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The AlphaFit

The BetaCondition

“Something’s Wrong”

REFORMEvolutionary Change

REVOLTRevolutionary Change

“Everything’s Falling Apart”

The Gamma Trap

BARRIERS

The Delta Surge“Free at Last”

TRANSFORMATION

The NewAlpha Fit

“We’ve SortedIt All Out”

Seven Variations of Change

• Horizontal– CV 1 – Fine TUNE

• Thinking and assumptions remain essentially the same, but techniques and information improve

– CV 2 – Expand OUT • Elaborate basic vMEME system to include more contents and flesh

out its repertoire. Form of enrichment, enhancement and development.

• Oblique– CV 3 – Stretch DOWN

• Stay in basic vMEME position while reawakening earler vMEME systems on a temporary basis in an attempt to deal with a pressing situation.

– CV4 – Stretch UP• Dominant thinking stays in original vMEME position but incorporates

elements of some more complex vMEMEs.

Seven Variations of Change

• Vertical– CV 5 – Break OUT

• Characterizes REVOLUTIONS, generally used to attack barriers that need to be blown away and reforming to something anew.

– CV 6 – UP Shift • Describes a shift in the critical mass from one vMEME level

to the next on the Spiral, generally in the form of an EVOLUTIONARY change as a new layers is added.

– CV 7 – QUANTUM• There is a movement in a number of vMEMEs at the same

time. Integral to successful nation-building, community integration and functioning in a global marketplace. Seen in era-like shifts like the Industrial Revolution or Information Age.

Themes of Change

• Horizontal– Spiral itself remains stable

• Oblique– Some inter-vMeme turbulence

• Vertical– Shifts from vMeme to vMeme

The vMEME Map*

The Survival Self

The PowerSelf

TheEnterprising

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The IntegratedSelf

The TribalOrder

The AbsoluteOrder

The Egalitarian Order The GlobalOrder

Tier 1

Tier 2

* The emergent, cyclical double helix model of adult biopsychosocial development

The Yin & The Yang

• EXPRESS SELF– Individual/Elite Pole

I, ME, MINETake charge, make changes, move against nature, control the external world, rely on the power of self

EXPLORE THE OUTSIDE

DIVERSITY GENERATING

CENTERED INTERNALLY

• SACRIFICE SELF– Communal/Collective PoleWE, US, OURS

Accept the inevitable, live within natures constraints, focus on coming to peace with who one is, seek authority from outside

FIX THE OUTSIDECONFORMITY GENERATINGCENTERED EXTERNALLY

Tier 1 v/s Tier 2

• How systems get awakened– Systems are awakened – based on Life Conditions –

Time, Place, Problems, Circumstances, Capacities to process the intelligences

• Normal human brain comes with Latent systems– systems need to be turned on

• Tier 1 v/s Tier 2 bell curves

So what do we have here?• Human Nature is not fixed• We have natural capacities to construct new conceptual worlds• Thus we have the Spiral with its prime directive being to maintain

the health of the spiral• Healthy (Transcend and include), Unhealthy (Transcend and

Eradicate) • We have “complex adaptive intelligences” – that respond to natural

concepts of– Regeneration,– Renewal, and– Replication

• via - Language, Architecture, Music, Philosophy, Politics, Icons, Fads, Literature, Sport, Fashion, Religion…………

• Non discriminating containers– For example – the blue container can have Christianity, Judaism,

Islam…