1. Some Slides on Learning/Educational and
Spirituality/Integral
Tom Murray
January 2015

2. Tom Murray | www.perspegrity.com |
May 2010
Instinctive/Sensate
Magical
Warrior (& Subjugate)
Traditionalist/Believer
Achiever/Rationalist
Pluralistic/Sensitive
Integral
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(figure: see
www.spiraldynamics.net
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3.  Ego-centric > Ethnocentric > World-centric
 Preconventional > Conventional > Post-conventional
 Black & White (either/or, us/them) > more complexity
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4. Ego: Ego-centric > Ethnocentric (us/them) > World-centric
Culture: Pre-conventional > Conventional > Post-conventional
Truths: Black & White (either/or) > more complex & nuanced
Perspectives: Tunnel-vision & short term > larger contexts,
time frames, and ’big picture’ systemsMurray, November 2010 4

5. We intuitively rank people
developmentally
People responding to a story about someone breaking a
promise:
• My dad would get mad.
• It is bad to break promises. Breaking a promise is lying.
• It is fairer to keep promises than to break them.
• Keeping promises maintains order in society.
• When a parent breaks a promise it teaches the child to break
promises.
• You should not make promises that you can’t keep.
• When you keep a promise, you reaffirm the concept of mutual
trust.
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6. Wisdom Skills
for Second Tier enaction
• Ego awareness (self/ego/will
and being/spirit/essence; "I"
dimension)
• Relational awareness
(emotional/social/ethical/interpe
rsonal intelligence; "We"
dimension)
• Construct awareness (cognitive;
"It" dimension)
• Systems awareness ("Its"
dimension; context, cognitive capacity RE
dynamic systems and networks of relationships) 6
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7. Development, Disequilibrium
and Humility
 Heart/Empathy: Relationally aware -- opening
to the suffering of ever wider circles of
relationship
 Mind/Cognitive: Construct aware --
foundations of certainty in knowing are shaken
 Spirit/Self: Ego aware -- awake to the profound
levels of chaos and vulnerability in life
 External world: Systems aware – chaos: radical
connectivity, unpredictability
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8. Transition sub-stages
1. “Happy where I am, thanks” – ignorance,
ignoring (assimilation)
2. “That’s wrong!” – resistance, denial
3. “I’m confused” – deconstruction, disequilibrium,
uncertainty, birth pains
4. “I go it!” – reorganization (accommodation)
5. “This is the best! The old stuff is crap.” —
differentiation, arrival, push-back
6. This is good. You might want to try it. (stable,
healthy, nuanced integration)

9. Micro-transitions
from Beck & Cowan
(From Beck & Cowan’s Spiral Dynamics)
(Mature version)
(“Convert” version)
(hold tight…
fall apart…)
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10. Perspective-Taking through
Developmental Levels
Formal-op/Orange
Multiple verifiable
data sources;
> collect, analyze
> find the/best truth
> (quality, rigor)
• suspend judgment
• consider possibilities
• control uncertainty
+ skeptical of traditional
authority and ‘common
sense’
Inclusive/Green
Multiple opinions,
values, world-views;
> empathize & understand
> Many/no ‘truths’
> (authentic, fair)
• avoid judgment
• include everyone
• thrashing in uncertny
+ skeptical of experts and
all authority and leadership
2nd Tier/Integral
Systems, systemic;
> Nature of: mind,
ego, ‘truth,’
knowledge, belief,
power, dialog…
> (truth about truth)
• balance reason,
emotion, intuition…
• work with uncertnty
+ skeptical of ego, method,
skepticism?
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11. Modes of justification/critique
• Authority figures and charismatics
• Magical or sacred books and objects
• First hand experience
• Intuition (or gut feeling) (or: not needing to justify it)
• Peer identification; what everyone does/says
• Social norms, habit, they way it has been
• My own experience
• Support of experts or witnesses, verified sources
• Reasonable assumptions/bases/premises
• Logical inference (supporting truth)
• It is ethically right
• It is pragmatically useful (it works)
• Consistent with other knowledge
• I used a trusted method
• Aesthetic or elegant
• Multiple perspectives / uncertainty / shadow work / idea meshworks
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12. Epistemic Wisdom:
skills & attitudes
• Put yourself in someone else's shoes (cognitive empathy)
• Consider multiple perspectives, deal flexibly with uncertainty, ambiguity,
change, disagreement, and paradox (dialectical thinking)
• Reflect on one's biases, "shadow," tacit intentions, emotional state
(social/emotional intelligence)
• Reflect on one's tacit beliefs, mental models, certainty of one's inferences
(metacognition)
• Reflect on and dialog about the quality of communications (meta-dialog)
• Consider the big picture, needs of the group as a whole; perspective of all
stakeholders (systems thinking)

13. AQAL applied to Education
(from Sean Esbjorn-Hargens)

14. IMP’s primordial perspectives/zones
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15. Extras

16. Some New Age vs. Integral Beliefs
New Age/Cultrl Creative
UFOs and lost ancient
advanced civilizations; the
healing power of crystals;
the earth is a living
conscious being (Gaia); we
can manifest our wishes
through intention alone;
astrology, and other
prognostication systems;
various schools of mystical
and occult beliefs; "all you
need is love" (and peace);
everything is perfect as it is.
New Age & Integral
Channeling and the existence
of non-physical beings; ESP
and psychic phenomena;
intuitions can offer sturdy
truths and directives;
existence of a soul/spirit
(and constructs such as Over-
soul, Authentic Self),
reincarnation and past lives;
synchronicities are real;
psychic energy and the
chakra system; the reality of
collective consciousness and
parts of the self such as ego
and shadow; all is one.
Integral
The universe is evolving
– through us; Eros,
Agape, involution,
morphogenetic fields,
Omega Point;
objects/events fit into 4
ontological quadrants (or
8 zones); cultures and
people can be categorized
in terms of “memes”;
there is a non-dual ground
of being beyond space,
time, energy, matter, and
mind.
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17. SD Caveats/Problems
• Map/territory confusion (its just *a* model); know its limits
• Labeling/stereotyping (generalizations to individuals)
• “Lines” are not real – millions of them; overlapping
• Context dependencies: “wisdom” lowers under stress,
unfamiliarity, group-think… (“performance ≠ competence”)
• Valorization of capacity; developmental imperialism
Higher is not better (or happier)! Allow people to be where they are.
• “Line absolutism” – emphasizing/valorizing particular lines
• World-view ≠ skill level ***
• (Differentiate the model from the communities using it!)

18. New Age / Green meme /
Cultural Creative Beliefs
• We are all one; collective mind
• We can manifest intentions (The Secret)
• All you need is love
• The new age is a special foretold time in history
• The earth is a being (Gaia)
• Crystals etc. have healing energy
• Divination: I-Ching, Tarot, dowsing, etc.
• Non-physical beings: channeling, angels, spirits
• Personality typing: astrology, Myers-Briggs…
• Intuitions bring sturdy truths, directions
• Prana/Qi, ‘energy’ through & outside the body
Values: inclusive, ecology, human-rights & potential, freedoms, feelings
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19. Problems/paradoxes of the
Green cultural level
– Inclusive & caring but hates orange, blue ways
– Ecologically minded & open to new/different but
mistrusts money, hierarchy, systems, rules, logic,
power
– Egalitarian & sensitive but narcissistic ‘me
generation,’ spiritual materialism,
sex/drugs/rock’n’roll
– Activist & collective but can be stagnant/impotent
due to in-fighting, process-orientation, feelings-
orientation
– Performative contradictions: no
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20. Post-metaphysics
• Is not anti-metaphysics
• No view from nowhere: reality is not out there
waiting to be seen (“misplaced concreteness”)
• Beyond the “myth of the given:” reality is not
simply as it appears
• Perspectival: all truths/experiences come from a
perspective and are partial
• Misplaced concreteness and “map vs territory:”
abstractions are not “real” (independent of us)
• Knowledge is fallible (no absolutes)
• Knowledge is socially constructed
• Concepts and language are indeterminate
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21. Evolution of mind/consciousness
• Maslow’s hierarchy of needs:
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23. cultural vs. individual wisdom
Intelligence and wisdom can be created and stored at the levels of genes/biology,
culture, and individuals. Culture A over many generations may have developed
wisdom beyond what individuals in culture B know. But, the individuals in culture A may
only be doing what everyone has done for generations, and not understand the reasons or value
of their actions. Such wisdom is stored in the culture, not necessarily in most members.
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24. Ideas as reality
“misplaced Concreteness” through developmental levels
• Magical thinking – imagination as reality
• Mythical thinking – stories as reality
• Conventional thinking – norms as reality
• Modern thinking – concepts/models/abstractions as
reality
• (Postmodern? – mirror/paradox
as reality?)
• (Integral?...)
Concepts:
- Freedom
- The economy
- Green meme
- Eros
- UR quadrant
-- …
Whitehead
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25. U-Theory – Otto SCharmer
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26. U-Theory – Otto SCharmer
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27. Images of Complexity

28. Images of Complexity-2

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www.perspegrity.com | Aug.
08
Second Tier - going “meta”
• Meta-cognition (thinking about thinking)
• Meta-knowledge (knowledge about the nature and
limitations of knowledge)
• Meta-learning (learning how to learn, also called triple-loop
learning)
• Meta-dialog (dialog about how we engage in dialog)
• Meta-decision making (making decisions about how we will
go about making decisions)
• Meta-affect (investigating the feeling of our feelings; somatic
awareness of feeling states)

30. Tom Murray |
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08
More meta…
• Meta-rationality (making rational decisions about when to
employ rational/logical thinking vs. intuitive, emotion-based,
or other non-rational modalities)
• Meta-compassion (reflecting on and caring about how we
care for others)
• Meta-leadership (supporting leadership in others)
• Meta-transparency (if one can't be transparent in a situation,
one can still be transparent about the fact that one is not
transparent, and explain why)

31. Polarity Mapping

32. Polarity mapping
(from Cooke-Greuter Assos)

33. Common Polarities