Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger are not the same: they were both very smart geniuses, but Nietzsche was not a hypocrite. He was deeper (more ethical) than Heidegger. He was as “turquoise” as Ludwig van Beethoven, Hermann Hesse, or Emil Cioran. 

Unlike the Great Chain of Being and Spiral (Ethical) Dynamics, AQAL is not a philosophical concept; it’s a practical psychological framework, like the four quadrants of René Descartes or Stephen Covey. It is also a symbol of the Integral movement—the best academic movement on our planet.

Yesterday, I realized that my main deadly sin is not pride, envy, wrath, gluttony, sloth, or lust. Over the last fourteen years, I have mostly been ruining my life through greed.