GAIA — The Anthropocene — and Spiral Dynamics

The Planet is turquoise…

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What is Spiral Dynamics?

Spiral Dynamics is a method designed by American management consultant Don Beck based on the work of American psychologist Clare W. Graves and later Ken Wilber. It is a theory about the development of human mind sets, world beliefs or value systems. Spiral Dynamics believes that people are capable of coping with their problems, addressing environmental changes with a strategy, and reshaping their world in ever-changing concepts, depending on the context. And vice versa, the environment adapts again and again to the changing people. We experience these changes as a general attitude to life, as a culture or as a general worldview. Each new model thus includes all previous models. This means that each new whole is the part of an emerging newer whole. We are evolving constantly and holistically.

GAIA — and Spiral Dynamics

The planet is a mixture of colours. Beige in some areas, where rocks and mountains rule. Purple, red, blue, orange, green and yellow in the world of plants and animals and things, everywhere a bit or more of it. And turquoise in huge amounts, as seventy…