August Volume 18, Number 2, 2018
08/29 – Graves
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- Book Reviews
- Feature Articles
- Notes from the Field
- Cover
- Book Excerpt
- Leadership Quote
- Leading Comments
8/29 – Cover
Momentous Leap Cover featuring Left to Right: Jane Loevinger, Don Beck, Russ Volckmann, Robin Wood, Clare Graves, Jean Piaget, Jean Gebser, Ken Wilber, Susanne Cook-Greuter and Abraham Maslow
Terry Patten (adapted from Chapters 1 and 5 of A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries © 2018 available from North Atlantic Books) There is overwhelming evidence…
Robin Lincoln Wood During the 1960’s and 1970’s there was a growing awareness amongst political, cultural, business and scientific leaders around the globe that the spread of nuclear weapons and…
J. Kim Wright and Luemara Wagner (with special thanks to Don Beck) Kim: I was a speaker at the Spiral Dynamics Summit on the…
08/29 – Into the Collective Heart – On the Road to Super-Coherence
Anne-Marie Voorhoeve, with contributions from Diana Claire Douglas In this article Anne-Marie Voorhoeve shares the development of THC-The Hague Center for Global Governance, Innovation and Emergence as a Second Tier organization,…
Bjarni S. Jonsson Collective Wisdom The Iceland National Assembly Social Experiment Following the financial crisis, the Icelandic nation was in a state of shock, anger and despair. While it was…
08/29 – Secular, Sacred, Scientific
Graham Mummery In the prefaces to the current book, Spiral Dynamics in Action: Humanity’s Master Code (Beck, Larsen, Solonin, Viljoen, Johns 2018), the authors and editors explain that this is…
08/29 – Future of Democracy and the “Beta-Condition” – The Scandinavian Experience
Teddy Hebo Larsen What lessons can be learned from highly developed democratic societies, and how relevant are those lessons to developing nations? These most relevant questions are of…
Jim Lockard “Don’t search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are…
Michiel Doorn This paper explores whether inventions and technologies can be “civilized” such that their embedding in our social, biological & economic fabric leads to the flourishing of all life…
08/29 – A 2nd Tier Approach to a 1st Tier World
Keith Rice The Spiral Dynamics Summit on the Future (Dallas, 20-22 April 2018) was a fairly awesome event. A gathering of leading Gravesian practitioners (both on the stage and in…
08/29 – Interstate Bus Lines: A Tribal Centre of Gravity in Need of Functioning Blue
Rica Viljoen In his 2006 book, The Crucible – Forging South Africa’s Future, Don Beck[1] described that thinking systems are deep-core intelligences that form as a coping response to…
08/29 – Facilitating the Emergence of a Thriving Global Civilization
Nicholas Beecroft For the first time in human history, a global civilization is emerging. It was initiated by the European empires which first connected together the whole world with trade…