Does This Remind You of Values Levels 2-6?

[Adriana James]

“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been two hundred years.
These nations have progressed through this sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to complacency;
from complacency to apathy;
from apathy to dependence;
from dependency back again into bondage.”

— Sir Alex Fraser Tyler: (1742-1813) Scottish jurist and historian.

[Laura Petrie]

Wow….mind explosion….This was written in the late 1700’s?!

[Adam Mayer]

So then how to short-circuit the cycle? Are there nations that have successfully done so in the past, and if so let’s model them.

What comes to mind is that the sooner you get people to realize that they are already in bondage, the sooner the spiritual faith and great courage can emerge. Really, unconsciousness is bondage, and selfishness, complacency, apathy, and dependence are all forms of unconsciousness, so they are all too forms of bondage. The seed of unconscious bondage festers and grows over decades until it is projected as overt bondage in the physical world via tyrannical rule. So the sooner that the unconscious bondage is brought to light and nipped in the bud, it would seem that the overt bondage can be avoided.

So really the key to breaking the cycle is consciousness. So perhaps we need to look to more ancient and wise civilizations like the ancient Hawaiians for guidance on how to break this cycle and stay in the liberty/abundance phase for as long as possible. Now if only there was a set of powerful tools to help people rapidly become more conscious and transform the planet… hmm… ?

[Adriana James]

Look at this though the prism of values levels.
We seem to be rotations between 2-6. Gotta move to 7 to get out of the cycle
And no nation that I know of is doing that …yet.

Yes, consciousness = awareness of what IS before attempting to change into something else

[Kallum Hock]

Liberty to Abundance to VL7 = breaking the cycle from reverting back to bondage to something else something greater?

What word then if we could only use one would describe VL7?

Functionality in my mind doesn’t go far enough.

Maybe Thrive? Flourish.

Would love to hear your thoughts guys.

[Adriana James]

Functionality. What’s most functional no matter what. I know it sounds cold and it is.
Thrive and flourish are more 6 then 7.

[Jenny Worner]

My mind had a little jolt when you put cold and functional together because ‘cold’ appeared to detract from ‘functional’.
I often use the expression – “I’m going for form over function here “ or “in this case it’s function over form”. (My CE of ‘form’ being elegance, grace, beauty.) For me it’s a lack that one has to have that duality. Pure joy is a combination of the highest form and the highest function. Maybe that’s also a bit of VL6 wriggling out into the open 🙂

[Kallum Hock]

Thanks Adriana 🙂 Appreciate the insight.

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