eco future
as the one
the sensitive self
part of the holistic universe
holon waves of integrative energies
united in feeling and knowledge [centaur]

level upon level interwoven
into a conscious network

universal community
ecological cherishing
earth Gaia life

living and conscious
freed from greed
liberated from dogma
dissing divisiveness

eco psych

lateral bonding
permeable self
lateral linking
relational self

grand unification
group intermeshing
dialogue relationship

open minded affiliations
based on shared sentiments

decisions commune
a la reconciliation
the human bond
a la consensus

eco sensual

spirituality and harmony
enriching the human potential

sometimes a new spirituality emerges
as a meshwork for all existence

thinking while using the entire spiral
seeing multiple levels of interaction

eco woman

egalitarian pluralistic values
social construction of reality
diversity and multiculturalism
caring and sensitivity

worldview
pluralistic relativism
subjective nonlinear thinking

eco man

detects harmonics
directs the mystical forces
guides pervasive flow-states
that permeate any organization
warmth

eco earthlings

turquoise yellow green

Turquoise Yellow Green /stele ely c09 /ken wilbur

Turquoise Yellow Green written by Stele Ely and inspired by Gabriel Moss and Ken Wilber.
See Integral Critical Levels of Turquoise Yellow and Green at Ken Wilber’s Integral Vision

Excerpt from Ken Wilbur:
8. Turquoise: Holistic . Universal holistic system, holons/waves of integrative energies; unites feeling with knowledge [centaur]; multiple levels interwoven into one conscious system. Universal order, but in a living, conscious fashion, not based on external rules (blue) or group bonds (green). A “grand unification” is possible, in theory and in actuality. Sometimes involves the emergence of a new spirituality as a meshwork of all existence. Turquoise thinking uses the entire spiral; sees multiple levels of interaction; detects harmonics, the mystical forces, and the pervasive flow-states that permeate any organization.

6. Green: The Sensitive Self . Communitarian, human bonding, ecological sensitivity, networking. The human spirit must be freed from greed, dogma, and divisiveness; feelings and caring supersede cold rationality; cherishing of the earth, Gaia, life. Against hierarchy; establishes lateral bonding and linking. Permeable self, relational self, group intermeshing. Emphasis on dialogue, relationships. Basis of values communes (i.e., freely chosen affiliations based on shared sentiments). Reaches decisions through reconciliation and consensus (downside: interminable “processing” and incapacity to reach decisions). Refresh spirituality, bring harmony, enrich human potential. Strongly egalitarian, anti-hierarchy, pluralistic values, social construction of reality, diversity, multiculturalism, relativistic value systems; this worldview is often called pluralistic relativism . Subjective, nonlinear thinking; shows a greater degree of affective warmth, sensitivity, and caring, for earth and all its inhabitants.

Where seen: Deep ecology, postmodernism, Netherlands idealism, Rogerian counseling, Canadian health care, humanistic psychology, liberation theology, cooperative inquiry, World Council of Churches, Greenpeace, animal rights, ecofeminism, post-colonialism, Foucault/Derrida, politically correct, diversity movements, human rights issues, ecopsychology. 10% of the population, 15% of the power.

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 both hierarchies and heterarchies. One can, 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.

As I would word it, since each wave is “transcend and include,” each wave is a fundamental ingredient of all subsequent waves, and thus each is to be cherished and embraced. Moreover, each wave can itself be activated or reactivated as life circumstances warrant. [9] In emergency situations, we can activate red power drives; in response to chaos, we might need to activate blue order; in looking for a new job, we might need orange achievement drives; in marriage and with friends, close green bonding.

But what none of those memes can do, on their own, is fully appreciate the existence of the other memes. Each of those first-tier memes thinks that its worldview is the correct or best perspective. It reacts negatively if challenged; it lashes out, using its own tools, whenever it is threatened. Blue order is very uncomfortable with both red impulsiveness and orange individualism. Orange individualism thinks blue order is for suckers and green egalitarianism is weak and woo-woo. Green egalitarianism cannot easily abide excellence and value rankings, big pictures, hierarchies, or anything that appears authoritarian, and thus green reacts strongly to blue, orange, and anything post-green.

All of that begins to change with second-tier thinking. Because second-tier consciousness is fully aware of the interior stages of development–even if it cannot articulate them in a technical fashion–it steps back and grasps the big picture, and thus second-tier thinking appreciates the necessary role that all of the various memes play. Using what we would recognize as mature vision-logic, second-tier awareness thinks in terms of the overall spiral of existence, and not merely in the terms of any one level.

Where the green meme uses early or beginning vision-logic in order to grasp the numerous different systems and pluralistic contexts that exist in different cultures (which is why it is indeed the sensitive self, i.e., sensitive to the marginalization of others), second-tier thinking goes one step further. It looks for the rich contexts that link and join these pluralistic systems, and thus it takes these separate systems and begins to embrace, include, and integrate them into holistic spirals and holarchies (Beck and Cowan themselves refer to second-tier thinking as operating with “holons”). These holarchies include both interior (consciousness) and exterior (material) waves of development, in both vertical and horizontal dimensions (i.e., hierarchical and heterarchical), resulting in a multi-leveled, multi-dimensional, multi-modal, richly holarchical view. Second-tier thinking, in other words, is instrumental in moving from pluralistic relativism to universal integralism .

The extensive research of Graves, Beck, and Cowan indicates that there are two major waves to this second-tier consciousness (corresponding to what we would recognize as middle and late vision-logic):

7. Yellow: Integrative . Life is a kaleidoscope of natural hierarchies [holarchies], systems, and forms. Flexibility, spontaneity, and functionality have the highest priority. Differences and pluralities can be integrated into interdependent, natural flows. Egalitarianism is complemented with natural degrees of excellence where appropriate. Knowledge and competency should supersede rank, power, status, or group. The prevailing world order is the result of the existence of different levels of reality (memes) and the inevitable patterns of movement up and down the dynamic spiral. Good governance facilitates the emergence of entities through the levels of increasing complexity (nested hierarchy).

8. Turquoise: Holistic . Universal holistic system, holons/waves of integrative energies; unites feeling with knowledge [centaur]; multiple levels interwoven into one conscious system. Universal order, but in a living, conscious fashion, not based on external rules (blue) or group bonds (green). A “grand unification” is possible, in theory and in actuality. Sometimes involves the emergence of a new spirituality as a meshwork of all existence. Turquoise thinking uses the entire spiral; sees multiple levels of interaction; detects harmonics, the mystical forces, and the pervasive flow-states that permeate any organization.

Second-tier thinking: 1% of the population, 5% of the power.

1st notes:
as the one, as the all
the sensitive self
part of the holistic universe
holon waves of integrative energies
uniting the feeling with knowledge [centaur]

level upon level interwoven
into a conscious network

eco future

universal
community
ecological
cherishing
earth
Gaia
life

eco citizen

in a living, conscious fashion
thus freed from greed
thus freed from dogma
thus freed from divisiveness

lateral bonding
permeable self
lateral linking
relational self

grand unification
via group intermeshing
via dialogue in relationship

freely chosen affiliations
based on shared sentiments

decisions commune
a la reconciliation
the human bond
a la consensus

spirituality and harmony
enriching the human potential

deep ecology

sometimes a new spirituality emerges
as a meshwork for all existence

thinking while using the entire spiral
seeing multiple levels of interaction

eco human

egalitarian pluralistic values
social construction of reality
diversity and multiculturalism
caring and sensitivity

worldview
pluralistic relativism
subjective nonlinear thinking

eco feminine

detects harmonics
the mystical forces
and the pervasive flow-states
that permeate any organization
warmth

eco psychology

for earth
for earthlings

stele ely ken wilbur