domenica 13 febbraio 2011

FOCUS: KEN WILBER - Stages of Psychological and Cultural Development



Stages of Psychological and 
Cultural Development


In order to fully understand and appreciate the different sets of values and beliefs enacted around the world, we must allow ourselves to step back and take a developmental view of world culture—one which can make sense of the full spectrum of perspectives that are currently at play in the global conversation.



The premise of this sort of developmental view is simple: people evolve. As people evolve, they move through a particular sequence of stages, a sequence that has been long studied by Western psychologists and has been found to be essentially universal to every culture in the world. Taking a developmental view accounts for the “multiple intelligences” every human being possesses, including cognitive development and intelligence, values and beliefs, charisma and interpersonal skills, etc. There is a long list of these different sorts of intelligences, each growing along its own particular developmental track, but there is enough congruence in their overall development that we can begin to take a meta-view of our growth and development by using a very simple concept known as “Altitude.” Altitude is essentially a barometer of overall human growth, which uses the color spectrum to denote several major stages of development—each of which has slowly evolved over the course of human history, though still very much at play in today’s world:


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