Integral Life | Learn Integral by Watching Movies — Inhabit: Your Inner Theatre @IntegralNaked | Uploaded January 2021 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Corey deVos and Ryan Oelke take you on a journey through the major stages of human development, using a series of 21 carefully-curated film clips to illustrate some of the most important qualities of each stage.
Why film clips? Simple — it’s fun! Plus, these clips are from some of the most popular films from the last 80 years, commonly-shared reference points that most of us are already familiar with. This gives us the opportunity to put together one of the most accessible, friendly, and entertaining ways to introduce these important ideas to newcomers.
And for those who are already familiar with integral thought and practice, this discussion will still be fascinating, fun, and occasionally moving, while also helping you more deeply contemplate the important difference between enjoying integral art and enjoying art integrally.
And as you watch, try to remember: all of this is actually happening inside of you. You may be viewing these film clips on a screen in front of you, but the stages we explore here are all alive within you right now, either as capacities you’ve already developed or as potentials that are waiting to be unleashed. The Witness itself is the ultimate movie screen — the effortless, simple feeling of being behind all of our perceptions. All of this is just a fleeting dance of light, sound, and shadow projected within your consciousness against that empty, all-pervasive awareness.
So grab some popcorn, sit back, and enjoy this very special tour of your own inner theatre.
0:00 — Introduction
6:07 — Crimson: The Archaic Stage
10:12 — Magenta: The Magic Stage
19:44 — Red: The Egoic Stage
27:03 — Amber: The Mythic Stage
40:04 — Orange: The Rational Stage
51:31 — Green: The Pluralistic Stage
1:03:34 — Teal: The Integral Stage
1:20:24 — Turquoise: The Mature Integral Stage
1:43:32 — How to Live Into These Stages
1:52:12 — BONUS: Human Development (As Told by Tom Cruise)
Corey deVos and Ryan Oelke take you on a journey through the major stages of human development, using a series of 21 carefully-curated film clips to illustrate some of the most important qualities of each stage.
Why film clips? Simple — it’s fun! Plus, these clips are from some of the most popular films from the last 80 years, commonly-shared reference points that most of us are already familiar with. This gives us the opportunity to put together one of the most accessible, friendly, and entertaining ways to introduce these important ideas to newcomers.
And for those who are already familiar with integral thought and practice, this discussion will still be fascinating, fun, and occasionally moving, while also helping you more deeply contemplate the important difference between enjoying integral art and enjoying art integrally.
And as you watch, try to remember: all of this is actually happening inside of you. You may be viewing these film clips on a screen in front of you, but the stages we explore here are all alive within you right now, either as capacities you’ve already developed or as potentials that are waiting to be unleashed. The Witness itself is the ultimate movie screen — the effortless, simple feeling of being behind all of our perceptions. All of this is just a fleeting dance of light, sound, and shadow projected within your consciousness against that empty, all-pervasive awareness.
So grab some popcorn, sit back, and enjoy this very special tour of your own inner theatre.
0:00 — Introduction
6:07 — Crimson: The Archaic Stage
10:12 — Magenta: The Magic Stage
19:44 — Red: The Egoic Stage
27:03 — Amber: The Mythic Stage
40:04 — Orange: The Rational Stage
51:31 — Green: The Pluralistic Stage
1:03:34 — Teal: The Integral Stage
1:20:24 — Turquoise: The Mature Integral Stage
1:43:32 — How to Live Into These Stages
1:52:12 — BONUS: Human Development (As Told by Tom Cruise)
![How to Have a Turquoise Conversation [Highlights]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Zs11NObU5_M/hqdefault.jpg "How to Have a Turquoise Conversation [Highlights]
Watch the full discussion here:
https://integrallife.com/the-art-of-integral-conversation
Dr. Keith Witt and Corey deVos explore the concept of turquoise dialectic - a sophisticated form of integral discourse that emerges at the later stages of human development. Drawing upon their deep understanding of adult development and integral theory, they explore the feeling and transformative potential of the turquoise “we-space”, and how we might create the conditions for this type of conversation to unfold.Join Corey and Keith as they unpack the core qualities of integral communication, the evolutionary intelligences that underpin it, and the rules of the game that can help sustain a higher quality of interaction between us. Whether youre a seasoned practitioner or simply curious about the frontiers of human communication and understanding, this is a conversation not to be missed.
What is a “turquoise dialectic”?
The term “dialectic” originates in ancient Greece, signifying the various methods of reasoning and discussion in order to discover the truth. It is most often associated with the work of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, whose well-known process of “thesis, antithesis, synthesis” is often regarded as a fundamental aspect of integral thinking and sense-making. In this discussion, we refer to the term “dialectic” to represent a fluid, multidimensional form of discourse that acknowledges the constructed nature of all perspectives, and seeks to both situate and synthesize those perspectives (and their associated methods of knowing) into a more coherent understanding of reality — consciously inquiring into the frameworks and assumptions that shape our perceptions and understandings of the world around us.
This kind of Turquoise discourse facilitates the emergence of new forms of consciousness, co-creating novel ways of being and understanding that align with the interdependence and mystery of existence. Communication becomes a sacred practice of conscious participation in the evolution of humanity and the kosmos, demanding radical humility, transparency, and a release of fixed identities. Participants continually challenge themselves to expand awareness, embrace paradox, and open to the unknown, engaging in an ongoing exploration of the frontiers of human potential.
To learn more about the attributes of turquoise-stage dialectic, including its overall approach to communication, handling of conflict, and decision-making processes, be sure to check out this Context map: The Stages of Communication.
How do we set the conditions for a turquoise dialectic?
Imagine that every conversation is something like a poker game, where the players decide the rules before each hand. If you’ve got five players at the table, and each is coming from an Amber stage of development, then the rules will be set up according to Amber-stage views and values, and it will basically be an Amber game. If all the players are Turquoise, you’ll get turquoise rules, a turquoise game, and therefore a turquoise we-space. It’s as simple as that!
Or is it?
Human beings, after all, are far more complicated than this. We are not developmental stereotypes, we instead possess an entire stack of evolutionary intelligences within us — all of which are constantly growing and adapting, and any of which we may be inhabiting at a given time, depending on the context we find ourselves in. Turquoise people can happily play Red games, Amber games, Orange games, and so forth, because all of these stages are still alive within them.
The trick, therefore, is not just getting the right people to the table, but also establishing the right rules and norms that are most conducive to turquoise enfoldment. Of course, these are not the sorts of strict rules and regulations that we might find in an Amber game. They are rather a series of basic guardrails, orienting generalizations, and attractor points that can help the group to self-organize, participants to self-regulate, and the dialectic itself to self-govern. It’s about “rigging the game” so that authentic transformation, deep empathy, and collective sense-making become the winning strategies, allowing us to create a space together that invites and includes all of us, and all of the multitudes we contain, while guiding us toward our highest and wisest possible Self.
To learn more about processes, postures, and containers that can help support a turquoise dialectic, check out Corey’s six-step process here: Turquoise Dialectic Process.")
