https://www.dailyevolver.com/2018/01/evolution-humanity-human/ Hate will always be with us. Developmental Psychology tells us that until a human or a group of humans  mature to a certain level, there is an allergy to values that are not of our own. To complicate matters further in this area, our shadows will blind us to the possible truth that the traits that we dislike in others could reside in ourselves! At the tribal level (see chart) of maturity, whatever is a danger to the group is the focus of hate. There is power in numbers and thus we can relax in relative safety. At the egocentri ..read more

So, when I was 17 (around 1971) I said to myself that I was going to write a memoir called “Life Without Toilet Paper.” I lived with my mother at the time and it seemed like that was frequently my reality. I knew it would include my childhood trauma of witnessing my sister’s horse accident and her subsequent death. I also had a lot of family drama that I also was going to include. Life can be messy and I was going to stay real! When I got in my 60’s I decided I better get on it, or perhaps it would not get done. What resulted was pretty much a bitch fest and I didn’t want that kind of publish ..read more

Since I first read Integral Life Practice (https://www.terrypatten.com/integral-life-practice/) I have tried to keep up a routine that would satisfy the 4 core modules of Body, Mind, Spirit and Shadow! My applications have changed and evolved throughout the some 15 years of endeavors and one of my recent ones is Ecstatic Breathwork with Scott Schwenk. Scott is Integrally informed, and is a meditation teacher as well. http://www.scottschwenk.com Some of the benefits of this practice are clearing the lungs, topping of the vagus nerve, oxygenating the blood, clearing energy blocks, opening the h ..read more

Events of the world have been depressing for me lately! And, they have been changing so quickly that sometimes it’s been difficult to process one before something else comes up to contemplate. However, I’m starting to feel hopeful about the future and that’s because of our human future. https://www.forbes.com/sites/shanesnow/2020/06/04/our-leaders-of-tomorrow-are-going-to-need-these-4-rare-skills/ The young people of today (younger than Boomer age) have really stepped up in leadership for us all. In the past few days it seems the tide has turned in the social justice area in a positive way whe ..read more

Recently on Integral Life, Corey and Ken talk about Forgiveness and Gratitude. (https://integrallife.com/a-course-in-anti-fragility/) The whole world and many of it’s inhabitants seem to be transforming into something new with the Covid-19 event. It’s been a while since I’ve published a blog. I like many others, have been transforming through life circumstances. In 2017 I ended a 25 year relationship to a marriage partner. It was excruciating painful and included moving from Nevada back to my home state of Texas and my birth place, Austin. Since late 2017 I have been working on healing by tak ..read more

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Here is a great, thoughtful article by Richard Slaughter! It’s a little long but well worth the read! Enjoy! Also, I would like to plug my new YouTube channel Integral Futures by Terry Collins. I’ve got an “Intro” and “History” with both being under 5 minutes for all those with short attention spans such as myself! Ha Ha Ha! Terry Futures Studies as a Quest for Meaning by Richard A. Slaughter Abstract This article reflects on four decades of activity in the futures arena. Overall, it tracks a process of deepening insight and growing appreciation for the richness and complexity of life in all i ..read more

My earlier Values-Forms Pt 1 essay showed the similarities between David Ronfeldt’s TIMN Social Forms Evolution framework and Spiral Dynamics emergent values theory. I briefly showed that they can be combined into a powerful new composite values-form tool for understanding organizational social change. The article left an open question: why are Spiral’s Orange Achievist values the only self-focused vMeme to create a stable social form, namely +M Markets? Figure-1 shows the break in the clean pattern of socially-focused values creating stable social forms. It seems to violate both symmetry and ..read more

Tim Morgan continues to explore Values with a Form that reinforces Spiral Dynamics. Enjoy! Values-Forms Pt 1: David Ronfeldt’s TIMN & Spiral Dynamics One of the things that weakens confidence in Spiral Dynamics as a psychological emergence theory is the dearth of published scientific studies backing it up. That lack of evidentiary rigor along with the absence of Claire W. Grave’s original research data makes some question its scientific validity. This is not an overwhelming objection, however. Spiral Dynamics practitioners have been using it in the field successfully for decades. Another ..read more