The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.

An African proverb.

Welcome to spiraliral Dynamics Stage Purple.

This is a continuation of my multi-part series on the developmental model known as

Spiral Dynamics. I have many episodes in the series. In a sense this is the end of the series but also the beginning because

stage purple is really the beginning of where you want to start with spiralial Dynamics and then everything else goes up from there.

Now before we get into that, I want to give credit here to the developers of this model,

Claire Graves, Don Beck and Christopher Cohen, and also the website

Spiral Dynamics Integral.NL. A lot of the phrases and information that you'll find in this episode I pulled directly from the website

or I pulled directly from the book called Spiral Dynamics or from the work of Claire Graves, who was the originator of

the Spiral Dynamics model before it was even called Spiral Dynamics.

It was a series of value systems.

So Spiral Dynamics, again, just to recap,

for those of you who are just joining in,

if this is the first episode you're watching,

it's a developmental model

that looks at the evolution of culture and human

psychology through time both at an individual level and also collectively and

a lot of it is about collective evolution because culture is sort of a collective human invention.

So every stage is a more advanced form of culture.

No one stage is better than any other stage,

but they do come in a particular order

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