It's nice to stumble on some Ken Wilber. From about 1998 to 2007 I lived, breathed, and evangelized Integral Theory. The Mean Green Meme has had real power for about 25 years now. It's good to reminded that the reason I could see through all the major narratives of today and get myself into a lot of trouble is because I can confidently assert that I'm second tier cognitively and functionally. I use the term post-postmodern. Let me say that it's no picnic.
I think you are the smartest man on the planet, Ken! I am new to learning about and listening to you. However, something tells me that it has taken until now for me to find you, or I wouldn’t have been able to grasp the depth of meaning to what you share of your amazing knowledge! Thank you, too, to you two beautiful souls, for the work you are doing! 🙏🙏💕💕
Alas, what happens when a little knowledge becomes absolutism, what is missing is wisdom. But then here we all are, playing in the world, doing what must be done for the sake of the ultimate doer. It's nice to think humanity will at some point realize its unicity. But it is all going according to plan, anyway, every way, perfectly.
It seems a humble attitude towards our own evolution and our current view, no matter what we have allready "evolved through" is a good way of not getting stuck. Aren't we allways in some kind of changing situation? Either in transcending or integrating there is no moment of a final "being right". It seems odd to even think, that some unintegrated view on life can be right by itself, ignoring its holistic place in the whole. Nice inspriration. Thank You guys :-)
How does one self-assess ones's state of development? I suspet that I may be in second teir, but have no way of knowing whether this is true or just an ha lucantion? As listening to this talk, it all resonates with me and I can even see growth provress as a sliding bell curve. The challenge here is that all I know about this is self-taught, so I have almost nobody who can really assess me objectively.
The fact that the ration of men to women in college went from 70:30 to 30:70 means you did something wrong of equal outcome was the goal. The mistake, I believe was changing the game from “all women can” to “all women must.” It showed a dramatic lack of patience in seeing how equal opportunity would play out. It was purely “this is how it SHOULD play out.” Sweden, the most egalitarian country in terms of opportunity, shows the greatest distinction between sexes in life choices. Should we force more of those women to go to college because we think they should? Equal opportunity equals choice Equal outcome equals force We have to stop pretending we know what the outcome should look like if we remove barriers. The answer probably surprises GREEN in ways they don’t like.
Turning the possible into the necessarily actual is a fallacy covered in most intro logic courses. In this archaic world, as you point out, one must be very careful how, and before whom one casts pearls of this nature, as those who have regressed from rational stages seek to crucify the perceived other, when triggered.
Wouldn't it be difficult for a "2nd" tier thinker to create change without the majority of thinkers can't understand their process of thinking? Or would one have to simply find that bridge to clear the gap so that everyone who hears and is willing to explore can see the possibilities?
"It is common for post modernisn for example the claim that there is not objetive truth and that is just a cultural construction and it doesnt actually exist as a reallity, but what they are claiming of course, is that their statement that there is not objetive truth and that those are cultural constructions. They are claiming that is true and they are claiming that is universally true and they are claiming that is true for ALL people in ALL places at ALL times, you can not get more universal truth than that. BUT they of course deny those in the universal truth, if they were really meant what they were saying they would NOT believe anything they were saying, because they´re all they are claiming is truth, but they said there is NO truth. It is that kind of performative self contradiction that is extremely extremly common" (Ken Wilber)
Ignacious Avetus I agree that there is one world and one actual reality, but the nuance and complexity of how we construct truth is another matter. But we need a science and philosophy on how to do that which is simple enough for anybody to make sense of and use.
I don't think they have any empirical evidence that such people exist. I'd love to see case studies where this has been tested and measured. Maybe then I'd start to look more seriously at these claims of attainment.
Iving in this small town Being surrounded by the most basic thinking people who only believe in what they see with there eyes is very hard. I don't know much about this stuff but I have always felt and had a deep knowing of so much more and can understand so much of all this kind of stuff with ease and I feel so strongly that there is something im supposed to be doing and I couldn't get away from it if I wanted to witch I don't. It feels weird being in this body and feels weird even looking at my hands and stuff like teeth lol. Work especially is hard with these kind of people. I can feel people out so naturally. Are these people blocked? Any info on what to do to further myself and to maybe help others without looking crazy? Thanks guys
Show, don't tell. Feed the hungry, care for the sick, improve yourself, demonstrate supreme discipline, organize your world, invite a new organic community, continue your studies of the world indefinitely, and ultimately bring about a global love revolution.
Equal opportunity and equal outcome don’t have to look the same. Equal opportunity means that the outcomes take their natural shape. We can’t be frustrated with the outcomes if they’re not what we predicted If with my equal opportunity I CHOOSE to do something that leads to a perception of unequal outcome it’s because you’re measuring the wrong thing. Unequal money, degrees, etc. Who cares? What if those weren’t what I was pursuing with my opportunity? Maybe you can measure equal satisfaction with outcome. Then help people who aren’t satisfied learn how to use equal opportunity better.
Of the three paradigms I'm aware of, only the functional paradigm seems to make any sense at all. The interpretive seems to be useful on occasion but the third, the critical, doesn't seem to have any reason at all to exist, since you can derive any information with the functional without taking such a narrow view of the world, which the critical does. The ideas that have come out of the critical paradigm serve only to drive wedges between groups and foster a coveting focused world view.
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2nd tier memes always sounded a little sketchy to me, and Wilber's example didn't change my mind. In the example of opportunity vs outcome, the regulating force between those must not not necessarily explained by a new consciousness on the rise, it's sufficient to explain it as the effect of two opposing forces coming to some kind of equilibrium.
I'm very new to the idea of Spiral Dynamics - could it be that Broken Green or Extreme Green is just a lower tiered thinking, presenting as (i.e., masquerading) as Green? Is such a thing possible? For example, it is difficult to overlook the Tribal element of this Neo- (Broken) Green thinking.
To conclude either way in relation to your question, one needs interview "broken green" and ask questions regarding their perception of typical blue paradigms. Which would be the next collectivist stage down the spiral. Which of course, done successfully is presupposed by your abilities to integrate them all.
I never meet people that agree with me, I know they are out there and can read about it. I don't believe in hierarchies. What I mean by that is the hierarchy is a way that humans organize, understand and conceptualize. I believe they are useful and helpful in understanding, communicating and designing systems. I think they are a construct that is purely mental. I think they are at some level like a language, a mental abstraction and nothing more. But they can be limiting, like any concept that we start projecting onto things. This is why dominance hierarchies, hierarchical power structures are so shallow. Tossing out hierarchy completely seems foolish. You can probably organize and understand in non hierarchical way and it may allow for different perspectives so it seems fine too me. There is a limiting risk to seeing upward movement as more valuable and that is a weakness since there is no reason to assume that. It takes a great deal of mental flexibility to see past that. It seems like throwing the concept of numbers away or sense of direction then pretending the concepts will never naturally manifest in our perceptions. Then punishing and reacting negatively when they do pop up. I always believed to assume natural hierarchies was another way of "mistaking the map for the territory" and that is a problem. Coincidentally people who don't agree with me have always so far seemed to arrogantly assume the map is the territory here. I don't think we need to teach hierarchies, but I also don't think they should be taboo. We just need to go further in teaching the mental flexibility to see possible short comings and not teaching as though the hierarchy is inherent in the territory or nature, like our concept of 1 and 2 ... Any other thoughts here?
Are you asking for a reappraisal and/ or rediscovery of "translation"? The lateral exploration of typologies? It seems similar to "showing up" in all various forms.
Hierarchy is just a feature of structure. It's neither good or bad. It's certainly beneficial when it's based on merit. Objecting to its existence is classic fear of authority. So, I see your point of view as sensible.
All I know is that making sense of sexual selection between men and women, that was enough to explain hierarchy’s to me. Granted a culture can ramp down a hierarchy or keep it in check, we certainly can depose toxic leaders if we join forces. But at same time, the incentives to create them are their. Plus the ego that drives a lot of it is a force that in its purpose puts food on your table and is concerned with the welfare of your kids and wife. The incentives for them are definitely there. There is also dna evidence showing women mating with like 1/17 men. It’s not fun to process that but it’s in the dna.
Is this about thinking or doing? Regarding the 10% tipping point to integral world views, do we need 10% of the world living their lives in second tier ? Or is it sufficient to be understanding / feeling second tier whilst still being stuck in first tier practices and systems ?
Well said, Ken, and lots of good points. Growth in consciousness, working as intended on Earth. I once again encourage cleaning up as the best focus for those who want to grow up and wake up. A good portion of the "problem" with "broken green" is too much focus on waking up, when cleaning up is the essential task allowing balanced growth. One correction: some people are born high various higher levels of consciousness. I'm not sure if any are born "broken green", but I am sure that people can be born "green" or anywhere in the steps of awareness. Equality of outcome can be as important as voluntary charity and help from the more aware choose to support it. "We" did not decide that women's study classes are important, some humans did this. Also, it is _your_ choice to see women as getting X% more degrees as "improvement". Are women happier now that so many have abandoned family? Another correction: Freedom and equality are not contradictory. You are choosing to measure equality in ways that are of you, not of reality. "We" cannot "balance these things as much as possible". Who is "we"? Who will enforce this balance on whom? I see you here engaging in false dichotomies and presumption. Strange to judge who is in "second tier" when your authoritarianism is showing... more cleaning up, perhaps? Where is your power shadow?
If he did, I missed it. I am no world class intellect, but this talk struck me, sadly, as undirected stream of consciousness of a calcified mind going down its well trodden paths. But perhaps I am not smart enough to grok it.
Oh, please tell me that we are soon transcending to more inclusive, more evolved and more integral thinking and decision making as a society. I am hanging on by my fingernails.
Postmodern thinking is peaking and will die incredibly fast and hard. it's fraught with traps it laid out for itself unwittingly. It's doomed, hopefully it won't take much out with itself.
Let me guess it needs to transcend to your ideology though. I bet you hang out with groups of people as the odd one out not realizing they are integrated properly as a group and you aren’t. You guys listen to a dude that wears a wig because of his fragile ego. It’s amazing how easily brainwashed you types are.
Equal opportunity and equal outcome are as fallacious as each other, however equal outcome is the more dangerous concept in terms of social engineering.
i like ken but i think he is probably wrong about equal outcome, and he kind of proved that with his own example. who can say that the number of people reciving degrees wouldn't have reached a more natural equilibrium that wasn't at the cost of one sex or another without that well intention-ed gerrymandering? and note how he had to stop him self from using the term social engineering when talking about how to implement equal outcome. i don't think he is on the right side of that one personally. love his work in general though :)
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We're stuck in the current global economic paradigm. When it breaks, global industrial civilization falls - violently!! Only after that can new ways of thinking take hold in general society.
Yes. Second tier (of "green", for instance) integrates the tier below it (orange). It becomes detached from being right about everything and opens a conversation (mediation) with previous thinking. In other words, "It doesn't throw out the baby with the bath water."
@@marthabromberg6274 "who 2nd tier thinkers are?" and the title is - "Who Are The 2nd Tier Thinkers?" 1 question asked twice, just for fun - who are the 2nd tier thinkers? .....anyone?
O kafka I’m wondering the same thing second tier is yellow and up he said the game b guys which I agree with Daniel Schmachtenberger, Jordan Hall, Forrest Landry, maybe Jim Rutt & Bret Weinstein I’d also bet the duo behind Hanzi Freinacht are second tier Daniel Gortz and the other guy. John Vervaeke might be second tier oh and Zak Stein
Wilber has mentioned before that Thomas Sowell is an Integral Thinker, and there are very few people like that in the world-those who are deeply whole and integrated.
When moving up to higher levels of integration is there a sense that we are getting to some kind of objective truth, or are we more aiming at a more complete understanding of common subjective truths?
Integration is expansive. It attempts to look for the gems of truth at all levels. Each stage is valuable. To aim for a higher stage of development is an act of intergration, not rejection.
I find these theories fascinating. However, Wilbur grossly misunderstands Derrida in particular (and it sounds like Foucault, as well). The paradox of asserting that there is no truth as a universal principle is very much front and centre of the postmodern engagement with world philosophy. The irony is so obvious, and very definitely not lost on Derrida + an entire body of critics and philosophers commenting upon him and deconstructionism. Paradox, in the vein of some of Wilbur's thoughts, in fact, is very central to Derrida's thought. Wilbur does him a massive disservice here.
darn it Ken why do you make this so brain oriented energy comes thru us as a flow when its needed Intuition healing astral travel spirit warfare and knowing feeling nature all is simple there is no need to intellectualize it ! I respect your thoughts but to teach the people let them first experience taste smell feel nature. Root themselves into the earth Shamen, the elders taught with simple lessons
Really, life teaches through fasting, and fasting shuts the physical down, to allow what's left behind to lead. Part of what is left behind is brain, but its breath, distinguishing kinds, or lack of kinds. Heartbeat. Digestion, when the digestive system is empty, we begin to digest the self, this is where I prefer to go. New age, "shamanism" the final act of colonialism. Into the self, includes the genome and it's heredity. Finding "truth" through fasting, if you don't eat, what happens? This is truth. Each "kind" of peoples, have there own connection to earth, so you cannot lump them together, if you do they become homogeneous and the connection is lost. This is what I see. My elders teach by fasting, which is not as simple as it might seem. An Anishenabe.
foucault brought attention to the contingency of worldviews, not their commonalities, how they are shaped according to a unique genealogy rather than a developmental, universal, or linear teleology. wilber does not correctly characterize what foucault said.
Wilber’s a man and he’s not perfect either. He has his blind spots, which you would easily recognize if you get beyond worshipping the man. It’s called Integral THEORY.
Ok, so you have a lot on the ball so. You're not just floating around without thought or thinking. You are thinking somewhat, just on your pwn. Is this the concept you're trying to relay. Where do you show up? Do you travel? Do you make any money, or have a card, to get on through the world or what. You aren't some out of it non thinker I see. Meditate means thought/ think. Do you use a computer? Like in this real world ? You still talk to people. And You think more. So I'm reversing the name, just being an AKA, ridding the SIN to EIN? I think we get the flesh heart from the mercy seat, and give it out to the commonwealth ? What do we do to get out of the system? Do you have, some tangible thing we actually do? Other than think our way though the, streets ?
2 + 2 is still 4 and you are invited to check. if you don’t have and accept that, you don’t even know what to „transcend“. It’s not even transcendental, it’s being here now and not thinking unnecessarily, accept what is and then do your dance. Forget about concepts. The Desaster is that so many think they can do without 2 + 2 and imagine they are the chosen ones.
I think Ken is a bit green because he is attached to including rather than gaining objectivity about the faults of society. Inclusion was his bias and motivation from the very beginning. Surely, at some point he and we need to question the validity of "transcend and include".
I see it rather as if it exists, whatever that may be, we have to recognize it and at least acknowledge that it exists and therefore cannot be excluded from the conversation. Sort of an 'it what it is' scenario. Don't have to like it or understand it or even like it but it exists and therefore you can relate.
Why must you have an 'equal outcome'? That is not allowing things to play out naturally when each individual does have freedom. Why suppress the outcome or try and balance the outcome? If women happen to succeed when given the opportunity that is what it is. This portion of the talk sounds much redder in nature than anything close to second-tier thinking. There is a big difference between capitalism which might leave behind those that can not keep up (and are often not even given equal opportunity), and a country that guarantees a safety net, and provides opportunity, WITHOUT putting a lid on the opportunity for those you don't want to soar too high. This sounds very much like control rather than any global thinking.
@@marthabromberg6274 you'll never, ever win an argument with anyone, ever, once the name JBP is mentioned. Ever. Oddly enough, 100% of them have never heard or read a thing he's ever said or written.
I think the focus on 2nd tier is stupid. Especially orange meme westerners obsessed with the 'top'. It's far more useful to focus on the lower memes - which is what the 2nd tier memes require anyway. They're really not worth talking about.
The consequences of extreme inequality are devastating, but so too are the consequences of extreme equality. So why is there such a profound lack of appreciation for equilibrium?
@@shanejohnson1034 Everything changes, for the better, or for the worse. That is the truest constant, and perhaps the only one. Is philosophical impoverishment an immutable necessity? Of course not.
@@campingintheforest_ And, over time everything has evolved as well. In spite of all the complaining and criticism of the present, very few humans want to go back even a 100 years. What I like about Wilber's model is how intelligently this is presented with each stage being a valuable stage of evolution. As he clearly says, all stages and all people are right.
Equality of outcome is a form of meritocracy. There is a meme with three kids peeping over the ballpark fence to illustrate. Short kid on one box. Medium kid on one box. Tall kid on one box. That is equality of outcome. Short kid on two boxes. Medium kid on one box. Tall kid on no box. That is equity.
Or they could have bought a ticket to the ball game and got to choose a seat of their liking. Why do they feel entitled to watch the game without buying a ticket?
I started reading when I was twelve, thought I understood by 27, suspected he was a fraud at 20, admitted he was a fraud about 23. Now 32 and so sad....
Donald Hoffman. No truths but only consensus. Postmodernism is demonstration of that. Making wrong cultural conclusion is result of misunderstanding of Derrida.
Seems like a fundamental mistake to make a distinction between opportunity and outcome. In my understanding an event has an opportunity and an outcome. You do not control outcome. If the outcome determines the next opportunity belongs to the next event. Some (Peterson) seem like they are telling us that the entire set of events are set off by the first opportunity, and that is it. Others are not arguing for equality of outcome, in a sense because it is a tricky thing to keep the distinction short (Peterson has a hard time keeping consistent from what I see) the others are saying what they want is to recognize the next event and intervene to maintain equal opportunity for the next event. Some even not that much, they are fine not interfering with chains of events clearly hard to distinguish, but there are other events whose opportunity should not or need not be determined by past and distinguishable separate chains of events. Sorry, I don't think it is a clash or mismatch of orange and green. I think the conservative orange are clinging to this non absolute and dropping lower in orange, or down a color. (Assuming it is an upward ascension as opposed to a transcendence from one color to the next, and that points to an issue with conceptualizing growth with a hierarchical model)
With all due respect, if Mr. Wilber were evolved he would know the value of silence, and that waking up has nothing to do with concepts or stages or anything mental. I realize that we can share our experiences through language to some extent, but anyone can wake up if they examine who/what they are. And that kind of knowing makes it impossible to harm others, who are also you.
I don't recall him saying that waking up has anything to do with concepts or stages. I am pretty sure he is talking about growing up. Growing up is about evolutionary stages, in the same way that we grow up physically. Waking up and growing up are two different things.
2 years ago I was P= R+ B- O- G+ Y- Now Im P= R= B= O= G- Y= Im trying to work how to intergrate my green appropriately with the post modernests without jeprodiseing my blue.
I stopped when he said that they supposedly didn't believe in objective truth, and he didn't frame the statement in a contextual setting thus pretty much just a brain-dead slogan bye lol
He has a devastating immune system disease called REDD, it’s impact is similar to HIV. He’s had no immune system for about the last 10 years.... hence the tepid age IG, loss of muscle mass etc.... he has massive strokes when this all started manifesting and almost bit his entire tongue off, as well as dying and being brought back to life etc.. it’s super sad. Worse still, he contracted it because of a tragically timed chemical spill in Lake Tahoe when he was there for one weekend with his wife in between cancer treatments before she died after a 5 or 6 year battle. Several other people there that weekend have the illness and it takes around 10 to 15 years to start to show symptoms.
I am amazed that a scholar like Ken is mentioning Jordan Peterson as if he was an actual intellectual. Peterson is a walking logical fallacy, and shameless grifter. How does anyone take him seriously?
So effing stoked to have grown up to be 33 and see a big, "comeback" from Mr. Wilber. Such an innovative mind.
It's nice to stumble on some Ken Wilber. From about 1998 to 2007 I lived, breathed, and evangelized Integral Theory. The Mean Green Meme has had real power for about 25 years now. It's good to reminded that the reason I could see through all the major narratives of today and get myself into a lot of trouble is because I can confidently assert that I'm second tier cognitively and functionally. I use the term post-postmodern. Let me say that it's no picnic.
I think you are the smartest man on the planet, Ken! I am new to learning about and listening to you. However, something tells me that it has taken until now for me to find you, or I wouldn’t have been able to grasp the depth of meaning to what you share of your amazing knowledge!
Thank you, too, to you two beautiful souls, for the work you are doing! 🙏🙏💕💕
“Smartest man on the planet” lmao
Alas, what happens when a little knowledge becomes absolutism, what is missing is wisdom. But then here we all are, playing in the world, doing what must be done for the sake of the ultimate doer. It's nice to think humanity will at some point realize its unicity. But it is all going according to plan, anyway, every way, perfectly.
It seems a humble attitude towards our own evolution and our current view, no matter what we have allready "evolved through" is a good way of not getting stuck. Aren't we allways in some kind of changing situation? Either in transcending or integrating there is no moment of a final "being right". It seems odd to even think, that some unintegrated view on life can be right by itself, ignoring its holistic place in the whole. Nice inspriration. Thank You guys :-)
I'm not smart enough to leave comments here. I like ham and coca cola.
"Racist!" Lol.
Rob Tran 😂
At least they're your thoughts 😁
At least you're smart enough to listen :)
Gasp! If you like ham, you are obviously antisimitic!
What a lesson to all those etnocetric, narcissistic frames of thinking.
Someone get Ken on Joe rogan, that is massive audience that is screaming out for Integral theory to make sense of the world
Rogan also
this ^
you think so?
This reminds me very much of my Spiral Dynamics series!
How does one self-assess ones's state of development? I suspet that I may be in second teir, but have no way of knowing whether this is true or just an ha lucantion? As listening to this talk, it all resonates with me and I can even see growth provress as a sliding bell curve. The challenge here is that all I know about this is self-taught, so I have almost nobody who can really assess me objectively.
The fact that the ration of men to women in college went from 70:30 to 30:70 means you did something wrong of equal outcome was the goal.
The mistake, I believe was changing the game from “all women can” to “all women must.”
It showed a dramatic lack of patience in seeing how equal opportunity would play out. It was purely “this is how it SHOULD play out.”
Sweden, the most egalitarian country in terms of opportunity, shows the greatest distinction between sexes in life choices. Should we force more of those women to go to college because we think they should?
Equal opportunity equals choice
Equal outcome equals force
We have to stop pretending we know what the outcome should look like if we remove barriers. The answer probably surprises GREEN in ways they don’t like.
Turning the possible into the necessarily actual is a fallacy covered in most intro logic courses. In this archaic world, as you point out, one must be very careful how, and before whom one casts pearls of this nature, as those who have regressed from rational stages seek to crucify the perceived other, when triggered.
Wouldn't it be difficult for a "2nd" tier thinker to create change without the majority of thinkers can't understand their process of thinking? Or would one have to simply find that bridge to clear the gap so that everyone who hears and is willing to explore can see the possibilities?
2nd tier still contains all of 1st tier necessary parts. Their contributions will probably resonate with one stage at a time.
In the video Wilber said ca. 10%, of people need to "get it", then it would start to cascade to everyone.
You embed yourself in first tier structures. Second tier is entirely enmeshed with first tier, not separate from it.
Brilliant - Clancey
"It is common for post modernisn for example the claim that there is not objetive truth and that is just a cultural construction and it doesnt actually exist as a reallity, but what they are claiming of course, is that their statement that there is not objetive truth and that those are cultural constructions.
They are claiming that is true and they are claiming that is universally true and they are claiming that is true for ALL people in ALL places at ALL times, you can not get more universal truth than that.
BUT they of course deny those in the universal truth, if they were really meant what they were saying they would NOT believe anything they were saying, because they´re all they are claiming is truth, but they said there is NO truth.
It is that kind of performative self contradiction that is extremely extremly common" (Ken Wilber)
Ignacious Avetus I agree that there is one world and one actual reality, but the nuance and complexity of how we construct truth is another matter. But we need a science and philosophy on how to do that which is simple enough for anybody to make sense of and use.
When they mention "10% of the population reached Green" and whatnot... what is the data they're basing this on? How do they calculate these estimates?
I don't think they have any empirical evidence that such people exist. I'd love to see case studies where this has been tested and measured. Maybe then I'd start to look more seriously at these claims of attainment.
That's sus
Can someone help me? In reference to orange/green thinking, are they referring to Spiral Dynamics?
It seems to be that rather than "equal outcomes," everyone needs best outcomes.
It would be nice if Integral/Teal can come sooner than later to change our ecology
My new teacher!
Good luck😁
18:50 call it like it is Ken, it’s social engineering not social umm change manoeuvres 😂
Iving in this small town Being surrounded by the most basic thinking people who only believe in what they see with there eyes is very hard. I don't know much about this stuff but I have always felt and had a deep knowing of so much more and can understand so much of all this kind of stuff with ease and I feel so strongly that there is something im supposed to be doing and I couldn't get away from it if I wanted to witch I don't. It feels weird being in this body and feels weird even looking at my hands and stuff like teeth lol. Work especially is hard with these kind of people. I can feel people out so naturally. Are these people blocked? Any info on what to do to further myself and to maybe help others without looking crazy? Thanks guys
Be selfish and hone your skills, apply them lovingly and widely
Show, don't tell. Feed the hungry, care for the sick, improve yourself, demonstrate supreme discipline, organize your world, invite a new organic community, continue your studies of the world indefinitely, and ultimately bring about a global love revolution.
I would only like to point out a statement from the late, great Sri Ramana Maharshi........"OBJECTIVITY LIVES IN THE SUBJECTIVE MIND".
Equal opportunity and equal outcome don’t have to look the same.
Equal opportunity means that the outcomes take their natural shape. We can’t be frustrated with the outcomes if they’re not what we predicted
If with my equal opportunity I CHOOSE to do something that leads to a perception of unequal outcome it’s because you’re measuring the wrong thing.
Unequal money, degrees, etc. Who cares? What if those weren’t what I was pursuing with my opportunity? Maybe you can measure equal satisfaction with outcome. Then help people who aren’t satisfied learn how to use equal opportunity better.
He’s was brilliant in carry on up the khyber
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Ok, 2 videos in there, you've got new sub folks ;) keep it going
Of the three paradigms I'm aware of, only the functional paradigm seems to make any sense at all. The interpretive seems to be useful on occasion but the third, the critical, doesn't seem to have any reason at all to exist, since you can derive any information with the functional without taking such a narrow view of the world, which the critical does. The ideas that have come out of the critical paradigm serve only to drive wedges between groups and foster a coveting focused world view.
Be not deceived. You will know them by their Fruit. The Fruit is Love, Peace, Joy, Kindness, Goodness, Compassion (Passion for All), Beauty, Creativity, Lucidity, Communication, Connection, Communion, with everyone and everything, in each and every moment of daily life.
They treat everyone, without exception, with the same intensity and quality of care and affection that they would give to their dearest closest friend, without any sense of division or separation, and without any bias or prejudice.
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2nd tier memes always sounded a little sketchy to me, and Wilber's example didn't change my mind. In the example of opportunity vs outcome, the regulating force between those must not not necessarily explained by a new consciousness on the rise, it's sufficient to explain it as the effect of two opposing forces coming to some kind of equilibrium.
Eric Weinstein, , Richard Feynman, Freeman Dyson, Fritjof Capra, John Wheeler, Ray Dalio, Bill Gates, Eben Pagan, Jordan Peterson, Obama
I'm very new to the idea of Spiral Dynamics - could it be that Broken Green or Extreme Green is just a lower tiered thinking, presenting as (i.e., masquerading) as Green? Is such a thing possible? For example, it is difficult to overlook the Tribal element of this Neo- (Broken) Green thinking.
To conclude either way in relation to your question, one needs interview "broken green" and ask questions regarding their perception of typical blue paradigms.
Which would be the next collectivist stage down the spiral.
Which of course, done successfully is presupposed by your abilities to integrate them all.
Wonderful
His question isn’t a question... it’s a speech.
I never meet people that agree with me, I know they are out there and can read about it.
I don't believe in hierarchies. What I mean by that is the hierarchy is a way that humans organize, understand and conceptualize. I believe they are useful and helpful in understanding, communicating and designing systems. I think they are a construct that is purely mental. I think they are at some level like a language, a mental abstraction and nothing more. But they can be limiting, like any concept that we start projecting onto things. This is why dominance hierarchies, hierarchical power structures are so shallow. Tossing out hierarchy completely seems foolish. You can probably organize and understand in non hierarchical way and it may allow for different perspectives so it seems fine too me. There is a limiting risk to seeing upward movement as more valuable and that is a weakness since there is no reason to assume that. It takes a great deal of mental flexibility to see past that. It seems like throwing the concept of numbers away or sense of direction then pretending the concepts will never naturally manifest in our perceptions. Then punishing and reacting negatively when they do pop up.
I always believed to assume natural hierarchies was another way of "mistaking the map for the territory" and that is a problem. Coincidentally people who don't agree with me have always so far seemed to arrogantly assume the map is the territory here. I don't think we need to teach hierarchies, but I also don't think they should be taboo. We just need to go further in teaching the mental flexibility to see possible short comings and not teaching as though the hierarchy is inherent in the territory or nature, like our concept of 1 and 2 ...
Any other thoughts here?
Are you asking for a reappraisal and/ or rediscovery of "translation"? The lateral exploration of typologies? It seems similar to "showing up" in all various forms.
Hierarchy is just a feature of structure. It's neither good or bad. It's certainly beneficial when it's based on merit.
Objecting to its existence is classic fear of authority. So, I see your point of view as sensible.
All I know is that making sense of sexual selection between men and women, that was enough to explain hierarchy’s to me. Granted a culture can ramp down a hierarchy or keep it in check, we certainly can depose toxic leaders if we join forces. But at same time, the incentives to create them are their. Plus the ego that drives a lot of it is a force that in its purpose puts food on your table and is concerned with the welfare of your kids and wife. The incentives for them are definitely there. There is also dna evidence showing women mating with like 1/17 men. It’s not fun to process that but it’s in the dna.
Is this about thinking or doing? Regarding the 10% tipping point to integral world views, do we need 10% of the world living their lives in second tier ? Or is it sufficient to be understanding / feeling second tier whilst still being stuck in first tier practices and systems ?
Well said, Ken, and lots of good points. Growth in consciousness, working as intended on Earth. I once again encourage cleaning up as the best focus for those who want to grow up and wake up. A good portion of the "problem" with "broken green" is too much focus on waking up, when cleaning up is the essential task allowing balanced growth.
One correction: some people are born high various higher levels of consciousness. I'm not sure if any are born "broken green", but I am sure that people can be born "green" or anywhere in the steps of awareness.
Equality of outcome can be as important as voluntary charity and help from the more aware choose to support it. "We" did not decide that women's study classes are important, some humans did this. Also, it is _your_ choice to see women as getting X% more degrees as "improvement". Are women happier now that so many have abandoned family?
Another correction: Freedom and equality are not contradictory. You are choosing to measure equality in ways that are of you, not of reality. "We" cannot "balance these things as much as possible". Who is "we"? Who will enforce this balance on whom? I see you here engaging in false dichotomies and presumption. Strange to judge who is in "second tier" when your authoritarianism is showing... more cleaning up, perhaps? Where is your power shadow?
Its impossible to a three years old to be green. You are the one who are projecting.
@@chejonte You are making claims. Prove them. Odd to call someone wrong when you call something impossible without proof.
@@konberner170 Good luck in finding your common sense.
@@chejonte Empty rhetoric that means not only nothing, but shows no regard for respectful discussion.
@@konberner170 Others have to prove things to you. You are above that level. I see.
Did Ken ever answer the question? Outsourcing our sense making to outside agents?
If he did, I missed it. I am no world class intellect, but this talk struck me, sadly, as undirected stream of consciousness of a calcified mind going down its well trodden paths. But perhaps I am not smart enough to grok it.
Thank you
This guy could talk the leg off a chair. Better in carry on with Sid James..
Oh, please tell me that we are soon transcending to more inclusive, more evolved and more integral thinking and decision making as a society. I am hanging on by my fingernails.
Sounds like communisme.
@@guittatim4300 You sound like a mccarthist
We are, the evolution of consciousness happens no matter what through experiential stepping stones
Postmodern thinking is peaking and will die incredibly fast and hard. it's fraught with traps it laid out for itself unwittingly. It's doomed, hopefully it won't take much out with itself.
Let me guess it needs to transcend to your ideology though. I bet you hang out with groups of people as the odd one out not realizing they are integrated properly as a group and you aren’t. You guys listen to a dude that wears a wig because of his fragile ego. It’s amazing how easily brainwashed you types are.
How are we determining what percentages of a population are in the color categories?
Very nice video
Equal opportunity and equal outcome are as fallacious as each other, however equal outcome is the more dangerous concept in terms of social engineering.
i like ken but i think he is probably wrong about equal outcome, and he kind of proved that with his own example. who can say that the number of people reciving degrees wouldn't have reached a more natural equilibrium that wasn't at the cost of one sex or another without that well intention-ed gerrymandering? and note how he had to stop him self from using the term social engineering when talking about how to implement equal outcome. i don't think he is on the right side of that one personally. love his work in general though :)
11:20 value and culture integration
There are many 2cd tier thinkers, but no audience for them yet.
I want to recommend Lock Kellys work for anyone looking for a non-dual teacher, he has free content on youtube with guides which help you discover your true nature and he is all around good caring teacher
We're stuck in the current global economic paradigm. When it breaks, global industrial civilization falls - violently!!
Only after that can new ways of thinking take hold in general society.
Read this book: The Battle for Consciousness Theory: A Response to Ken Wilber's Hijacking of Sri Aurobindo and Other Indian Thought on the right.
Psychedelics are the catalyst for the awakening to come
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Just finished the video. Did he end up mentioning who 2nd tier thinkers are?
Yes. Second tier (of "green", for instance) integrates the tier below it (orange). It becomes detached from being right about everything and opens a conversation (mediation) with previous thinking. In other words, "It doesn't throw out the baby with the bath water."
@@marthabromberg6274 "who 2nd tier thinkers are?" and the title is - "Who Are The 2nd Tier Thinkers?" 1 question asked twice, just for fun - who are the 2nd tier thinkers? .....anyone?
O kafka I’m wondering the same thing second tier is yellow and up he said the game b guys which I agree with Daniel Schmachtenberger, Jordan Hall, Forrest Landry, maybe Jim Rutt & Bret Weinstein I’d also bet the duo behind Hanzi Freinacht are second tier Daniel Gortz and the other guy. John Vervaeke might be second tier oh and Zak Stein
Wilber has mentioned before that Thomas Sowell is an Integral Thinker, and there are very few people like that in the world-those who are deeply whole and integrated.
:)) 26:49 the presenter on the right is just in trance
What is IDW??
Intellectual Dark Web, a term coined by Eric Weinstein. See Rebel Wisdom here on yt
Yes. If you see in pattens. If you don’t you don’t.
Everyone in US
When moving up to higher levels of integration is there a sense that we are getting to some kind of objective truth, or are we more aiming at a more complete understanding of common subjective truths?
The sum of all subjective truths would be something of an objective truth, but it cannot be reached anyway, we can just inch closer and closer.
Integration is expansive. It attempts to look for the gems of truth at all levels. Each stage is valuable. To aim for a higher stage of development is an act of intergration, not rejection.
I find these theories fascinating. However, Wilbur grossly misunderstands Derrida in particular (and it sounds like Foucault, as well). The paradox of asserting that there is no truth as a universal principle is very much front and centre of the postmodern engagement with world philosophy. The irony is so obvious, and very definitely not lost on Derrida + an entire body of critics and philosophers commenting upon him and deconstructionism. Paradox, in the vein of some of Wilbur's thoughts, in fact, is very central to Derrida's thought. Wilbur does him a massive disservice here.
"Only siths deal in absolutes." Proof Obi Wan was a green...
and the siths are very red
Cognitive Sovereignty/ L7 multi perspectives
Here's one. 😉
Postmodernism differentiates but cannot yet integrate.
Yhee we ended slavery and now we have 1.000.000.000 people that have to live on 2 dollars a day and people are kind of fine with that.
WWHSS?? (What would Hari Seldon say???)
darn it Ken why do you make this so brain oriented
energy comes thru us as a flow when its needed
Intuition healing astral travel
spirit warfare and knowing feeling nature
all is simple
there is no need to intellectualize it !
I respect your thoughts but
to teach the people let them first
experience taste smell feel nature.
Root themselves into the earth
Shamen, the elders taught with simple lessons
Really, life teaches through fasting, and fasting shuts the physical down, to allow what's left behind to lead. Part of what is left behind is brain, but its breath, distinguishing kinds, or lack of kinds. Heartbeat. Digestion, when the digestive system is empty, we begin to digest the self, this is where I prefer to go. New age, "shamanism" the final act of colonialism. Into the self, includes the genome and it's heredity. Finding "truth" through fasting, if you don't eat, what happens? This is truth. Each "kind" of peoples, have there own connection to earth, so you cannot lump them together, if you do they become homogeneous and the connection is lost. This is what I see. My elders teach by fasting, which is not as simple as it might seem. An Anishenabe.
Everyone learns differently, don't be angry with him put out your message and those who learn that way will come to you.
wondring where Ken Wilber and others are getting their numbers from about the prevalence of 2nd tier thinkers in the general world population.
Yes, I think that's his personal estimation and he should point that out. Still I can follow his thought. He might be right in general... hope so.
S.W.A.G.
You shall know them by their work their fruit
There are so many errors in the English transcription.
foucault brought attention to the contingency of worldviews, not their commonalities, how they are shaped according to a unique genealogy rather than a developmental, universal, or linear teleology. wilber does not correctly characterize what foucault said.
but something can be true and false at the same time so there is no problem with that book
I don't see Jordan Peterson as wanting equal opportunity whatsoever. His comments regarding women don't demonstrate this.
How about instead of Peterson learning Wilber everyone just reads Wilber finally
Wilber’s a man and he’s not perfect either. He has his blind spots, which you would easily recognize if you get beyond worshipping the man.
It’s called Integral THEORY.
So, there’s no globalist designers ?
No that's too much i think, there is just a bunch of monopolies pushing his particulars agendas, wich is kinda a globalist lobbism.
The 10% requirement for the tipping point could be reached after massive depopulation, provided 2nd tier thinkers survive
Ok, so you have a lot on the ball so. You're not just floating around without thought or thinking. You are thinking somewhat, just on your pwn. Is this the concept you're trying to relay. Where do you show up? Do you travel? Do you make any money, or have a card, to get on through the world or what. You aren't some out of it non thinker I see. Meditate means thought/ think. Do you use a computer? Like in this real world ? You still talk to people. And You think more. So I'm reversing the name, just being an AKA, ridding the SIN to EIN? I think we get the flesh heart from the mercy seat, and give it out to the commonwealth ? What do we do to get out of the system? Do you have, some tangible thing we actually do? Other than think our way though the, streets ?
2 + 2 is still 4 and you are invited to check. if you don’t have and accept that, you don’t even know what to „transcend“. It’s not even transcendental, it’s being here now and not thinking unnecessarily, accept what is and then do your dance. Forget about concepts.
The Desaster is that so many think they can do without 2 + 2 and imagine they are the chosen ones.
I think Ken is a bit green because he is attached to including rather than gaining objectivity about the faults of society. Inclusion was his bias and motivation from the very beginning. Surely, at some point he and we need to question the validity of "transcend and include".
the guy had to start somewhere. Understand and assimilate but yes i agree not all ideas are equal and forced inclusion is a bias.
I see it rather as if it exists, whatever that may be, we have to recognize it and at least acknowledge that it exists and therefore cannot be excluded from the conversation. Sort of an 'it what it is' scenario. Don't have to like it or understand it or even like it but it exists and therefore you can relate.
Why must you have an 'equal outcome'? That is not allowing things to play out naturally when each individual does have freedom. Why suppress the outcome or try and balance the outcome? If women happen to succeed when given the opportunity that is what it is. This portion of the talk sounds much redder in nature than anything close to second-tier thinking. There is a big difference between capitalism which might leave behind those that can not keep up (and are often not even given equal opportunity), and a country that guarantees a safety net, and provides opportunity, WITHOUT putting a lid on the opportunity for those you don't want to soar too high. This sounds very much like control rather than any global thinking.
can't believe he actually engages with JBP's ridiculous equal outcome/opportunity bs. i expect more from him
Wilber is a perfect example of intergration of ideas. Peterson's thoughts and speculations have clear value and can certainly be treated as such.
@@marthabromberg6274 you'll never, ever win an argument with anyone, ever, once the name JBP is mentioned. Ever. Oddly enough, 100% of them have never heard or read a thing he's ever said or written.
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To much waffling about vanity totally vanity
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I think the focus on 2nd tier is stupid.
Especially orange meme westerners obsessed with the 'top'.
It's far more useful to focus on the lower memes - which is what the 2nd tier memes require anyway.
They're really not worth talking about.
The consequences of extreme inequality are devastating, but so too are the consequences of extreme equality. So why is there such a profound lack of appreciation for equilibrium?
It will never change in this reality. This is an individual journey of the soul. All we can do is leave behind a residual of our own evolution.
@@shanejohnson1034 Everything changes, for the better, or for the worse. That is the truest constant, and perhaps the only one. Is philosophical impoverishment an immutable necessity? Of course not.
@@nomdeguerre8926 I agree everything changes,
@@campingintheforest_ And, over time everything has evolved as well. In spite of all the complaining and criticism of the present, very few humans want to go back even a 100 years. What I like about Wilber's model is how intelligently this is presented with each stage being a valuable stage of evolution. As he clearly says, all stages and all people are right.
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Equality of outcome is a form of meritocracy.
There is a meme with three kids peeping over the ballpark fence to illustrate.
Short kid on one box.
Medium kid on one box.
Tall kid on one box.
That is equality of outcome.
Short kid on two boxes.
Medium kid on one box.
Tall kid on no box.
That is equity.
Rick D. Equality of outcome and equity are the same. What you meant by the first example was ‘equality of opportunity’
Or they could have bought a ticket to the ball game and got to choose a seat of their liking. Why do they feel entitled to watch the game without buying a ticket?
@@noumenonjohn6136 LOL that made me laugh out loud - never thought of it that way!
I started reading when I was twelve, thought I understood by 27, suspected he was a fraud at 20, admitted he was a fraud about 23. Now 32 and so sad....
so is he?
who are you referring to
Name dropping waffling...
Name dropping is when you consider seriously another persons thought. Totally non egotistic.
Who are now the 2nd tier thinkers?
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Daniel Schmachtenberger, Forrest Landry, Jordan Hall, Hanzi Freinacht, Zak Stein are some
Donald Hoffman. No truths but only consensus. Postmodernism is demonstration of that. Making wrong cultural conclusion is result of misunderstanding of Derrida.
Ken Wilber himself is not even a 2nd tier thinker.
To give second tier any value one by definition, is a second tier thinker.
Seems like a fundamental mistake to make a distinction between opportunity and outcome. In my understanding an event has an opportunity and an outcome. You do not control outcome. If the outcome determines the next opportunity belongs to the next event. Some (Peterson) seem like they are telling us that the entire set of events are set off by the first opportunity, and that is it. Others are not arguing for equality of outcome, in a sense because it is a tricky thing to keep the distinction short (Peterson has a hard time keeping consistent from what I see) the others are saying what they want is to recognize the next event and intervene to maintain equal opportunity for the next event. Some even not that much, they are fine not interfering with chains of events clearly hard to distinguish, but there are other events whose opportunity should not or need not be determined by past and distinguishable separate chains of events. Sorry, I don't think it is a clash or mismatch of orange and green. I think the conservative orange are clinging to this non absolute and dropping lower in orange, or down a color. (Assuming it is an upward ascension as opposed to a transcendence from one color to the next, and that points to an issue with conceptualizing growth with a hierarchical model)
With all due respect, if Mr. Wilber were evolved he would know the value of silence, and that waking up has nothing to do with concepts or stages or anything mental. I realize that we can share our experiences through language to some extent, but anyone can wake up if they examine who/what they are. And that kind of knowing makes it impossible to harm others, who are also you.
I don't recall him saying that waking up has anything to do with concepts or stages. I am pretty sure he is talking about growing up. Growing up is about evolutionary stages, in the same way that we grow up physically. Waking up and growing up are two different things.
2 years ago I was P= R+ B- O- G+ Y-
Now Im P= R= B= O= G- Y=
Im trying to work how to intergrate my green appropriately with the post modernests without jeprodiseing my blue.
Btw recommend speed 2 cause he talks so slow lol
Blockchain governance
Now men are oppressed!!!!
I stopped when he said that they supposedly didn't believe in objective truth, and he didn't frame the statement in a contextual setting thus pretty much just a brain-dead slogan bye lol
What a joke. I'm the most profound living spiritual and integral thinker, not Ken Wilber, a grossly overrated philosopher.
I Like Ken but he,s just another well versed Cis White bloke coming from white privilege.
hahahaha
It's weird the way he looks today.
He has a devastating immune system disease called REDD, it’s impact is similar to HIV. He’s had no immune system for about the last 10 years.... hence the tepid age IG, loss of muscle mass etc.... he has massive strokes when this all started manifesting and almost bit his entire tongue off, as well as dying and being brought back to life etc.. it’s super sad. Worse still, he contracted it because of a tragically timed chemical spill in Lake Tahoe when he was there for one weekend with his wife in between cancer treatments before she died after a 5 or 6 year battle. Several other people there that weekend have the illness and it takes around 10 to 15 years to start to show symptoms.
my karma ran over my dogma
I am amazed that a scholar like Ken is mentioning Jordan Peterson as if he was an actual intellectual. Peterson is a walking logical fallacy, and shameless grifter. How does anyone take him seriously?