Spiritual Living Podcast Archive · Centre for Spiritual Living, Edmonton

Spiral Dynamics - The First Tier

·43 min·4 clips
Why getting your feelings hurt in a spiritual community might actually be a blessing for personal transformation.
This episode explores Spiral Dynamics, a framework for understanding cultural and personal evolution through memes like beige, purple, red, blue, orange, and green. The speaker discusses how these patterns influence behavior, the challenges of the green meme in spiritual communities, and the importance of integrating all stages for wholeness and transformation.

As heard by us

A plainspoken teaching on first-tier thinking, ritual, and the habit of treating the current meme as the best one.

An opening gong, a chant, and a brief morning ritual set the tone before the episode moves through beige, purple, and red as a first-tier way of thinking.

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Why you'd press play

Press play if you want Spiral Dynamics explained with stories, not jargon, and a minister's plainspoken cadence.

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