Developing Societies in Support of Wellbeing & Harmony

Hussam Shareef is a participant in the Stages of Consciousness course that I'm running. In this call, as part of the course, we discuss what a healthy integration of the pluralist/collectivist vmeme looks like.

Overview

Green’s pushback against stage orange

• The fast-paced material world of Orange

• the pluralist stage slowly recognized that material wealth alone is not sufficient to live a satisfying life.

• Start to realize that not everything can be explained and solved with reason

• There is not only a need for achieved tangible wealth but also a need for more emotional well-being.

• When one realizes that we can’t solve all of the world’s problems with more money, economic growth, pollution, and everything happening on wall street

  • Now realizes Orange is unsustainable and we need to think about ecology.

  • So, Green emerges when materialism and success fail to feed the human spirit. We used to think that money and success could make us actualized, but now we are noticing that there is still a hole inside us.

  • Now, after getting much money and success, one discovers that life is not about it; instead, we should have been chasing connection and relationships.

    • this emotional void

  • What moves Orange into Green is sometimes a health crisis because Orange is living in such a toxic way that many health issues started to come out.

    • stress-related diseases

    • loneliness

    • anxiety

    • depression

• One's view of the world expands.

  • Orange only viewed the world as being a marketplace

  • Green views the world as a community where we all get to collectively need to take care of our Planet.

  • Life is not about things, life is about people. It’s about deep human bonds. Now, Green is starting to realize that people should cooperate rather than compete with each other.

• Life is about more than just egoic success but the success of the whole community; but now, the sense of what community means has expanded beyond blue.

  • There is the recognition of this larger global community and now it starts to notice all the inequality and oppression in the world that is caused by Blue and Orange.

  • The community of green is the entire world, regardless of the country, gender, race, etc.

    • Whereas blue was promoting the civilization (in the sense of my civilization against all the other ones)

  

Healthy Green / What Can We Include / How Does Green Look When Used For Higher-Order Purposes

• To work together, it is essential to make real contact. This means that people are able to bond on an emotional level. This asks for a lot of communication, understanding, and empathy.

• Give attention to everyone and give everyone the space to be heard.

• Accept every person completely in their own individuality.

• journey of discovery is more important than reaching a goal

• Connection with nature

• I feel emotions, therefore I am alive. In essence, everyone is equal.

• Love

• Heart

• Soul

• Empathy, Intimacy, Kindness

• Compassion, Mercy, and Leniency

• Equality

• Harmony

• Human well-being

Where am I not taking into account the emotional component of life?

Where am I not valuing others for their innate human-ness, but rather putting them lower or higher based on their beliefs, success, ego, etc.?