This year I understood Integral Dynamics (Spiral Dynamics) much better. Spiral Dynamics is neither about a public policy, nor about a personal qualities: it's about a personal policy.
How can we assess the degree of a person’s existential crisis? By their ability to create a captivating masterpiece—if they possessed the necessary skills. Let us take geniuses as an example. I know one genius sociopath (an ultra-cynic, the red stage of morality in the classification of Spiral/Integral Dynamics), whose name I will not mention (we are both originally from Mariupol and now live in the Kyiv region), and she, like all sociopaths, is capable of writing (and creating in general) in a serene style only at a level of 1 out of 5. Paranoids (cynics, the blue/amber stage of morality in the classification of Spiral/Integral Dynamics), especially if they are such geniuses as Jordan Peterson, Rudolf Steiner, Taylor Swift, Herbert von Karajan, and Carlos Castaneda, are capable of creating in a serene style already at a level of 2 out of 5. Such genius hysterics (semi-cynics, the orange stage of morality in the classification of Spiral/Integral Dynamics) as U. G. Krishnamurti, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ozzy Osbourne, Nicolas Saint-Morand, Valery Kipelov, and Aleister Crowley, can create in a serene style already at a level of 3 out of 5. But one does not have to be vile to “get stuck at this level.” For example, the genius Treya Killam Wilber was neither cynical nor even hypocritical, yet she still failed to overcome this existential crisis: she could create in a serene style only at 3 out of 5. The genius schizoid Søren Kierkegaard went only slightly further: he could create in a serene style only at 4− out of 5. In general, however, schizoids (hypocrites, the yellow/turquoise stage of morality in the classification of Spiral/Integral Dynamics), especially such geniuses as Albrecht Dürer, Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Ken Wilber, are capable of creating in a serene style already at 4 out of 5. But to create in a serene style at 5− or even to produce truly serene masterpieces is possible only for sincere personalities—especially such geniuses as Hieronymus Bosch, Ludwig van Beethoven, Hermann Hesse, Emil Cioran, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Vladimir Sorokin, Gen Urobuchi, and Adam Darski.
How can we assess the degree of a person’s existential crisis? By their ability to create a captivating masterpiece—if they possessed the necessary skills. Let us take geniuses as an example.
ОтветитьУдалитьI know one genius sociopath (an ultra-cynic, the red stage of morality in the classification of Spiral/Integral Dynamics), whose name I will not mention (we are both originally from Mariupol and now live in the Kyiv region), and she, like all sociopaths, is capable of writing (and creating in general) in a serene style only at a level of 1 out of 5.
Paranoids (cynics, the blue/amber stage of morality in the classification of Spiral/Integral Dynamics), especially if they are such geniuses as Jordan Peterson, Rudolf Steiner, Taylor Swift, Herbert von Karajan, and Carlos Castaneda, are capable of creating in a serene style already at a level of 2 out of 5.
Such genius hysterics (semi-cynics, the orange stage of morality in the classification of Spiral/Integral Dynamics) as U. G. Krishnamurti, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ozzy Osbourne, Nicolas Saint-Morand, Valery Kipelov, and Aleister Crowley, can create in a serene style already at a level of 3 out of 5.
But one does not have to be vile to “get stuck at this level.” For example, the genius Treya Killam Wilber was neither cynical nor even hypocritical, yet she still failed to overcome this existential crisis: she could create in a serene style only at 3 out of 5.
The genius schizoid Søren Kierkegaard went only slightly further: he could create in a serene style only at 4− out of 5.
In general, however, schizoids (hypocrites, the yellow/turquoise stage of morality in the classification of Spiral/Integral Dynamics), especially such geniuses as Albrecht Dürer, Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Ken Wilber, are capable of creating in a serene style already at 4 out of 5.
But to create in a serene style at 5− or even to produce truly serene masterpieces is possible only for sincere personalities—especially such geniuses as Hieronymus Bosch, Ludwig van Beethoven, Hermann Hesse, Emil Cioran, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Vladimir Sorokin, Gen Urobuchi, and Adam Darski.