On Hawkins’ scale, Genius Journey can work for businesspeople who are on a level of at least 100, and can show them how to gradually expand their creative consciousness to the 400-540 range that may allow them to experience Eureka moments of subconscious peak creativity. Genius Journey can transform blue or orange executives into yellow or even turquoise creative leaders. The method employs a journey metaphor to help you acquire ten genius mindsets that are located on gradually expanding levels of consciousness. One way to expand your creativity and consciousness is to travel the Genius Journey, the creative leadership development method that I’ve developed for Thinkergy.
In order to move to a higher level of consciousness, we need to experience certain situations and/or do certain exercises that allow us to first transform our attitudes and action routines from negative to positive, and then to advance to higher, more integrative and holistic states of conscious being. One example: In which meme of Spiral Dynamics, and at what level of Hawkins’ Map of Consciousness, would you position the former and current US presidents Obama and Trump? Where would you place the majority of people who voted for them? Can you spot how the political decisions of these two presidents reflect alternative values and beliefs positioned on different levels of consciousness? Just like Hawkins’ Anatomy of Consciousness, Beck & Cowan’s Spiral Dynamics can explain why people cooperate and collaborate, or come to conflict with each other over differences in values and the deep-rooted belief systems that form them.
Finally, the Turquoise Meme captures the vital few people (0.1%) who want to positively influence whole Earth dynamics and macro-level actions (“Global View”).
Dubbed “Flex Flow”, the Yellow Meme describes humans who are able to flexibly adapt to change by synthesizing integrative, interconnected big picture views.It focuses on the equality and well-being of a community of people and on building consensus.Įach of these lower-level memes are linked to states focusing on “having”, while the following memes are on higher levels of “being”: “Human Bond” is the popular name of the Green Meme.It focuses on making things better for oneself by emphasizing strategy and possibility thinking. The ambitious, materialistic Orange Meme is named “Strive Drive”.It is characterized by an authoritarian system of control and order, obedience to authority and an absolute belief in one right way or “truth”. “Truth Force” is the name of the Blue Meme.Called “Power Gods”, the Red Meme describes a more egocentric approach to life by enforcing power over self, others, and nature through exploitative independence and dominance.Popularly described with the name “Kin Spirits”, humans bond here based on blood relationships to jointly master a mystical and scary world. The Purple Meme on the next level is animistic and tribal in nature.In this Beige Meme, humans’ sole focus is about staying alive by following ones instincts and innate, automatic sensory responses. “Survival Sense” is the start level of Spiral Dynamics.Spiral Dynamics distinguishes eight “memes” of expanding consciousness each of which for ease of reference is given a short name and an associated color: Each new model (or “meme”) transcends and includes all previous ones. Graves, Spiral Dynamics suggests that when forced by life conditions, humans adapt to their environment by constructing new, more complex conceptual models of the world that allow them to better deal with the new problems. Spiral Dynamics by Don Edward Beck and Chris Cowan is another theoretical concept to explain different human development states (or levels of consciousness). Courage is the first of the live-supporting mindsets at the entry level of 200, followed by neutrality (250), willingness (310), acceptance (350), reason (400), love (500), joy (540), peace (600), and enlightenment (700-1000).All of these negative states calibrate below 200, which is the threshold to the positive consciousness levels. Presented in accelerating order, the life-suppressing emotional states are shame, guilt, apathy, grief, fear, desire, anger, and pride.On his resulting Consciousness Map, Hawkins differentiates eight life-suppressing and nine life-supporting levels of consciousness characterized by the related emotional state or mindset that predominantly underlies a person’s behavior: These consciousness levels are positioned on an exponential scale ranging from zero to one thousand. In his book, Hawkins introduced a scale of expanding levels of consciousness that he calibrated using the methods of muscle testing and kinesiology. In 1995, the US philosopher and consciousness researcher David R.