

Horizons of Heart

By Shi Hoo Jham

Copyright 2018 Shi Hoo Jham

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### Gratitude

I'm grateful for my Self and the world inside

I'm grateful for my narrations which always tend to hide

I'm grateful for the groups of which I am part

And grateful for the others who have opened up their heart

I'm grateful for my health and the aches and pains

I'm grateful for successes and places to make gains

I'm grateful for my area and my environment

And also for the universe in which we make our dent

Mostly I am grateful for the ups and downs of life

To understand while working through all which can bring strife.

With gratitude and thanks to all and to life
Table of Contents

Introduction

Philosophy and Shareable Language

Lines of Development

The Order Within the Lines of Development

Holarchy and Natural Levels

The Pitfall of Quadrant Absolutism

Holarchic History

States and Types

Personal Development

Summary

Horizons of Heart - Limitations of Personal Perspectives

Waking Up versus Growing Up

Shared Perspective for Defining 'It' and 'Its'

An Integral look at Some Colored Conversations

Jordan B Peterson and Sam Harris

Sam Harris and Russell Brand

A Look Towards Potential Futures

A Dis-Integrated Future

Upper Right

Upper Left

Lower Left

Lower Right

An Integrated Future

Automation

Communication

Restoration

Education

Life in an Integrated Future

Conclusion

Connect with the Shi Hoo

References

### Introduction

Together we can change the world. This is not meant as some metaphor or pie in the sky utopian pipe dream. This is an idea that is much more than individual ego, it goes beyond the belongingness of tribal team groupings, it overshadows mere achievements of self and teams, and transcends the expressive acceptance of loving embrace. This is an idea which enfolds it all in harmonic resonance such that we may all collectively join in the largest global transformation for the benefit of all humanity. We are quickly approaching a level of sophistication within technology, our social systems, our cultures, and our own understanding of ourselves which will continue to increase our ability to impact the world around us and to do so in a collectively engaged way. This book presents a realistically achievable vision for a new first world standard such that current first world countries and many of the ways they do things will become clearly second rate. More than this, it is a sharable vision which if engaged with can provide an opportunity for all participating to leapfrog their way past many of the roadblocks keeping them from greater progress. This book was written to layout a truly grand vision of which all the details will not fully fit into one book. It is an attempt to give the most succinct overview to kick start engagement into a shareable vision to be refined for a truly greater future. A future which enables greater freedom, flexibility, adaptability, stability, compassion, love, and creativity for both the individual and the collective. A future which brings us all collectively closer to World Peace than ever before. Though, maybe we're getting ahead of ourselves.

The journey to creating this book started in an average family, in an average neighbourhood, in an average city, within an average country. Or so was my perception growing up. Some of these perceptions start to change as more information about the world comes into focus. Everything is always normative until it's not and the way we perceive things plays a big role in how we define our lives. How things are and how we perceive them to be are inseparably intertwined parts of existence. This can be very helpful at times, though very limiting at others. As this book wishes to discuss ideas which could be applied to all our lives it can be somewhat limiting or biasing, for or against the ideas themselves, if the author and their ego is made to take center stage. As such, we will be staying as much as possible to the ideas at hand rather than the messenger delivering them.

To you dear reader, it's good this book found you, or more correctly you found each other. If this has been a choice rather than an obligation, the information contained within will be of greatest value. If this is the case it means that you are someone seeking to improve your understanding of not only the world around though also of yourself, your place in the world, other people, tools, social systems, and cultures which this world offers. You are someone who seeks a greater existence than what is present or has come before. You may define yourself as spiritual though not religious and seek real world application to the sometimes flowy, intangible, or unpractical spirituality of new aged philosophy or traditional religion. You are someone who inherently feels that there must be solutions to some of the biggest problems in the world which somehow never seem to be solved, or even seem to get worse. You may even be someone trying to fix much of what is broken in our world, and yet are left seeking greater solutions. Furthermore, this hopefully means that you are admitting to yourself that you don't have all the answers and are willing to keep an open mind to new information which you may find additive to your current understandings of the world.

Just as you must admit you don't have all the answers, this book does not either. By the nature of one person's limited perspective this book will inherently be sometimes limited itself. This does not mean that all the ideas should be tossed. The goal for this book is not to be perfect nor to be a complete solution to all the world's problems though to present a coherent idea of how to realistically move in that direction. To create a shared perspective so that we may all align our effort effectively towards grander goals. At minimum to provide an optimistic alternative to the clear lack which hits all of us sometimes.

The hope of this book is to inspire engagement with a comprehensive and achievable vision for a greater future. One where incentivization is more aligned with the developing will of the people such that an engaged populace will create the most desirable, balanced, caring, and developmentally progressed places to live. This will lead us all towards a greater world yet unseen within the human memory. It is precisely because of this novelty the future holds that we will not be able to use our memory as much as we will be required to use our creativity and imagination to help us see into the future. The value of our memory helps us to see where we were and how we got here. The value of creativity allows us to see where we want to go. Where our intellect helps us to create the path to get there. An integration of these is what will best help humanity towards greatness, as surely it is exactly what has worked for us all thus far.

Realistically, this will not happen overnight however the goal is to start or more accurately continue although to expedite the process of improvement to help ourselves, society, and culture step beyond iterative growth to find greater. This must start from the individual, yes, you. The 'I' that is reading this. We all must take charge of the parts of our life that lay with us individually. That which is the responsibility of 'I' is no one else's. This vision however cannot be completed by a singular person or even a single group or corporation. It is a vision that does require an engaged populace. It must start from a committed I and then work outward to include more people and aspects of life. It is a vision which all people will be able to share, and the value of a shared vision cannot be understated.

A shared vision is what truly brings together monumental works and accomplishments. This is what creates an amazing band that continuously belts out successful music. It is what has made many companies lastingly successful. It is what has sent humanity into space and what has led to big steps in eliminating extreme poverty in the world. The idea of a shared vision aides in cooperation and lasting motivation towards one goal which can continuously be worked on by some mind somewhere. It's what allows us to more greatly go beyond what went before.

But what do we mean by "greater"? Especially "greater" as opposed to "better". Well, let's look at "better" as an iterative process which makes horizontal improvements. Where "greater" is actually moving into a new league of novelty, sometimes thought of as vertically integrated improvements.

An example of this transition from better to greater was when Steve Jobs brought us a greater product with a smartphone which became the standard over the now old flip phones. Flip phones, at the time, were products which were getting iteratively better with updated hardware and smaller form factors. Some even claimed the label of "smart" phone by extending functionality to email. Jobs however, then brought us a new way to interact with information and expanded capability greatly by vertically integrating many computer functions and music player functions into a phone with a touch capable screen. Jobs presented it in 2007 [1] as a combination of a communicator, an iPod, and a phone all in one. All this integration together truly set this invention head and shoulders above the existing technology at the time. It was such a change that Steve Jobs, when announcing the iPhone, had a fifty-minute tutorial to simply show the public how to swipe, tap, scroll, pinch and zoom. Today, when those functions are so second nature to many of us, it seems silly to spend fifty minutes to explain it. However, this is the nature of greater change. Something that even though looks like an existing paradigm fundamentally changes some aspects of it such that the new "greater" paradigm comes into being.

If we briefly think about how we as a society have explained the physical world around us we can see the need for updated language. The leading edge of vocabulary in physics today is quantum physics where an atom looks like a central point with fields of potential encompassing it. It brings new terms like superposition and entanglement while making us think about the ability of one thing to act as two different things at the same time. The language and the insights from it are an update from a more simplistic classical mechanics where the model of the atom was a positive center with orbiting electrons much like the planets around the Sun. Which itself was an update from the yet more simplistic ancient Greek view of indivisible marble-like atoms. Each step forward produced different ways to see the world and different ideas to experiment with. Each view was adequate for its time and helped to move towards the more refined language of the next step. Each step produced more accurate maps and understanding of the world and with this understanding greater tools, techniques, and systems were able to be created in turn helping influence the development towards the next step. Each step being limited by the ability of the people interpreting it as a direct result of the language, tools, and perspectives they had available to them. In this way, we can see that a valuable tool to enable movement forward into new domains of understanding is a language which provides greater insights, new perspectives, and is able to explain the existing state of things while also acting as a bridge towards understanding the next step of development. Integral Theory is that language and is the linguistic bridge we will use to peak at the coming step of development. In the same way Steve Jobs brought us a "greater" product with a smartphone, there is a coming "greater" way in which to organize life, society, and ourselves to create a new standard of living unforeseen by the masses. This new "greater" society will be the next wave of progress launching new ways of living while setting a new first world standard and all while solving many of the problems our current situation has in spades.

Similarly, to Jobs giving a fifty-minute presentation to show people basic functionalities and introduce basic terms, we need to take time to ensure we speak the same language. This will allow us to then share the same perspective and be able to take that shared perspective through a trajectory in time to really see where we collectively could be headed. Thus, this book starts with a greeting to the 'I' of the reader with a positioning towards accepting new information from the author. This allows a 'We' to be created between 'I' reading this and the author. 'We' can then entertain an introduction to a shared language and perspective which 'We' will need to progress towards greater understanding and achievements. This shared language is Integral Theory by Ken Wilber. This is the most developed language which creates the best maps for a shared perspective in the 21st century. Much of the information in the 'Philosophy and Shareable Language' part of this book is not of the author's creation, it is however, the author's best summarization of some of Ken Wilber's rather extensive work. After the first section where we walk through a shared language we will attempt to create a shared perspective and then use this shared Integral map and apply it going forward. The application of this Integral map in the subsequent sections of this book are the author's creation and vision of where we are now and how we could likely progress. After this 'We' space of understanding and language is created the book continues into a more objective understanding of how to use the map. 'We' can now start defining how 'It' works. How 'We' can look at the world around us and see the correlations to our new map. Only after this can the 'I' reading this be joined in a 'We' which can perceive an 'It' in the same way. This then allows the book to progress into the 'Its' of systems in which 'We' exist and how they can be redefined for a greater future. Lastly, this book will wrap up the complexities of it all in a few fictional characters living in this future world to have a peek at what our lives could be if organized more greatly.

It should be mentioned that Integral Theory is not easy to simply pick-up. It is complex. As much as this book will seek to explain Integral and provide some examples the best examples for learning will be self-created ones. That is to say, try to apply it to your own life. This book is purposely not very long to help encourage you the reader to take your time and to even go back through it several times to try to understand, practice, and apply this map to aspects of your life. Even if you truly want to change your perspectives it cannot happen overnight. It takes time to see different perspectives even before you work to feel comfortable inhabiting them. Not all changes to perspective are good or helpful so the time it takes to change helps to ensure stability and growth of an individual and their life.

To summarize the book, our heart from a very young age is not actually able to love anyone but ourselves. Mentally, in developmental psychology and the development of cognition this is also shown to be the case. We all, nearing eight billion of us humans, start as egocentric by nature. In other words, the horizon which is cast by our heart is only big enough to encompass ourselves. Upon growing up in a healthy manner, our hearts expand their horizon. When we learn about our cultural rules and roles and understand our family, our heart extends that horizon to include them in an unquestioned ethno-centric, tribal family. This expansion is still and always inclusive of what came before. Beyond that as we hit into teenage hood, our healthy heart extends to include those people beyond the tribal family into accepting people of other tribes so long as socially it is productive and beneficial. This is also exemplified by nation state level tribalism which transcends and includes separate family tribes in a next level expanse. Into early adulthood, if our heart still seeks healthy growth, we find that our next inclusive horizon stretches not only to my nation and its people, though to all nations and all people. As we continue this expansion of the horizons of our heart they are always transcending and including what came before. Transcend to the next stage whilst including all that came before in nested rings of expanse (to put it in 2D).

It has been said that the world would be much better off if we simply had one world religion to follow. What this book expresses is that we already do have one unifying religion which we all follow. The religion's name is Love. Although depending on the horizon of heart that people occupy we get the very real fracturing of societies and cultures along with the problems that we see in the world today.

As Einstein put it, 'no problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it'. Thus, the succinct answer to most of the problems we have currently and the solutions which are presented in this book is to inhabit greater more encompassing and more inclusive perspectives. In other words, to get beyond our current personal and societal problems we should be understanding and inhabiting greater scales of being and thought or greater Horizons of Heart. This book simply lays out what it looks like to understand these horizons and the accompanying perspectives. It describes how we can see them within ourselves and others though moreover where we can go personally and collectively whilst using this understanding towards improvement. It provides a very real, tangible, and practically applicable framework and language to share a unifying vision of greater.

It is the hope of this book that if people have an idea of a future which is greater than what has existed to date they will be more at ease with life and be more apt to be engaged. As long as a population is willing to engage with each other and society, then much progress can be made. So, without further ado, 'I' will meet 'We' in the next chapter. So, let the Self dive into its Horizons of Heart.

### Philosophy and Shareable Language

We must really start with basic assumptions about the nature of reality which we need to assume based upon everything we can perceive and understand in all domains of human knowledge and discovery. These are not crazy assumptions.

We can agree as our first assumption, most of us, that there is information we can perceive that is external to us as well as information internal to us. There is an "out there" that has information irrespective of our existence, as well as an "in here" that has information that cannot be found "out there". In addition to that, there are both singular modes (a single group of one) and collective modes (a single group of many) which this information can exist in.

(Figure 1)

(arbitrarily chosen orientation)

This then allows us to look at the two types of information in two different modes (figure 1) creating a matrix with the four quadrants as in figure 2.

The Objective Information:

The information on the right-hand side is an objective space (figure 2). This is where science excels and rightfully so. We could look at the upper right for example, the External Singular. This is simply some single object that you can point to; a tree, a car, a neuron, an "it". Science allows us to interpret some important information. This information is what we can measure, the world of numbers; things like dimensions, weight, density, or price. The lower right quadrant, the External Collective, gives additional objective information not found in the singular objective. This information is about many objects interacting within a singular collective system; the ecosystem, the traffic system, or our bodily systems to make the same comparison. Each of these two quadrants bring unique perspective which add different yet important information to create an objective view of the world.

The Subjective Information:

The right-side externally objective space is the quantitative world. In contrast, the internal-left is a world for the qualitative or subjective. This is where science cannot go, a space undefined by numbers. In the Upper Left, are the personal beliefs and feelings around a topic; feelings, emotions, interpretations, and narratives. This information is non-physical yet is ever present in our awareness and impacts our lives. The lower left, the Internal Collective, likewise gives non-physical information though it is a singular collective system of interaction normally called culture; a country's culture, driving culture, religious culture, or family culture for example. Each of these two left hand quadrants presents different subjective information which together give a subjective view of the world.

(Figure 2)

We can now perceive greater information from the created four-quadrant map. Just before moving on, to reiterate the same information in a clearer, more relatable, and memorable way, the quadrants show us the following:

(Figure 3)

In a simplified way we could say that in any one moment all these quadrants are present and provide information that is unique. Everything, everyone, in every moment, has some aspect of Self, Culture, and Nature. Furthermore, to only look at one part is to ignore other very valid domains of information and knowledge handicapping your ability to perceive a more complete picture of the reality we're in; Self, Culture, and Nature.

Let's look at a couple quick examples to try to clear any muddied waters. In each case below, follow around the quadrants seeing the different yet real parts of an event.

Going on vacation by plane

(Figure 4)

Someone cut you off in traffic

(Figure 5)

So, with this simple idea, one can apply these different yet important perspectives to how something is. The practice of seeing and interpreting information in this way allows us to see different faces or sides to one event or item. With greater practice noticing what information is external and what information is internal will become more natural and will allow us to understand with greater nuance the "Big Three" areas of life; Self, Culture, and Nature. When applying these four quadrants to your own life examples it can be helpful to see which areas you more easily grasp and which you don't. When thinking of information for a personal example in which quadrants is the information easy to identify? This can help you to firstly find more information from other areas you may not normally consider while also providing you some insight as to which quadrants you do tend to consider first or generally orient from. Practice with a couple examples on your own because we will be revisiting this aspect of quadrant orienting later.

Now that we have some grasp on these three parts to our trifocal lenses (the "big three" or the four quadrants), let's move about the world with these in mind. We have seen that these four quadrants all have important information and now we will spend time to look firstly at what the information is, secondly at how it is organized, and thirdly a common pitfall of partial truths. If we start by looking at the upper left quadrant of "I", like many before us, we dive into the psyche.

### Lines of Development:

Spanning less than a hundred and fifty years, starting in 1879, there has been a lot of work done in psychology. Work from researchers like Freud, Jung, Maslow, and Piaget, would promote theories that would sometimes be popularized, though the average person did not possess a good enough mental map to integrate this information until 1983.

In '83 Harvard Psychology professor Howard Gardner introduced the Theory of Multiple Intelligences [2] to show that IQ alone is not the best measure of an individual's abilities but in fact there were different talents to be honed as evidenced by the existing research from within the field. This idea brought into view many areas of skill to appreciate. Some of these skills or intelligences acknowledged were musical, visual-spatial, emotional, logical-mathematical, and bodily-kinesthetic for example. After gathering even more research in the field, psychologists have since added a couple dozen intelligences in all, of which the above, in addition to Moral intelligence, Aesthetic intelligence, Psycho-Sexual intelligence, Empathic intelligence, and Interpersonal intelligence, are some of the more recognizable.

Most of the intelligences or lines of development like Kinesthetic, Needs, and Cognitive can be honed with relative independence. Though unlike the first two, cognitive intelligence is really a prerequisite for many other intelligences. Where cognition is one's ability to perceive what is arising in the world around, this becomes fundamental to our ability to simply use the raw building blocks of data to build mental maps. Due to this importance, many other lines depend on cognitive development.

When looking at the different lines of development, each bar is really an area of research. The Cognitive line was researched by Piaget, the Psycho-Sexual line by Freud, the Needs line by Maslow. Despite having all these different lines in all these different areas of research, they all have the same general three-stage progression of development (Pre-Conventional to Conventional to Post-Conventional).

(Figure 6)

In the general example of someone's development above, let's take Kinesthetic Intelligence for example; the ability to understand and manipulate the body. A professional athlete would be the ideal person to showcase this bodily intelligence that is present in all people. We know it would not be a fair competition to put an average person against any top athlete in a physically demanding challenge of their field. We know their skill is better than a novice, or even an intermediate, that's why they are called masters; their ability is better. This helps us to see an ordered path of development of ability from novice to competency to mastery or in other words from Pre-Conventional to Conventional to Post-Conventional. One clear mark of this level in martial arts is the separation of skill by belt color.

(figure 7)

Next, if we look at the Needs line of development, most of us will have heard of this by another name. Abraham Maslow called this line of development his hierarchy of needs. The process, illustrated in a pyramid, had the order of increasing concern for needs starting from physiological and safety needs to belonging and self-esteem then topping out at self-actualization and self-transcendence. What's important to see here is another ordered path of development. Although this has more steps, six, these steps are simply expressing the same general three-step improvement though doing so as it appears in this particular line of development (Six steps still following the same general order from Pre-Conventional to Conventional to Post-Conventional).

What is important to recognize is that each of the intelligences expresses unique skill not found in the other intelligences. Much like the information within each of the four Quadrants brings unique truth, each of the multiple intelligences brings unique opportunity to practice those quadrant truths within a specific Line of Development as well as for a particular Level of competency.

All the Lines of Development have progressive Levels of Development. The Levels of Development tell us a truth about the proficiency in a particular Line of Development. Depending on the convention of the research within a particular Line of Development, as we have seen, there may be three stages, six stages, or more. It is dependent upon the field of study and how its experts perceive the stage-defining data they collect. Now let's look more at levels.

### The Order Within the Lines of Development –  
Holarchy and Natural Levels

Now that we have defined the four quadrants and we have seen that quadrants contain information in lines of development, we can start to look at the information within the lines themselves to see if broad generalizing tendencies emerge. Ken Wilber borrows Arthur Koestler's term Holarchy to define natural hierarchical organization as opposed to a dominator hierarchy. A holon is defined as something that is simultaneously a whole self and yet part of a bigger whole. To be clear, we need to make three assumptions about holons. The first is that everything is made of holons. The second is that they emerge and third, that they emerge holarchically. (Again, not crazy assumptions)

Let's understand holons by looking in the right-side objective space. An atom, for example is a whole atom, though it may simultaneously be part of a molecule. A molecule, in turn, is a whole molecule and may simultaneously be part of a cell. A cell is whole and may be part of an organism, which itself is whole and may be part of a human body. This pattern of whole parts or holons is not only found in the right side. Let's look at the subjective, non-physical side. "We" in our culture and in our self, "I", use the non-physical entity of language which also is holarchically structured. Just like the atom to molecule to cell to organism holarchy, we have a single letter to a word to a sentence to a paragraph. Paragraphs convey more information than a simple sentence, which has more information than a word, which in turn has more information than a letter. Each includes the lower though not the higher. A paragraph contains sentences, though not vice versa and because of this "not vice versa" relationship, we can see a direction towards greater information. Or that is to say that each progressive stage of the holon there is more than what existed before hand in a holarchic structure.

A holarchy emerges when parts are gathered together to create something more than their sum. For example, a smart phone's parts can be analyzed, a processor, ram, screen, code, etc., though not any one single part will allow you to access the internet. Together they produce something greater, something that goes beyond what went before, a transcending and including action. This is the nesting process of creating holarchically structured holons. (Nested Spheres – Transcend and Include)

(Figure 8)

Based on these structures from the subjective and objective realms this structured order seems to be the case; that is to say that everything is made of holons, that they do tend to emerge, and that they do so holarchically. This is perfectly describing the Levels of Development (from Pre-Conventional → Conventional → Post-Conventional) within each Personal Line of Development.

(Figure 9)

In all the four quadrants, we can see the same general organization and order of holons. Transcending and including what has gone before to reach previously unknown depths. In figure 9, the innermost levels get transcended and included within the next most inclusive level. This graphic also tries to show the tetra-arising nature of all four quadrants. In other words, all four aspects arise simultaneously and never without the others.

To be clear, these levels of greater build on top of the more basic skills that existed beforehand. Much like the parts of a phone together bring more, so too can we build on subjective skills by transcending and including what came before to bring about new depths of understanding; increasing our internal skills towards subjective black-belts so to speak.

### The Pitfall of Quadrant Absolutism

One thing to be aware of is that the four quadrants are four different aspects of the same singular event or object, they are not different things. They cause and are caused by the other quadrants so therefore have aspects or correlates reverberating through each quadrant. Let's continue to understand what it looks like when someone only focuses on one of the quadrants, not all of them. This view is a pitfall without balance and focuses on partial truth as absolute truth.

(Figure 10)

Depending on the absolutist belief, people will range from the Upper Left of the mind and personal interpretation being the ultimate reality, to the Lower Left of cultural identity is the ultimate definition of reality, to the Upper Right of objective science being the ultimate definition of reality, to the Lower Right of systems being the ultimate definition of reality. If a person attaches too greatly to one of these, they tend to only see the value which their perspective brings and will tend not to, or take longer to, see the value which the other perspectives also bring. In other words, people tend to fall into the trap of attachment to partial data as absolute data and as a result believe that things are either only of Personal Construction, only of Social Construction, or only of Natural Construction when in fact all three bring truth ("The Big Three").

As a final summary before moving on it is important to keep in mind that these four quadrants provide unique and important information. It is also important to note they are tetra-arising, there is never one without the others; they cause and are caused by the others. Furthermore, it is important to remember that everything is holarchically ordered and thus has a transcend and include order of greater. This then shows the directionality and valued natural order to progress "up" or "deeper into" a particular line of development.

So, we now know there are lines of development and each line has its own field of researchers marking steps of proficiency into greater depth of understanding and skill. The depth of each line is created holarchically and is what we also call Levels. So, Quadrants, Lines, and Levels. These are enough to practice with for now. To use this in life, remember that the real truth that you hold dear, may be just as partial as other people's truth. This allows us to open ourselves more to the other true information around.

### Holarchic History

(Figure 11)

Wham! Gigantic graphic for your digestion. However intimidating this may seem, this is the simplest way to demonstrate some information within each quadrant and how it is co-affecting the others to create one greater picture of events. We cannot sugar coat this one, there is a lot here. The good news however, is that we have already looked at one quarter of this; the complicated one in the upper left, the "I" quadrant.

As a brief summary, we saw that all personal developmental lines, like the three personal ones above as well as ones like Kinesthetic or Musical, in addition to the dozen others, progress through three basic stages Pre-Conventional to Conventional to Post-Conventional as indicated by the circles. The innermost being Pre-Conventional growing holarchically outward towards greater inclusion. They are building blocks or skills that build upon each other towards greater information and depth of understanding unlocking previously unknown perspectives.

Let's dive into the deep history and the historical trends of the past remembering to look at the relationships between what one piece of information looks like through each lens of the four quadrants and how it resonates in all four. It may be helpful to continue looking back at the previous figure (figure 11) as reference.

As a quick disclaimer, it goes beyond the authors ability to mention every researcher or even dive into the depths of each one's work personally, and as such have taken those referenced by Wilber [3]. Wilber references information from some of the following people, Jurgen Habermas, Janet Chaffetz, Joyce Nielson, Clare Graves, Gerhard Lenski, and Jean Gebser.
Step 1 of 6

Foraging (Starting from around 1 million - 400,000 years ago / Pre-homo sapiens)

(Magenta - used as a catch-all for this stage and all leading up to this point)

(This color code is a combination of Ken Wilber's convention and Spiral Dynamics. It is a color convention to help more easily talk about the developmental levels of growth and a person's individual center of gravity which we will touch on later)

If we start in prehistory when our ancestors were more animalistic and look at their society, what do we see?

In the bottom right, we can see their system of production was Foraging otherwise called hunter gatherer societies. In 97% of these societies, men hunted while women gathered and took care of the children. The reason it is almost universal that men hunted while women gathered was evolutionarily advantageous where hunting could be lethal and women were better suited in this environment to raise children. These were nomadic pre-people with simple lives.

Their tools, upper right, to help within the production system were primitive stone tools used by hand.

Moving to the lower left quadrant to see the how this environment looked culturally. Here we see the cultural worldview of Archaic meaning that these pre-humans were basic animals with a worldview reflecting that. These were pre-egoic creatures that did not place great value on anything other than existence. The world would have been a place of struggle for survival and ensuring of food. These nomads were matrifocal, although not mother dominant, matriarchal, they did have roughly similar levels of equality between men and women and would often trace ancestry through women. However, the equality here means that both value spheres of men and women were equally not valued at all. These pre-egoic animals do not yet have the hubris to project value to areas of their life.

This worldview is described in similar language in the upper left by Maslow. The first stage of his hierarchy is physiological needs. Really focusing on the most important aspects of base existence. Clare Graves answers, "what do they value?" and shows the values of individuals in this environment as valuing safety.

As we move around the quadrants we can start to see similarities and relationships between different independently done research from within differing fields. The trends continue, as will we.

Step 2 of 6

Horticultural (Wilber quotes a start date of 10,000 BC which is almost certainly wrong for its first appearance (i.e. Graham Hancock's work). This is the step into the uniquely human separation from animalistic nature. Regardless of the exact timing, this stage had to exist and is what was defaulted to globally after the cataclysmic end to the Ice Age of 10,000 BC.)

(Red)

As life goes on and develops, as we stated in our assumptions from the beginning, development is going to be holarchic. That is to say that the existing skills will be used in novel ways to bring about more than what came before it, while simultaneously including those skills going forward. As such, the simple nomads blossom into a new dawning of a previously unknown world with much greater horizons and in some ways very different perspectives.

This emergent property of holarchic growth allowed the Foraging societies to move into Horticultural ones. The novelty in this quadrant, bottom right, has been a shift of production from simply hunting and gathering for basics to reliably growing basic foods. Someone at the time had learned that planting seeds made food production more predictable. No longer were these people going to struggle for the basics and nomadically go where the food was. They had now moved beyond the previous epoch's limitations of gathering and been plunged into the depths of greater opportunity. Their production increased as did their quality of life and as such, this practice caught on over time. Men however, still mainly went off to hunt rather unsuccessfully and remained the main line of defense.

Their tools in the upper right changed also. There was novelty in the creation and use of a hoe or a simple digging stick to help plant seeds. This simple device and the creativity that necessitated it, was sufficient for increasing food production.

This food production was such a boon to society that it really affected the rest of life. At the same time, culture in the bottom left started to see the world differently. This was also a time of development for egoic humans. These early people now had a sense of self and in turn started putting their belief and value into areas of their lives. The status of men and women was more or less equal, represented in the gods they believed in. Of these horticultural societies, about one third had female only deities, a third male only, and a third male and female. About 80% of food was produced by women in these societies which non-coincidentally had a cultural belief of Gaia, or Mother Earth, or the Great Mother and anywhere horticultural societies are found, they all have the Great Mother tradition expressed in their beliefs.

Gebser noted that the worldview was "magic". It was a big step forward in our history. This worldview is called magic, because these egoic early people believed in their own ability to manipulate the world around them. The sun rose and set for them so to speak. These were small tribes of tightly knit familial groups who had to inter-tribally compete now for safety as well as power instead of simply competing against nature for food and survival.

As we look to the top left at the internal values of individuals in these societies, we see, Graves' value for this level of development is "power". Maslow's research steps beyond the initial purely physiological needs and labels this "safety needs". These people sought security while additionally trying to control the world around them with egocentric power.

Step 3 of 6

Agrarian (Starting about 4000 BC - 2000 BC)

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For this next wave of progression, in the bottom right, we see that Horticultural societies gave way to Agrarian ones. These two modes of production are both farming, however there is an important difference. Someone along the way essentially decided to take the simple hoe from horticultural use and attach it to an animal. The newly invented plough was part of the next set of game changers. So, now that people had this new invention, top right, for this new society, bottom right, they were able to overcome the limits of horticultural production by hand and put it in terms of animal power. This came with some big changes.

See, up until this time, previous societies had really depended on women for food production, and so women were the ones to take off into the fields with the animals to plough. The problem at this point in time, however, was that women had significantly higher rates of miscarriage working this way as opposed to with a simple hoe. As a result, the situation required men to work for food production and move away from hunting. This started to change the value spheres. The male value sphere was now pulled away from hunting, towards a productive sphere. The female value sphere was now focused solely on a reproductive sphere. And thus came to be the male public production and female private reproduction.

How did this big step change look in the cultural lower left and the individual values in the upper left? Well, the egocentric power of "magic" horticulture gave way to ethnocentric prayer of "mythic" agriculture. This mythic level of worldview is one where the people expanded their horizons once more. The selfish tribes fighting one another were now able to go trans-tribal. An expansion of inclusion could now be spread based upon a shared mythical belief. The updated values for the time valued conformity. Being able to follow orders from authority, obey tradition, and follow belief were amongst top values in the Values line. In the needs line, Maslow calls them belongingness and love needs.

It is also important to mention that because of the big change from women producing most of the food to now men being the sole producers, beliefs changed too. From the very balanced gender of gods and goddesses in a pantheon of gods, they changed towards almost entirely (>90%) male gods. This was the start towards monotheistic religions which were all coming into their own in agrarian societies.

Additionally, as a result of this agrarian mode of production, massive surpluses in food stores were, for the first time in history, able to free up people from the task of labor. Men who worked in the public sphere of production, religion, and politics now had the opportunity to start into other areas of inquiry. Only at this point in time do we have the birth of philosophy; the inventions of mathematics, writing, metallurgy, and specialized warfare.

Step 4 of 6

Industrial (Birthed in the renaissance though big in the 18th century)

(Orange)

This next level of depth, within the lines of human development that we have seen, now presents us with the Industrial mode of production in the lower right. The big leap from simple horses to horsepower. The big leap in tools, top right, was the shift to machine power and with it massive gains in production, in turn leading to new ways to see the world and ideas of how to interact.

In the lower left, the culture transcended and included the past and brought us the "Rational" worldview. This worldview is one focused on data and numbers to show rationally a course of action. The idea of merit for performance and being results focused took this socio-centric worldview further than the limits of the previous ethnocentric worldview. Again, one more increasing step of inclusion, this time towards society and production over ethnicity; all in the name of getting shit done.

Prosperity is Graves' term for the value system at this level of development and on Maslow's hierarchy this level is bridging a gap between the top end of the previous belonging needs and the bottom end of esteem needs seeking achievement.

It is important to note in this developmental level that machine work was part of the transcending and including of manual labor to greatly deemphasize the need for physical strength to create production. Only at this time, never before, was the introduction of the idea of equal rights for women as evidenced by Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman published in 1792. This was also the period when the scientific method was formalized as a perfect example of the observing measurable rational path to understanding the world around. With this new worldview, new, greater opportunity gets explored.

Step 5 of 6

Informational (Starting around the 1960's)

(Green)

Then came the start of the informational mode of production, lower right, with the tool, upper right, of the computer. We had once again broadened our horizons from the sociocentric worldview of the Industrial age and now moved towards a more world-centric view.

This world-centric viewpoint is "Pluralistic". It makes room for all perspectives without judgement or ranking. The value is communitarian; focused on relationships, accepting difference and diversity. Maslow had esteem needs for respecting and being respected by others.

The first time this "Pluralistic" culture was seen on the world stage was the hippie revolution of the sixties. Really exploring the opportunity for equality for all, love and peace without discrimination or judgement.

Step 6 or the Question mark (?)

Automational (Starting around the early 2000's according to this book)

(Yellow)

This part of the development has not been clarified by Ken Wilber or Integral Theory, however it is the author's belief as explained later within this book that the next stage of development will be one of integration and automation. This is a stage which includes all that came before yet transcends it also to create greater societal organization.

The method of production in the bottom right quadrant will be automational. Systems which produce for people that which is demanded and valued by society. These systems are currently being developed and are currently in their infancy. The biggest tool for the job in the upper right comes in the form of Blockchain, decentralization technologies, and AI which build upon the computer and internet tools from the previous Green society.

In the bottom left of culture, Gebser defines this worldview as Integral or Integrating. In the upper left, this stage values learning and is focused on self-development and the application of knowledge towards change. This is a place where all the previous stages are understood and valued for the partial truths they bring and are integrated with the narrative thread and understanding of process. In the upper left in Maslow's hierarchy it is represented by the departure from the lower deficiency needs and the entering into of the abundance needs towards the top of the pyramid. Clare Graves describes this step of progress as a 'momentous leap in meaning'.

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Figure 12 is an altered graph from Integral Life Practice [4]. It is worth noting that the lines of development on the left are from the upper left quadrant of self, 'I', or personal development and the rightmost line of development is from 'We' cultural quadrant.)

Quick Summary

So, we came from foraging societies not valuing more than existence who saw an archaic world seeking protection, to egocentric tribes selfishly surviving for power, to ethnocentric mythic memberships seeking conformity like all major modern religions, to sociocentric rational industry as well as the rise of feminism both seeking to achieve, to world-centric pluralistic relativistic hippy love seeking acceptance for diversity and difference.

Our development, however, hasn't stopped. We are quickly heading towards our next great epoch. One with a worldview, bottom left, of "Integral" (Yellow), an interior value, upper left, that is systemic. Maslow's term for this level of growth is self-actualization and is the first of the abundance needs as opposed to the previous deficiency needs. Thus far, a mode of production has yet to emerge as well as a definitive tool for the job. However, this missing information is what this book hopes to put forward as possible pieces of the Integral pie and our future. Now that we have a shared understanding and language up to present, in later sections we will describe the technology (decentralization) and the system (automational) for this upcoming way of life and how they look in all four quadrants.
States and Types

Now, when we look at the story of humans we should be trying to do it as clearly and as concisely as possible. Ken Wilber calls it AQAL (pronounced /awk wul/) standing for all quadrant, all level, all line, all state and all type. Together, these are five aspects to keep in mind to deeply understand the multiple facets of one thing, be it a person, event, or otherwise. Which is to say, keep in mind the four quadrants, and the lines within each, as well as the level which each line could be at, which is impacted also by your state of consciousness, and typology framework.

A mouthful no doubt, though the last two were the only ones not mentioned yet. The states of consciousness are waking, dreaming, deep sleep, and non-dual. Because these are possible by anyone, even children, they shouldn't be ignored. We will touch on this later when talking about waking up versus growing up, however we won't get into this much further.

The last, typology, can be any types one divides life into. For example, male and female types, Myers-Briggs types, introvert/extrovert types, or zodiac sign typology. The world experienced through these different types will vary depending upon type. Simply look at how history would have been for you as one type or another. These types are not better or worse than other types in their group, they are different and bring different strengths and weaknesses. In this way, Wilber uses an AQAL, all quadrant, all level, all line, all state, and all type approach to most effectively paint the clearest pictures yet of ourselves, others and the world around us.

What is very important to note, and we will discuss next, is the fact that not only has this been our developmental path as a species, though it is also our individual developmental unfolding in life; from (Magenta) archaic newborns, to (Red) egocentric toddlers surviving for power, to (Blue) ethnocentric mythic conformity, to (Orange) individualistic rational achievement, to (Green) pluralistic acceptance, and onward to (Yellow) integral also known as systemic. Integral is not the end as we continue to transcend and include. These colors can help us to quickly recall the levels and help us relate to and remember the developmental stages better. In other words, it provides more info; more color to our world.

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If you have been able to follow till now, awesome! Understanding AQAL, even a little bit, will help to improve your standard of living. AQAL is simply a map to remind you what to notice "out there" in reality, how to organize the information of life to pick out the important truths and overcome limitations. Before moving on to fill in the question marks on the right-hand side of figure 11 & 13, which are easier to see and understand as they are outside of us in the objective world, we need to really understand the internal journey researched by Piaget; the cognitive line of development in the Upper Left.

### Personal Development

To be a big fish in a small pond or a small fish in a big pond; this may be a simple way to look at our internal cognitive developmental process. This analogy helps to illustrate that we all start in the smallest of ponds as a tiny fish, and after leveling up enough skill, we can swim our way to the next biggest pond. At each consecutive stage the ponds get bigger, and the challenges to our skills become more complex. At any time, we have the ability to go backward to the smaller ponds, though will not find any challenge there worthy of inspiring or promoting growth if we learned it the first time. Our life feels safer and maybe more comfortable as the big fish in the small pond though if we never gain greater level of skill, we will not be able to enter greater ponds than the ones matching our current ability. So, if we want to continue, the path forward is three steps. Embed ourselves in the pond, understand the different skills and perspectives the pond brings, then integrate those skills together to increase ability and gain access to the next pond.

The three parts to each successful wave of development (or pond migration) from different research uses differing vocabulary for the same three steps

Identify → Disidentify → Integrate

Fusion → Differentiation → Integration

Embed → Transcend → Include

Just like the fish above, everyone's developmental path is the same despite the 7+ billion different lives and particular views of this reality. This is evidenced by research in areas like developmental psychology where cross-culturally valid research, like that of Piaget, still holds true. This information helps to create a picture of interior human growth and the patterns that tend to dominate the psyche.

Human growth is seen to progress from the physio-centric "pond" to the biocentric "pond" to the egocentric "pond" to the ethnocentric "pond" to the sociocentric "pond" to the world centric "pond" to the integral "pond" and continuing onward. With corresponding personal perspectives of Archaic to Magic to Power to Mythic to Rational to Pluralistic to Integral and beyond. To understand our path, let's look at how these stages unfold within the development of a human, keeping our fish analogy in mind (Wilber and researchers call a "pond" a "fulcrum"). As we walk deeper into personal psychological development we are travelling up the cognitive line of development and through Piaget's research represented in figure 11 and 13 in the Upper Left quadrant of Self.

Pond #1

The Sensorimotor Meat-Body and the Archaic Personal Perspective (Reflexive)

(Magenta - This level is below magenta, though in figures 11, 12, and 13 it is included in the inner circle or magenta area for simplicity, clarity, and emphasis as a catch-all)

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Our story starts with the birth of the sensorimotor meat-body. This is a time of embedding, fusion, or identification with this sensorimotor self. Here, there is no logic, language, or narrative timeline. These are skills we will see in later ponds or stages. Some say this is the ideal state, being in union with all, however, this initial phase Freud called primary narcissism. This meat-body self is not yet able to differentiate the physical world around it from its physical self and thus is completely unable to understand boundaries or limits of self.

Transcend

This newborn starts the differentiation process around 5 months old. The baby now starts the process of learning important skills and practicing automatic physical responses. This is when the baby learns that if it bites a toy it doesn't hurt, if it bites its finger, it hurts.

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The child slowly understands the limitations of its physical self and is now better at knowing where it physically stops and where the rest of the physical world beings.

Pond #2 (Magenta)

The Birth of the Emotional Self and the Magic Personal Perspective (Impulsive)

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The growing child, if integrating the Archaic information, will then find itself embedded within Magical information. Just like the sensorimotor meat-body can't differentiate the physical body from the physical surroundings, the emotional self isn't able to differentiate between its emotions and others'. These emotional impulses can now take precedence over the reflexes from the previous stage.

Transcend

The child, starting around 15-24 months, finds itself slowly starting the differentiation of what emotions are internal and which are external. In other words, starting to find the limitations or boundaries of its emotional self. They are also learning basic symbols and images.

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This stage is usually experienced as the "terrible twos" where the child has tantrums and does not quite understand emotions or emotional limits. The child is starting to identify itself as a separate self in a separate world. After successful navigation of the second stage, the child can integrate emotion and understand the boundaries of the emotional self.

Pond #3 (Red)

The Mental / Conceptual Self and the Power Personal Perspective (Egocentric Needs)

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Here the toddler is becoming embedded into a conceptual self and these concepts start to take precedence over the impulses of the previous stage.

Transcend

Starting from about 2-4 years old and continuing until around 7 years old, the conceptual mind allows for a much richer experience of life. The child starts into the linguistic world and onto the stage come many new skills like temporal understanding, narrative timeline, and bodily function control. This person is now really birthing their own conceptual self or in other words, this is the creation of the egoic self. They are now starting to understand themselves as an individual, though not yet as it relates to a collective whole or culture. As a result, this stage is called the Power Worldview. These are fundamentally egocentric children with a belief that they and their thoughts can control and affect the world around them. These are children who think they have such power that they can turn their vegetables into candy just by willing it to happen.

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If all goes well, then this child will be able to healthily create an ego and start the process towards understanding its ego in amongst the collective of culture.

Pond #4 (Blue)

The Rule-Role Mind and the Mythical Personal Perspective (Ethnocentric)

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The child now has a solid understanding of its physical self, emotional self, and has a newly conceptually created ego which it will learn how to use in the Ethnocentric world of others. This is a time when ethnocentric rules can start to take precedence over the last stage's egocentric needs for power.

Transcend

This stage of development, starting around 6-7, brings in the idea of rules and roles to follow and live by. This is when the egoic self learns that it isn't the most powerful and that there are common or typical conventions to how people interact and define themselves and each other. This is a time where the child establishes the "roles" of family and society. At this point the child starts practicing taking the role of other and putting themselves in someone else's shoes. They also discover that they are not the all-powerful candy maker they once thought. They do however, begin to re-center power to another role in society. They no longer control power egocentrically; however, they mythically believe that if they ask a higher power with special traditional "rules", parent or god, then the higher "role" will convert the veggies into candy for them.

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If successfully integrated, the child will have a solid foundation in the normative conventions of society and will be fully immersed in it.

Pond #5 (Orange)

Formal Operational and the Rational Personal Perspective (Socio-centric)

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At this new stage comes a big ability to think about thinking and thus allows the person to transcend the previous dogmatic roles and rules that are given.

Transcend

Starting around 11 years old, people can start questioning big time. This "what if" mind allows the person to think about potentials in the past, present, and future. It also allows the individual's logic to question and take precedence over the last stages' given rules and roles. This may give rise to the "rebellious teenager" who often thinks and acts counter to the prescribed rules and roles from the previous stage.

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This proper integration brings a healthy questioning to the foreground which questions the previous stage's concepts, though still in a very "either/or" dichotomous way.

Pond #6 (Green)

Early Vision Logic and the Pluralistic Personal Perspective (World-centric)

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Pluralistic, also known as existentialist, brings the next new developments. Here, the individual starts to value more than the limited "either/or" of options and starts to see a plurality of options in a network.

Transcend

At this point the individual goes beyond the formal operational mind and sees life as a network of interactions as opposed to one or the other. This stage of development seeks to shed light on any marginalized parts of the network as all are seen to be of equal importance. It is so radical in its approach to see the value in the network of interactions that it starts to transcend the separate mind and body and place more value on the experience of the body-mind network as the individual "comes to terms with their reality and finitude" as Heidegger pointed out. This also sheds light on why this level of development is also called existentialist.

Include

Completion of this stage enables the self to be radically inclusive. Seeking difference and diversity while going out of its way to include all perspectives without judgement. In an attempt to accept all, this stage is unable to develop discernment or judgement between the differences that it accepts and thus devalues any stage of development that does not accept difference and diversity.

Pond #7 (Yellow)

Middle Vision Logic and the Integral Personal Perspective (World-centric)

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The previous stage, Pluralistic, is radically inclusive without judgment. This is because they had transcended the simplistic binary view of the last "either/or" stage with an accepting "a-perspectivo" lens. This Integral stage seeks to go beyond the lack of discernment or judgement that occurs and to provide understanding of depth and process.

Transcend

Here, the individual can take more of a systemic approach to the networks of interactions. This also comes with an understanding of ranking or value judgments. These are guided by systemic principles which can process and value the pieces of a network and can also see that the previous stages of personal development all have value and have all contributed to the growth to get here. Integral takes the partial truths from all previous stages and acknowledges their value.

This is a "momentous leap in meaning" according to Clare Graves. This leap brings with it depth of understanding and an ability to see and appreciate the lower stages of development as necessary and important parts of growth. This is the first stage to do so and is thusly called Integral as it integrates what came before. All previous stages cannot see the value in the other stages and think that their stage is the only right stage and their worldview is the only right worldview. This is an important point we will reference again later.

At this stage, fear drops off considerably as the individual transcends themselves and is no longer so closely identified with the small egoic self, and thus isn't afraid for it much. This stage is also marked by Maslow as the first to grow past the lower stage "deficiency needs" and start into "being needs" or abundance needs. People at this stage no longer act out of lack.

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Integration in this stage brings an ability to appreciate all the previous stages while allowing people to be where they are in their own development. It doesn't seek to diminish the value of other stages or points of view, it tries to value them in a discerning fashion and gives credit where it's due.

Pond #8 and beyond (Turquoise)

Late Vision Logic and the Holistic Personal Perspective (World-centric)

This is a holistic perspective which goes beyond what is needed for us to understand the process of how we grow and the clear developmental levels of interior consciousness development that exist. As such, we won't go into this. It is recommended that people to do their own inquiry if they find this and later levels of interest or importance and Spiral Dynamics or Integral Life Practice may be good resources for that.

Summary

Human growth of cognitive development, in the cognitive line of development as we have seen, goes through the following stages:

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We can use this information above to gain greater insight into ourselves and others. Wilber, for example, talks about a person's "center of gravity" from which around 50% of our perspective is colored, about 25% from the stage before, and about 25% from the stage after. This illustrates how one person is not simply at one exact level of development. Furthermore, development happens over all lines of development and as such, pegging one person as being at an exact stage or color is not accurate. However, given that the color or stage represents the values and worldview outlook on life and how one morally would interact with others, it does tend to provide a consistent realm or reliable gauge for understanding. From this understanding hopefully we can all start to choose to operate from the higher 25% and less from the lower.

To summarize this in another way, while looking at people's moral line of development we can generally see how they see others and themselves. Which in turn says a lot about what they may do or how they will act in a certain interaction.

Our initial horizon of heart expands around ourselves in an egocentric way. Your healthy ego must first develop to Love ourselves before it can continue onward. After including us alone it expands to friends and family. The generalized Blue tribe can be found wherever the "us versus them" mentality breaks out. This acceptance of "other" instantiates a realm of "We". This "We" space is the next step after an egoic previous one. As our horizon of heart expands to be more inclusive still, we go beyond group identity and strategically join socio-centric teams my company, country, my industry right or wrong. If we continue our horizon of heart expands to include a larger group. Not only my nation and its people, but all nations and all people in more of a world-centric perspective. We have mentioned this before, though it is worth quickly mentioning the above again to simply hammer home the idea of horizons of heart.

As these are holarchically built, the innermost of ego for example is never lost. Some say that we must destroy the ego to progress in life especially down a path towards enlightenment. However, our ego is simply an increasingly smaller part of an increasingly more inclusive pie of being. It therefore takes less and less precedence in the importance of our lives.

Let's look to see how these differences of perspective and expansion play out in an individual's beliefs and actions towards others.

### Horizons of Heart and the Limitations of Personal Perspectives

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In the table above, we can see the general progression from Red on the left towards an increasingly inclusive Yellow on the right. The arrows indicate the direction of growth and they show that there are steps before Red and after Yellow. Though as we have seen, this section of the spectrum of development is sufficient to cover the majority of life and the problems we need to currently overcome.

In addition to this, the caveat of developmental waves should be mentioned. That is, in table form, it seems like there is a very rigid border between one stage and the next where in fact the progression in life looks much smoother and less discrete. The bordering lines simply show that once an individual fully passes across the event horizon so to speak, they really aren't in Kansas anymore. They have entered a different worldview and will generally orient life from that perspective. Within different lines of development in different areas of life, a person may be more or less advanced than their general orienting color. It is general gauge though not an exact measurement. It should also be noted that these stages although seemingly happening at the same point in a person's development, do have different timings. These are simply aligned for readability.

To express the inclusive nature to the transcending and including of growth remember that at each stage, the lower is included within the higher, though not the other way around. Generally, we can only see backward or only down the ladder to the extent which we have climbed up it.

Red understands Red. Blue understands Red and Blue. Orange understands Red, Blue, and Orange. Green understands Red, Blue, Orange, and Green. Yellow understands them all. This limits what is understood and how that which is not understood is also seen. In the tables below each stage can understand the previous as they transcend and include them, signified by the black box horizon of understanding and progression up the ladder. Any person or idea beyond the black box horizon which is of greater developmental inclusion will only be perceived in the way their horizon allows. Within each boxed horizon it should also be noted that until Yellow, there are only two groups, that which the current stage is and that which is grouped as a not them.

Red Horizon: Red _knows_ everyone as equally not them. All people are equally out for self-interested goals and therefore treats everyone except themselves equally as though others are all looking to usurp Red's power. They see two kinds of people in the world; themselves and people who aren't them though all act equally in the same red way.

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Blue Horizon: Blue _knows_ that there are two kinds of people in the world, those who have committed to a practice of valuing a higher power that is greater than merely the self (i.e. going beyond Red) and those who don't have such a belief; other-worldly vs. this-worldly or people of faith vs. the faithless.

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Orange Horizon: Orange _knows_ that rationality is what is most important for defining life and the world around us and thusly sees two groups of people in the world; those who are rational (i.e. beyond Red and Blue) and those who are irrational.

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Green Horizon: Green understands rationality and rationally accepts the differing views of others. They _know_ wholeheartedly to include all differing views and thus see two kinds of people in the world, those who accept diversity and difference (i.e. beyond Red, Blue, and Orange) and those who do not.

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Yellow Horizon: Yellow is the first stage which sees the other stages as part of a process we all grow through. It is because Yellow can see the process and not simply the current state of a person and themselves that they can see the spectrum of people and not only a two-sided mentality. The picture of inclusivity below, represented by the colorations on the left, shows the general vision of how Yellow sees people and aspects of themselves.

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From the given perspectives and their given limitations of horizon there are many points of friction within society where people of all cognitive colors are simply not understanding the valid points each other bring forward. This happens simply because they do not understand how others see the world. The way Tony Robbins puts it is that "We must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others".

One of the big points of differing understanding about significant parts of life is seen well within the Orange horizon. This same understanding whilst looking at different information brings about what Ken Wilber calls the Pre-Trans Fallacy. The fact that to an Orange rationalist all that is not rational is the same kind of irrationality (figure 18) whereas there is significant difference between the two types of irrationality being Pre-rational views and Trans-rational views. Because of the transcending and including nature to growth, Trans-rational is inclusive of rational questioning and reason. In contrast, the Pre-rational has experiences which are also not rational, though are not inclusive of rational questioning or reason.

The Pre-Trans Fallacy can be understood in the nature of how the "pre" stages of understanding can look quite like the "trans" or "post" stages of understanding simply because they are not the convention. The table below indicates some major developmental aspects of ourselves that we go through. We all start our development from the left and move towards the right however the tabled lines and groupings are for readability and not for timing of development. For example, the development of our healthy ego happens before the development of our rationally questioning formal operational mind.

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It can be difficult to understand the abstract nature of some of these lines of development and growth and so to most quickly use examples that hit home, let's look at the last set; Pre-conventional to Conventional to Post-Conventional. Remember this one? We first encountered these levels of development when first introducing Lines and Levels.

If we take art as an example with respect to the Pre-Conventional and Post-Conventional, they look similar as they are both non-Conventional. If we think of a Pre-Conventional painter as someone who does not have the knowledge of the conventions or typical practices of painting techniques for example, we see someone without knowledge in the field being completely free to put color to canvas. There are no requirements or standards by which to guide their creation. This however sounds very similar to a master painter of the Post-Conventional type. This master, carrying with them all the knowledge of technique and skill can sit in front of a canvas and, with full autonomy, create a masterpiece which defies convention, breaks the rules, and goes beyond the standards. The two works of paint on canvas may even objectively look quite similar however the objective price tag for example will be different and the subjective cult acceptance of and attachment to the narrations of meaning behind the painting will also be different.
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One of the two works of art above is a multi-million-dollar work of art. The other is a done by a child with no conventional understanding of art. How do these get evaluated? Well in this example, ultimately it may be that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, though cultural value is in the acceptance of and attachment to narration. So long as the cult-ure of art enthusiasts accept, attach to, and then propagate a particularly Post-Conventional, profound, and almost spiritual narration, the sky is the limit. If you are someone who has no understanding of convention within the art world and look at both of these, based on the limits to the horizon of understanding, they will both be seen as relatively simple unimpressive works that a child could do. Conversely you may know a little bit about art, narrate yourself as something of an art enthusiast, or simply be trying to fit in to an existing cult-ure of art connoisseurs (i.e. you want to look impressive to others when talking about a painting in front of you). This perspective would look at these two works and see them both as incredibly deep or profound. People here would be much more likely to attach metaphor and context which may not have existed when the creation of the work was done or ascribe it meaning which simply is not there. In both above situations, the Pre-Trans Fallacy is clearly enacted. They are either devalued to infantile smearings or elevated to revolutionarily profound. As a small practice, which painting do you think is which? Take a moment if you haven't...

In fact, when looking at them honestly, both could be done by a child, however, both are very valuable works of art. The first is Clyfford Still PP 113 from 1962 Pastel on Paper. The second is Untitled (Red) by Mark Rothko in 1956. The way these were presented to you was something of a trick, although it goes to show that subjective narrations establish a biasing frame of reference which can be hard to shake. This is especially true if there is a group of people who provide you praise and status for the biased frames you carry. We have all seen or heard of the million-dollar pieces which are simply a canvas of one solid color. Clearly the value doesn't come from the technical ability to cover canvas in a single color. The master knowingly breaks rules in post-conventional autonomy, whereas the novice accidentally breaks rules in pre-conventional ignorance.

To provide a less tangible though additionally important example of the Pre-Trans Fallacy, let's look at an example from Ken Wilber. In a video describing the Pre-Trans Fallacy [5], Ken Wilber mentions observations done by psychotherapist Jack Engler who noticed that some people with therapy-needs having problems in the Pre-Rational domains, generally having a pathology occur early in development, tend to migrate towards Buddhism and its Trans-Rational teachings. Wilber says that "They were using the Trans-Rational Buddhist philosophy of emptiness to rationalize their own Pre-Rational states of emptiness and fragmentation and pathology"

This was done by the individual in attempt to elevate themselves to narrations of self which were beyond that of the ego (i.e. Trans-egoic or uber-spiritual) even though they had not yet done the hard work to fix any fragmenting pathologies keeping them from healthy ego development in the first place. Narratively these people went from pathologies needing psychotherapy to enlightened buddhas without error or fracture. They simply spent time understanding the Trans-Rational enough to then elevate themselves there through narration even though the very real ego problems and pathologies still existed. They made their pathologies worse by trying to jump from start to finish as opposed to grow through the Conventional middle ground of healthy ego development. Jack Engler summarized it as "you have to be somebody before you can be nobody".

Although these two examples may not explain all the above Pre-Trans Fallacies clearly, what is important to take away is that the "Pre" states do not yet have access to the conventions whereas the "Trans" states do. When this fallacy is committed the "pre" states get confused with the "trans" states meaning any item in the "pre" column can be confused with its corresponding "trans" state counterpart. We will see the Pre-Trans Fallacy more clearly in the next real-world examples of colored horizons. For now, that was simply an introduction to the fact it exists and what it tends to look like.

Before moving on to the real-world examples one more significant piece of information is needed for greater clarity. We should really look at the four quadrants again and tie in this colored growth along with some research from German sociologist and philosopher Jürgen Habermas.

In Habermas's Theory of Communicative Rationality he claims three kinds of formal reason which each have their own validity claim. The three being Aesthetic-expressive, Moral-practical, and Cognitive-instrumental. To hopefully make this more relatable, these can be seen as information from the following three domains, I, We, and It(s). The "Big Three" areas of life. So now that we can more clearly relate to these areas, let's look at Habermas' validity claims which are truth, truthfulness, and rightness. We then have the following domains and their respective validity claims:

(figure 23 – Domains / figure 24 - Validity Claims)

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For the **'It(s)'** domain of Nature we have cognitive-instrumental formal reasoning which is the objective and inter-objective gauge for objective fit. This is information about how something objectively works on an individual level and within a collective system measured quantitatively. In short, the validity claim answers **'Is it measurably true?'**.

For the **'I'** domain of Self we have aesthetic-expressive formal reasoning which is the subjective truthfulness of one's interior space. Nothing from this subjective space can be measured objectively. Therefore, an individual must subjectively feel or experience something and must then subjectively be honest about the subjective personal feeling of fit. If a person is honest or truthful about how they report their interior space, then the person will be validating information from this domain. In summary the validity claim answers **'How truthful or honest is it?'**.

For the **'We'** domain of Culture we have Moral-practical formal reasoning which is a gauge of inter-subjective fit or moral rightness. Again, not a place for objective measurements, though a place for moral fit within a collective. This information gets at truth that does not exist in the other two. Not about measurement or honesty, though answering the question of **'How right or moral is it?'**.

In the author's opinion Habermas's Truth for the Nature domain of It and Its could encapsulate both and it would not be inaccurate to do so as both objective quadrants can be defined in objectively measurable truth. However, more light is shed on the ideas if we can tease out the differences between the two objectively measurable truths. We have already denoted the difference between the two subjectively felt truths of 'I' feelings and 'We' feelings and there is a difference, although somewhat subtle. Where Habermas may not have had Wilber's four quadrants and Wilber uses the connection Habermas's work makes to the 'Big Three' and to some religious teachings, they seemingly left out a measure of formal reasoning specifically for the 'Its' domain and a validity claim to match. One addition that this book would like to add to Habermas's work and Wilber's use of the 'Big Three', would be to look at the last quadrant as well and pronounce a measure of fit for the inter-objective.

Perhaps the **'Its'** domain of inter-objective systems would have a Social-Constructive formal reasoning being a gauge of inter-objective fit or how well different objects fit together in a collective. This information points out that which is not found in the previous domains. It is not about honesty, morality, or singular objective truth, though is a claim of efficiency or effectiveness between 'it' objects in a system. Something may be True, Truthful, and Moral but is ineffective, wasteful, or inefficient. This validity claim would seek to answer the question of **'How effective is it?'**. In attempts to answer this question, we must define a system within which to evaluate it. It does not make sense to ask, 'Is this chair effective?'. Well, it begs the question of systemic context; what is it trying to achieve? 'Effective at what?'. 'Supporting my fat ass!'. And onto the scene comes a system within which we can start to have context to start the objective measures necessary to answer the question. Will the chair hold two hundred kilograms? Is it effective for sleeping? etc., etc., etc.

(figure 26 - Four Quadrant Validity Claims & figure 27 – Integral View)

Shown in figure 27 is a colored four quadrant map which is an attempt to show the nature of people's daily orientational tendencies. When thinking about an average day or interaction people tend to orient themselves from a particular quadrant. It tends to be their go-to outlook on life and will be informed by the other non-quadrant aspects of AQAL within the moment of interaction.

**I -** People who have a strong tendency to orient from the 'I' quadrant think firstly and primarily in terms of themselves and validate interactions based upon the truthfulness of it. This is synonymous with having a Red ego-centric worldview and horizon of heart. This is not bad in and of itself, though if this is the extent of view commonly employed then that person's world will consequently be quite self-centered.

**We -** People who have a strong tendency to orient from the 'We' quadrant think firstly and primarily in terms of their group and group identity and will tend to validate interactions based upon the Justness of it. This is synonymous with having a Blue ethno-centric worldview and horizon of heart. This ability to think in group terms does holarchically include the ability to think selfishly from the 'I' quadrant. As 'We' transcends and includes 'I' Blue transcends and includes Red. If this is the extent to which people experience the world then they will tend to fill it with group responsibilities and identity and tend to be quite ethno-centric.

**It -** People who have a strong tendency to orient from the 'It' quadrant think firstly and primarily in terms of objects and validate interactions based upon the objective truth of it. This is synonymous with having an Orange socio-centric worldview and horizon of heart. This ability to think about things rationally, logically, and strategically does include the previous stages of Red self and Blue groupings however it does so with a focus on objective achievement. If this is the extent to which people experience the world then they will tend to fill it with objects to meet the self and culturally defined measures of achievement (i.e. a big house, nice car, status, etc.) and tend to be quite socio-centric.

**Its -** People who have a strong tendency to orient from the 'Its' quadrant think firstly and primarily in terms of objective systems and validate interactions based upon the effectiveness of it. This is synonymous with having a Green world-centric worldview and horizon of heart. This ability to think about systems of interaction in a pluralistic or multiplistic fashion does include the previous Red self, Blue groups, and Orange achievement though does so with a focus on effectiveness. If it is the extent to which people experience the world then they will tend to fill it with workable compatible systems which include the interactions of the self, groups, and achievement and tend to be quite world-centric.

These quadrants are co-creating, they occur simultaneously and are never not existing without the others. Even though these quadrant aspects are not always seen or practiced, they do exist as potentials for all people. From the time they can entertain the concepts cognitively the individual is able to start inhabiting and practicing the uniqueness each brings. It does take time for a baby to grow to a cognitive understanding of each perspective. The limits of cognition act as time delayed explosions of expansion into greater realities which come into focus as we develop healthily. The amount of healthy effort towards growth is a greater acquisition of understanding towards mastery within these different quadrants. Yellow, represented as an encompassing square is the perspective from which all are seen to have value and all are worked on towards growth and understanding. It is more inclusive of the aspects of each quadrant and the other aspects of AQAL which inform the moment or can even inform us when the best of us get 'triggered' down to being self-centered assholes.

Now we can start to have a more complete understanding of people and the interactions which occur every day. We discussed the limits to perspective outlooks and worldviews to see how different perspectives see themselves and others. We sought to understand the Pre-Trans Fallacy which can see us confuse that which is prior to convention with that which is inclusively beyond convention. Additionally, we explored the validity claims for each quadrant which are all different and yet all point to inherent 'truth' or legitimacy which exists. This will be our foundation with which we can deeply explore the subtleties of our real-world examples.

### Waking Up versus Growing Up

Lastly, before getting into the real-world examples we should be introduced to the existence of and the difference between Waking Up and Growing Up. We had from the beginning the idea of "The Big Three" areas of life, "Self, Culture, and Nature.", and now we also have "Waking Up and Growing Up" within our lives.

Waking up is the more popularized and well-known notion these days. Waking up is awakening to the present witness of "I" within a particular state of consciousness, the states basically being waking, dreaming, and deep sleep however a fourth, non-dual state also exists. Even a baby experiences all these states, though a baby isn't really very conscious through any of them. The more of our states we can remain consciously aware in, the more awake we may be to the present moment. The general idea is that being present and mindful in a very conscious way is how to find greatest happiness, or presence, or flow within a single or every moment.

This present flow is great however, it is only half of the equation. Growing up in maturity and depth, is the other side to this life coin. Imagine for a moment that you are still a small child full of fun, play, and wonder living in the present moment. Many people today, based upon popularized notions, seek this ideal. Well, if everyone were grown-up five-year-olds then this world would be full of ego-centric over-emotional cry-babies, which in some ways seems like that's the direction it's going. Maturing does not mean you cannot be childish. It means that you do have the capacity to be childish, though have transcended and included it to choose an operational "default" from a higher or more understanding or more inclusive set of principles. In other words, you choose the high road, you choose to be more. You can see what option A is, let's say, and you can see a "high road" to take, you see the two and therefore know better, and therefore the choice for a path toward maturing can be made. This is mirrored in Maya Angelou's quote 'when you know better, do better'. Step by step, and choice by choice we get the gift of life experience to sort through the code of ourselves; line by line and moment by moment. However, we must be aware enough of ourselves in the first place to know to work on the code well, and thus the symbiotic relationship with waking up.

What is important to note is that, as Wilber puts it, "states are free, stages are earned". Everyone can access all these states of consciousness, though not everyone is able to perceive their state's information in a mature manner, fewer still then act on the higher choice. When you do, you slowly earn the next more inclusive perspective which in turn will come with its own information to incorporate and a more enriching view of the world. The more information that has gone into making a choice the more mature the choice is.

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Growing up, which takes five years on average to move one level, is essentially the path through lines and levels of development. Waking up, however, is opening your eyes to the present conscious awareness of a state which may come and go. And finally, "The Big Three" are the trifocal lenses with which we see the world. Growing up and Waking up with "The Big Three". So, remember to see the Self, Culture, and Nature while trying to mature in the areas you are present. Be informed of where you are strong and where you are weak then use that to have fun and enjoy the journey of growth.

Up until now, with exception of a couple of additions, most of this work has been from Ken Wilber and Integral Theory. We have tried to understand this shared language by walking through some shared examples. However, now that 'We' have formed this shared language, the next step is to see the what validity it brings us in the outside world. This next step is to take the shared language and do two things. One, to validate that 'We' understand and use the 'It' language in the same way such that we see eye to eye on the shared language itself. Secondly, to ensure that we can apply this shared language from a similar perspective to obtain similar understandings at depth about some 'It' that 'We' can talk about. This will help to provide greater information and greater understanding of that information. This validation section is going to use society as a whole in addition to a couple more specific examples along the way to help illustrate the world as seen through a more integrally informed lens. So finally, 'We' can move to look at 'It' in real and applicably relevant situations and examples.

Shared Perspective for Defining 'It' and 'Its'

We will look at some general trends of society and people's inherent behaviors which certainly have helped lead to the narrative arc that our society finds itself in nowadays. This will be our steps through modern history to see how these developmental factors have played a role in the incentivization and development of ourselves and the social systems we currently have in place. This will allow us to see the colors of influence and help us calibrate our Integral perspective to help coincide at a shared perspective. This is really an attempt to have a shared perspective on how the world currently operates.

War is a racket and has been a money maker for centuries. A special group of war profiteers has been labeled the Military Industrial Complex by former President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his last speech to the nation [6]. Solidly for sixty years this group has waged wars and been the benefactor of chaos, disruption, and volatility. The analysis and observation of this style of economics is the theme to Naomi Klein's book "Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism". We know that major wars have been started immorally based upon fabricated information, from Vietnam's Gulf of Tonkin to Iraq's weapons of mass destruction; and that's just a quick look at the USA. All the while the benefactors of this have been the same. We should start looking at this Military Industrial Complex as a club of people who have particularly high levels of cognitive development, or high development within the cognitive line of development, coupled unfortunately with a low level of moral development. This combination is possible because as Ken Wilber points out from research in the field of psychology, cognitive development is necessary though not sufficient for moral development. To put this in other words, moral development always lags behind cognitive development and more to the point, some people never quite learn or develop the morality aspect of life because without it, they have already attached so greatly to a narration of life that excels without it. Not that ignoring morality is necessarily a conscious act, it is simply some aspect of themselves which, for some reason in their life, they have never learned to practice. The reasons for this lack of development or the suppression of it are AQAL. Let's even quickly look at the quadrant aspect of this inability to practice morality. Part of it would be from the upper right quadrant of objectivity, meaning that part of this may be genetic or biological perhaps. The lower right quadrant would add that some aspect has been the environment and social systems within which these people developed and grew up. For example, a society which values cut-throat sociopathic behavior through moralless competition tends to reward these individuals. A third aspect would be from the lower left quadrant of the culture which in some ways supported the behavior and unbalanced development. And finally, the upper left quadrant which would add the individual's personal narration and valuation of how they see life and of what they focus on or value.

Conceptually, it is easy to understand how people with this type of unbalanced development, specifically high in cognition with low morality, can use others to get what they want and gain power. Once this type of person has power, they are very likely to create changes to the existing systems to ensure they entrench their power. These are morally Red people based upon interaction with others, though potentially cognitively Orange for example. These people interact with others in a very selfish way and can do it well based upon their high cognitive ability. This cognition is what allows them to justify their actions as "good" or of the highest utility because they narrate away dissenting information and opinions with their own and then attach to the narrative they create and/or already buy into.

It is clear to most of us, that these people with such an imbalance should not be in charge. As power tends to corrupt, it corrupts these people more easily and more completely. They don't even feel that they have crossed moral lines when they do, as opposed to moral people who then are corrupted by power and these narrations of self-important grandeur allow them to re-establish, reorient, or bend their existing moral code. They get to an Orange level of rationalizing, whilst not bringing with them the morality they may have learned from Blue. In other words, these people use Orange to suppress Blue ideas as opposed to integrating Blue ideas as they practice rational and logical questioning. These people become strategists who use their own personal strategy to narrate away the moral prerequisites that got them to that level in the first place. This is clearly a representation of non-integrated development.

It is this book's perspective that it is quite possible that Red people who were cognitive strategists used their Orange rationality to gain power over a population of mostly Blue individuals. One big reason that many people were Blue is from our history. Where the literacy rates of people, or even the access to books a few hundred years ago, were next to nil it is easy to understand that most people would normally defer to authority for information beyond their purview. Which is still what we do today because of the vastly different areas of research. There is no way to know everything and therefore we need to rely on experts in their field and logically so. However, our ability today to be more greatly informed of the information, to have more than one source of information, or even to question with greater scrutiny the information presented to us, helps to avoid the some of the vast manipulations of the past.

Let's look at what life looked like only a few hundred years ago. Around the dawning yet limited existence of Orange perspective in the Renaissance nearly all people in the general populace were illiterate. The society did not value book smarts, nor were there many books. Thus, the information most people had access to was their own direct experience of life and the information dictated to them from the people in places of authority. One of the leading Orange thinkers of the time was a well-known individual by the name of Niccolò Machiavelli. His famous book titled The Prince was summarized by writer Nick Douglas [7] by stating that "Machiavelli promotes a ruthlessly pragmatic approach to wielding and maintaining power, defending seemingly immoral behavior because it promotes the greater good of the nation". The Prince rationally examines power and control to understand and propagate its acquisition, development, use, and maintenance often to the detriment of morality. This is why today's term "Machiavellian" is descriptive of cold calculating immorality. This perfectly describes the Orange level Nation-state development of rational rule over the previous Blue level ethnocentric tribes and their outlook on the world. The Prince was literally for the wealthy city-state rules of the time to understand how to go beyond their simple city-state and rule over a larger horizon of people in a nation state.

Orange people outsmarted Blue to gain power. Then using this power, they have entrenched themselves for hundreds of years. These groups of individuals find like-minded and similarly acting people or make them act similarly based upon blackmail worthy information. This has certainly been the practice of exclusive clubs. This ensures the individual's devotion and in-line responses to the club actions. These smart corrupted people then allow themselves to be corrupted by a rationality which ultimately ignores or suppresses morality. Then they are motivated by perks and promises provided by the club. This Military Industrial Complex, religious communities, or even cults certainly seem to be acting with this methodology. Maybe the club members are already corrupt before entering, or corrupt themselves (get corrupted) along the way. Secrecy and immorality are major pieces to how this type of club could continue to thrive and dominate positions of power throughout the world over multi-generational time spans; secrecy and immorality.

They end up creating their own ethnocentric community through which people are raised. This then makes change quite difficult. These children are then raised with a Red self-centered perspective, in a Blue culture which says they should indulge in it, and an Orange rationality of why they should. Only when someone develops to the level of Orange as we have seen in the holarchic history of humans can they start to judge the rule and role definitions they have been taught. By this point, it may be very difficult for an individual raised in this society to get out. This is, in fact, a cult. A cult which preys on the unbalancing of people's development as they prey on the unbalancing of world affairs for personal and ethnocentric club gain.

Not all people in clubs that do this, may know, or may seek to know the extent of the disruptions they help cause. They wish to use cognitive dissonance and passivity to help separate themselves from the results of their own and team actions. In addition to this, the secrecy that shrouds the progression deeper into these clubs keeps people unknowingly engaged.

Even without getting into any conspiracy theory, we could even look at the Catholic church for example. People in power, even all the way to the top, Joseph Ratzinger more well known as Pope Benedict XVI knew of or was actively engaged in covering up decades of pedophilia on behalf of the club of which he is a part [8]. His actions and the similar actions of many church authorities have been to choose to suppress the morality breaking actions in favor of what is perceived as best for the club. Many churchgoers themselves employ this cognitive dissonance to avoid the conflict of the immorality which they help to fund by donations and support into a system they objectively know preys on youth. Slowly over generations western trends show that as people continue to develop the number of churchgoers is ever decreasing. This also shows the difficulty many people have because even though they may believe in the religion itself, they do not wish to support the actions the leaders of the religion take. This tends to cause difficulty for people to properly integrate this information and often leads to some form of dissociation or cognitive confusion. Often it would be explained away by some form of rationalization and thusly tolerated if not accepted for the comfort of continued attachment to existing narratives and habits.

The above example is not to simply pick on the Catholic church, it is not specifically about them. It is to point out Blue level cognition. The church is simply a very well-known example about which to be able to best share perspective.

Another great example of this mentality was beautifully described in a podcast interview about one woman's exodus from the Westboro Baptist Church in the United States. This is Blue level consciousness at its clearest. The interview, available from the Joe Rogan Experience podcast [9], details how Megan Phelps-Roper being raised in this particular club was completely in it and of it. She was an extreme supporter of the club's actions as well as her own actions in support of it. She listened and believed the reasoning and guidance from the authorities in her club. These ranged from her familial relationships like her parents and grandparents to the positions of power from within the church. All supportive of the same club messages. This individual went on to explain how she slowly started her process to escaping her club's dominance. Questioning. Rational application of inquiry. Many dogmatic religions have the same style of dealing with people's Orange level cognition.

These religions say, that questioning or scientific inquiry is good, though ultimately should not be used with respect to the club itself. The Catholic Church and Pope John Paul II for example told Stephen Hawking amongst other scientists [10] 'It's okay to study the universe and where it began. But we should not inquire into the beginning itself, because that was the moment of creation and the work of God.' In this same way, our fellow human from Westboro Baptist Church also had a similar experience. Hers must have been quite difficult as this church itself, as she describes in the interview, has a common practice to use Orange level logic to be able to dismantle outsider's comments, ideas, and perspectives. They actively taught the skills of questioning to dismantle the reasoning of others though did not endorse the same strict use of Orange level rationality against the club's ideas, beliefs, and actions.

In another example, as a former member of Scientology, Leah Remini's interview on the JRE podcast [11] was even more expressive of a club which, according to her, oppresses and suppresses dissent and difference of opinion. Especially when it questions the club of Scientology itself or the leadership within it. It is a club which has extensive rules and roles for people and to dissent is sometimes harshly punished. More than that, Scientology practices a strict order of secrecy to ensure that people who have not attained a certain level of progress within the club do not have access to all the information. This style of withholding information out of a controlling secrecy helps to keep questioning minds invested in the individual's continued development into the club without another direction in mind.

The Westboro Baptist Church or Scientology episodes mentioned above perfectly reflect this escape from cult thinking. Both stories of escaping an ethnocentric club were both possible because the development of Orange rational thought applied to the club itself. This was possible by directly questioning available information, the rules and roles of their group, as well as their long held personal beliefs of life.

Please remember that this book is not suggesting that all the people in a club themselves are actively engaged in dissuading rationality, however, the reasoning behind it is AQAL and should be considered as limitations of some, more than simply active suppression. The leaders themselves may not be particularly developed enough to process the contradictions which are inherent in the club's rules and roles. These clubs may have a sinister suppressive leadership who actively engages in such behavior. However, it may also be a situation of the blind leading the blind or more accurately the attached leading the attached. This can be especially true at the top of any group where there may be many perks to attach to.

People attach to a partial truth they "know" with "certainty" from the experiences they have had which have led them to a particular ideology are the truth. They see the real value that does exist in the truthful piece they hold, yet precisely because they hold so tightly to that partial truth as absolute truth, they find themselves in a position in which they cannot ease their grip enough to let greater truth in to add to the beauty and complexity of life. This may disrupt their existing narratives upon which they depend for the stability of their life especially if that club had been the only club an individual has known. We saw this in the last section with the idea of Quadrant Absolutism.

This book is not saying that religions should not exist. They should exist, they play an important role in development and bring partial truth forward to the light of people's awareness. Though like all levels of cognitive outlook they have inherent limitations and opportunities to be misused. They should play a non-suppressive, open, and secret free role in understanding of the best information we have at the time.

Religion, although it is a nice sharable example, should not be the only focus here, the bigger focus should be religiosity or dogmatism. Religiosity and dogmatism, as defined in this book, is a level of belief about some belief or ideology which itself has been accepted by an individual or group without the individual or group rationally questioning and validating the idea. That is to say, the whole-hearted belief in an ideology from a pre-rational level of acceptance. The way this religiosity is separate from religion is that one is the believed idea where the other is the way in which the idea is believed; the difference between what is believed and how it is believed.
We can see in the shifting of political alignment the sway of ideology in America over the last 20 plus years [12]. The shifting of what ideologies are believed, though not how they are believed.

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The right side of the image represents the political right ideology and the left side of the image as the political left. These have originally been labeled as the consistently conservative right and the consistently liberal left with mixed ideological beliefs in the middle.

For greater Integral clarity the colors of the levels of cognitive ideology have also been added to show with greater information the general shift of continuing growth of the American population's ideological beliefs from Blue to Orange to Green.

Not only is there a clear trend of polarization of ideology to one side or the other, though there is also the clear trend that median left ideology is more greatly polar than that of conservative ideology. This more extreme movement from the left seems to show that the right has been retracting towards greater conservatism as a reactionary balance of sorts.

Unfortunately, what is missing in this data of what people believe, is the how they believe it; the religiosity aspect of it all. Because despite what they believe from Blue to Orange to Green beliefs, it does not show how most Green Liberal believers follow their ideology with the same pre-rational team-style ethnocentric Blue approach as the religious right has traditionally done in the past and in many ways still does.

These groups of people fighting politically are simply using the same ethnocentric tribalism to support a different set of beliefs. They are not doing it in a rational or trans-rational way. Many of these Green supporters are not really Green within their own beliefs and actions. Green ideology is one representative of acceptance for diversity, but they will ethnocentrically attack you if you are not on their team. Those arguing use the belief system of acceptance to not accept others. They void the rationality of their own position which is certainly a limiting characteristic of the lack of judgment Green perspective and ideology inherently comes with.

Green ideology says that everyone is equal and that all hierarchies are bad. Nobody is better or worse than others and that people should all be equal and equally accepted. People who disagree with this ideology however are then seen as worse than others and should not be accepted. This is to say that their system of hierarchy says that all hierarchies are bad. Their system of accepting all should not accept those with contrary views. Their system of bringing power to de-marginalized groups should be used to de-marginalize groups who disagree. These are the inherent contradictions of Green.

People who do believe Green ideology in a pre-rational Blue way do not typically use logic and reason to question these contradictions. This is the same as pre-rational Blue believers in a religious group. As we have seen they do not tend to apply rational questioning towards their own group or beliefs. These believers are simply switching their religion of choice, or to reiterate, what they believe has changed, though how they believe it hasn't.

The previous graphic and the political examples of fighting help illustrate the Blue level belief of Green ideology. However, because of the left versus right mentality to politics this example glosses over the mixed ground of Orange belief and the process of development that underlies it. Just as there are Blue believers of Blue ideology and Blue believers of Green ideology there are Blue believers of Orange ideology. We did step over them, though should look at this segment also.

These Blue believers of Orange ideology, and hopefully the trend is starting to be clear, are ethnocentric team-based tribal groups for a different religious belief. Their belief is pre-rationally unquestioned allegiance to science and objective fact. This is their team and all others are simply wrong or misguided.

Richard Dawkins author of the God Delusion and The Selfish Gene is a perfect example of someone who believes in an Orange belief system in a Blue ethnocentric way. What he believes is Orange though how he believes it is Blue. The following quote from an interview [13] with Dawkins shows his not-fully rational application of questioning and judgement onto the rational worldview:

Interviewer: "How do you prepare for death in a world where there isn't a god?"

Dawkins: "You prepare for it by facing up to the truth, which is that life is what we have and so we better live our life to the full while we have it, because there is nothing after it."

He does give a nice answer to the question, however where he adds 'because there is nothing after it' shows his belief in science although the statement itself is not scientific. It shows the religiosity with which he believes in an Orange rational worldview. What he believes is Orange, though how he believes it is Blue.

So, we have seen that although people can have different worldviews of what they believe, they can have the same reasoning as to how they believe it. We have seen the religiosity of the Blue mythical worldview, the religiosity of the Orange rational worldview, and the religiosity of the Green pluralistic worldview. Why does this come about? Well, no person is raised without one of these belief systems already existing in society. As we have seen even from the political sways in what people believe as well as the holarchic history of humans that in the last couple hundred years or so our societies have changed a lot, at least in the west. Babies growing up even in the early twentieth century were raised in a still mostly Blue mythic society. Babies growing up in the middle of the twentieth century were raised in a more Orange rational society. This in turn has allowed babies growing up towards the latter part of the twentieth century to be raised in an increasingly Green pluralistic society. In a continued future it will be the case that babies will be born into an increasingly Yellow integrated society. This also shows why the trend towards this Blue level attachment to Green ideology is really driven by the younger generations as they were born into this Green belief system though have not yet done their own cognitive work to developmentally integrate the previous stages of Blue and Orange enough to get there.

As we grow up within these societies of belief, we come to the Blue level of ethnocentric rules and roles from pond #4 in our cognitive development. This happens to all of us around the age of six or seven and informs our views of how society works and how we work within it, as we discussed in the Personal Development section. This is a point of cognitive development which exists before the ability to apply logical rational cognition and judgment. This provides us an ability to create narrations for the explanations of life and society in a pre-rational uncritical way. This style of indoctrination happens and the environment that it happens in will play a part. Thus, we can see over time that what people believe has changed, though how they believe it has not necessarily.
(Figure 30)

(Note that these are not perfectly aligned, though are made so for readability)

Remembering that we are not ever simply at a singular stage, but we are a collective wave that propagates its progress through these potentials (figure 30). **What** someone may believe is a Green ideology, though **how** they believe it is in a Blue pre-rationally unquestioned way. This may be partially because of a desire to fit in to a group or to belong as a **why** motivation. These days this is often see in the Social Justice Warrior (SJW) mentality. To tribally gain moral points and achieve status in their group's status hierarchy. This may be the same motivating why for someone who believes the what of Orange ideology in the same tribal style of how they believe it.

If even scientific proselytizers fall into the habit and attachment to Blue ethnocentric belief without fully applying rationality than what hope does the average person have to overcome the limitations of Blue to continue their own growth whether that be Blue belief of Blue, Orange, Green, or even Yellow worldviews? What is the antidote to this style of Blue ethnocentric unquestioned belief? Well, just as we have seen from religion to science to pluralism, the escaping of this indoctrinated mentality is the judicious application of reasoned rational questioning to the foundations of what is believed. Additionally, greater self-awareness about the gaps in personal logic and the attachment to a particular level of partial truth and belief as the solely correct absolute truth and belief is also needed. We need to question and mindfully be aware of the what, how, and why of belief. It is only by easing our grasp on the narrations of self, culture, and nature can we better accept the validity that other parts of our own development and cognition can bring to our developing narration of life.

At each successive stage there is a transcending and including of what came before to bring about new and greater ways to experience the world (holarchic growth). Only once an individual gets to an Integral level of operation, do they allow the other levels to exist peacefully because they inherently see the value in the partial truths each stage brings forward and then integrate them all in a developing story of partial truths. Previous to an Integral stage, each stage sees their partial truth as the only truth in addition to not valuing the developmental path that we all grow through. That is to say the first stages above do not develop an inherent acceptance of the others. This is why we see major cultural clashes between them all over the world. Specifically, in the west, the biggest conflicts are seen within the following.

We have Blue traditional mythic fundamentalists valuing order from authority and living within the dictated rules and roles of life. The other two may be seen as lacking God or morals which they believe they are the sole purveyors of.

Then we have the Orange modern rational pragmatists looking to use logical strategy for optimal achievement in society. The other two may be seen as lacking rationality or personal accountability which they believe they are the sole purveyors of.

Lastly, we have the Green postmodern pluralistic relativists looking to accept diversity and differing views without judgement. The other two may be seen as lacking inclusion and compassion for difference which they believe they are the sole purveyors of.

Remember that none of the three above can really agree with any of the other two. They have fundamentally different outlooks on life, i.e. worldviews, and as such, separate themselves culturally.

To be clear, people can also believe these different ideologies in an Orange rational way. These ideologies are not wrong, they are all somewhat limited. One person can, for example, be rationally supportive of religion, or science, or pluralism. People can also be pluralistically accepting of all religions, or sciences, or ways of life. The main publicized fighting between the ideologies however are happening from a Blue ethnocentric level of interaction. A group of Blue believers with differing ideologies simply enact pre-rational tribal warfare to show their validity. A group of Orange believers with differing ideologies will simply tend to debate or test each other rationally to try to show or discover validity. Where a group of Green believers with differing ideologies will generally accept that different is just different without better or worse and each can show their own validity. None of these ideologies themselves are violent, though all these ideologies have Blue (and Red) people within them who can be. This creates fundamental imbalances within people. It promotes cognitive dissonance, especially when they are at one level of development though attach to a different level of worldview. Again, no one will ever only be at one stage and it is therefore important not to attach so wholeheartedly to one stage alone. Between other groups and on a mass stage of global affairs and politics these imbalances create uneven struggles for existence and this is where we are currently. A big part of the reason why our society is in some chaos is because of our inability to integrate this information into our own selves and the groups within which we belong. To reiterate what was mentioned in the introduction, Love is the singular religion we all share, though real separations happen as a result of the limited horizons of heart we inhabit.

### An Integral look at Some Colored Conversations

Lastly in this section we should entertain a couple important public conversations between some prominent individuals. The first is between Jordan B Peterson and Sam Harris where the second is between Sam Harris and Russell Brand. These conversations are presented to help see the differences between three different levels of ideology being more Blue, Orange, and Green. The topics discussed and the responses back and forth are very informative and expressive of the difficulties of communication between two levels who both do not see an Integral progression of transcend and include.

Remembering the caveats and disclaimers of not knowing these people personally, never having met them, though only hearing a few short hours of conversation from them, the assumptions of their worldview are exactly that, assumptions. These are the best guesses as to their perspective on life and are at best a gauge to understanding the tendencies of these individuals though not to define them outright, nor to say this is accurate for all their lines of development, nor to limit their ability to grow going forward. Because they are willing to sit down and discuss things they are at least, in part, occupying Orange level rationality to entertain each other's positions. However, this short analysis is focused on what ideology they believe and express, though not seeking to define how they believe it.
Jordan B Peterson and Sam Harris

Let's first look at what a Blue level Peterson shares with an Orange level Harris. (JP = Jordan Peterson, SH = Sam Harris, BW = Bret Weinstein - Moderator)

(figure 31)

Jordan Peterson's Horizon / Sam Harris's Horizon

This conversation [14] [15] was a two-evening event in Vancouver so it will be labelled as "Part 1" for day one and "Part 2" for day 2. To better understand your own perspectives and those of others we will address very telling examples of differing outlooks. These were long form discussions and so we will be looking at only specific examples to better understand the differences of perspective.

Around the sixteen-minute mark into Part 1:

JP: "What would be the defining characteristics of a religious totalitarian movement that would make it different from a non-religious totalitarian movement? Because there are aspects that are similar."

SH: "Yeah they're very similar. The problem is dogmatism. The overarching problem is believing things strongly on bad evidence. And the reason why dogmatism is so dangerous is that it is... it doesn't allow us to revise our bad ideas in real time through conversation. Dogmas have to be enforced by force or the threat of force because the moment someone has a better idea you have to shut it down in order to preserve your dogma."

JP: "Okay. So the commonality seems to be something like claims of absolute truth at some level that can't be, that you're no longer allowed to discuss?"

SH: "Yeah."

JP: "Okay, so that's another point of agreement then I would say. Because part of the reason that I've been a free speech advocate, although I don't think that's the right way of thinking about it, is because I think of free discourse like the discourse we're engaged in as the mechanism that corrects totalitarian excess or dogmatic excess. And so I also think that systems of governance that are laying themselves out properly have to elevate the process by which dogmatic errors are corrected over the dogmas themselves."

(figure 32 Quadrant Colors and Validity Claims / repeated for reference)

What is valuable to see here is firstly the idea of dogmatism or religiosity which we mentioned earlier as a pre-rational level of whole-hearted absolute belief. In other words, a pre-Orange purely subjective belief from the Red "I" or the Blue "We" which is held as absolute truth as opposed to partial truth. Furthermore, the path to correct dogmatic belief is to institute Orange level questioning to the beliefs themselves and that should be "elevated" to a place beyond the dogmas themselves. This perfectly describes the four quadrants. We should elevate our thought process into a domain of objective rationality and objective truth to better view the partial truths which our subjective cultural beliefs have.

They continue at about the 1:24:00 mark:

SH: "So you act as though God exists and in addition I've heard you say that I act as if God exists. That I can't really be an atheist."

JP: "Well so far it seems that. We'll see, ha ha." (crowd laughter)

SH: "Yes, the night is young. (crowd laughter) So, in that sense I'm not really an atheist. I've heard you say this."

JP: "Well some of you is."

SH: "Well, if I were really an atheist I would be far more poorly behaved than in fact I am, right? I would be like Raskolnikov committing murders and assuming there was nothing wrong with it?"

JP: "It would be more likely, yes."

From these comments it is telling that Jordan Peterson tends to inhabit a perspective from a Blue horizon. This horizon sees the tendencies of the faithless and being associated with Red and thus claiming due to the moral actions Sam Harris generally embodies he can't be completely faithless, i.e. not completely atheistic. This describes well the transcending and including that Orange transcends and includes a Blue horizon yet would only be seen by Blue as being like Red.

On to Part 2 they are talking about the idea of sacrifice:

JP: "Let's say that I'm trying to give the Devil his due and I'm trying to understand from an evolutionary perspective, a cognitive behavioral evolutionary perspective let's say, why that particular set of ideas [sacrifice] would emerge in many places, perhaps autonomously, or once having emerged, would spread like wildfire? Because I'm not willing to only attribute it to ignorance, now we can attribute it to ignorance no problem, but there is more going on there because it is a human universal. There are all sorts of things that happen in nature as a consequence of biological and evolutionary processes that don't work out well for our current state of moral intuition."

SH: "Agreed, yes."

JP: "So, one of the things, because I've been thinking about this sacrificial motif for a very long time; to try to figure out what the hell is the idea here exactly. So here is one way of thinking about it. If you give up something of value now, you can gain something of more value in the future. Let's think about that idea for a minute. That's a hell of an idea."

SH: "That's delay of gratification."

JP: "That's delay of gratification. That's right. That's the discovery of the future as well. And so you might say the notion of sacrifice is exactly the same thing as the discovery of the future. If we give up something we really value now we can make a pact with the structure of existence itself such that better things will happen to ourselves in the future."

SH: "Yes."

JP: "Okay, what's weird about this, and it's hard to understand, is that it works."

Continuing shortly thereafter...

JP: "The issue is that it is not obvious that animals will forego an immediate gratification for a future gratification.

BW (moderator): "I don't think that's right, actually"

JP: "Well, the question is will they do it consciously? They might act it out. They act it out. That's not the issue."

BW: "It's very hard to know if it's conscious because they won't respond to the questionnaires." (crowd laughter)

JP: "Obviously the line between acting it out and starting to be consciously represented is a tenuous one but what looks to me like what happened is that after we observed that people who were capable of delaying gratification sacrificed things that they value in order to obtain a future goal and it worked, that we started to codify that as a representation and then started to act it out.

As we have seen in our personal cognitive development this is perfectly describing Pond #3, the Mental Conceptual Self. This was also shown in the Holarchic history of humans as being part of the branching away from lower hominids and our more animalistic nature into the initial stages of creating perspective which eventually lead to horticultural societies. As a quick refresher from Pond #3 in our personal cognitive development we saw that this was the creation of the egocentric self. It was starting around 2-4 years old and continuing until around 7 years old. This developmental wave allows for the development into the linguistic world were for the first time in our personal development and collective history we gain access to emergent skills like temporal understanding and narrative timeline. Or to relate this to what Jordan Peterson was saying, the discovery of the future.

The somewhat famous Stanford Marshmallow Experiments [15] in which a child was seated in a simple room in front of a small treat like a marshmallow. They were told that they could eat that now or wait fifteen minutes and have two treats. This was a test of the delay of gratification. Unsurprisingly to us, the children in the experiment were from a specific age range. They were from 3 years, 6 months to 5 years, 8 months of age. This is exactly during the Pond #3 cognitive development. However, we digress...

What Jordan Peterson is trying to really get at is an understanding of this more fundamental structure of perception? As he goes on to say next this dogmatic nature of belief occurs as an inherent part of human development. Sense this dogmatic style of belief occurs and is universal, how is it that Sam Harris can create a way of living which seeks to simply get rid of it? Wouldn't that way of living itself have a dogma attached to it? Keep in mind the areas of belief which are being discussed and see how it relates to the four quadrants and the validity claims mentioned at the start of this section. To help point out these positions there will be a [color/comment] added within the conversation.

JP: "Part of the issue here... The problem is that, let's take the "dogma" idea. Okay, so there's the dogma incorporated in the books. But I'm gonna throw away the books because the dogma was there before the books. And then the question is where was the dogma? And the answer was the dogma was in the cultural practices and in the agreement that people made with regards to those cultural practices [Blue/We]. But it was also part and parcel of the inter-psychic structure that enables us to perceive the world as such [Personal cognition/I]. Now the problem is, and I think this is the central place where we need to flesh out these ideas, is that you cannot view the world without an a-priori structure [you can't get to objective Orange without already having subjective Red and Blue development beforehand]. And that a-priori structure has a dogmatic element. And so you can't say 'well let's get rid of the dogma' because you can't perceive the world without a structure. [You can't get rid of the bottom steps on the staircase of human development simply because you may now be developed and see life from a higher step. You still needed them and others will need them to get to where you are.]"

SH: "Well, it has an uninspected element. You're talking about just perceiving the world. Yes, we have perceptual structures that allows us to perceive the world and we know that there are failure states, right. So we know, for instance, that we are,... we have evolved to perceive visual space based on a literally neurological expectation that a light sources will be from above, right [Objective/Orange]. So we know that we can produce visual illusions based on gaming that expectation, right. But that's not the same thing as a dogma [subjective], subscribed to by some subset of humanity that is antithetical to another dogma subscribed to by another subset of humanity. That has nothing to do with the underlying biology [it isn't objective truth]. It's something that's changeable in real time based on just conversations like this. I get emails from people who can point to the paragraph where they lost their faith. In reading Richard Dawkins or hearing a debate between me and some theologian. A collision against rationality which is so useful in every other context, suddenly proves its utility in this context when they think 'well clearly I know the Muslims are wrong about the status of the Koran'. Let me take that spirit of criticism in the internal space of my own culture and what moves? Well, a dogmatic attachment to Christianity has to move by that same standard. And it's possible to do that and that's not a matter of getting into the brain and changing your perceptual apparatus." [We can upgrade our perspectives from pre-rational to rational by way of internalizing objective truth and comparing it against our subjective justness and truthfulness. It is not about changing our perceptual apparatus as much as it is augmenting it or building on top of what already exists.]

JP: "Well, the distinction between different levels of structure related processing in the brain and the relationship to the underlying biology isn't clear. It isn't clear when that's biological and when it isn't. So, your comments about our a-priori perceptional structures notwithstanding, there's no clear line between what constitutes an instantiated, accurate, biological perception and something that shades more into a cultural presupposition. So, it's a grey area. Now, let me ask you a question. This is one of the things I've been thinking about. This is designed to point out... I'm not making the claim that the idea that we should ground values in facts is wrong. I'm not gonna make that claim [He's saying Orange truth is important]. Although I think it is way more complicated than we have opened it up so far. But I would say is I can, I think relatively easily demonstrate a situation in which you cannot find the value from the facts. Let's say you own an antique. It's valuable. And you think 'I'm gonna take this antique apart and I'm gonna find out where the value is'. Good luck man."

SH: "Well, it's not valuable in that sense."

JP: "Oh, wait a second. Wait a second. So we need to know,... so that's right it's not valuable in that sense because the value of the antique is a social agreement about its position in a hierarchy. It has nothing to do with the material substrate of the antique." [subjective value not simply objective]

SH: "Sure."

JP: "Yeah, but you can't... it's not just 'sure'. It's that you already made the claim already that you can derive values from facts, then what are you willing to accept as a fact?"

SH: "These are facts about... again, facts exist in intersubjective space [not in but about an intersubjective space, We], right. So, if I tell you 'well this glass, this isn't just an ordinary glass. I know it looks just like that one. But, this is the glass that Elton John drank from in his last concert here. "

JP: "Right, right."

SH: "So, what do you wanna pay me for it? It could be that you're just the biggest Elton John fan ever and it's worth quite a lot to you. Now that is not value intrinsic to the glass but it is a measure in the change this provokes in your experience, right. I mean just the idea. We value ideas just as anything else and that's... I mean, hence the mad work done by religion, right. These aren't facts on the ground. These are ideas that rule people's lives. I mean people spend their whole life afraid of hell."

JP: "It seems to me that it's easier in some sense, rather than to relate the value of that, and I love the Elton John's glass example. I was going to use Elvis Presley's guitar for the same thing. It's like 'where in the guitar is the fact that it's Elvis Presley's guitar?'. Well, it's nowhere in the guitar. Where is it then? And the answer is it's in the dominance hierarchy of values that's been socially constructed around the guitar. It's located in inter-personal space [We] and that... So value is located in interpersonal space and so if you want to say 'well that's also a fact', it's like 'okay but we're starting to stretch the...' "

SH: "It's a fact about the beliefs and desires and conscious states of all the people involved, right. That's the only place it exists. That's the only place where the idea of Elvis's guitar can show up. [In the subjective space]"

JP: "Fair enough. Well, I'm trying to figure out then, you see, because what seems to me to be happening, at least in part, is we can stretch the domain of what constitutes a fact so that the domain of facts [objective truth] starts to incorporate the domain of values [subjective justness and truthfulness]. But we do that with doing some damage to the domain of fact."

Here, they are somewhat dancing around each other. Peterson is saying that the cultural valuation of something attributes value to it. This is correct. Harris is saying that there is an objective correlate of a 'fact' which can be created to objectify the subjective cultural desire. This is also correct. They both tend to fail at integrating these two types of information which is better integrated with the validity claims from each quadrant. For example, there exists a cultural emotional connection and desire for a cultural icon and their old guitar. The sentence 'I' just read is an objectified fact about that feeling. The fact or sentence itself is not the emotion or desire, yet objectively represents it as a placeholder. In this fashion Harris is saying we can have 'facts' about the subjective spaces.

SH: "No, no, no."

JP: "Hang on. Don't just say no. This is really complicated because, you see, part of what the postmodernists have done is they pushed away the domain of facts [objective truth] entirely and they say 'well, the only thing that actually exists is this domain of intersubjective agreement'. [Blue level dogmatic belief of Green ideology is the group of postmodernists he is referring to.]"

SH: "Yeah, you and I are on the same page with respect to post-modernism [Green]."

JP: "Right, but you have to give the devil his due as well. They pointed out something. And what they have pointed out is that it's not so easy to localize the structure that attributes to facts their value. It's not a simple thing. [It's not so easy to simply reduce all the quadrant information into the reverberations of your favorite one. It's not simple to see the correlations and connections between the different quadrants if you are stuck in the absolute truth of one quadrant rather than partial truths of all quadrants.]"

BW: "Now, wait, wait. You would surely agree that if we had Elvis Presley's guitar that that guitar would have a material impact on people. We could tell them 'this is Elvis Presley's guitar'. Some fraction of them would disbelieve it. Somebody might be able to establish it based on a picture or something like that. And the point is, it would have a value that would alter the behavior of people with respect to that object in a material way."

JP: "Yes, it would alter the behavior of the people."

BW: "So the value will manifest in physical space?"

JP: "Which part of it?"

BW: "We can figure out what the value of this guitar is based on some intersection..."

JP: "Sure, we can take a behaviorist approach and we can see how much work people are willing to do to... [measure objective action of subjective desire]"

SH: "But also we can scan their brains to see what... [measure objective thoughts]"

JP: "Well, I'm not so sure we can do that."

SH: "Well, clearly the brain has evolved..."

JP: "Hypothetically we can do it, but practically we are not so good at it. Because the MRI data, generally speaking, is junk.'

SH: "Well, we can table that. That will be a profoundly controversial statement in MRI circles."

JP: "Yeah, fair enough."

Continuing...

JP: "Well, okay. So partly what I'm trying to do is to determine what that structure is." [What is the structure if subjective 'We' is important and so is objective 'it'? It seems he is looking for Integral Theory.]

SH: "In our case, it is certainly connected to the evolved structure of our brain, but it's augmented by everything else we do. [Orange points out it must include Orange]"

JP: "Yeah, but I want to go way deeper into the idea that its connected with brain states. Because yes, it is definitely connected with brain states [Yes Orange plays a part]. The question is at least in part, how? What does that mean? And I think that neuroscience has progressed far enough so that we can do quite a good job of this. And so I want to return to one thing [... he continues]"

BW: "So Jordan, you have argued for an evolved framework of religious belief in which there are elements that are morally defensible which we have carried through time. There are elements that are morally reprehensible that we carried through time by virtue of the fact that they are effective. And you have argued that these things, because they have stood the test of time, have some kind of value which is not necessarily something that we should honor, but some large fraction of it must be. But that would seem to suggest that the degree to which these belief structures have value is contingent to the degree to which the environment in which we attempt to deploy these structures matches the environment in which they evolved?" [These parts of ourselves developed in very different environments throughout history and are still with us today in our modern environment. Their value is affected by the situations and environments in which we find ourselves. The modes from Red to Blue to Orange to Green etc. are more valuable in environments and situations which reflect the originating environments.]

JP: "Absolutely."

BW: "Now, I would argue that no population of humans has lived farther from its ancestral environment than we do."

JP: "Well, I think that's a fallacy. Well, it is and it isn't. I think that's an absolutely valid point. So, this gets esoteric relatively rapidly, but the question is let's say at the highest levels of adaptation we're adapted to the things that last the longest periods of time. Those are the most permanent things. Now the question is, what are those most permanent things? And one answer would be the fundamental material substrate of the world. And that's true, I'm gonna leave that be. Like, we're evolved to deal with gravity, okay [Magenta - Sensory Motor development]. But there are other elements that are higher order abstractions in some sense that are also apparently hyper real [Red, Blue, etc.]. So, for example, there's a problem that we have a bifurcated brain. Well, the question is why do we have a bifurcated brain? Not just us, animals too. And the answer seems to be well there's two necessary ways of looking at the world and they have to be in conflict to some degree in order to work properly. The right hemisphere mode and the left hemisphere mode. The right hemisphere mode is a lot more metaphorical than the left hemisphere mode. The right hemisphere is the hemisphere that seems to deal with exceptions to the rule. And it seems to deal with exceptions to the rule by aggregating them and then trying to recognize patterns that unite them as a corrective to the totalitarian system in some sense that the left hemisphere imposes. You could say that the right and the left are adapted for something like explored territory for the left and unexplored territory for the right. I've characterized that as order versus chaos and I think the religious landscape is good versus evil, to Sam's point that we should strive for a good life, on a landscape of chaos versus order. And I think that landscape is permanent. Now I know we have moved from our African ancestral homeland, but this underlying abstraction, this underlying reality is so profound that it maintains its validity across all sets of potential environmental transformations."

SH: "Can I just jump in here? Because here's why, just to cease on one piece you put in play there. Here's why good and evil can't be permanent in the usual sense. Certainly not in the Christian or Judeo-Christian sense. One is the Judeo-Christian notion of good and evil doesn't even map onto eastern religion. In an eastern context, or in a Hindu or Buddhist context evil isn't really evil it's just ignorance. Now you might dispute that..."

They continue...

SH: "... The reason why evil is susceptible to total deflation is, if you agree with me, evil is a category of human misbehavior, human intention, that we don't understand significantly at the level of the brain but if we did understand it totally at the level of the brain then every evil person we had in the dock at trial would be just like Charles Whitman with his brain tumor after he shot up everyone at the University of Texas. He's the prototypically evil mass murderer but he's complaining about this change that overcame his personality. He thinks it would be a good idea 'after the cops kill me, you autopsy my brain because I don't know why I'm doing any of this', right. And lo and behold he had a glioblastoma pressing on his amygdala and all of a sudden it made sense of his behavior in a way that a full understanding of psychopathy or every other variant of evil would make sense of it in a way that would be deflationary ethically. So, then you would look at someone like Saddam Hussein, the worst evil person you can imagine, and you say 'well, he's actually unlucky'. There but for the grace of biology go I. Because if I had that brain, if I had those genes, if I had those influences that gave me those synapses I would be just like him. Now, if you think that there is some other element that gives us free will then you and I are disagreeing, then that is a factual claim that's at variance with mine. But if we are just, at some level, malfunctioning biological systems when we're being evil then a complete understanding of evil would cancel that category ethically."

In Sam Harris's biological view of the world he sees the role the objective biology plays in addition to the objective environmental influences. What he may be missing is the subjective influences of Culture and Self. This book would generally express a belief that free will is within the domain of 'Self' in the upper left 'I' quadrant. Because it has correlates in the objective brain states, an Orange perspective would not believe that the self-aware conscious actor could affect the biology but believe rather that it is the biology which affects consciousness. Both are true, but partial. Hence free will exists.

Another notable point is that this idea of positive and negative has its representations in all of the four quadrants for example. This would fall in line with the validity claims which we visited earlier. In the 'Self' domain it is the difference between honesty or dishonesty. In the 'We' domain, it is the difference between the good and evil or moral fit. In the domain of 'It' objects in an objective world it is the difference between knowledge and ignorance of what is objectively true. In the domain of 'Its' systems it is the difference between what is effective or ineffective. And to look at all of these and include them, this book expresses that an Integral belief of positive and negative would be how they resonate in all areas as the difference between harmony and disharmony as a more generalized interpretation. With the nuance of the vocabulary aside:

Positive/Negative = Negentropic/Entropic = Honest/Dishonest = Good/Evil = Knowledge/Ignorance = Effective/Ineffective = Harmony/Disharmony

Thus far this conversation tends to show the differences and limitations between a Blue ideology and an Orange one. It shows how the waters of a single topic can become muddied quickly without a shared language. Keeping this in mind, let's get into what an Orange level Harris has to say to a Green level Brand.

Sam Harris and Russell Brand

(figure 33)

Harris's Horizon / Brand's Horizon

As we skip through the conversation [16] we will address very telling examples of the limitations of outlook. To not cut the conversational context too much we will analyze sections at a time. At around the twelve-minute mark, the two are discussing the Christian belief of sacrament and the religious nature of eating a cracker or drinking wine being the body and blood of Christ. (SH = Sam Harris, RB = Russell Brand)

SH: "So the doctrine is this bizarre act of human sacrifice and cannibalism at the bottom of it. Which doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense."

RB: "It does if you look at the roots of agricultural deity worship and the relationship between the known and the unknown and the necessity to have a relationship with plants and seasons like all agricultural cults."

SH: "It doesn't make sense that people want to be eating his body."

RB: "Except it's a metaphor for union and oneness."

SH: "Except, it's not preached as a metaphor. The doctrine is not metaphorical. I'll grant you that many people aren't thinking about it literally now, but that's just to say that they have lost faith in the actual doctrine of the church."

In terms of our horizons let's color code what we are talking about. The orange circle represents the areas Harris sees and talks about where the green circle represents Brand's areas of discussion. The above can really be shown as the following:

(figure 34)

They are literally talking about the same topic, though have fundamentally different abilities to interpret it.

Sam Harris does not elevate religion beyond rational into trans-rational as this is a limit of Orange and therefore sees it only as barbarically simplistic and believes it can only then be seen as Mythical religion. Brand acknowledges the past where mythic people interpreted things mythically, though allows for greater interpretation of 'oneness' in a trans-rational Mystical religious spiritual way.

Where anybody can have an altered state of consciousness or have peak experiences into very deep or highly inclusive perspectives of the 'trans' type, the experiences will ultimately be understood and be narrated by the normal everyday level which occurs. Thusly, people of biblical times may have had some peak experiences of the unifying type in a trans-rational, trans-egoic way though when needing to narrate their enlightening experience to others they could only do so in the average consciousness of the time, Blue. Today people are using an old text representing the best information of those meaningful experiences and are interpreting it with the best perspectives of current time; 'trans' perspectives. The developmental progress is why people have changed views from the mythic-literal dogmatic authoritative doctrine of the past to an interpretive work with many metaphors and analogies to been gleaned. As opposed to having lost faith in the actual doctrine, as Sam goes on to say, it would be more accurate to say they have developed beyond some of the initial more limited interpretations which old texts and teachings certainly carried and for today's mythic-literal believers still do. However, to try to make Harris's point clearer, many have lost faith in the original authoritative doctrine. This is accurate and is what he also mentions by stating many people don't believe it literally today. However, the flock may have added faith in the religion overall as they find greater value from greater interpretations from greater perspectives.

Continuing...

RB: "I think that's important and I think we also have to look beyond rationalism. You're a man who is deeply interested in mysticism and spirituality. And once it's on the plain of the corporal and the rational, then to evaluate the symbols purely rationally, they're always going to be sort of, kind of, left wanting."

A Green level Brand gets at the heart of the limitations of Sam Harris's Orange perspective in the above quote. Orange is limited to a rational realm and a Green level Brand suggests to 'look beyond rationalism' to see additional value held within the symbols of mysticism and spirituality.

SH: "I would be slow to conclude that. I don't think you have to be irrational to use these tools."

Keep in mind that Blue, Orange, and Green level perspectives can only see their position as the correct position in contrast to others, as opposed to seeing it as a process of development. Additionally, Green is inclusive of Orange though not the other way around. To Orange rationality, everything not Orange is simply irrational. Orange level Harris in the above response to Green level Brand, does not outrightly disagree with what Brand stated, however can only frame it through the understanding of it being irrational.

RB: "Or beyond rational. Not just irrational, not like necessarily less than rational, possibly more than rational."

Green level Brand immediately tries to bring attention to a big difference between Green and Blue being that they are not the same kind of non-rational, although naturally Orange has difficulty seeing it. This is the nature of the Pre-Trans fallacy.

SH: "There is clearly more than forming a rational understanding of the universe. There's more to life than that. There's fun, there's love, there's beauty, there is more than we want out from life than simply not being wrong. I'm not saying that reason is everything, but the question is 'Do you ever have to be irrational to go beyond merely conceptually understanding the world?' Do you ever have to lie to yourself? Do you ever have to lie to others or believe the lies of others to go into these other areas?"

RB: "No."

SH: "But, most people are living as though absolutely you do. Because religion is just the most prolific example of lying and self-deception that we know."

In an attempt to reword Harris's questions so that they are answered more clearly and to tease out the subtlety of errors here:

Q: If you are looking to understand the universe conceptually do you need to be irrational?

A: No - computers have logical models of the universe and are not irrational - perfectly Orange.

Q: Do you ever have to be irrational to make that conceptual model?

A: Yes - We need to grow through pre-rational states to get to rational ones.

Q: Do you ever need to lie to yourself or others or believe the lies of others to go into these non-rational areas of understanding the universe?

A: No - Lying is not itself an irrational act. When people lie there is often a reason. Lying seems to be confused with irrationality.

This is a perfect example of the slightness and subtlety of problems if two things are not considered:

Self-reflective rationality is part of a process of growth rather than a product of existence. It is not that you either have it or you don't, it is that it needs to be developed. Personal cognition requires growth through pre-rational states to get to rational states and then beyond to trans-rational.

After you obtain a conceptual understanding of the universe, what do you do with it? (This question brings forth the subjective which cannot be separated from reality)

Where Harris mentions that 'religion is just the most prolific example of lying and self-deception that we know', the 'lying' in Sam Harris's eyes is a result of Blue level cognition to believe from authority absolutist ideology and attach wholeheartedly to ideas which have not been proven scientifically or objectively true. That is to say that Blue tends to orient from the lower left quadrant and thus focuses on the valid morality or justness more than valid objective truth. Religion also allows for something bigger than 'self' but includes it and allows people to feel the truthfulness which they can personally interpret from the religious moral teachings. Sam Harris's point is simply that it is not objective truth, and that is correct. More than the validity of truth, is religion effective? At what...? Well, is religion effective in cohering the masses into relative peace? Yes. Is religion effective at aiding people's growth out of selfish behavior into greater moral thoughts and actions? Yes. Is religion effective at aiding people's growth out of dogmatic absolutist belief towards other domains of validity such as objective truth? No. This is the limitation of Blue along with Blue's worldview and beliefs.

Continuing later in the podcast with the following exchange:

SH: "Something is universally applicable and if it's not universal we can understand those differences. So, if there is a culture where they like spicy food and we don't but eating spicy food is just another way to be happy as an ape, we can understand those differences biologically and culturally. The idea that it just may be as good a solution for how to maximize human wellbeing to put half the population in bags and not let them learn to read... I'm taking the local case of Afghanistan under the Taliban it's actually Afghanistan currently as well. We're talking about women who have almost the worst possible life on planet Earth. We're talking about maternal mortality rates that are off the charts. You're talking about illiteracy, you have to go back nearly 200 years in the west to find that level of illiteracy."

RB: "I think this is precisely the kind of reasoning that's used to justify the bombing and the commercial colonization of those territories. 'They're not like us.' 'They treat women different from us.' I don't think we're in a position to make those judgements."

SH: "Tell me how you'd react to this? I have two daughters and if I were thinking the way you were thinking about this issue, what if I thought it would be a great idea to have a cultural exchange program were I just sent my daughters over to Afghanistan to live with a Taliban family? So rather than go to summer school here and get prepared to go to an Ivy League college, or whatever it is, I sent them to live with the Taliban?"

RB: "You don't need to explain all this to me, I see where you're going. I'm not nine years old."

SH: "You've got to answer it. Answer it."

RB: "I'm from a western culture. I've been indoctrinated differently."

SH: "So you're saying there's no right or wrong here?"

RB: "... I think it is very different saying 'I've been born in the west. I've grown up in the west. My daughter's born in the west, now impose upon her a totally different set of values.' I don't want her to go to the deep south either. I wouldn't want her to go to places in Britain."

SH: "You don't think it's unlucky to be born a girl in Afghanistan 5 years ago?"

RB: "I think that these kinds of theoretical tableaus are used to create a false hierarchy and a moral superiority by a dominant culture that subsequently uses thinking of this nature to underwrite the modern-day colonization and subjugation of these people on a massive scale. And as barbaric and as disgusting as 9/11 was a daily 9/11 since then so that a state system can perpetuate itself using rationalism, using comfortable means of execution that glide slyly by all white in the sky is no better."

SH: "It is better."

In the above exchange, the true Green level pluralistic nature of Brand comes to the fore when not willing to make a judgment about the better or worse status of different cultures. This is the debilitating nature of Green's extensive efforts to accept all and therefore void its own ability to make discerning judgments. This is especially true when Brand says "'They're not like us.' 'They treat women different from us.' I don't think we're in a position to make those judgements." Directly claiming an inability to judge because of the fundamental acceptance for diversity and difference. It really couldn't be more succinctly demonstrated. At the same time, Green level Brand is setting himself somewhat in opposition to Orange level Harris as the limits and negatives of Orange are not lost on Brand as demonstrated by the last statements denouncing the very true corporate colonization in the above statement.

As a very quick thought experiment let's look at cultures. Where culture is an arbitrarily agreed upon set of values we cannot say a culture is right or wrong. We can however, say one culture is better or worse. Before you find yourself triggered to disagree, let's look at an example. We can hopefully agree that racism is not good. Therefore, a culture which is racist is not as good as a culture that is inclusive or accepting. This is a judgement that can and should be made. This ranking or order to cultures can be done. This book suggests that a culture with a larger horizon of heart is one that is more developed, inclusive, and therefore better in broad generalizing terms of course.

More than the above Green demonstration from Brand, Orange level Harris is really making an objective argument against the Blue cultural traditions in Afghanistan. Just as Brand can see the limitations and negative aspects of Orange, Orange sees the limits and negative aspects of Blue. This is why Harris can confidently state that "It is better" when using objective measures to state that the western style of life is better than that of Blue mythic ideology which currently suppresses women in Afghan society.

For the following exchange in-line colors and comments have been written as the following [Color and/or Comment].

SH: "...These are universal features of what it's like to have a human mind that is based on human neurochemistry [Orange]. And this is not something we just made up [not subjective]. It's not something that's purely a product of our time. It's not merely cultural [not Blue]. And that's why sticking girls in bags for their entire lives and not letting them read is bad. [Objectively/Orange]"

RB: "Stop saying that I think it's derisory."

SH: "It's exactly what's happening in Afghanistan. I'm not talking about the voluntary use..."

RB: "You shouldn't use incendiary language if you are here to convey love, why use that?" [Green]

SH: "Because how can you pretend to love girls if you are not as concerned as I am about this mistreatment of them?"

RB: "Because I don't pretend to understand complex historical and cultural issues form a very particular perspective of an American or an English white man." [Green]

SH: "You're overthinking it. It has nothing to do with skin color."

RB: "Who knows what the level of thought that's required is Sam? But you are an American intellectual in 2018."

SH: "Just take a few facts on board here. [Orange] I can introduce you to women, of whatever shade of brown skin you require, who has grown up in these cultures, who will say exactly what I'm saying about the consequences on compulsory veiling."

RB: "And I could introduce you to a variety of women who would say the contrary. 'It's a practice of personal subjugation, it's the same as doing yoga or exercise. It's a way of refining your consciousness, of ameliorating'..."

SH: "If you have those two people have a conversation, you take someone like Ayaan Hirsi Ali or Sarah Haider how runs the ex-Muslims of North America, and you have her talk to someone like Linda Sarsour, the Hijabi icon of the women's march - darling of the left [of Green] now who's actually a closet theocrat [Blue] and quite a nefarious person when you get her talking about religion, I mean, she will not admit that life for women in Saudi Arabia is bad by comparison at all than for life for women in the west....But if you have two women of this sort talk, one who has taken off the hijab for reasons of not wanting to wear it and wanting to live in a system where she is free not to wear it and one who says 'I'm wearing it purely as an expression of my own religious faith and it's just pure women empowerment, female empowerment. If you let that conversation proceed, you'll see that this side has to lie endlessly about the actual doctrines about why most people, most women, most of the time, are wearing this. It's being forced upon them. I mean talk about the misuse of power. You're talking about, take the perfect case that sounds like a thought experiment but it actually happened, you take the religious police in Mecca who wouldn't let the girls who were burned in a dormitory alive be rescued because they weren't wearing their veils. They wouldn't let the firemen go in and rescue girls from a burning building because they weren't properly veiled. That is the reductive ad absurdum of this." [Objective Orange actions of saving people's lives takes a back seat to subjective Blue cultural belief in this example. This voiding of what is greater in Orange for what is lower in Blue is what Harris points to as absurd.]

Their conversation concludes with some of the following statements and exchanges.

SH: "Most of these examples of where power is victimizing millions and millions of people are, I would argue, are examples where the system is set up in such a way that it is reliably exporting this misery and there is no author of it, there is no bad person, or there are very few bad people who are the actual authors of this human suffering, or the perpetrators of it. What we have are systems where selfish people being selfish most of the time, manage to export a fair amount of misery to people who are less lucky then themselves. If we want a fairer economic arrangement, we have to design it and we have to design it for people as they are. We need systems that will allow people..."

And later continuing:

SH: "It's all a matter of alternatives. Democracy seems impressively broken to me and capitalism seems impressively broken to me, except the alternatives seem worse. I mean this is Winston Churchill, right. I mean, we just need to find our way, but just recognize what we are doing. We're trying to grab whatever lever or dial we can get within reach to change the human experience in predictably benign and ultimately positive ways."

RB: "The teleology of civilization then seems somewhat broken. The idea of bigger and bigger states and sort of a globally mandated government, these seem to be poor ideas. What may work for human beings, for the seven billion, is decentralization, and to achieve that, to achieve real change, where do you suppose the fulcrum will need to be applied? Who are the people for whom the 90,000 homeless and little Jenny and the 100,000 others are not really a problem because their system is operating precisely as it was intended to operate."

SH: "The perfect system, and this is what capitalism promises but doesn't deliver, is everyone selfishly seeking happiness for themselves [Red] and prioritizing the happiness of their families, their loved ones [Blue]. Then maybe going out a few [Orange and beyond], maybe extending that circle [Horizon of Heart] more and more as they learn more and more about the other problems in the world [Grow to greater inclusion]. But they'll never extend that circle perfectly, or most people certainly won't. And what you want is a system that captures all of that energy in a way that allows all boats, or most boats to rise with the same tide, most of the time. Is there a perfect solution to all of these zero-sum and positive-sum arrangements? I don't know [Holocracy and the CARE economy presented later in this book]. But there is certainly better and worse ones. We know there is some bad ones on offer that we don't want to experiment with again. And we want to refine our current set of solutions so that life gets better and better. And the truth is, and this can sound like a very despairing conversation but, life has gotten better and better for virtually everyone in our lifetime. If you look at the last century, something like 10% of people live in extreme poverty and 90% of people don't. We've got 7 billion people, 90% of them are not in what we are calling extreme poverty. Something like 150 years ago, that was flipped. It was 90/10 the other way. It was 90% extreme poverty."

Finally, to conclude:

SH: "[...]...What you're talking about are systems and institutions that... just how good could a school be, how good could entertainment be, how good could the internet be, how good could social media be in terms of leading us where we want to go, both personally and inter-personal. And I think we are at the beginning of perfecting those things. And it's not that we will reach perfection. All of these things are obviously so broken as they are now that we just don't know how much better life would be if we got halfway to the optimum. It's just there is an immense amount of work to do and the work will be done on the basis of having insights into truth [Orange tends to only see truth but not, truthfulness, justness, and effectiveness] and having a fact-based discussion about the consequences of turning any of these knobs.

Within the conclusions of this podcast, the biggest takeaways are that a new system is needed, the systems that have been tried have been proven worse, that it should be for people as they are, that it could use decentralization, and be grounded in the objective whilst still respecting the subjective.

These above takeaways for an 'ideal' system are exactly what this book seeks to put forth.

As a general note on having looked at the different perspectives that these public figures tend to present, it is done not to criticize them or their perspectives, though to help describe what these perspectives tend to look like. This was to show the tendencies of thought they bring and the quadrants they come from. This will thusly help us to be better able to see these perspectives within ourselves and be able to better challenge ourselves to understand how to move towards the 'high road' of increasingly more inclusive perspectives. Being mindful and self-aware is one thing, though knowing how to look at the tendencies you notice is another.

As we continue into the two last main sections of this book we will look at our continued society in two different ways. The first is an example of the continued lack of integration of this information into a society which continues imbalanced cognitive dissonance practices and is allowed to continue to do so because of the passivity of the general populace (A Dis-Integrated Future). The second is an example of a very achievable future society within which these imbalances are more greatly addressed by an engaged populace seeking to integrate and continue societal developmental progress forward towards greater (An Integrated Future).

### A Look Towards Potential Futures

Now that we are all caught up through our shared history till today and additionally we have practiced applying the Integral language to some shared examples to verify that we are speaking the same language, we can really start to look towards our future knowing that we will have a shared perspective. Hopefully we will then be best able to share an understanding of the landscapes ahead. So, let's look towards the future, towards those ideas and technologies which will help to aid us in our transition into tomorrow.

### A Dis-Integrated Future

(Figure 35)

This section is a look at what the coming change will look like if we are passive. This means that we allow our society not to include greater information. We continue to be subjected to and subject ourselves to the unbalancing cognitive dissonance of disconnected information, unconscious actions, and unquestioned beliefs. We will continue to have a society with a maximum outlook of Green culture, generally Green personal beliefs, and Green technology pushing forward, though have Orange social systems left lagging behind the curve of integration. This is the case for this potential future because it is still generally controlled by Orange level clubs acting to maintain power. This Orange wave of development is no longer the leading edge of society as it has been since the renaissance, however they do not wish to become secondary in a world they believe is for them or that they are the best stewards of. They do not wish to crash upon the shores of Green's rising tomorrow. They wish instead to rage against the dying of the light so to speak. They wish to continue a supra-national top-down strategically controlled governance from the few over the many as otherwise it will go against the existing narrations and structures to which they are attached for the continued existence of their group's status quo. Whether the group's name is the Military Industrial Complex, the Deep State, or otherwise matters only enough to understand them and work to grow beyond them. It is only through the merchants of doubt can the seeds of cognitive dissonance help to sprout the machine for manufacturing consent. This machine is then used as part of a system by which great profit can be made through chaos, disruption, disaster, and the dis-integration of disaster capitalism.

As we have seen through the ponds of development, integral growth would naturally go through three stages; fusion, differentiation, and integration. That is the successful path. Unfortunately, there can be an unsuccessful path also which would be fusion, differentiation, and repression, or fragmentation, or dis-integration. We can be in that kind of limbo state for a while until we collapse backward to a previous stable iteration of existence, or we re-integrate and establish a new stable iteration that goes beyond what went before. This section will entertain a future in this limbo state of dis-integration whereas the next section will explore an integrated future state.

Many things could play a role in stagnating our growth or cause us to reorient from a previous level of development. Practicing our quadrants again, we could imagine that some catastrophic natural disaster (upper right) could push people lower on Maslow's hierarchy of needs (upper left). Maybe individually we all go crazy, stop appreciating higher levels of consciousness, and only value our older perspectives from before thus making a personal choice for comfort or safety in those smaller ponds to which we will always have access. We could decide collectively (bottom left) to interact in the same way from a previous less inclusive culture. Or societally, our social systems (bottom right) could break down and thus provide an environment of production more similar to previous stages of development.

Stagnation could happen if a significant disaster was to happen such that we are left without a functional social system and our banking or communication infrastructure was down; complete internet failure for example. This could quickly plunge people into panic and fear for not being able to acquire necessities like food. This fearful mode of operation from lack could induce a low-level response with respect to Maslow's hierarchy and people will tend to reorient themselves from previous understandings of survival.

The above examples are some worst-case scenarios. Though still more likely scenarios in this type of society do not bode well for greater development. If we continue passively into the future it means we will continue without adopting a balanced understanding for general society. We will have a place where diffusion of responsibility will continue and thus the overarching governing perspective will continue to be Orange as it has been for the last several hundred years. Some of these Orange level strategic clubs will continue to dominate and control general societal direction and governmental practices towards continued unbalancing gains.

These days some of the biggest advances are going to come from the areas of blockchain technology, smart contracts, artificial intelligence, the idea of decentralization, and a growing edge of Pluralistic existentialist ideology. This section of the book will discuss what the coming development would look like if Orange continues to dominate and people remain comfortably passive about it.

These current powerful groups will strategically exploit newly arriving technology quickly. However, they will adopt it for their own continued Orange uses rather than support a more complete Green perspective which lead to the technology's development. And they will certainly not be supportive of a Yellow integrating perspective which allows systems and the people in them to be self-governed and self-directed. Strategically, this means that we will continue to get the introduction of new technology created from the green perspective (upper right), while being kept with a leading edge of culture as Green pluralistic relativism (bottom left), personally valuing that which is generally inclusive and accepting in a Green style (upper left), all while continuing to have an Orange corporate industrial social system (bottom right). So, we will have a Green top left, Green top right, Green bottom left, and Orange bottom right. Which one of these things just doesn't belong? Well, let's dive into the details to see what we're talking about.

### Upper Right

(Green tools for the Orange jobs)

Starting with the upper right of the objective tools which will help our society progress, we have some amazing new technologies. Namely Blockchain, dApps, smart contracts, and artificial intelligence.

Let's start with Blockchain technology. What is it and why is it so game changing? Put simply, blockchain is an open source decentralized ledger technology. It allows for the exchange of value from one point or node on the network to another while publishing a record of the transaction to a publicly shared ledger. This public ledger ensures that everyone on the network has the same records of all transactions that happen. This makes the open record of exchange immutable. This ensures that the medium of exchange, some digital coin for example, cannot be spent multiple times by the same person or node. All of this provides credibility. More than simply the credibility, its decentralized nature ensures that it is incredibly unlikely that this system can be hacked. Moreover, the decentralized nature of it means that no single entity is in charge of the system and this guards against corruption. If no node has greater power, than no node can be corrupted by the power it does have. The source code for the actual program itself is open source and available to anyone to read and understand exactly how it works. As a total package, this really shows that from beginning to end, the entire blockchain is enveloped in the same open, sharable, decentralized ideology which ensures uncompromised security and verifiability. In short, it is a technology which eliminates the need for a middleman wherever it is used.

After introducing this blockchain technology we really need to look at other developments which will significantly extend the applications of this groundbreaking technology. The first is something called dApps. Just as we have apps on our phones, the decentralized blockchain will have decentralized apps, or dApps. These are apps which run on a blockchain. These decentralized applications run on a blockchain network and thus really make use of all the great advantages of blockchain as mentioned above while adding functionality. These dApps will more than simply be an exchange of money on a blockchain network, they allow the exchange of information. This exchange will have all the security and protection of the blockchain though for any information.

Similarly, to dApps, the idea of Smart contracts will enable massive extension of the abilities of blockchain technology. Smart contracts themselves would act as entities. These entities will have their own code for execution, like a version of a dApp on the blockchain, however, this will specifically act as its own separate entity. The smart contract can be programmed in an open source way such that all people engaging in the smart contract have an ability to verify exactly how the contract will act and thus have complete security in what will happen. More than this, the contract as an entity can hold its own assets like a digital currency for example. Once a contract is established and placed on the blockchain, it is immutable keeping in trend with the blockchain.

As a quick example, we could say that you and a friend have a bet. You wish to create a digital contract which will hold the money of the bet and at a specific time in the future, or after some specified conditions are met, it will execute some action with the money. The conditions which need to be met may be the submission of a signature or private key vote from both individuals on who won the bet or more simply it will self-execute a validating check on the desired result. The contract could then, by virtue of the fact that it has the required information, transfer the wagered amount from the contract itself which safeguarded the money in escrow to the winner. The limitations of this technology really come from our ability to creatively use it. This friendly wager is simple and maybe a somewhat impractical example however its extrapolation is anything but impractical especially when it is easy to see that we have all the safety with none of the middle men.

This same system could be used for any exchange where a contract as thought of in the non-digital world would be able to be replicated. Any type of escrow or holding function in which currently a third party is needed, is no longer the case. The blockchain and smart contract function as the trusted third party. All types of conditions may be set as all contracts in a paper form are essentially established as a set of logical expectations and actions to be taken based upon an outcome. It could easily represent the buying and selling of goods from one person to another to ensure delivery of goods or services before payment is made.

Already there is incredible corporate interest in these blockchain and decentralized ledger technologies. Banks are interested in it for secure, quick, and immutable transactions. IBM and Walmart [17] are interested in this for verifiability of supply chain management. This would give any company the ability to know where goods are around the world and to additionally verify their source and legitimacy. This would be very valuable for any company looking to sell a branded good which ensures its genuine nature from factory to customer. This also can track validated fair-trade or organic products. Whatever the reason for tracking, this technology will allow complete tracking from source to sale of any good or service.

In addition to these amazing technologies, we will also be increasingly greeting artificial intelligence. The amount of disruptive predictions of A.I. range from helping you better organize your personal planner to the destruction of civilization itself. A.I. has been an increasing part of our lives even if the average person is unaware of it. More and more often, A.I. is being used to help people sort through and solve the problem of big data. More accurately, A.I. is being used to extract greater information from the trends available within big data. These deep learning algorithms from the big technology companies are what determine what information to display in your feeds, which items are trending in a hashtagged world, or how to better identify trends in people's behaviors from their online and offline activity.

Despite the incredible abilities which this technology enables, what will be just as important as the technologies themselves, is the way in which these technologies are adopted and used. The level of cognitive development creating them will play a major role in how these technologies are implemented. This is because, as mentioned previously, the biggest limitations of these new technologies will really be our ability to dream up valuable uses. To reiterate the idea from cognitive ideologies, it is not simply the what we believe in or use but the how we believe in it or use it.

This book is really intended to be an overview of the general path forward of society and our world. This is not intended to be a source of specific information about a specific technology, though to see how all these ideas and technologies can and will likely be used to produce a new version of society from what we have today.

### Upper Left

(Green personal outlook and values)

Green personal values will still be the leading edge of people's general vision which itself is lacking depth and discernment as it seeks to include all.

Not to gloss over this, though it will basically be unchanged as this perspective is unable to discern between the different levels of consciousness development. This means that without the next influence of Yellow integration Green will continue to see what they see and continue to value their perspective and outlook without valuing the previous levels of development. We mentioned this in the dualistic outlook of the Green horizon being those who accept diversity and those who don't. People will continue to be limiting their own perspective as they feel they already have superior thinking and ideology. Truly Green people automatically include the previous stage's abilities in their own being and use them within action, but don't yet acknowledge them as part of the process to get where they are. Because of the nature of non-judgment Green brings, it will not be able to put Orange corporate systems in their place as they do not yet have a better system in mind.

### Lower Left

(Green cultural perspective and values)

Green culture will continue to be the leading edge of culture also as these different groups of people from Blue to Orange to Green continue to fight without Yellow integrating ideology. Generally, as mentioned, these groups of ideology are who are fighting each other socially. Again, they do not tend to value these perspectives in others as they do not see them as a developmental path though only see it as something to be somewhat tolerated if not accepted.

It is not only about the level of ideology which itself is a tool of perspective, though it is also about how these tools are used. Even a "tool" of Green ideology can be used in a Blue ethnocentric way. We could say that these ideologies are all currently fighting each other on the social stage of many western countries. Using the USA as a prime example, we can see, as previously stated, Blue religious conservative ideology fighting Orange pragmatic achieving ideology fighting Green pluralistically accepting ideology. However, the actual people doing the fighting all tend to have a mentality of or morally act out of Blue. These are people who ethnocentrically attach to a particular team ideology and then use it as reasoning and justification for enacting ethno-centric warfare against other ideologies. This trend will continue as it does today without Yellow integration to provide an understanding of developmental process. This understanding and acceptance of process is a way in which we can see ourselves and others better and helps us all to focus on what makes us similar rather than different.

These fundamentally Blue people use the tools which other people convey to them or force upon them as the way to interact and the ideology to believe as the only or most righteous one. None of these ideologies, or even the levels of consciousness themselves, see eye to eye. This is fundamentally because of the tendency of all people to attach to a partial truth which they hold as an absolute truth. This then limits the acceptance of others to varying degrees, though does limit it and does then promote confrontation from close-mindedness.

This style of confrontation is exactly what is valued by a dominating Orange group of people. This volatility provides more chances for opportunistic groups to advance their own group's power while capitalizing on disaster and chaos. It is furthermore the best place to limit developmental growth for maximum disorder and confrontations. It keeps people at the lower end of Maslow's hierarchy of fear and survival and leaves them there without a map or framework forward. Especially where the next level of development, Integral Yellow, starts the process of balancing and great integration.

### Lower Right

(Orange industrial corporate social systems)

The existing corporate structures and methodologies like conventional economics according to geneticist David Suzuki [18], is a form of brain damage. This type of action is based upon a singular goal of profit to the complete neglect of what corporations call "externalities". In Integral language, corporations who focus solely on the singular bottom line of money in the right-hand side quadrants exclude the other parts of life, the left-hand side quadrants completely as well as most of what exists in the right-hand side outside of a business' purview. These "externalities" are ignored in the business world. If we as individuals practiced this type of behavior for ourselves, then yeah, it does look like pathology or brain damage.

An oil spill for example from an oil and gas corporation is seen as an externality which causes some amount of profits to decrease temporarily. However, it is not seen as an effect on the environment (bottom right), the individual people's health and mentality (upper right and left), nor the culture of those people (bottom left). Internally, however, not much change happens as these business practices simply and solely value a singular bottom line. This is what fundamentally drives companies these days and thus is the incentivization for all employees, at least those wishing to climb the corporate ladder.

Some small wins have been made over the years from Orange corporations because of a fear of losing profits from poor image to a growingly Green customer base. This image and brand recognition are the only things leading Orange to placate Green ideology. However, it has been largely superficial and in the age of social media, viral videos, and insta-sharing, company money goes further to gain goodwill. These companies however still generally put as little as possible towards philanthropic causes. Even when they do take a temporary negative on their bottom line, it is usually for the express purpose of getting a tax break going forward or entering a different tax bracket.

Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig articulates beautifully in a TED talk [19] titled "Our democracy no longer represents the people. Here's how we fix it" that democracy has been corrupted. The influence of money in politics is something that many people agree has been to the detriment of the common citizen. Why would corporations be so eager to donate to campaigns for President? Well, obviously, to ensure that the company has influence over the decisions which the government can make when in power. The data Lessig presents statistically shows that the public has no statistically significant impact on the proposals made by government. Which is to say that the citizenry has no say on what government does in America. He further shows how statistically significant the desires of a financial elite do really impact what the government proposes going forward. This directly shows the impact corporations have on politics and based upon the nature of the importance of politics on a company's bottom line companies would be incentivized to compete in this domain and thusly many do.

Maybe you the reader think that this book is simply cynical about corporations. Well there are partial truths to be understood because these corporations certainly have brought value; they also bring limitation. The true test of a company and their outward image-making donations to preserve value for shareholders can really be seen for what it is by how the company treats, among many things, its employees internally. At the end of the day, most companies wish to pay employees as little as possible, providing as few benefits as possible, and do not ensure stability of employment. Many employers consider their staff as contractors to be conveniently let go to avoid a less than expected increase in profit from quarter to quarter. Guaranteed some companies do better than others and surely, we'd hope, some companies actually do it well. This however is a small minority of them for sure.

If we continue passively, then Orange will continue to dominate the socio-economic system in order to maintain control and power. This means that despite the Green tech, ideas, and culture, our social systems will change though in an Orange way. So then, as the above information provides a general guide to the motivations and general corporate mentality of today, let's look into the future to when these businesses will have greater technology to be deployed towards existing incentivized ends.

Remembering the technology mentioned from the upper right quadrant of tools, companies will be looking to adopt these new advances. Again, it is not only what the tech is, though how it is used. The technologies we considered were blockchain, dApps, smart contracts, and A.I. and if used for Orange ends will seek to be used to shore up consistent control and power.

With respect to Blockchain and dApps, companies will be using this to ensure that internal transactions of value or information are secure. These private blockchain systems within a company will be a marketable selling point to their customer base. These companies which own government will continue to enact laws for their corporate benefit of a singular bottom line. These new laws and proposals will be for the advantage of the corporate governing players while to the detriment of all external to these companies as expressed before. This means that public blockchains in contrast to the private corporate owned ones will be pushed as inferior due to the competitive nature of these ever-hungrier bottom lines. In other words, following from this corporate governance, their products and services will be pushed as legitimate while competing products and services will be pushed as illegitimate. This could potentially go as far as enacting laws to that end. This would surely provide a nice quarterly report to shareholders.

Due to the unbalanced nature of incentivization more than simply blockchain will be adopted in this way. In fact, any tool which can help this bottom line will be used to do so and thus we have an Orange corporatist economy seeking to maintain power while taking advantage of new tech.

Let's look at smart contracts which will certainly help to expedite this progression. Again, smart contracts will be able to be established like any paper contract is today, though will also have the ability to independently hold assets and make pre-programmed decisions based upon developing data provided to the contract. These companies will be quick to adopt smart contracts as a secure way to issue, maintain, and track existing contracts with customers. These contracts would self-execute and thus eliminate personnel actioning for individual contracts. This then allows corporations to eliminate many internal jobs and simultaneously feed that bottom line two-fold, the added revenue from the contracts and the decreased expenses of labor. This trend will continue with the addition of our last technology, A.I.

This A.I. technology will be added to the mix to create a trifecta of blockchain, smart contract, and Artificial Intelligence. Within a corporate world incentivized by money alone, A.I. will be increasingly used as a method to automate existing jobs to again decrease the expenses of labor and increase efficiency of companies while bloating profits. These technologies will politically get an undisturbed ride towards widespread adoption and in a model with externalities there will be many jobs facing elimination. According to some predictions it will only be a matter of a few years before A.I. will be better than humans at everything, especially those repetitive tasks required for many companies. The more the job requires repetitive actions and checkboxes in a logical process through a predetermined workflow, the easier it will be for computers to automate that job.

The combination of this technological trifecta within an increasing corporatocracy will expedite the progression towards a fundamentally imbalanced and pathological society valuing the profits that come from it, without valuing the people within it. Increasingly these smart contracts, made smarter by A.I., will be able to act independently towards corporations whose profits skyrocket as the number of people they employ plummets. This will also mean that the consolidation of power towards the few will be shifted more towards the micro-few.

At this point it may be helpful to look at our current western systems of government and how they will be acting in the coming transition. Won't they step in to protect the citizenry from malicious actors and abuses that any new technology can bring? Well, let's look at this in two ways. One is how government is supposed to function and the other is how it actually functions. What follows is a bullet pointed broad generalizing function of government. One is the narration of how it should work while the other is how it tends to work in practice.

The narration of how it works:

  * The Government collects money in the form of taxes, tariffs, fees, and investments.

  * The ruling team decides on behalf of the electorate to spend that money on projects they deem acceptable.

  * These projects go through governmental approval processes.

  * The projects eventually get completed or scrapped.

  * The people vote to indicate contentment or lack thereof to create a government that represents their values and interests.

  * Repeat

The reality of how it works:

  * The Government collects money in the form of taxes, tariffs, fees, and investments.

  * The ruling team decides on behalf of lobbyists and special interest groups to spend that money on projects they want pushed on behalf of their corporate backers.

  * These projects go through governmental approvals overseen by the same bought and corrupted politicians; sometimes these are no-bid contracts.

  * The projects eventually get completed often delayed and over budget or scrapped.

  * The people vote to create a government to represent them and their values though are doing so in a voting system that doesn't implement their will but the will of a corporate donor elite. (Lawrence Lessig)

  * Repeat

Surely people will feel the financial inequality at some point then seek to change things, no? Hopefully, though the idea of Universal Basic Income will happily come to the corporatist rescue. The idea itself is not a bad innovation, how it is used in this corporate world, will be. Essentially the corporate governing overlords, to put it bleakly, will provide as small a handout as possible to an increasingly frustrated and unbalancing citizenry simply to ensure their apathy. So long as people are still used to this style of system there may be a need for this Universal Basic Income. Essentially it will be given from the corporate state to the plebs to spend on goods and services which the companies themselves offer. It is the most direct form of corporate enslavement and if done step by step will lead to a future somewhat in-line with the many dystopian predictions.

There is, of course, much this book is not including and is not able to include in this predicted simplistic model. However, this course certainly seems to be a negative choice of path forward from where we are now with a likely possibility of truly happening. This assumes, among many unstated things, the passivity of a general populace unwilling to put differences aside to focus on the similarities and actively work together for a greater tomorrow.

In contrast to these predictions, the next section is where the future of cooperatively working active individuals can really make a difference in creating a more positive image of the future.

The message here is that we can really help to create change despite a controlling desire for the opposite. This may not be able to happen from a Green perspective alone because green has a tendency not to judge or be able to do it effectively. In addition to this, the advantages that Yellow Integral ideology will bring allow for non-destructive growth beyond what went before. When going beyond that of Green's 2D non-judgmental vision, development will really start though it would only be possible to break the pathology of Orange domination by introducing Yellow logic and rational discernment. This is not only the next step to a developmental perspective creating effective progress, though also one which is still inclusive of all the previous levels, differing groups, and their associated ideologies. This is how we as a global society will be able to best deal with the pathology of Orange domination and corporate governance.

Orange itself may not be able to overcome the pathology of Orange in general society because we would be fighting fire with fire. In other words, we would be trying to solve this problem from the same level of consciousness which created it. Which is what Einstein is quoted as stating is not possible. The best way to tackle this pathological problem is from a developmental perspective which has transcended it. This will provide the best comprehension for what that stage is consisting of. The immediate next stage however, Green, doesn't have the ability to effectively communicate its perspective of Orange because it lacks a shared language in addition to Green's difficulty with discerning. This will ultimately not provide a mutual understanding or respect for Green's perspective and these two levels of development will tend to disagree more than agree. This would result in more of the same similar types of social conflicts as seen en masse in America today.

Because these groups will simply not see eye to eye, they are not being able to effectively communicate with each other to be able to rectify an existing problem or pathology. This is really the reasoning for the importance of the introduction and participation of a shared Yellow integral perspective into our society at large. This will work to spread a shared language to effectively help organize our societies to guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought or unsought by our societal pathology of the military industrial complex and the unbalanced corporatist model of life we currently live in.

To progress beyond this bleak future not everyone needs to be at Integral, nor have an integral understanding. People should be allowed to be where they are in their own personal development. What must be shared however, is an understanding of the process. So long as we can agree that there is a process of growth, and we allow people to be where they are in that process, then we can find common ground and a shareable language to help mitigate any differences or friction which will inevitably arise in life. This will allow for a mutual respect by all and for all to be a fundamental part of interactions with both the personal and the collective.

### An Integrated Future

(Figure 36)

What does it mean to be Integral? Or more to the point, what are the characteristics of an Integrated society? If it is the case that some of these Integral ideas are needed to help move beyond the previous sections vision of corporate governance, then what principles of Integral would need to be accepted by the whole spectrum of society? The principles which would need to be included and accepted would be the notion of holarchic inclusion and AQAL. AQAL provides us an ability to discern with a respectfully inclusive map. Holarchical inclusion provides greater by virtue of the fact it transcends and includes which indicates process. This means that all skills which a previous level has introduced will be accessible to this new level, whilst new skills are also built upon them.

The biggest advantage this advancement has over and above the rest is how it sees the others. Up until now, every level of consciousness sees itself as the singular true or valid mode of life. Every previous level does not acknowledge the value which the other levels provide and as a result, fight each other in disagreement. This plays a big role in why we continue to have great conflict amongst ourselves let alone between countries. From one level to the next, despite the progress made, the next level tends to have some contradiction with the previous level which was needed as a stepping stone of progress. This mentality is generally what encourages people to wish to tear others down instead of doing the hard work to build themselves up. In this way, an Integral society will not look to destroy or remove what came before it. It will allow it to exist in the hopes it will also want to develop. It will incentivize developmental progress whilst passively disincentivizing this "teardown" approach. Thus, providing some stability within the warring factions of development and encouraging them towards greater.

Furthermore, once this style of governance is established, there must be room for individuals to opt out/in. There must be an option to not engage in this style of society, it is only through the inclusion of an ability to not include, does the true value of Integration show itself as the greater option. If not, it is simply a forced attempt at doing so. Therefore, it is important to keep in mind, as we continue into this new, greater society, that it will not actively seek or limit people from being who they are with whatever level of consciousness they have. However, it will actively seek to provide opportunities for all people who want to grow and it will use Integral principles to do so.

Greatly important to this idea is the notion that everything is going to be supplanted by the new integrated version. Every industry, job, and person will be affected. Every entity will be able to outwardly grow to inclusion and integration. There is no forced need to change, however, if a community or company doesn't wish to participate, they will be seen as an inferior choice in contrast to the newer standards of what will inevitably be available. Once competition simply provides greater, and a consumer base values the difference with the integrated nature of the company creating the goods or services, this style of business and behavior will find more opportunity.

There is a reason that an incredible amount of people have smartphones these days. It was not forced upon us by evil corporations mandating that people pay for these devices. It is simply that the products and services offered were greater than what existed before and thus the adoption finds natural attraction and progresses. Furthermore, people who do not wish to use a smartphone and wish to use a flip phone, or even a landline are still able to access this service. These options were not discarded or made illegal. They are still around and are available to those not seeking to upgrade. In the same way, this Integrating society will find greater adoption by virtue of the greater it brings. Not everyone will want to or will be able to the see benefit of buying in nor should they be punished for not joining. This is the nature of progressive waves of development. This is what awaits us all.

To demonstrate the progress coming, the internet has and will continue to follow the same developmental path. The internet in the early days was simply individuals who hosted their own information on their own computers at home (Red - individual horizon). Greater was then established and companies hosted people's information on their individual servers in a centralized point of authority which brought greater safety and security (Blue). This was then transcended and included to create more reliable systems still. These distributed systems had information not only on one computer, though distributed on many increasing uptimes and stability (Orange). We are now looking to transcend and include this structure with the still greater decentralization. An ability to increase uptimes, security, operability, and effectiveness (Green). One reason why we have developed the internet so rapidly, is that we societally already had the widespread understanding of Orange and then Green ideology which helped to advance from Red information sharing. What is needed to continue this progress is a greater ideology yet, Yellow or Integral. The systems themselves won't be of Yellow structure, though the way in which we use them, the how, should be. This will help to point us to greater more quickly and help to best prepare us for the next coming greater advancements. Too powerful a tool in the hands of too immoral a people will do nobody good and this is one big reason why a change in structure is important before continued growth. We must embed ourselves into one level and spread the ideological understandings from that level and technology before we can successfully transcend it then include it in greater.

As above, so below. Or the many in the one, the one in the many. These are quite literally true. The same process of development that we have seen in our societies from Red agriculture to Blue agrarian to Orange industrial to Green informational towards Yellow integral. We see our own individual process of Red egocentric to Blue ethnocentric to Orange sociocentric to Green world-centric to Yellow also world-centric. This is now what we see within the developing tools we use and create. In the short history of the internet, Red personal servers or individualization to Blue centralization to Orange distribution to Green decentralization and onward to Yellow integration.

The introduction of Yellow perspective and ideology into the world and our systems is what will allow for the greatest acceptance of developmental process and is fundamentally why Yellow integration is needed. So, let's get into the what and how of implementation.

### Automation

(Upper right with Yellow influence)

Blockweb - Decentralized Internet

Starting with Blockchain technology once again, we can see that this technology will dramatically impact our lives going forward. The big question in this section, is how can we more greatly use it? This blockchain taken to a larger perspective in a next level sort of way is really the instantiation of a decentralized internet, a blockweb. This would be a digital realm in which everyone who joins could have one personally controlled digital footprint linked to all interactions on the blockweb itself. Although it may be anonymized to varying degrees depending upon personal choices, the blockweb could still record and connect all interaction from the blockweb to an individual account. This then provides anonymized ways in which collectively we can still gain value from the anonymized big data and the interactions that take place.

This next step of greater can be inclusive of security, verifiability, reliability, and yet also provide anonymization, personalization, and trustless interactions. Interactions that are inherently trustworthy based upon the nature of the structure of how the system operates.

A.I. - Averting the Apocalypse

The other big technology coming down the innovative pipeline is Artificial Intelligence. We have previously seen how high-level cognition with low level morality will abuse this technology for corrupting gains. The solution to stop any apocalyptic scenario will be to ensure that A.I. is inclusive of holarchic and AQAL principles. And thus, the solution to the A.I. apocalypse is an A.I. A.I. or an AQALly Informed Artificial Intelligence or put simply, AQAL A.I. This type of A.I. will be using the same types of construction which currently exist in A.I. programming like Artificial Neural Networks and Algorithmic Deep Learning. The biggest difference, of course, will be in how this tech is implemented. For example, AQAL A.I. will be inclusive of the different parts of the world, both objective and subjective. The A.I. could be trained to seek answers to our questions and seek to provide different solutions to our problems based on a fact that it may process some objective data, though will not know how to interpret this data to get a correlating subjective state of information or reasoning. It will make space for a subjective correlate though will need to work, and potentially ask more questions of us the users, to start creating a subjective understanding of the world we live in. Just as seen in the four quadrants, each level has objective and subjective. Any phenomenon has objective and subjective correlates which together produce a greater more inclusive picture.

AQAL alone will not stop the apocalypse however. In addition to this, AQAL A.I. will need to include the notion of holons and the holarchic style of transcending and including. In order for us to ensure that something which transcends us does not kill us, we need to build into A.I. the inclusion of what has come before, people. This idea will be key to not only the greater development of A.I. in general, though also the greater development of ourselves and our communities. This A.I. could actually be used to help protect safety and development on a global scale.

The importance of uncertainty is crucial for the development of A.I. which will not seek to destroy us. Ensuring that it has a certain level of uncertainty due to the A.I.'s lack of understanding of the subjective means that it will not have a definitive answer and thus only really provide options forward and questions about subjectivity rather than enacting total war from a subjectively uninformed and non-inclusive realm.

This AQAL A.I. should be established as an open source collective project. One which seeks to aid all of humanity by understanding it more greatly. This singular collective A.I. would really be our hivemind. This hivemind would be a singular collective system which uses all the data voluntarily provided to it from users to best understand life and incorporate this information in ways which enable people to also learn from the data it presents. This will be the greatest source of information on an almost real-time basis of the data exchange on the blockweb.

More than simply using this technology to understand our lives, it will also seek to understand our jobs. This should be embraced. This level of general A.I. as a Hivemind should be taught about our jobs and how they are done. This will help to expedite the Automation of our jobs and start freeing the masses towards greater projects (more on this later).

### Communication

(Lower left with Yellow influence)

Cooperation and Community

Now that we have discussed the upper right quadrant of AQAL Artificial Intelligence and the technologies like blockchain with its smart contracts and decentralized apps we can look to the lower left quadrant of culture to see how our communities could use these technologies. One of the most impactful ways this technology can be used in the community is to help facilitate greater communication and engagement. Let's look at how this might be done.

Imagine a decentralized app which runs on your mobile device which appears to the user just like most apps today. This app is called Neighbourhood Watch. It is a one stop app connecting people in the community together. This is an identity verified only app where individuals who wish to interact on this blockchain network have all their actions and interactions recorded, although not all the data will be available for all people to see. The greatest reasons for this are twofold. Firstly, it will provide a polite environment for humanizing discourse unlike anonymous message boards. And secondly it will provide safety through A.I. tracking as well as providing the AQAL A.I. opportunity to aid individuals. Despite the information being encrypted and secured the AQAL A.I. will have an overseeing ability to anonymously ensure safety, general healthy practices, and to facilitate the A.I.'s learning. This will also ensure that any authoritarian governing body would not be able to interfere or intercept the plans unless provided to a greater community board for potential approval. This service would provide a community message board for interactions, communications, and the typical buy, sell, and trading of goods and services.

As a message board, it will enable people to not only talk together, though also work together on different holarchic projects. Need some community help with a block party, musical event, or community cleanup? Well, neighbors will meet and organize on this dApp. Only if your group needs to close roads or inform the general public then required information will be shared. Otherwise it is information solely for those verified and potentially added to the group project. This may be a more private family or personal project or a more public community one. People would be able to search for open community projects which are seeking greater aid and look at the roles which need to be filled within the project itself to see if they would like or be able to help. This decentralized social network would be focused on the holarchic nature of the groupings of people and organize projects according to their reach or span over the holons' population. AQAL A.I. will help connect people with projects they would likely value and benefit from as well as connecting buyers with sellers or services to customers.

This commerce aspect of Neighbourhood Watch would allow people to offer their services much more independently. Even credentialed individuals could be verified by the AQAL A.I. and allowed to promote their own services online. This would also incorporate a feedback function as well as smart contracts for payment and escrow to ensure that a specific job has been properly done through the designated milestone-based project steps. This would allow complete understanding of the work done and feedback on the services or goods provided. Where individuals are verified this will be of great importance for future engagement and work on the dApp. Most all goods and services can be traded and offered such that people will be freer to freelance. Where smart contracts issue payment and AQAL A.I. oversees everything, income and taxes, if part of an overarching system, will be able to be tracked also despite it simply being peer to peer.

All of this together then allows individuals much greater freedom to organize their life as they wish. This will essentially provide an opportunity for the Uber-ization of all jobs and skills. If doing this in a decentralized way, it will also remove the middleman of Uber itself and the giant financial cut they take. Once people are verified and shown to meet any qualifications for a role on a project, they can be more selective of the work they do, the projects they aid, and the amount of work they take on. Don't have the credentials but do have the experience? Get your previous projects and results verified, accredited and vouched for from authorities in the field. Feeling sick, overworked, or simply want a break? Stop offering your services to projects. Take time off when you want. Work when you want. If whole communities use this dApp, then there will be no shortage of work. Projects big and small will always need roles to be filled and work to be done. If for some reason your holarchic community needs nothing done and there are no projects, simply scale up to the next level of holon and support projects in your city, province/state, or country. These projects are scale invariant. So long as people use the dApp, there will always be projects to work on and aid.

Community funding will be huge. Each project can be assigned smart contracts to hold funds which can then be issued to fulfill needed roles and tasks. Depending upon the desire for a private project to occur, people may seek funding from anyone on the network. The funds will be collected into the project's smart contract. Each person who provided money may then be allocated a percentage of the project. The parameters can be set for each project, though let's look at a couple examples.

If a project is seeking to earn money like a concert, as opposed to a block party or small celebration, then people who are giving money are not simply donating, they are investors buying partial ownership or kick starters pre-buying goods and services. Likewise, the people completing the project would not be volunteers they would be contract workers employed by the project. Each project would set the parameters though let's say twenty five percent of the ownership comes from the financial backing of one hundred percent of the projected budget including any pre-sale financing. The other seventy five percent of ownership or an equivalent in money is given for completing the roles which have been defined by the project creators. This means that of any profits realized after the project is over, or at timed milestones if the project continues to be profitable into the future, then these people will receive a portion of the profits representing the percentage of the project they own. Two important factors in this style of ownership are that people who do the work for a project can actually get the majority of the ownership. As well as the ability to financially invest to aid other projects they may believe in and support even if they are busy with another project. These projects may not currently have a role for them and may or may not in the future, though it is a way to support a cause even if one is unable to spend time helping. This will provide a much greater distribution of wealth as those actually working are the greatest owners whilst still providing greater opportunity to other projects and other people to fill roles which are required elsewhere. These investments will also be seen a safer than some traditional investments where companies listed on the stock market today can easily be trading at a ten, twenty, or hundred times multiple, these investments will be seeking in the realm of a four times multiples as a breakeven point. This is the simple math from the above twenty five percent example if all work is paid in ownership and while not taking any pre-sale finances or built in customer base into account which would only serve to make the situation more attractive.

Work done in a role should be milestone incentivized and voted on by certain people in the project, maybe a council of creators supported by project worker voting. Each role and the work needed to be done for it will be organized and milestone-incentivized. This ensures that if the role is open, it may be filled by any number of people, the first people to submit the required work will get precedence and then start a countdown to the end of potential submissions for this role. This ensures that projects are incentivized to be completed as quickly as possible whilst still maintaining quality through voting. If the products are voted down completely, the role may be retendered to the community to ensure quality through competition. Only the successfully chosen work will receive the ownership value from that piece of the project. Once finished, the same people may play another role on the same project seeking to support it more whilst securing a greater percentage of ownership. All the tasks for a project are rewarded with either proportional ownership of the project or payment representing a smaller percentage of ownership from the investor money. This will enable individuals who need to work for more immediate gains to have the opportunity or could wait to realize potentially greater profit when the project is finished. If the worker chooses payment as opposed to ownership, that percentage of ownership is then added to the investor's portion therefore increasing the benefit to them who trade the liquid money for less liquid ownership.

Generally, this means that projects which have people who truly believe in its value will be more willing to work for ownership rather than immediate reward. Either way, it brings greater competition towards the roles and tasks which are needed for project completion.

Public projects from a city, state, or country for example would work in very much the same fashion. The investment may be done through voting from the public for citywide projects. The city would then fill the investor role and allow the public to fill the working roles and tasks as before. These roles for a city for example may only be open to citizens and companies registered as living in that city. This ensures promotion of all kinds of workers, artists, and talented people in the holon to help build greater community character, talent, and cohesiveness. No longer will cities spend absurd amounts of money to get one particularly world renown artist to paint a mural or create a sculpture (unless this is what is voted as desired). These talents can and should be sought in the holon first. If the skill or role is not able to be filled, it should then be opened to the next level of holon until it is filled. Thusly if a city really lacks a skill, it may be filled by a someone registered in the state, if not, the country until it is satisfied. These public projects will then be engaging an incredible amount of people in the local communities, enriching their lives with holon specific money, styles, and content.

Less attractive than a mural or sculpture would be something like infrastructure projects, however they would work in a very similar fashion. For these projects when there would be no benefit of profit from the completion, a public road for example, it would need to be completely funded by the city. Companies would be competing to make milestone-based proposals which the city can vote on. These types of non-profit accruing public projects will be executed similarly, though there will be differences and we will talk more about this later with Integral Corporations. For now, the basic difference is that nobody will have part ownership of this project. Therefore, they will be getting paid for their work. However, the engagement they put forward for this project is in an Orange realm for the sociocentric benefit and thus these workers should receive rewards based upon this level of Orange engagement.

Neighbourhood Safety

This Neighbourhood Watch dApp will be a tool which will not only get people from the community to engage more in it, not only provide greater local content and inspire more local talent, though also will be an incredible way to ensure greater safety and stability within the community. This dApp will extend the functionality of what would be today's neighbourhood watch programs. It will be a way in which anyone, remembering users are verified, is able to better provide safety to their community. Firstly, peace officers will be hired from the larger holon like a city for a smaller holon like a neighbourhood. These peace officers will be individuals from the area and will be engaged in helping the community in which they live. No longer will police officers inhumanely enter an "others" area to dehumanize and dominate. Police officers will be more like firefighters, they only work when the alarm is pulled and provide non-emergency aid and education. Otherwise peace officers from their own communities will take on a role of ensuring some safety. Their shared public space will be an enjoyable space for people in need of some minor help or conflict resolution. These individuals should have certain training in self-defense and conflict de-escalation. They should not have any authority to arrest, detain, or fine others. However, they are simply there to act as a sobering, calming, and orienting guide for their own community something like a community counselor.

In addition to these city-paid individuals, any person on the dApp will be able to notify their community that they are "on duty" to help if there are any questions or if people need some basic help. If someone is lost, needs a neighborly hand for a personal project, had a minor accident at home, or needs a good conversation to eliminate loneliness for a little bit they could send out a local notice seeking some engagement. If it is a more major problem the on-duty people would be alerted not simply notified. If someone had an accident or needs quick help they can alert the local holon for community help. If it is a serious problem emergency services will still be available to call, either from the individual with the problem, or a local first responder.

As an incentive to those volunteering as "on duty" the city could allocate small rewards in line with the level of engagement they provide. The AQAL A.I. could then anonymize some of the good deeds done for the community and allow the people in the holon to vote on what actions merit greater rewards. This ranking could be done simply by a comparison between what people believe is of greater value. This could be done in five minutes of volunteer selecting between a series of two side by side examples of actions done and will be checked by the AQAL A.I. for abuse and fraud. This ranking will depend upon the different recorded interactions that happened in the last voting period as it may have been a busy or slow week for aid. With the ranking of all that has been done by polling the local people, a certain amount of rewards may be distributed to those on duty depending upon the votes for their actions as a percentage of this period's total allotted rewards.

This style of community care and engagement will allow many people, who would otherwise not have an opportunity to work for a company or a big project, to provide on duty time to earn a little bit of money and some reputation while providing a service to the community. Stay at home parents could offer after school stays for children whose parents do not get home until later. Young people could offer technology lessons to luddites and the elderly. The elderly could provide care, conversation, or supervision. Even people who are not able or willing to do any of the above could even use their own security cameras to help aid in community safety by creating a shared style blockchain version of CCTV for local protection. One that is only shared by the neighbourhood and only viewable if the community votes on a certain period of released footage, say last evening during such and such a time. This would prevent unwanted use and the feeling of invasive governmental monitoring.

This ability to independently offer services to your community will increase people's ability to earn rewards. These services will be valued by the community proportionately to the value the community places on the services as voted upon. Thus, the rewards for a service may vary, though there will always be some reward based upon percentages. The more some things are valued, the more people will engage in some of those activities the more those activities will become devalued and thus a super local market can help to drive the supply and demand of the super local economy based upon super local values. This neighbourhood values childcare, while the next values neighborly help, while the next values conversations and community meetups. These will change as the voting periods do, though the general values of a community will be understood by the general trends within how they vote. This information will help to showcase the differing values between neighborhoods and communities which may be great to understand when moving to a new place or when simply trying to understand a specific holon of people.

The sharing between holons and the fact that all these neighborhoods would act according to their own values, it will allow numerous varying experiments as to how to best implement this style of community engagement. This will also help all in the holarchic structure to learn from each other and work out problems and solutions much more efficiently. Despite the differences between neighborhoods and their values, they must all still abide by the greater laws from the more inclusive level of holon in which they are a part. This would help to ensure that despite differences in culture, shared space and basic respect for other neighborhoods will still bring stability.

### Restoration

(Bottom right with Yellow influence)

Restorative Social Systems - Seeking Balance

Now that we understand some of the technologies that we will use (upper right) and the style of communities and culture we can build with them (bottom left) then what will our societal structures and means of production (bottom right) look like following similar principles? Holocracy and the C.A.R.E. economy.

Where democracy has capitalism in an informational society, a Holocracy will have the C.A.R.E. economy in an automational society. Within a society's social systems there are many aspects, however we will only explore four big ones to get an idea of what our future may look like from the thousand-foot overview. We will explore the nature of corporations or companies, look at the system of governance, seek to understand money and economies, and fourthly we will peer into the justice system. These should shed enough light on this new style of living that the reader will be able to personally extrapolate into the specific areas where they may be concerned or even work.

This C.A.R.E. economy will be driven by all four quadrants and thus be an economic engine for production which is inherently attached to the other quadrants of life. Communication, Automation, Restoration, and Education, C.A.R.E. These will be the big four areas of focus for an engaging population to practice and aid in projects towards greater while internalizing and minimizing externalities.

(Figure 37)

Integral Corporations

The nature of what a company is and how it works is going to change greatly. This will be true in either scenario of corporate governance in the last section of a Dis-integrated future or in this section of an Integrated future. Change is coming, so it behooves us to embrace it and create the systems which we want to see in the world. Companies will be seeking to adopt AQAL A.I. at an ever-quickening pace. Initially they will seek to adopt it simply by virtue of the fact it will save them money. It will be the best tool for a singularly bottom lined company seeking to eliminate much of its workforce whilst still maintaining the same or greater level of output. This is the natural progression of this type of singularly focused thought. Many people have already noted that A.I. is going to lead to mass unemployment and have even suggested some sort of Universal Basic Income to help compensate for this change. If UBI is included within this society, the way in which it should be organized would be integrally informed (more on this in the money and economy section).

Companies who only seek profit in this society will not be seen as the best and thus incentivized towards greater. These will be unbalanced companies which do not value the health and balance of their own workforce, community, or environment in which they operate. There will emerge a new style of company which will be inclusive of multiple bottom lines. One such company is an American multimedia publishing company named Sounds True who seeks to value multiple bottom lines from employee development, happiness, and engagement, to the overall culture, systems, and motivations, whilst acknowledging that they wish to make incremental growth and profit to support their goals. In this company, money is not the only motivator, in fact it is valued, though not in such an unbalancing singularly focused way. This is more like a group of like-minded people seeking to engage together to balance themselves in their own lives and create greater balance as a group.

This style of multiple bottom lines will not only be seen as valuable by employees seeking a great work environment, though also by consumers wanting to purchase more "fair trade" style "Integral" goods and services. These companies will gain enormous good will from within their communities and will become a premium choice for the discerning consumer. This is the next big trend in corporate image and consumer tendencies just as eco-friendly, organic, and fair-trade is today. This incentivized aspect does require an engaged populace to vote with their money.

An Integral Corporation would be a corporation which abides by a general set of values which have planned and auditable steps to ensure that it maintains a certain standard of multiple bottom lines. Employees and owners alike will be ensuring that these standards for an Integral Corporation are followed ensuring that the goods and services which the company sells meet that Integral standard. This would be like the ISO standardizations for companies today. The big change would be that multiple bottom lines would be well defined and enforced. This certification ensures that any product or service from an Integral Corporation has been created with standards set for employee development, health, and wellness in an environment which is supportive of the individual's goals as well as the company's. They will have clear bottom lines focusing on balanced areas of life and work while working to internalize externalities.

The essence of what makes a company is simply a group of people united in seeking to achieve a shared goal. This could be part of a company or even simply a project like we have seen in the community section. If we think of these as projects and simply look at varying scales and timeframes, then all companies are simply massive projects. The real importance of the corporate organizational structure is to be able to have a system to deal with accountability of employees to the project and team. This style of dominating structure is put in place only when the employees themselves do not really wish to be there. They do not have any internal or intrinsic motivation and thus need to be negatively punished for not doing enough quality work. The only people to negatively punish others are those people in charge and thus a traditional dominator hierarchy gets valued and implemented. What if we can eliminate the negative discipline and the workers who do not wish to be there?

What if you have a project whose people actively seek to engage not only because it is a paycheck but a goal the worker values, and something that will help them to develop themselves? It will provide greater in all levels of the holarchy. Individual as well as communal growth and benefits will be the motivating factors for workers. Positive intrinsic motivation over negative extrinsic factors is what guides people on a project to serve their role well and to aid in the collective. If at some point an individual does not wish to continue, then they can be replaced by someone interested in filling the requirements. If nobody is interested in the role, then maybe the reward for the role is too low, or the values of the project overall are not in line with what the local workforce values and thus should not succeed or should be implemented by other peoples in another holon.

The only real difference between an Integral Corporation versus a group of lone freelancers is that the Integral Corporation is providing greater stability in consistency of a work group, environment, community, and tools. Thus, if you want to freelance, you will be able to. Also, if you want to consistently work with the same teams of people on projects, then that may be best done through an Integral Corporation.

It becomes a massive shift from the idea of work being "work". This is the change to the idea of work being about "engagement" as an opportunity for greater rather than an obligation of production. Those who do not wish to engage themselves in a project will not be part of that project, they can choose to do another project or no project if they wish (more on these projects and engagement later).

Holocratic Governance

Holocracy is this book's term for the system of governance in this new integrated world. It is not simply a Democracy 2.0 so to speak. It is an entirely new way of living and engaging as well as governing. It is not an incrementally "better" option which makes some changes, though a fundamentally greater system than what exists today. It is greater because of its ability to transcend the current system whilst including the best aspects from it. This book suggests that Churchill's quote that 'Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others' needs to be updated. We now have greater, Holocracy.

A Holocracy is a system of governance which is inclusive of the same principles and technologies we have previously seen in the upper right of tools and the bottom left of culture. This is a system which values all that is present in the holon and thus tries to allow space for it to be added to the collective.

This is a government which no longer needs to be the voice of the people as the people have the technology to be their own voice, singularly and collectively. Blockchain allows for immutable data in a secured way to be shared on a public ledger. It sounds like this would be perfect for voting. Individual citizens would sign on as verified to the government backed open source voting blockchain. Here people's votes could be counted, shared, verified, and immutable all in quick order. The decentralization of decision making removes the difficulty of being a politician away from politics. Most politicians will work to enact some laws or projects, though the difficulty they often face is trying to enact certain things while worrying more about re-election. Here, politicians will have no real say besides their individual vote for any proposal they wish to enact. This system removes any power real or imagined from politicians and puts it in the hands of the citizenry. Thus politicians, despite small everyday decisions, will not be choosing the laws and actions to enact. The population, however, will be dictating the path forward where the politician's job will be that of a leader of a public project and enacting the public's decisions. Essentially this turns politicians into project managers. They may be publicly advocating for projects and if successful in convincing the public to vote in support of it, should then be a defaulted project leader. One leader should only be working on one project at a time. Thus, if a leader truly wishes to be successful then they will be working hard to ensure that their projects get finished well, in a timely manner, and hopefully under budget. Does this sound crazy or too good to be true, especially from government? Let's take a closer look.

Really as an extension of the holarchic principles of transcending and including, and the natural principle of self-similarity or fractality, politics will really be an extension of the community building and organization we looked at before though brought to a larger scale. Remember those public projects we said we would look at after the private neighbourhood ones? Yeah, let's look at them now.

First with an easily accessible blockchain voting system, people will be able to upvote general problems which need solutions. These problems will be publicly visible where the results of the voting will be displayed holarchically meaning that an individual will be able to see the problems which affect the different level of holons that they are part of; from their neighbourhood to city to state to country. For smaller projects with less complexity or even projects where people are well organized the general population will easily be able to tackle the creation of a solution. For more complex problems or when groups of people do not organize themselves well, private groups can step in to fill the need. The only private groups which should be allowed the opportunity to compete for a public project should be Integral Corporations who seek to help while making profit and satisfying their multiple bottom lines. For public projects where Integral Corporations are interested they should be creating a fully completed project proposal. Again, opportunities may be tendered to the public and once the first submission has been accepted by the governing body the countdown to allow competing submissions starts. After all are submitted by the deadline the accepted proposals become fully public. These public project proposals will have detailed budgets and timelines for completion. In addition to this, they will have Milestone-based incentives for ensuring timely implementation and will need to agree to only receive certain percentages of the budget after key milestones have been verified to be completed and done to quality standards. If all these proposals get voted down by the population as they are poor, then this will work counter to a company's submission as all their sensitive pricing will have already been made public. This then incentivizes submissions which are only made with the sincere hope of success. If at any time, the Integral Corporation in charge of the project fails to meet standards or is falling significantly behind, then that corporation no longer will have sole access to the opportunity of the project. This means that partway through if the initial company starts failing, then other Integral Corporations can step in and aid in or take over the project towards proper timely completion. Although the Integral Corporation may oversee all work on a project the head project manager and overseeing council to the public project are not from the company though from the public. They will be the person responsible for ensuring the utmost enacting of the intent of a project and the ones responsible to the people as a point of contact to ensure proper communication and reporting. If the project gets significantly derailed, then these leaders will also be replaced.

As briefly mentioned, one public leader should only oversee one project at a time. This ensures constant focus on achieving quality results and ensures that they are working for a project which they intrinsically support. After the completion of the project, they can return to the bullpen of potential leaders and will then be graded by the holon in which the public project took place. This will help available leadership be ranked which then allows them to compete for the projects which they wish to accomplish. The Integral Corporations which have finished public projects will also be scored based upon performance and quality. These scores and reputation will impact a company's ability to compete for future public projects positively and negatively. Perhaps by providing less wiggle room for delays, more strict financing, or even less attractive incentives for quality timely work. These scores and results will not only be applied to the Integral Corporation which headlines the work, though also to all the Integral Employees who work on the project. This ensures that the employees within an Integral Corporation take responsibility for the work produced and for their own responsibility to their internal leadership. This also ensures that the wealthier among the workers cannot simply fail and start another company with a clean slate. All information is going to be tied to the blockweb digital footprint and will follow users wherever they go. Maybe there will be a certain duration of fade on older grading where the more recent work is what is most relevant, however this record should certainly be valued.

Each Integral Corporation should also be limited to a singular public project at a time. This will ensure that a single company has a single shared vision. This will also allow for a greater number of companies to participate in public projects putting more people to work. In addition to this, it will allow smaller companies to compete in smaller holons while bigger companies compete in bigger holons. More fair competition with a greater depth for greater span style engagement; greater depth 'up' the holarchy from city to country for a greater span of population being served. Furthermore, the pace of progress of the development of a holon overall will be directly controlled by the citizenry of the holon itself. Collectively if the people are not voting for proposals to be enacted, then the choice to not develop is available. Thusly, if a higher level holon wishes for greater development in an area or region, then they must simply incentivize the population towards desiring growth and change rather than forcing it upon them. The overarching laws from the highest of the holons will however supersede those of the lower as is commonplace for many Federal Laws over state laws. This level of law creation should only be done by the clear majority voting in favor of a common binding culture and society. Murder for example we can all agree should be a punishable crime. No lower holon should be allowed to overturn that. Another example may be the legal age for drinking. The National holon sets the standard by which states or lower holons can make it stricter, though not less. Thus, the communal culture of one nation will be the least strict requirements for organization of common beliefs and apply to all internal levels of holons and people all the way down. If a lower holon of a community decides collectively to raise their own tax rates higher than the governing holon requires, then that additional tax money collected will be solely held for the inhabitants of the holon to collectively use at their discretion.

Certain projects and major areas of governance should not be overseen by a single appointed individual. In these cases, a small council of people should be chosen. One way to attempt to ensure incorruptibility is to ensure that at least one person of high moral standards has been selected as the head for a term. The other individuals on the council could be chosen from varying levels of consciousness to ensure that not all the people on the council will easily agree with one another. This will help to ensure against corruption and group think. The council's internal communications should be publicly available on the Blockweb for citizen oversight and the individual council members should generally possess a positive blockchain record or reputation.

It could be the job of the councils to ensure easy and understandable voting on issues from within the council's domain. When receiving the votes, they will then proceed with continued action until another vote is necessary. If voting is what is holding up a project because there is not enough voluntary cooperation and input, then the public could be incentivized by the holon to engage more greatly in voting and analysis or the project should seek to be ended. This then allows people the diffusion of responsibility in areas they don't care about, aren't qualified for, or haven't time for.

Where A.I. will keep track of people's public votes for projects it will be able to rank the quality of voter based upon successful projects voted for. Voter credibility can then be established as a result of helpful engagement into the voting process and used to incentivized better voting at higher more inclusive levels of governance.

In the very rare case where information may need to be kept semi-secret, which should probably only be for defensive security purposes in the Department of Defense, voted councils will be selected for oversight based upon morality and qualifications. These trustworthy voters with community support should be the ones to oversee security voting. This allows for a trusted few to ensure that they can oversee all defense and security measures and information as part of voter constructed security councils at the national level of holon.

With respect to international relations, Holocratic governance will have a profound effect. As leaders are the new politicians without decision power, these ambassadors and heads of state will only be points of contact if needed for the completely open and transparent communications between one national holon and another nation state whether they have a Holocracy or not. The opinions of a Holocratic country will be clearly understood publicly before any engagement with another country. Any proposals by other countries will need to be vetted through a very similar, familiar, transparent, open, and clear project proposal sequence which all cities and states already do. Potentially establishing relations within a country by connecting with special international councils, though through them, to have information relayed to the holons for public voting and consideration. Again, the decision making itself is not in the hands of the figureheads.

(Money in Holocratic Governance)

In the same way we compared the narration of how the government works against how it works in reality, we will compare how government works in reality to how it could work in reality.

The reality of how it works:

  * The Government collects money in the form of taxes, tariffs, fees, and investments.

  * The ruling team decides on behalf of lobbyists and special interest groups to spend that money on projects they want pushed on behalf of their corporate backers.

  * These projects go through governmental approvals overseen by the same bought and corrupted politicians; sometimes these are no-bid contracts.

  * The projects eventually get completed often delayed and over budget or scrapped.

  * The people vote to create a government to represent them and their values though are doing so in a voting system that doesn't implement their will but the will of a corporate donor elite. (Lawrence Lessig)

  * Repeat

How it can really work:

  * The Government collects money in the form of taxes, tariffs, fees, and investments.

  * The people collectively vote to decide on projects and/or industries within which to spend their collect funds choosing projects directly or indirectly.

  * These projects go through transparently public approvals overseen by at minimum a voter chosen council while still being accessible to all.

  * The projects will be incentivized for quality, timely work with financial and reputational rewards.

  * The people continue to be their own governing body to represent their own values and vote on projects they want. Project outcomes and the project voters will be incentivized for self-correction and validation.

  * Repeat

What is important to remember in this style of organization the 'government' is literally the will of the voting people. There is no person in charge nor is there a gatekeeper needed to keep watch. All the people's collective money can be held in smart contracts as described previously. These smart contracts may even be structured in the same way governmental branches and departments are now.

What these technologies do is allow us to decentralize the decision-making process. This allows the voting public to be their own voice and make their own collective decisions. One person, however will not be required to voice an opinion on everything. Depending on the depth of knowledge, involvement, or interest, a citizen can be more and more descript with their own voting to help push certain branches of government towards decisions they support and spending their money on issues they see as valuable. This will encourage people to directly get involved with the understanding if not acting within the areas they care about or have some expertise in. For the areas in which they have no desire, time, qualification, or care then they may rely on the diffusion of responsibility which is inherent in that which is outside of our purview and motivated interests. There will be people who do find it of interest, or it should not be part of the collective system. This allows for updating the system itself. No part should be excluded from public oversight, though inherently we will all self-limit and self-define the areas in which we feel we should engage.

UBI in this style of government may not be needed depending upon how engagement is ultimately rewarded within this society. As the voting, council oversight, citizen oversight, and mass ability towards open project creation and completion could all be rewarded it may be that simply engaging in these areas of governance may be rewarding enough to live well. So, it may be the case that Universal Basic Income would not be needed.

If, however it is needed, this style of government would implement the following guidelines. Blue perspective brings up a valid point in that giving people something for nothing will not inspire a responsible work ethic or appreciation. Orange perspective is valid in that many millions of people may not have a stable job or source of income in the coming years. And Green is valid in that we collectively should do something to help people such that they do not worry about the basic necessities of life and are kept away from living near the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy. To honor all these views and yet still have a system implemented which can work Yellow integration can be used. One of the consistent themes of this integrally informed Holocratic society is engagement. People should not be given money for nothing. However, people who opt in to a UBI scheme should be self-defining the area of engagement they will be measurably engage in for the money they are receiving. They should also be allowed to be where they are within the lines of development necessary for that engagement. What should be included is a system of objective measure to help indicate progress and help develop towards greater proficiency. This will help to encourage growth out of a UBI system or at minimum to encourage greater engagement into holarchic projects as a self-directed individually paced path of growth. This will help three aspects of ourselves. It will inspire respect, confidence, and responsibility within the Blue nature of ourselves. It will develop skill acquisition and achievement for the Orange part of ourselves. In addition, it will also help resonate with Green caring and fulfillment part of us by aiding other people and parts of our collective.

Restorative Justice

In a Holocracy how do we collectively deal with the real existence of troublesome people? People who are either very troubled themselves, or who wish to bring trouble to others. Our judicial system must also be updated to include these coming technologies, approaches, and ideologies. What can be done with people who are too set in their destructive ways to change? How do we rehabilitate individuals who are not yet set? And how do we prevent future development of these unbalancing personalities?

In our current private prison system which is only on the uptrend we have incentivized the criminalization of actions which selectively allow the greater population to ignore the encroaching of regulation over people's personal freedoms. Greater regulated and legislated decisions are pushed forward more for a singular bottom line of money and private prison profit other than multiple bottom lines of creating a greater society and greater communities. Re-aligning incentives will help to refocus the collective rule set to better balance people's freedoms with collective duty.

In an age where we collectively agree with greater and greater acceptance that the farmed animals which feed us should not be locked in cages, there is no rationality to think that doing the same to people will be of any benefit. It is inhumane. Or fundamentally, it is against the most basic human value of care. This idea is extra crazy, especially if the eventual goal of this trauma is that this person is to be rehabilitated and reintroduced to society.

In a Holocracy we structure our society by groups of holons forming a community and the greater the horizon of that community begets greater levels of holons. Thus, there should be space within this Holocracy for a holon or holons which represent a community of those troubled. Currently we would call that a prison however we already mentioned the inhumanity that comes with that. Like most jobs in a Holocracy, the position or system may still be there though how it looks will be different and this book will suggest some differences to the current prison system we have.

We really need to start looking at crimes against the community and the people in it as a crisis of consciousness. As we saw back in the first section we all go from Red to Blue to Orange to Green to Yellow etc. However, these are simply levels of cognitive ability and allow for certain perspectives to be shared. Using the same levels of colors to represent the moral level of interaction with others we can see better the mentality behind some actions people take. People who end up committing crimes do so from a lower level of consciousness than the moral freedom afforded to them by our communities, culture, and society. For example, a murderer may act out of Red morals even if momentarily in a crime of passion or rage.

The main aspect of restorative justice is to seek a path towards natural balance. People who are damaged by their past will be aided towards a more balanced future. The exact future state of prisons, closed or open restorative communities, will depend upon the success of restorative programs and the success of the graduated individuals themselves. The first step would be to create or repurpose facilities to be more akin to communities than prison cells. The level of security will vary depending upon assessments on an individual basis.

Other than simple environment and atmosphere one thing that could help greatly is the idea of perspecting. To explain, prospecting is mining for precious minerals like gold, whereas perspecting is the mining of perspective for gems of wisdom and insight. This is one idea which can be brought to aid in the ability to promote greater personal development and understanding.

Many new tools should be employed to aid in the restoration and development of the growing individual. Some of these methods should be used for an average growing person to help them in their own development, though will be required for those troubled or in need of therapeutic reflection.

Let's look at a quick example of a technology we currently use ubiquitously and may not give it a second thought, CAPTCHA. This is a way to help verify that a person is the one making a request to a server not a bot. Some of the following pictures may seem familiar.

(figure 38)

These are some different examples requiring some small amount of work to be done. This work is hard for a computer or bot to get right, though not so difficult for a human. We are asked to identify pieces of information from the world around us. When doing so the information may be from a street photo, a scan of an old printed book, or general map information. When many of us do these simple pieces of work they collectively add up to better mapping services, digitization of millions of books, or better labelled data for machine learning to use. All of this while providing greater security checks against bot abuse, validated high quality work, and better services for everyone.

AQAL A.I. can play a massive role in aiding people to understand themselves and the people around them. In the same way those annoying little CAPTCHA questions work to prove you are human and at the same time produce verified work for the masses, AQAL A.I. will be able to present a situation to individuals and request information to be validated. For example, people may be given a situation and asked to report the feeling or interiority which is best representative of a person from the situation. Firstly, this will aid individuals to process other people's interior space whilst at the same time teaching the AQAL A.I. about the subjective nature of people. This information will be cross verified with the answers from the many others who have also answered the same question. To make it just as easy as today's CAPTCHA the responses could be multiple choice. The user chooses one feeling, to which then multiple reasons for that feeling will also be provided allowing the user to select a multiple-choice reason as well. This will add greater depth to the perspected information. The question would simply change if the person did not correctly identify the interiority. If a person has been mandated to do this type of perspecting then their results can be recorded on the Blockweb for their next therapy session.

This ability to find value in perspecting different interiorities will add value to the hive mind also. Therefore, this type of work amongst many others, would be a way in which individuals can provide a community service. Trouble-making individuals who should be doing some community service may also benefit from the perspecting CAPTCHA.

The previously mentioned Neighbourhood Watch program will also allow individuals to aid in their own community as a community service. These individuals may be "on duty" to aid immediately if someone locally needs help in any number of ways. People who do have an interaction with them will be able to leave anonymized community feedback to aid people in their own perspecting of self if desired or mandated.

One tool which could be created to aid in perspecting is an immersive therapy for understanding other people's opinions, feelings, and reactions. This immersion would allow an individual to walk through a single experience from different points of view, from different people who had been in that experience. It could be something as small as a conversation between friends and family to a large event. The original individuals could timestamp their own personal emotions, thoughts, feelings, and perspectives onto a video replay of their personal point of view from the experience. When this scenario is then perspected by an individual for developmental aid, they may be asked to present the emotions, thoughts, and feelings they believe the person through which they are experiencing the video felt. Correct or accurate reporting of other people's interiority will indicate growth in perspective taking of the perspector.

In addition to rehabilitation efforts, other aspects of the legal and judicial system will benefit from the upcoming changes. All laws could be placed on the Blockweb for easy access and comprehension for the average person to know their rights.

All police officers should have blockweb connected body cameras to ensure safety and best practices. All evidence collected and stored for all public office should be immutably held on the blockweb. Blockweb storage of legal information could result in public jury voting for national crimes or crimes against the collective. If the jury can participate fully in the court proceedings through blockweb means, this will mitigate any retaliation from those convicted on those in the jury process convicting. It will additionally allow for a larger community to participate in public trials on a national level for example.

In addition to the legal side of uses. Peacekeepers aiding domestically will also be able to aid within troubled communities which may need additional help in order to solve local problems. Aiding troublesome people locally whilst engaging in the communities and society at large. This however is getting into education which is where we will explore next.

### Education

(Upper left with Yellow influence)

Education will be the last great cornerstone to a Holocracy and the C.A.R.E. economy which supports it. If each of the four quadrants includes each of the four quadrants, then we will more quickly find balance and stability to enable greater more consistent growth.

Currently we as a people are generally incentivized to be sheep. We are incentivized to follow the few in society who really wish to make change and take charge; to fall in line to the alpha chimp. This helps us to defer responsibility to others for problems we may even be personally able to solve. We tend to allow the diffusion of responsibility to be our scapegoat for our current societal organization and faults. Our minimal effort in voting once in a blue moon tends to satisfy most that they have done their part, now the politicians and government need to do theirs. This is currently what is desired in a Democracy where career politicians seek to simply get re-elected and continue running things. This also continues an us versus them mentality of separation and distancing of us the citizenry from them the politicians and obscures the real impact engagement can have. The process of following creates a habit of diffusion of responsibility which then allows controllers to control and encourages continued passivity and apathy which is what our society then values and thus how we educate.

A Holocracy will incentivize education because it incentivizes engagement into problem solving. The greater the problems which people seek to solve, the greater understanding of the problem they will need. People in this society will already be incentivized by the other quadrants; from the tools we will use allowing greater information and transparency like AQAL A.I., to the Integral Corporations and governance we may work for aiding us in our own goals and development, to the culture in which we live and work engaging us more with others in our holons.

Education in this type of society should be incentivized for continuous growth. All people, not only school-aged individuals should ideally be desiring engagement into a greater understanding of themselves and the world around them. If they do not wish to grow or engage in this development, they should not be forced to do so, it should be incentivized though also voluntary. Ultimately, as Malcolm Forbes is quoted as saying, "education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one". This system would not seek to force growth, though allow an open mind to unfold into growth.

The education sector will be an important one as the demand for continued growth will be valued. For the general populace the opportunity to learn will be an important one. As individuals wish to solve evermore complex problems within an ever more complex world, those who wish will be looking to understand more. They will be looking to understand the upcoming technologies, societal systems and structure, as well as the cultures which their holons share. More than this, they will also be looking to understand themselves.

The biggest changes for education will occur in the schooling systems. We no longer need to simply inherit the old style of education more akin to an employee mill than an actual place of developmental learning. We do not need to prepare individuals for jobs which will ever more quickly be replaced by machines, nor would it be ideal to have people in society who do not wish to engage at all and simply follow.

Our educational system should prepare young minds to overcome the problems of tomorrow while allowing them to understand not only the tools to use, though the methods to apply in a structure of society and for a specific reasoned engaging motivation. In other words, understanding the what of tools, the how of method, and the why of motivation. This is beautifully described by Simon Sinek in his book and TED talk titled Start with Why [20]. He describes the process to creating leaders in any field and demonstrated it simply by what he calls a "golden circle". This quickly shows that the best way is to start with why and work outward through how towards what. This is counter to our existing schooling systems and is precisely what an integrated holarchic school system would create.

(Figure 39)

(Modified version – Golden Circle - Start with Why - Simon Sinek)

The best way to learn is by doing and thus the educational system will mimic Holocracy itself. To be clear, the current teaching jobs are not going away. They will change a bit however. Children at school should not be focused on topics or subjects (the what), though on problem solving and understanding (the why). If they have a problem or challenge, they must learn about the problem they wish to solve, why, and about how to go about solving it, which leads finally to the what of skill or subject. Each elementary school for example will be its own holon. They should focus on teaching how to learn about problems and how to overcome them. Depending upon the grade and the development of a child, they should have cognitive appropriate challenges. Each child has a part to play in the holon of a grade, grouping, or class.

Schools should be integrated in the communities in which they are. The projects they undertake should be of some value to the community as this would be the best example of useful and beneficial holarchic projects. This helps the youngest of students start on projects which directly impact their neighborhoods. As children age, the project scope they work on should be greater. Elementary and middle school could be working on projects for their communities. Whereas high school students could be working on projects at the city-level holon. This would then lead university students to be working on projects at a state level towards national or world level holons. At each stage of schooling students should also be applying the knowledge they have to aid in the development of lesser holon school projects. It could be the responsibility of the teacher to ensure final verification, whilst providing the problem to higher grade holons. For example [21], instead of a city calling for the creation of a set of stairs for a local park at a cost of $65,000 or a random citizen building half safe ones for $550, the project could be seen to be a high school creation project. As such, the design and construction of the stairs could be done by those high school students. It will still be necessary to validate the engineering standards for the design to ensure they meet the holon's safety codes. This is where university students would be able to help their holons by applying the principles they have learned on a real-world project. Not only will this save money on the project, though will also allow for greater engagement into society with a greater sense of accomplishment towards real world change. Additionally, it will not only allow children to gradually increase the scope of the horizons of their own projects, though it will also allow the developing mind to gradually take on bigger and bigger perspectives while consistently working on the skills required for problem solving and understanding. Transcending and including their own steps through school grades and continuing onwards.

This style of education for both the school system and for an individual person will be a journey of overcoming challenges which are well met to an individual's current progress. It will be one which engages people more greatly into the environment and the community around them while providing an opportunity to be engaging from a place of abundance rather than lack. The different aspects of this Holocracy will be mutually supportive where the value from each quadrant helps create value in all other quadrants. This is fundamentally why the C.A.R.E. economy represents each quadrant and the holarchic nature of the structuring of society within each quadrant allows for greater coherent overall organization.

### Life in an Integrated Future

(Existing through the transition)

Riley Red, Brook Blue, Opal Orange, and Gray Green are fictional people who live in a world which looks much like today's. Even though what this society looks like is similar how it works is quite different.

Gray Green is a project leader and works on projects at the city level holon. These projects are milestone based and as a councilor on projects which have been completed on time and budget Gray Green has been quite successful with this career choice. The demands of the job however often interfere with the parenting of a young couple of kids at home. So, this morning Gray Green and their kids get up and are out the door together. Gray drops the kids off at a Neighbourhood Watch community center for childcare while on the way to an ongoing project.

Brook Blue is the neighborhood's trusted caregiver. They have already raised their own children into adulthood and are looking to engage in their community. Brook Blue simply started by offering this childcare service on the Neighbourhood Watch dApp as an 'on duty' service. Due to a growing history of great feedback from the community Brook's service has been growing greatly. It is now in such demand that Gray has initiated a project of their own towards creating a multi-use facility rather than using their own home and local grounds.

In fact, these days, Gray Green's project is the city's project to create this new childcare facility. The people in the community have just recently voted on a decision to choose a winning project proposal from an Integral Corporation to perform the construction of this facility.

The winning bid came from a company run by Opal Orange. This entrepreneur started as a supplier to trade workers and has since developed their own personnel owned and operated Integral Corporation. Essentially it is a dedicated group of construction workers in different trades who continue to work together as a single holarchically ordered company. Some may be more or less involved, though all participate voluntarily towards the collective company will for the most recent project. They can all work autonomously to fulfill the different work orders that the project requires. Depending on the amount of work they complete, they will be rewarded with the percentage of pay that equals the percentage of the project they completed. Using a decentralized ledger to keep track of the progress of the work and to verify who completed which work when, the project can be organized well towards the timely completion of quality work. Using this style of organization will incentivize workers to these timely and quality ends while allowing them the freedom to act autonomously.

Riley Red, for example, is a trade worker in Opal Orange's Integral Corporation. Despite the great work that Riley Red does, these days Riley is too stressed by the demands within their own life. From their work demands, family demands, even personal demands, and personal health. Riley Red elects to be more selfish these days. They decide to work much less and live from savings for the next little while. They decide to spend more time at home with family and with themselves to improve their mental and physical health. This is possible when working for Opal Orange's company because this only means that there will be more work opportunity for others in the company. This additionally is possible because as Riley Red feels better, they will be able to pick work back up and work on discrete parts of projects.

Riley will also be able to take any transition out of work and back into work more or less as they like. They will be able to take on as much or as little work as they like depending upon the constraints of the current project and timing as well as meeting some minimal contribution standards to the Integral Corporation. In this style of business not working does not mean you lose your job. There is no job to lose. There is only work that needs doing and the opportunity to do that work is what gets lost. The next opportunity however may be as close as the next stage of the project. What this does is simply open the door towards greater competition increasing the company's ability to provide timely quality goods, or in this case, services.

What's important to reiterate is that in a world of contractors and freelancers there is no job to take away or to lose; there is only work opportunities to lose. Thus, the projects which are seen as the most important or valuable will be completed by those seeking the opportunities.

This is the state of things now for these characters in this fiction future. However, let's look at what a typical day looks like for each of them.
Gray Green

As Gray Green leaves Brook's childcare center they are heading to the first meeting of the project council with the contract winning construction company. They will be meeting only to sign documentation and establish face to face connections between the overseeing council and Opal Orange's company leadership. This meeting will not be very long as both sides already know what public news from last night's public vote is.

Most of the work the council will do together will be the higher-level organization of tasks needing to be created for the project such that these tasks can be filled by contractors. They are the ones responsible for the issuing of work orders, or work opportunities to the collective. Remember that they don't make decisions, they enact the decisions which the public has made. The council's job is to ensure quality timely communication between the will of the people and the contractors performing the work. They are facilitating the process to ensure information flow is open and work is progressing.

Because of the nature of the job, the council itself only needs to meet now and then. Most of the time they will be able to work in a decentralized way. They collectively organize the project's management and act as watchful caretakers of the organic process of collective work. Now and then they will create questions to be voted on prompting the collective for answers to ongoing project questions.

After a few hours of meetings and collaboration, Gray Green's obligations for the day are done and they make their way back to pick up their children on the way home.

Opal Orange

For Opal Orange, it was a busy day. They met with Gray Green and the new community space's project council. Opal then had the official go ahead from the council to start on the construction site. As all the governmental regulations and approvals go through the project council Opal was able to be cleared for an immediate start. This means that Opal and their team of leaders will be meeting to organize themselves internally in much the same way the project council does. Internally they already have a great understanding of the project as they needed to do this for the creation of the company bid in the first place. Now that the bid is successful, it is public information and viewable as a progress indicator for the public. Internally they will break down these more generalized steps into work orders for their integral employees. The employees will fulfill these steps of the project in much the same way the council does at a higher level of organization.

This style of organization and project management is scale invariant which means that all levels of the project will have a similar structure, though all be part of the larger project. This follows directly from an integral perspective of holons and the holarchic nature of structure.

Brook Blue

As for Brook, it is a regular day where they spend a certain amount of predetermined time available for childcare. This is how Brook likes to organize the day and spend their time but as an aging person is not interested or able to spend much more time on this project. As this new facility opens, there will be greater demand for childcare. The center itself will be open to decentralized offerings from the community. This will allow Brook to continue with the current workload while supporting a growing demand of childcare. As they wish to keep the same amount and style of work Brook will become part of an organic childcare project which will emerge from the natural surplus of demand initially centered around Brook's service. The overflow of demand will be offered to the community as an opportunity to fulfill additional work for childcare. Through smart contracts, decentralized consensus, and automation all the project management for this small-scale project can happen with minimal effort by the community. Those who need the service pay into the community center's childcare smart contract. Those who fulfill the service get paid from the smart contract. Through connecting feedback and blockchain verified completion of work the system runs with minimal oversight and input from the community.

Riley Red

Riley Red has unfortunately received some bad health news lately. Luckily it is nothing immediately life threatening, though they will need to really look at re-evaluating their life and how they do things. To help initiate this path to change Riley Red is electing to stop most work and focus on their immediate family, self, and life habits. They do have a little bit of savings, though will need to find some independent work to help pay the bills. As big companies compete for projects on scales which use most of their resources and are limited to a small number of projects at one time, Riley will be able to offer their trade skills locally. Riley heads to the Neighbourhood Watch dApp to find local personal projects people are looking to get done. If there aren't any in the immediate area a larger holon horizon may offer similarly small personal projects.

This way, Riley Red can take time to walk their own path at their own pace while electing to stop running on the hamster wheel of a community or company pace. If and when Riley decides to go back to work with Opal Orange's integral company then they still carry with them reputation and history which will make the transition simple. Whatever Riley's decision will be they will be operating within the same holarchic structure and thus will be able to work on any projects that they have the qualification and reputation to perform.

This style of bigger companies playing in bigger ponds, still allows the smaller companies or independent contractors to play in their smaller ponds. Making the connection back to our personal cognitive development and how metaphorically it applies, big fish seek bigger challenges, small fish seek smaller challenges. Thus, everyone has opportunity for challenges which they feel are where they are at or what they need currently. We don't simply have a big fish gobbling up all the small challenges. This tends to happen when big companies gain economies of scale and seek to tackle all projects regardless of scale, or human resources. They are the big fish not seeking to grow their own horizon of challenges, though seek to be the big fish in the smaller pond and dominate a lesser horizon. This leads to impersonal, rushed, and often poor-quality services or goods.

Luckily for people in this style of society, there are usually many opportunities which can be filled. For Riley Red, the local community has collectively decided to create a CCTV security network for their local districts. The collective has pledged a certain amount of money to be provided for the project. This project however is not requiring a company to complete invasive camera installations on every block. They are simply providing the same funding to local people who wish to connect their own web connected cameras to a shared encrypted and decentralized CCTV service. In this way, Riley Red can simply earn a little extra money for providing a community service by pointing a webcam out the window. In a societal structure like this, not all big problems need big fish to solve them. It can be done in a collective decentralized way.

It may be one thing to look at what these people do and how they live their lives now, though what is also important is to see how they could have gotten to this place. How did they transition from the pre-automational society of centralized authority in an eat or be eaten world to where they are now with greater flexibility, autonomy, and collective engagement?

Gray Green was a veteran office manager and thought their job would be around for a while. However, the office workers Gray managed were all automated away. This left a manager with no personnel to manage. Gray Green's position was then made 'redundant' and dozens of others like it were all bundled into a new single data-supervisor position overseeing what previously were hundreds of jobs. With their existing management skills and project level thinking and perspective Gray Green found project councils as a good match. Grey's motivation was to help the greater community at large. Grey wanted to be part of something greater than themselves while really working to make a difference to the most people possible.

Opal Orange was a small business owner as a supplier to trade workers often dealing in equipment, clothing, and tools for the jobs. In a twofold effect, increased automation in industry meant less sales to fewer trades workers. In addition, there was greater competition from big company suppliers undercutting pricing due to economies of scale while simultaneously providing same day automated deliveries. This forced the closure of Opal's supply business. With the many close connections and friendships made with trades workers over the years, this business minded individual rallied many of the newly jobless tradies together to form an Integral Corporation. As Opal had business sense though not trade skills, they collectively decided to operate the business in a decentralized way. This allows all workers to share in the profits proportionately to their contributed work. Opal's motivation was to join people together to create something new. They wanted to help themselves to continue working and to achieve a business environment they felt was more competitive than the ones they left.

Brook Blue was forced to retire from the company they traditionally worked most of their life for. As an office worker pushing paper Brook's job was automated away and Brook was forced to retire without a pension. This then left an aging 'unemployable' person looking for a path forward. Luckily Brook still had a desire to engage in the community. They sought opportunities, though quickly realized the difficulty of their situation. Brook's now adult children suggested offering to be 'on duty' with the Neighbourhood Watch dApp. After a bit of help and a learning curve towards new technology they were off offering whatever their community needed. In Brook's case they needed childcare and supervision. Brook's motivation was to stay engaged in and feel like a valued member of the local community.

Riley Red was 'made redundant' as a construction welder at a large company when new robotics made the welding process much faster, safer, and cheaper. These new expensive technologies were adopted early by these big companies seeking bigger bottom lines. Riley Red as did their co-workers all think that they would have greater job security working for one of the biggest companies in their field. Unfortunately, these big profits lead to more rapid desire for growth and adoption of automation. Riley's motivation to move into Opal's integral company was the greater security of a paycheck with high demand for local projects in a more competitively structured company.

What all these characters have in common, besides silly color-coded names, is that they all exist within this integrated society. Despite their different interests, fields of skill, motivations, and general tendencies they all have space to exist and be themselves. Even though some jobs and tasks will become a thing of the past, the people who used to do those outdated tasks are themselves not outdated. There is still value which each of these people can bring to the collective society. These characters, more than simply being potential people 'out there' in our developing society, are also aspects of ourselves and the internal partial perspectives we bring to create our collective self. All these parts of ourselves and all the people out there who reflect these different aspects of development will all find place going forward so long as the society we wish to create and the person we wish to be is integrated.

### Conclusion

From our culture of movies seeing the future fight between dystopia and utopia, to technologists like Ray Kurzweil seeing an upcoming singularity as a time of massive change, to economists like Yanis Varoufakis seeing the coming end to capitalism as we know it leading to an opportunity for a positive or a negative future, we get a sense that fundamental change is coming. Each of these fields and the people in them are pointing us towards a future which can be sensed as having two very polarizing results.

This polarized view of the future is somewhat limited however. Will all bad things and people go away? No. Nor will all good things and people go away. So, the question for our future should not be about society being all good or all bad, the better question is how do we collectively organize ourselves so that positivity, stability, and free cooperation will have greater involvement in our lives than negativity, instability, and domination? Holocracy. We should understand and inhabit our greatest Horizons of Heart.

Now that you have read the book this simple answer hopefully makes more sense than it would have at the start. Holocracy is our detailed, coherent, and connected map for the organization of society. A society which focuses on different yet mutually supportive aspects to life; from Culture to Automation tools to Restorative systems to Education. Holocracy is a way to ensure that these different aspects of society all work together for the betterment and balancing of the human path going forward.

The continuation of our collective path has not simply come out of nothing, though as suggested, it is a continuation of an existing story; the story of humanity and our development from hunter gatherer to horticultural to agrarian to industrial to informational and onward to automational. At each stage we collectively have transcended and included that which has come before. It is only in this day and age that we can amass information about the past within all the four quadrants of life and then use this data to be able to see the connections of mutual support which exists between them. Now that we do have enough data and the data is organized more coherently are we able to project that forward into a continuation of the transcending and including which got us here to produce a "greater" society than before.

It is only from the transcending and including that we will be able to organize ourselves into a greater perspective and collective level of consciousness. Following from Einstein's "no problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it" we will then be able to solve many of the current stage's problems. This system of Holocracy and our Horizons of Heart if shared as a collective vision will bring about greater solutions which will solve current problems like, high crime rates, increasing wealth inequality, increased team-style tensions of identity politics from race to sex to age etc. It will aid in the engagement of the citizenry into their own communities. It will provide greater safety, security, opportunity, and organization to communities and individuals whilst providing greater governmental consistency, engagement, transparency, flexibility, adaptability, and wealth. It will also provide greater personal freedom, accomplishment, accountability, more unique cultures, and a wealth of skillful talent.

Eventually, if Holocracy is shared and executed in one nation than this nation will seek to aid other participating nations who still operate from lack. Lack of food, water, shelter, energy, infrastructure, organization, education, stability, and development for example. Holocracy as a shared vision will be the single greatest way in which to non-forcefully raise the people of the world out of poverty and out of living conditions which keep them in the lowest rungs of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. This will ultimately aid all in their own development of consciousness speeding our collective towards true world peace and cooperation. These should hopefully be great motivations as to why we should collectively share this vision.

As for how, start with questioning the ideas in this book, spreading them to other critics to challenge them and build upon them yourself. After you have consciously decided to support such ideas, vote. Vote for leaders willing to enact these types of ideas and spread this type of inclusive integral ideology. More than this however, you can vote with your money. Seek out companies which provide integral products and services, or companies with great ethics or fewer externalities. Apply these ethics and principles to your own companies or places of employment. If you are starting a company then choose to incorporate these principles from foundation. It is only through our engagement can we truly make a difference in this world and that different world is the greater what we will end up with.

Just as the Golden Circle of why, how, and then what has been used towards a greater shared goal. This style of thinking should also be applied towards our personal education and everyday approaches. Why should it be used? Well, it should be used by people who believe that life should be freer from chaos, disruption, and disharmony and more in line with a life of greater comfort, fulfillment, freedom, and harmony. How we do that is by integrally applying the what of information we have discussed in this book towards our life's situations.

This book covers a wide spectrum of application and as such we will walk through three steps towards our continued lives. The first being the broadest step looking to summarize the applications of our shared perspectives on a societal and global level with the largest of timeframes. The second being its application closer to home in our own small groups and communities with medium timeframes. And lastly, how we can apply these to ourselves in terms of short timeframes. Another way to put it is to look at the 'Big Three' areas of life from the Nature of things, to the Culture of things, to the Self-perception of things.

### The Nature of Things:

On a societal level, with the systems that we will use and the technology that will help us, we are heading into a time where we can peacefully, productively, and positively act on a global scale. These actions will change the way most aspects of life look today. In the same way a pre-internet world looks pretty much the same as it does now though there are aspects of it that will never be the same, what a pre and post blockchain world could look like may be the same though there will be aspects of how things are done that will never be the same. There has been a natural progression into a new standard of living in, being in, and perceiving the world which cannot simply be put back in the bottle. Collectively we have been incentivized towards this style of life, not simply by bad actors leading us down a technological breadcrumb trail to where they want us to go. We have all found benefit and motivation towards engaging in this style of upgrade. Some luddites or older generations attach to a narrative of life which does not include these advances and yet our growing society allows their existence.

This example of the pre and post internet is used to try to express the foundation shaking nature to a revolutionary step into novelty and deeper into our collective existence. It is an attempt at analogizing the step changes that we collectively have lived through to what is coming and how profound an impact this will have. In the same way the internet is everywhere and impacts every aspect of life today a decentralized internet, blockchain or open ledger technology, as well as automational technologies will do the same and have even more profound abilities to change even bigger aspects of our lives. Not only swallowing brick and mortar store locations, though also by swallowing many companies which provide us and those stores services. Whole industries will be affected. Banking will be swallowed whole as the need for a gatekeeper to watch our digital ones and zeros will no longer be needed. The transportation industry will change greatly in the personal, public, and delivery domains. For example, transportation and delivery systems to what stores are left or to customers directly will be automated. One of the biggest changes however will be in the way we collectively organize and collectively make decisions. One big example of this application is how we govern. It will no longer be people as a government governing us the citizenry. It will be the citizenry governing themselves. This will eliminate the ability to bias, blackmail, or coerce a single person or small group to do something against the interests of the collective.

Naturally this will be a point of contention with those who currently pull those strings and wield that power. Whatever the name, Deep State, Military Industrial Complex, or otherwise they will be looking to dissuade the development of these technologies and these very open and collective ends. They will simultaneously be looking to make their own products which will mimic these functions or be marketed as the shinier option for the same string-pulling purposes they have kept for generations. The importance of an educated and engaged populace which allows for an integration of this information is what will overcome the limitations which our current paradigm brings.

### The Culture of Things:

On a more local level, these same technologies and systems will be impacting our culture. We should be seeking to adopt the coming changes though to do so collectively and in an engaged way. If these new tools and systems are only used by controlling interests, they will only be used for controlling ends. However, if most people engage actively into this increasing trend then it will truly be decentralized. Not only should our governmental decision-making process be decentralized, though our community groups, our cultural groups, and religious groups should also. In smaller groups as opposed to a national group, it may be easy to decentralize decision making manually. This is good and undoubtedly has been and will continue to be used. The weakest link in this manual style will always be points of authoritative, singular, or even secretive control. These technologies simply make the process more streamlined, accessible, and less prone to error or manipulation. In the same way smart devices and the internet allow a group to more effectively share information or stay connected, decentralized technology will do more of the same while providing greater transparency and security.

Where this technology should be applied to our cultural groupings is to ensure that secrecy and immorality are not able to inhabit the culture. This will go far to ensure that people are able to use their inherent Orange ability to question and verify the whole set of information which pertains to their group. This will ensure an ability for Orange rationality to challenge Blue dogma. Or as Jordan Peterson was talking about with Sam Harris, the ability "to elevate the process by which dogmatic errors are corrected over the dogmas themselves".

### The Self Perception of Things:

Finally, we have the Self and the shortest of time frames. Like much of the information in this book the ideas can help towards our collective future goals, but it can also help us in our daily lives. How does the 'I' deal with the moment to moment interactions in life? How do we see ourselves and how do we act on the information we perceive? At the end of the day, despite the massive cultural and global changes that can take place, it doesn't ensure that 'I' also develops. It may change the environment and the tools, but itself doesn't change the people using them. It simply allows them a greater perspective into which they may grow if they so choose and work towards.

Consuming more information does not itself make improvement. Mentally seeing where it can be used and then physically enacting it towards decision making is the notion of 'taking the high road'. It is knowing of greater options and finally deciding against habit to work at improvement or to venture down Robert Frost's road less travelled. Gandhi's "Be the change you want to see in the world" certainly rings true. Knowing that amazing potentials exist 'out there' and yet not seeking to develop them personally is not balance nor growth. In fact, it allows for a greater tendency of pathology or imbalance. This can be seen in what Ken Wilber talked about with people narrating away pre-personal problems with trans-personal Buddhist philosophy yet not fixing their problems or even understanding them. On a larger stage it can be seen culturally with people who hold a Green narration of themselves and the world but do so in a Blue ethnocentric way. These are people who subjectively subscribe to a narration of peace and love though will angrily fight you to ensure it exists. One which sees how amazing things are 'out there' then narratively attaches to an understanding of Self which is the same. Do not only live from narrative subjectivity. Do you enact what you narrate? More importantly, how do you narrate what you act? No matter the actions is the narrative always to the same level of result?

It is important to be where you're at. Whatever level of development you are is allowed to exist and there are valuable reasons for it to exist. At the same time, is the highest road you can see for yourself? If you know better should you act better? What are the reasons that you normally narrate and act in one level but get "triggered" down to a lower one? What is it about that moment that requires the demands, as 'I' perceived them, from that lower domain? How is it valid? How is it not? AQALly engaging in these types of questions allows for a very full picture of partial truths. The information you can find in different aspects of AQAL help to show what you can see. Where you don't easily find information is also telling of what you cannot see. Asking who or what am I not loving? Or who or what am I not including in my Horizons of Heart? These can help to point out the level from which you are operating or did in that moment.

This process of being mindful and applying self-reflective Orange questioning is very valuable. It does take practice, compassion, and non-attachment. 'I' need to work to discover truths about me. These truths will not always be comfortable or flattering and will thus require my thoughtful Self to be compassionate. While discovering these truths and narrating them, am I running from or immediately denying these stories? Am I running towards or immediately accepting these stories? Am I able to sit with these truths and seek to understand that ways in which they are partial. Can 'I' see the value they bring? Can 'I' see their limitations?

As life provides an ability to ask an infinite number of questions? When should I stop asking and analyzing and when should I get moving to enact potential changes? Well, seek the information from what's truthful, just, true, and effective within thought and action. Engage as many aspects as possible because they all bring value and overcome each other's limitations in a transcending and including which add to build a greater Self.

As a final note, although the implications of our Horizons of Heart can be incredibly widespread it is important to start from home. If we can share this vision and apply it to ourselves, our families, and our communities then we will be taking the first necessary steps towards this very achievable future for all of humanity. One which does not include the most far flung cyborg-like predicted technologies of a far-off future, though one which is achievable with today's technology and abilities. One which balances both quality and quantity, inner and outer, subjective and objective, as well as individual and collective, freedom and order, independent and dependent. One which makes space for all and works to integrate it towards greater. We will not simply be heading towards polarizing futures of either doom or gloom, though what we will get is a radically inclusive future integrating all into a greater society. What we will have is a system which seeks to operate from the unifying religion of love through all iterations, from all levels of expanse, and from our individual and collective Horizons of Heart.

Thank you for reading this book. It is not an easy subject matter to digest. This book was intended to be as succinct as possible to encourage re-reading. Integral Theory is something which is practiced, not simply theorized and after applying what was understood the first time, re-reads will hopefully prompt greater depth of understanding. These increasingly inclusive perspectives are not simply degrees of narrating your story, they are the natural steps of life. Any attempt at avoiding them or skipping over one is a misstep not a shortcut. Enjoy the steps of life, they have much to teach us.

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Reference List

As all the perspective of Integral Theory has come from Ken Wilber it is impractical to create footnotes for each individual reference made. Thus, this reference list will be composed of a list of general sources from which the ideas and understanding of Integral Theory has been learned over the years from Ken Wilber. In addition to these sources, where specific source materials are relevant and practical they will be referenced more directly.

### Sources of understanding Integral Theory:

A Brief History of Everything (1996) (Original Audio Book) by Ken Wilber

A Brief History of Everything (2000) (Revised 2nd Edition) by Ken Wilber

Integral Life Practice: A 21st-Century Blueprint for Physical Health, Emotional Balance, Mental Clarity, and Spiritual Awakening (2008) by Ken Wilber

Integral Life Practice DVD's of Ken Wilber Lectures

Kosmic Consciousness - With Ken Wilber (2003) by Sounds True Publishing

Countless Youtube videos of lectures and webcasts featuring Ken Wilber

### Sources for Contextual References:

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URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligences

3 - Author: Wilber, Ken (2000)

Book Title: A Brief History of Everything (Revised 2nd Edition)

4 - Author: Wilber, Ken (2008)

Book Title: Integral Life Practice

Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts

e-Book Edition page 148/418, Figure 5.12

5 - Author: Integral Life

Interview Title: The Pre/Trans Fallacy

Upload Date: 10/11/2014

Website Name: Youtube.com

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6 - Author: someoddstuff

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Uploaded: 01/16/2011

Website Name: Youtube.com

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Interview Date: 06/08/2017

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Interview Date: 01/30/2017

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13 - Author: BBC Channel-4

Interview Host: Sheena McDonald

Interview Date: 08/14/1994

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Upload Date: 08/31/2018

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URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtkwF5qA6uE&t

15 - Author: Peterson, Jordan B

Interview Title: 01 Harris/Weinstein/Peterson Discussion: Vancouver

Upload Date: 08/31/2018

Website Name: Youtube.com

URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-Z9EZE8kpo

16 - Article Title: Stanford marshmallow experiment

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17 - Author: Brand, Russell

Interview Title: What's The Biggest Threat To Freedom - Islam Or Consumerism? | Under The Skin with Russell Brand #45

Upload Date: 02/04/2018

Website Name: Youtube.com

URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwiJlQUrwdA

18 - Author: Aitken, Roger

Article Title: IBM Forges Blockchain Collaboration With Nestlé & Walmart In Global Food Safety

Article Date:08/22/2017

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19 – Author: Sustainable Human

Page Title: Conventional economics is a form of brain damage

Upload Date: 09/25/2012

Website Name: Youtube.com

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se55CCdfaOA

20 – Author: TEDx Talks

Page Title: Our democracy no longer represents the people. Here's how we fix

it | Larry Lessig | TEDxMidAtlantic

Website Name: Youtube.com

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJy8vTu66tE

21 - Author: TEDx Talks

Page Title: Start with why -- how great leaders inspire action | Simon Sinek |

TEDxPugetSound

Website Name: Youtube.com

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ZoJKF_VuA&t

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estimate

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