Bernardo Carleial

Surely it cannot be applied for all the literary spectrum, there's a lot of artistic license that gets in the way throughout the narrative, and it varies from writer to writer... but I also believe that it's possible to find a main theme and/or core principles from a particular character that might resonate to a particular stage of the spiral.

Also Blue: War and Peace: Leo Tolstoy Also Red: Gates of Fire: Steven Pressfield

Is the notion of Holons, the first step towards reaching tier 2 level of thinking? And therefore moving from vMEME Green to vMEME Yellow? I've had that thought after watching a Ken Wilber video in which he says that after post-modernism reach its end, and destroys all the house of cards that were built in the previous stages, it turns out that its inevitable to develop more healthy hierarchies in order to create a more inclusive and more sustainable society... And the concept of holons present both by Ken Wilber and Leo seems to me to be a better conceptual foundation for development, both personal and societal, because it brings some tier 2 thinking that's required to adress what it's left out by post-modernism in its excess, like: transcend and include , growth hierarchies and "going meta" That's my thought on this issue, but I would love to see what you guys think about that, so that we could have a more well rounded discussion about that??...

@Windappreciator I think I know what you mean... Grasp this concept not just by understanding, but by embodying it, is that right?

vMEME Red plot twist in the Invincible series (SPOILER ALERT!)

even though I have a suspicion that the kind of discipline those inmates get from these institutions is leaning more to a healthy vMEME Blue, that initiative, as a social policy, is very vMEME Green. I was very surprised to know that there are such programs here in Brazil.

A beautiful Documentary which clarifies a lot of the concepts expressed by Heidegger in his book "Being and Time, one of the most difficult books I've ever read in my life.

“Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends on what we look for. What we look for depends on what we think. What we think depends on what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality.” David Bohm

The most Gansgta Documentary I've ever seen...

"Civilization may be the greatest bait-and-switch that ever was. It convinces us to destroy what is free so an overpriced, inferior copy can be sold to us later—often financed with the money we’ve earned hastening the destruction of the free version. Contaminate streams, rivers, lakes, and aquifers with industrial waste, pesticide runoff, and fracking chemicals, and then sell us “pure spring water” (often just tapwater) in plastic bottles that break down into microplastics that find their way to oceans, whales’ stomachs, and our own bloodstreams. Work hard now so you can afford to relax later. We ignore friends and family while we struggle to get rich so someone will eventually love us. The voices of civilization fill us with manufactured yearnings and then sell us prepackaged dollops of transitory satisfaction that evaporate on the tongue. Some throw up their hands and blame it all on human nature. But that’s a mistake. It’s not human nature that makes us engage in this blind destruction of our world and ourselves. For hundreds of thousands of years, human beings thrived on this planet without doing it in. No, this is not the nature of our species—it is the nature of civilization, an emergent social structure in which our species is presently trapped. To understand the roots of our seeming penchant for ecocide, we must understand that an animal’s nature can only be expressed in relation to its environment, natural or contrived." A very eloquent excerpt from the book "Civilized to Death", by Christopher Ryan.

"Dasein is an entity which in each case I myself am. Mineness belongs to any existent Dasein, and belongs to it as the condition which makes authenticity and inauthenticity possible. In each case Dasein exists in one or the other of these two modes, or else it is modally undifferentiated. But these are both ways in which Dasein's Being takes on a definite character, and they must be seen and understood a priori as grounded upon that state of Being which we have called "Being-in-the-world'." Being and Time - Martin Heidegger Again...as I said before, the only stage in which I really have problems classifying it is vMEME TURQUOISE, but looking at Heidegger 's phenomenological approach to existence, it seems to match some of Leo's teachings about reality and metaphysics. That's the impression that I got, I might be wrong about that, but neither way, I decided to post it.?

The consequences of vMEME Blue ethnocentrism

https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Vegan-Kitchen-Jannequin-Bennett/dp/1401603475# This book is a very good example of vMEME GREEN lifestyle. The author not only talks about recipes and nutrition facts, but sometimes talks about Vegan ideology and worldview too.

"We tell stories about what happened, but, just as often, the stories we tell determine what happens. Narrative becomes paradigm, because origin stories are as predictive and constraining as they are explanatory. The map showing where we came from delimits where we can go from here. If yours is a story of victimization, you will live out your days a victim. If it’s a tale in which your race is superior to all others,evidence of their inferiority will seem plentiful and obvious." Christopher Ryan , an excerpt from his book "Civilized to Death "

The issue at hand is vMEME RED, But the Analysis presented in that documentary is very vMEME Yellow

Early vMEME Green talking about toxic vMEME Orange behavior. It is quite iluminating to see how the guest is able to go meta in order to evaluate how far his earlier friend has gone off road. (forget the gossip, let's focus on the discussion)

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy Although Tolstoy himself I would consider him at early vMEME Green, the novel, from what I could see, covers a lot of the power dynamics within the vMEME Blue nobility/aristocracy, how people with different ranks in the hierarchy interact with one another, and the gender roles and fixed moral values that they all have to obey... Here is an excerpt from the book, which is an exchange of letters between two countesses, talking about Christian Faith: "Yet since you tell me that among some good things it contains others which our weak human understanding cannot grasp, it seems to me rather useless to spend time in reading what is unintelligible and can therefore bear no fruit. I never could understand the fondness some people have for confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken their doubts and excite their imagination, giving them a bent for exaggeration quite contrary to Christian simplicity. Let us rather read the Epistles and Gospels. Let us not seek to penetrate what mysteries they contain; for how can we, miserable sinners that we are, know the terrible and holy secrets of Providence while we remain in this f lesh which forms an impenetrable veil between us and the Eternal? Let us rather confine ourselves to studying those sublime rules which our divine Saviour has left for our guidance here below. Let us try to conform to them and follow them, and let us be persuaded that the less we let our feeble human minds roam, the better we shall please God, who rejects all knowledge that does not come from Him; and the less we seek to fathom what He has been pleased to conceal from us, the sooner will He vouchsafe its revelation to us through His divine Spirit."

That's actually early Blue(vMEME RED/Blue) And because of that, you might expect a lot of vMEME RED involved.

"It is difficult for members of a modern individualistic society to imagine the extent to which the Canela(tribe) saw the group as more important than the individual. Generosity and sharing was the ideal, while withholding was a social evil. Sharing possessions brought esteem. Sharing one’s body was a direct corollary. Desiring control over one’s goods and self was a form of stinginess. In this context, it is easy to understand why women chose to please men and why men chose to please women who expressed strong sexual needs. No one was so self-important that satisfying a fellow tribesman was less gratifying than personal gain." Sex At Dawn - Christopher Ryan & Cacilda Jethá