers these stage/memes as where the world stood in the year 2000, the end of the 20th century. Wilber tinkered with the colors a little bit after A Theory of Everything but, for now, he follows the traditional spiral colors, augmented by the work of Clare Graves and Robert Kegan. Spiral Dynamics assigns a color code to each stage or level of consciousness. It is a simple question of where people are in their individual expression and experience of consciousness. You cannot really say adolescent consciousness is "better" or "worse" than elderly consciousness. It isn't a judgment of superiority or inferiority. ![]() “ every individual has all of these memes potentially available to them.” (page 7, Wilber's emphasis) So, when Wilber talks about deeper stages of consciousness he is not being critical of stages without as much depth. Every stage/meme is/was important to human development in its own way.īut.and this is a big but. But Wilber does not want the reader to think of “lower” stages/memes as “dumber” or “lesser” compared with “higher” stages/memes. It is inherently a hierarchy (has depth). Stages of consciousness mean that there are higher and lower stages or memes. ![]() Before explaining the stages of consciousness, in a slightly different manner than in Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, Wilber makes a subtle but important point. So it is that Wilber integrates Spiral Dynamics into the four quadrant system in A Theory of Everything. Development is not a linear ladder but a fluid and flowing affair, with spirals, swirls, streams, and waves.” (page 5) Few of these developmental schemes are rigid, linear, clunk-and-grind models portrayed by their critics. ![]() the growth and development of the mind as a series of unfolding stages or waves.
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