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|  mollybrogan | Mar 11, 8:47am | Social responsibility is on the minds of many of us. How can we make the world a better place? Is this our duty, as Jean Paul Sarte and the existentialists believed? How can we fit our contribution to the greater community into our busy lives as we struggle with survival and self expression, daily?
Clare W. Graves, Ph.D, was a visionary thinker who began laying the groundwork for the theory behind the Spiral Dynamics application in the 1950s. His theory suggests that every individual or collective consciousness falls somewhere in, between, or among these various levels of being which are not types of people but ways of thinking about a thing.
Graves breaks it into one of nine groups called MEMEs, and assigns a color to each. Beige is the first, this group is involved solely in survival and would have no time to consider social responsibility. The green MEME has the greatest involvement in social issues, as their survival needs are met and their main concerns are harmony/love; joining together for mutual growth; awareness; belonging. The last MEMEs up the spiral, turquoise and coral, go beyond the physical social involvement and contribute to society in ways that involve consciousness more than doing. According to Graves, all groups contribute to life as we know it in valuable and significant ways. It is the dynamic between that creates the life spiral known as evolutionary consciousness.
Future By Design, an organization dedicated to reformulating the operation definition of a better world by introducing coherent planning strategies that are applicable to global and small groups alike, is a good example of green MEME work. Their credo: To constantly maximize existing and future technologies with the sole purpose of enhancing all human life and protecting the environment.
A good example of the work of the turquoise MEME is Dr. Bruce Lipton, the biophysicist who identified the two way communication of unique signals from our cell membranes into our experiential awareness.
An example of the coral MEME would be Neville Goddard, twentieth century mystic, who taught self realization through recognition: "The ideal you seek and hope to attain will not manifest itself, will not be realized by you, until you have imagined that you are already that ideal." We hold the space, imagine the world of our desire, and live from our awakened imagination. What do YOU think? |
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|  Abhaa | Apr 3, 4:23am | Well , to minimise the miseries of the world ( around us) than to go too far, and think less complicated , is what is required.
We can not eliminate evil.But certainly could lessen it. |
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| | inspirationforch | Apr 10, 11:14pm | | ...The ideal you seek and hope to attain will not manifest itself, will not be realized by you, until you have imagined that you are already that ideal." It is amazing how thought can influence ones life either positively or negatively. This quote makes sense to me to make the world a better place means we must start with ourselves. |
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| | mollybrogan | Apr 11, 7:12am | Yes! By the way, Rhonda, your website is truly inspirational. I love your idea of inviting others to submit their stories. I haven't had the chance to read them all but will as time goes by. Thanks so much, for all that you give.
I have been reading Neville Goddard for several years now. He passed away in the early 1970s and is considered to be one of the great Christian mystics.
Thanks for your post. Molly |
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| | A44Patricia | Apr 13, 10:29pm | | This question has been my 'zahir' or obsession for many years. I began with psychoanalysis in Beverly Hills only to determine that in order to make the world a better place, I had to become a better person. And how exactly does one do that? There are no manuals, but many books and gurus from Srinagar to Mt.Shasta. One has to be awake and aware as much as possible and not express negativity and this is big. Mostly each of us has to practice as much tolerance and compassion towards other living beings. |
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| | mollybrogan | Apr 14, 5:48am | | Holding all life sacred, and witnessing and choosing thought are both very big leaps in the spiral of consciousness. Congratulations! |
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