“Proposed Amendment to the Constitution”

I, Namal De Silva on this date, 11/13/24 being of somewhat sound mind, pure (?) heart and rapidly decelerating body lol do propose Article 69 to the Integral constitution-that from now on, all images regarding the stages be shown horizontally like so:

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On the serious note, applying moral (& emotional?) intelligence to dispel the elitist views/perception of 2nd/3rd tier and show that people can get “There”/are already “There” but also don’t have to be anywhere but where they are.

All in favor say “aye!” ?

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AYE!
But then when we do States with the Wilber-Combs Lattice, we need it perpendicular - there’s up again. Argh.
For this ironic Flatland view of Levels, maybe we could see them like a stack of coins. We all start with 0, and we can go up to infinity at any Level, getting more “sufficient” at each Level; what would formerly be called “horizontal” development.
I’m not sure how mad people get about the “stages” word, but definitely avoid saying “hierarchy” unless you’re ready to throw down with sensitive pluralism.

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Hi @namal.de_silva,

An interesting question, indeed, how to present developmental levels in the most skillful way possible.

For the Overflowing Purpose course, I thought about using the image attached, however, ultimately I decided to go with the vertical view for sake of clarity…

OP - M03 Handout (1)

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A horizontal version of the original image would look something like this…

A graphic designer could probably greatly improve these representations. @namal.de_silva, perhaps you might also be interested in Peter Merry’s work on Volution, where he depicts the levels of development as a torus, which communicates the interconnected nature of these perspectives on reality quite beautifully.

See https://www.volutiontheory.net for more information…

OP - All Videos - Landscape Slides

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Hi Adam! Yeah, I guess it’s not that big of a deal right now so it’s fine but perhaps it’ll become important when Integral “goes on Oprah”. Definitely true with states. Ooh yeah don’t say the H word to green lol keep up the great videos! :heart:

Hi Lee! Thanks so much for the input! I like this visualization, it’s almost like a Turquoise/polarity view on it.

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Wow yeah that’s amazing, I’ll check it out! Oh also thanks for all the great videos with Nomali.

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You’re very welcome, @namal.de_silva! Thanks for watching! :pray:

By the way, if you’d like to play around with different ways to depict levels of development, feel free to edit this publicly accessible Google Slides document:

Be well! :four_leaf_clover:

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Will do! :heart: blah blah blah now this post has over 20 characters lol

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