Spiritual Practice includes Values

Andrew Cohen publishes a magazine called EnlightenNext, which used to be What is Enlightenment? About 5 years ago he became very interested in Spiral Dynamics integral (SDi) and for a time was in collaboration with Don Beck. Together with Don, Cohen and his team wrote one of the most easily digestible articles on [...]

Core Value Needs in a Human Social System

A social system has a core. From that core, human values: what is important to me, arise. To design a social system That Works, for the diversity of human beings that live in the 21st century we first understand the nature of human values. There is not just one level, in fact, what is important [...]

First Organizing Step: Office of Integration

In our fragmented and silo structured communities, integrating the diverse interests, capabilities, needs and power bases is the first step toward designing a social system that includes the core value needs of it constituents. These social structures do not exist yet, so building one will feel much like walking across a bridge as it gets [...]