Hey, this is Leo for actualized.org.

And in this episode, I'm really excited to be digging deep into the grand model of psychological evolution brought to us by Claire Graves and the guys from

spiral dynamics.

This is a really deep topic and you're going to have some mind-blowing epiphanies if you stick with me. We have a lot to discuss so I'm just going to go right into it. I have a lot of material that's kind of technical that involves lots of research that has been done by

amazing individuals in the last 100 years.

One of them being Claire Graves, the other two being Beck and Cohen, who are

the guys behind Spiral Dynamics, and also I'm going to talk about Ken Wilbur. I'm going to bring in

some ideas from Eben Pagan and

Wyatt Woods Mall. So these were these are amazing researchers these guys and the

depth of insight that they have put together in creating this model. This is a model of how the human

psyche develops both for individuals but also as societies. It might seem a little

bit abstract. It might seem a little bit abstract. It might seem a little bit philosophical.

Like what does this have to do with improving my life or self actualizing?

You're going to see that it has an enormous amount to do with it.

So let me first before I start getting into all the technical details and the history and all the pieces of this model,

let me just give you a little bit of why this is significant and why you should stick with me here and why it's going to be worth your time.

All right?

So imagine, if you will, that there was, oh I don't know, like a roadmap or a path, a well-troden path that human beings have

walked down for thousands of years because it just so happens that this human brain has a certain

psychology to it and the psyche what we call the psyche that includes all the different psychological aspects of the brain and the mind.

What if that had a certain structure to it and it always tended to unfold in a certain very

predictable way?

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