adulthood
September 2008 
In your view, what life stage is the human family in?
Posted on Jun 29th, 2008
by 
tamettao
tamettao
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for June 29, 2008:
I support the Integral world view that we all evolve through developmental stages
( First Tier:archaic/magic/mythic/rational/pluralistic - 2nd Tier - integral, super-integral and up), and that as a whole our centre of gravity is also evolving upwards.
One of the books in Jon's loo library is about the Pendle Witch Trial in 1615 (i think). Pendle hill isn't too far from where we live ('though it's in Lancashire and we're still in Yorkshire here so historically the War of the Roses divides us - [white rose Yorkshire, red rose Lancashire]). Reading the trial notes and the magical worldview that the most educated members of the UK justice system had in the 1600's beggars belief. Nowadays we would expect most British 5 year olds to have outgrown those belief systems.
Today the greatest majority of humanity (70%) is still at [Traditional/mythic/blue-value-meme/amber] worldview level. That's pre-rational, so a pretty scary centre of gravity. Only about 2% are purportedly 2nd Tier Integral thinkers - but that will change, and a time will come, maybe even in our life-times because evolution itself is exponentially speeding up, when most 8 year olds will have integral worldviews and beyond. Then the human family will have a degree of maturity of the compassionate sages at our growing tip, and that will be an incredible time to be alive.
It is also possible that in the chaos that ensues from our continued destruction of this planet and each other, that survival will become paramount, and we may regress down-spiral for a time, or destroy each other and the earth before we fulfill our evolutionary potential.
Let's hope we grow up in time...
( First Tier:archaic/magic/mythic/rational/pluralistic - 2nd Tier - integral, super-integral and up), and that as a whole our centre of gravity is also evolving upwards.
One of the books in Jon's loo library is about the Pendle Witch Trial in 1615 (i think). Pendle hill isn't too far from where we live ('though it's in Lancashire and we're still in Yorkshire here so historically the War of the Roses divides us - [white rose Yorkshire, red rose Lancashire]). Reading the trial notes and the magical worldview that the most educated members of the UK justice system had in the 1600's beggars belief. Nowadays we would expect most British 5 year olds to have outgrown those belief systems.
Today the greatest majority of humanity (70%) is still at [Traditional/mythic/blue-value-meme/amber] worldview level. That's pre-rational, so a pretty scary centre of gravity. Only about 2% are purportedly 2nd Tier Integral thinkers - but that will change, and a time will come, maybe even in our life-times because evolution itself is exponentially speeding up, when most 8 year olds will have integral worldviews and beyond. Then the human family will have a degree of maturity of the compassionate sages at our growing tip, and that will be an incredible time to be alive.
It is also possible that in the chaos that ensues from our continued destruction of this planet and each other, that survival will become paramount, and we may regress down-spiral for a time, or destroy each other and the earth before we fulfill our evolutionary potential.
Let's hope we grow up in time...
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