Spiral Dynamics Evolution - Case Study Mega-Thread

[Scholar]

This thread is a collection of actual real life examples, whether on an individual level or on a collective level, how a particular level of existences creates limitations, which then in turn cause suffering, which in turn causes an attraction to the next level of existence.

Each level of existences can handle a variety of problems, but each level of existences creates new problems for which it is not yet equipped to tackle.

 

 

I will start with the example of the current evolution of the platform Twitch from orange to green. The effects the orange level of existence has on mental health is profoundly negative, worse for orange is that it has no clue how to remedy these effects. It is helpless because it views problems to be primarily individualistic.

Orange views mental health as a problem of the individual, a dysfunction of the individual. It classifies the individual, attributes disorders to it and then seeks to find ways to remedy these dysfunctions. This approach is fundamentally flawed because it does not recognize that the mental health disorders we are facing are a collective problem, not an just an individualistic one.

The way to actually heal people most people is to create community, be more empathetic, be less materialistic. Orange has no tools to engage with these problems on a collective level. With true and healthy community many of current mental health disorders would never arise in the first place.

 

For us who understand the Spiral there is a key insight that we have to integrate in the way we approach the healing of our communities and individuals. Spiral Evolution happens when the limitations of a level of existence become obvious to those residing in that level of existence. This is where someone like Dr. K can come in and help people emerge from their level of existence to the next.

This is essential, because as "Spiral Wizards" we can waste a lot of time trying to convince and make people evolve who have not yet experienced the limitations of their own level of existence. This will not happen, it is a wasted effort and an ineffective allocation of energy. What we must do is identify the communities and individuals who are at the ripe level of suffering, this is how we can create a healthy and swift evolution.

When the ripe level of suffering is reached it can sometimes take a single individual to guide the people to the next stage.

 

After a streamer named reckful took his life, the twitch community started to take the issue of mental health much more serious. Dr. K is basically taking people from orange and guiding them to green. It is a good example for why Life Purpose has to stay flexible, the world is a flexible place and will need new and dynamic solutions for each newly emerging problem. Even a few years ago this conversation could have not happened, but now everyone is listening carefully and very curious as to what he has to say. People even embrace his Eastern Spiritual concepts, which is surprising (or not to those who understand the spiral) because they are gamers.

The suffering combined with the recognition of their own ignorance is the cause of open mindedness for stage orange.