On the subject of personal transformation this is where we get back into unhealthy green.
Just as our primituve ancestors needed to identify that which was harmful to them or indeed their natural enemy in the physical world, modern humans wanting to graduate out of orange have to identify the poisons and predators of the transformational realms.
Failure to identify these is what grows these MGMs to staggering proportions.
So what are the poisons and natural enemies to transformation?
Corporations
Governments
Consumption
Vices
Identity
And so on and so forth.
This doesnt mean we should eliminate all these completely - just as we should not have wiped out apex predators in the physical world. Just as Apex predators can both kill us and also contribute to the balance of nature, these Green Tier poisons and enemies are deadly harmful to a Green Transormation and also necessary. It is navigating these wisely and in moderation that prepares Green for 2nd Tier.
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I hope so! A lot of people use color-coded altitudes loosely as if there was a perfect match between historical cultural levels and personal behavior in current circumstances. It’s not quite as simple as that. However, the idea is attractive because there is at least a degree of surface truth to it. Primitive humans lived in very physical world, and a lot our psychological systems for regulating physical stimuli and basic emotional response have not likely evolved all that much. Speeder evolution has been achieved through culture. Trying to outgrow our physical nature is a bad idea, because that’s who we are. There are other things on top of the physical, but nothing really replaces it. So “red” is always there and always needs to be accounted for.
As for other layers in the stack, I would identify MGM and the like as a sort of “cultural bypassing”. Namely, trying to use the most advanced cultural ideas without doing the experiential work to earn insights into why these ideas matter. For example, there are some types of emotional development that work best in small groups (families, extended families, tribes). Skipping those sorts of development does not turn a person into a more cosmopolitan thinker. It turns that person into someone who using globalizing value statements as markers of tribal membership, because emotional work around belonging and identity are what is most lacking for that person. A lot of the retribalization we see around us (left, right, and otherwise), seem related to this. Belonging to something small and local on a feeling level is actually the best preparation for reaching out to wider types of people. The same value statements can mean very different things, depending on what those statements are meant to accomplish.
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