FS – This pulse has come about because of the excesses and the effects on the Earth of the excesses of the Success Way ER. People were often expendable in the Success Way. However extremes of always putting people first can affect further progress towards a harmony with nature and the universe.
Forming the sixth integral pulse was to curb the excesses of exhausting the earth’s resources and the lack of concern for the individual. In ER people were of no concern unless they were a barrier to the success of the path. The FS path formed about 110 years ago, according to Prof. Clare W Graves. In this way of thinking, new paths are rarely built and mass transport on existing paths is the order of the day. These paths needed to be ecologically friendly with an awareness of other users. To use these pathways for ‘survival’ it was best to walk. Any new paths would need a consensus from everyone before construction. People come first. are a social network, an organisation of equals for common benefit, little concern for status, privilege and theory Z management. In today’s societies, these are the concerns for the individual, leveraging diversity and being socially responsible. The negative side of this in organisations is compartmented thinking with the inability to recognise anyone else’s view other than their own.
This pulse is People Driven, a place in which all share life’s experiences. A ‘Social Network’ with Organisations of equals for mutual benefit that has little concern for status/privilege and a Theory Z Management system. In today’s Western societies this way of thinking has risen to such a level as to becoming toxic to health of the integral pulse. To return to health balance is needed.
© 2008 John Cook www.5deep.co.nz