GT - Over the last ten years this way of thinking has increased from under 2% of the Western world way of thinking to 5%. There is an emerging global movement which capacity to solve complex problems facing the world greater than the sum of all the other pulses. The film ‘The Shift’.
The seventh pulse is still developing or is under construction and as a way of thinking is used by 1.9% of the population.
5 Deep’s research suggests this figure is now 5.0%. The systemic integral pulse is new in terms of the history of human development and perhaps the best analogy is that it is in its teenage years of development. As life conditions change they will hopefully allow thin thinking to mature and reaches critical mass. It will become a major way of thinking.
This pulse has emerged because of a reaction to the excesses and stagnation of the People Way FS. New paths will be made by looking at the whole picture, assessing the needs and coming up with the best solutions. This way of thinking occurred about 60 years ago, according to Prof. Clare W Graves. The values and beliefs (memes) that are attracted to this basic assumption are: a need to structure according to task, to be project-centred with changing leadership, the competent person is allowed to decide. The world is viewed as being process-driven like a chaotic organism forged by differences and change. This path has the ability to understand the other paths, therefore gaining approval from the full spectrum of ways of living.
In today’s societies, these systemic thinkers can align the complete supply chain and often have the answers and solutions to many troubling problems. Unfortunately, these solutions may appear to other dominant unhealthy pulses as solutions that are too extreme. These people often seem too unconventional and self-contained for their solutions to be accepted by the conventions of the first six pulses.
Indentify and listen to these people to promote a healthy cultural pulse.
© 2008 John Cook www.5deep.co.nz