Self Knowledge and Life Conditions

Monday, July 11th, 2011

In my view there is a coming together that we have yet to achieve, which represents our ability to support the world through a difficult transition. For me that will be a sign of our maturity, and of our ability to take these wonderful maps and brilliant theories and apply them.

Which NHS shall we save?

Friday, March 18th, 2011

So – hands up who thinks that the NHS is perfectly alright as it is, and needs nothing done to improve it? Well, this is all in my imagination, but I am not seeing any hands going up. Most specifically I am not seeing them from anyone who works in the NHS.

Spiritual Intelligence

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Are you spiritually intelligent? I sit here having planned for this blog to be about multiple intelligences. I have a swollen black eye with two small cuts, having failed to control the release of a bungee chord that was tying up a bundle of timber in my car. Blame it on cold fingers as I [...]

Sex and the Perfect Man

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Mankind has lived through all history in this tension; men abusing women and women using men. And because none of us were to be trusted, Blue invented rules to govern our sexual impulses. The apostle Paul got exercised over the sin of fornication and legitimized it only within marriage, and even then only as long as you promise not to enjoy it, and only to do it for procreation. Red uses it for Power, Orange for Status, and Green for bonding.

Crisis as opportunity

Friday, March 18th, 2011

There will be a recurring theme through this series of blogs on social dynamics. That theme is complexity. Integral and Spiral Dynamics approaches both portray our time as one of major transition, driven in large measure by an evolutionary crisis. Our ways of thinking and being are challenged to attain a new level in order [...]