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 Clare 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 is kind of technical that involves lots of research that has been done by amazing individuals in the last 100 years. .
. . one of them being Clare Graves.
The other two being Beck and Cowan, 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 Woodsmall.
So 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 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. Alright. So imagine if you will, that there was, oh, I don't know, like a road map or a path, a well trodden 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? Wouldn't it be useful to you if you are trying to self actualize and trying to get the most out of your life and you're trying to evolve to your fullest potential as one of these psyches wouldn't it be worth it to you to study what this path is?
So you could see potential blind spots and obstacles that are on this journey? Wouldn't you like to know what the journey entails rather than just doing it the way most people do which is just kind of assuming that "Hey! I'm the first one's that's ever been alive.
No one before me really counts. Let me re-invent the whole wheel. Let me make all the mistakes myself.
And let me not even look at the research that has studied thousands, tens of thousands of individuals and has found common patterns between the problems they have as they're evolving their psyche. " Wouldn't it be worthwhile for you to figure that out? To take a look at that research and to see, "Oh.
Oh there's that thing up ahead. Maybe I can avoid it a little easier now that I know that it's there.
