Ken Wilber is my intellectual inspiration for Alt-Middle, which he calls "2nd tier" Integral thinking. This is a video worth watching and then us talking about together. Why are we divided? Why has woke culture gotten out of control? Why is Alt-Middle the way through and out of our current mess?
Ken uses some jargon here: when he's talking about stages of human development, he uses color codes in order of their development in human history: Blue (mythic/magic/dominator hierarchies based on birth like the old churches or tribes), Orange (modern rational thought, universal truths like science, meritocracy, capitalism, power hierarchies), Green (pluralistic, post-modern thought, multiculuralism, truth is culturally constructed, rejects ALL hierarchies as evil even beneficial growth hierarchies, this is where the center of culture is currently), then second tier Teal (Integral/Alt-middle, all views are true but partial, all levels of development are necessary and included, some truths are ...
Fun captioned vertical version of our recent YouTube Live conversation, with no ads, here for Locals fam!
Today's interview with legendary vaccine researcher Paul Offit. Video version coming shortly!
I came home from work the other afternoon to find this precious trio (with mom) standing to the right of my driveway. They were so tiny! So cute!
In the middle of the night when your past misdeeds come back to berate you, you should do two things:
1. Honor the lessons and realize that it is because you're a better person now and be thankful of that!
2. See that persons who do harms against you and others are harming themselves more. Others are as yourself in the need compassion. Just as you needed compassion when you were in dark times, everyone needs compassion.
We are all a moment. We are not :that" moment, or a "future" moment. We are "this" moment!
