The Future of the Human Race Revealed:

In the ground-breaking book, "Spiral Dynamics" by Don Beck
and Christopher Cowan, 'memes' are defined as the social
equivalent of genes. Memes are cultural units of information
which self-replicate from mind to mind on a vast scale,
appearing within society as new trends of thought.

The progression of memes reflects the development of society
from its primitive beginnings up to the present. So far, eight
different memes have been identified and analyzed.
Their characteristics are:

Meme 1. Basic, personal survival. The most primitive
motivation of just staying alive.

Meme 2. Clan survival. Tribal and family bonding along with
superstition-filled attempts to understand the powers of
nature which threaten to overpower them.

Meme 3. Courage, survival of the fittest. Mastering the
environment, fighting to break free of constraints.
Sensing many gods, all of which are models of power.
This is where individuals first find their personal power
but, seeing reality through a worldview of separation and
limited resources, compete against each other in attempts
to gain advantage. As a meme which is short on thought and
long on passion, societies in this stage quickly fragment
into territorial, feudal-type communities surrounded by
competing, enemy communities.

Meme 4. Finding order and purpose in life. Obeying authority,
regulations and externally imposed rules of behavior and
morality. Sacrificing the self to a greater cause for a
deferred reward. Dedicating allegiance to one supreme God.
This social meme started to spread within civilization
5,000 years ago. Eventually, alliances arose between
large-scale feudal structures and those who wished to
develop extensive religious power.

Meme 5. Achievement, striving to succeed. Fighting to win,
beating the competition, achieving independence. This meme
started to spread significantly in the 1700s. It was made
possible by the collapse of feudalism and also a sense of
increased personal empowerment, which was a side-effect of
the Protestant Reformation. It gained particular strength
with the founding of the United States, whose Constitution
and Bill of Rights intentionally empowered and protected
individual liberty.

Meme 6. Community and caring. Unconditional love, accepting
others as they are, seeing the value of service to others,
the beginnings of spiritual understanding. Freedom of the
spirit from greed, dogma, contention and other distractions
from spiritual centeredness. This meme started to spread in
the mid-1800s.

Professor Clare Graves, the originator of this branch of
social science, saw the first set of six memes as a first
tier of human development. He called the transition of the
human race into meme number seven a momentous leap, an
entry into an entirely new set of memes, a new tier of
consciousness. With this new tier comes freedom from all
of the fears of the prior memes, and, finally, the freedom
for human cognition to focus upon its possibilities in the
world.

As more and more people shift into the second tier of memes,
the underpinnings of society become spiritual rather than
materialistic. The second tier is expansive rather than
self-serving or merely survival-oriented. Service to the
world community, to the planet as a whole, becomes the
inspiration as people activate these higher memes of
consciousness.

"Love and light" is not just a greeting to wish someone well,
it is the byline of the emerging New Reality. The future of
the human race is a bright one. It is love and light.

Meme 7. Responsible freedom.

Flexible flow, adapting to a world full of change.
Big-picture views, the discovery of self-accountable,
personal freedom. This meme started to spread after the
global defeat of fascism in World War II. While most
people started to look forward to the renewed chance to
create personal prosperity, the beat generation of the
1950s emerged with its questioning of materialistic culture.
This emerging movement examined Eastern philosophy, such as
Zen Buddhism, in a search for answers to the mysteries of life.

In meme number seven, people act from an inner-directed core.
Values come from fundamental, natural law, meaning that human
rights are perceived as fundamental due to the fact that you
exist.

By nature, seventh meme thinkers are self-accountable and
independent within reason. They are honest in their
communications and do not spend time on the rules of
formality, unless they are important to those present.
Seventh meme thinkers like technology for what it can do
to improve life, and they value knowledge and competency
above rank or status.

They enjoy the pleasures of life, without being bound by any
of them, and pursue activities that express their inner joy.
External fashions and trends have no bearing upon these
choices. They have emotional control, meaning that they
still express emotions, but these expressions are appropriate,
and not uncontrolled outbursts.

This is a powerful meme in promoting the exploration of the
greater possibilities of life. It creates information networks
and networks of people which easily adapt to changing needs.

Seventh meme thinkers are concerned with the endangered world
environment and want to restore viability and ecological
order. Their purpose of living includes being independent
within reason, knowledgeable as much as possible, and caring
for others within practical limits. They are accountable to
themselves as responsible individuals, yet embrace their
community of associates. Rather than striving to have things
or to achieve things, they prefer to pursue personal
development along a pathway that is natural to them.

They can interact with people of the first six memes and speak
their psychological language. They respect others' world views
and unique habits, customs and cultures, even if they don't
necessarily agree with them.

This meme brings a high sense of self-esteem based upon
information as much as emotion. It brings an enlightened
self-acceptance which acknowledges and accepts their own
shortcomings and faults as mere stages along the way to
acquiring more skills.

Meme 8. Holistic, global view.

Spiritual awareness, learning through simply being as well as
doing. Becoming conscious of the superconscious, trusting
intuition. This meme started to spread in the cultural and
spiritual awakening of the mid-1960s. Those seekers who found
this pattern of thinking launched a whole new movement of
spiritual awareness. This spiritual renaissance has the
potential to develop the awareness to carry humanity through
the Shift and into the New Reality.

This meme has a global village outlook, and seeks projects
and solutions that will work well for the whole planet.
It contains the vision to bring order out of chaos.

Because of the incredible power of the second tier of memes,
these will accelerate the transformation of the world as
they become more and more widely adopted.

Meme 9. The mystery meme.

The authors of Spiral Dynamics have identified, as of the
1990s, meme number nine. They call this the Coral meme, but
they have not observed it in large quantities of people,
so they cannot yet summarize its characteristics.

However, using basic metaphysical principles, you can
predict exactly what meme number nine will become.
Also, second tier memes are reminiscent of their first tier cousins.
Meme number nine, being the third meme within the second tier of six,
will become an enlightened version of the original meme number three,
which is courage.

The first tier of six memes is materially-oriented while the
second tier is spiritually-oriented. The second tier, being
of a higher frequency band of consciousness than the first
tier, exerts far more influence in the world when it is
activated. As popular use of the second tier of memes only
began in the early 1950s, we have yet to see much of its
power manifest in the world.

The second tier of memes, this higher frequency band of
consciousness, is the engine of The Shift, the spiritual
revolution in human consciousness.

Meme number seven (responsible freedom) is similar to meme
number one (basic, personal survival), only transformed into
the second tier of six memes. Meme seven means having a
viewpoint from a much wider vista of consciousness than
meme one. It deals with flexible flow and adaptation to a
world full of change. It is like learning to survive all
over again, but this time through a global viewpoint. Meme
number seven is the starting point, and the orientation
course, for the entire second tier of memes.

Meme number eight (holistic, global village view) is the
second tier version of meme number two (clan survival).
With a viewpoint that is holistic as well as global, it is
reminiscent of meme number two. In meme number eight, the
vision is to create a global village, or a unified clan of
humanity. Unlike the small-clan focus of meme number two,
meme number eight thinkers can see that the key to unity is
to embrace the unlimited diversity of humanity as a whole.
Integration and peace can then be created through the
existence of our common humanity, when people accept everyone
else as they are, simply because they exist.

This equates to the fundamental, Creator-given right of each
human being for self-determination simply because they exist.
People were created to experience self-determination.
Humanity was also created to have an infinite variety of
personalities for the purpose of gaining an infinite variety
of experience.

At this higher level of consciousness, it becomes obvious
that any attempt to coerce people into conformity with the
standards of another person, or another group of people,
is actually a violation against the will of the Creator.

Acceptance of diversity, paradoxically, is the key to unity
in human experience.

The Nature of the Mystery Meme:

The new meme number nine will be like meme number three
(courage, survival of the fittest), only in a higher form
of manifestation. Meme number three’s courage lead to
adventure, exploration and mastery of the physical
environment. As the second tier memes all have a spiritual
orientation, this means that the new meme number nine will
bring about adventure, exploration and mastery of the
holistic environment of mind, body and spirit. It will do
this while encompassing a global scale of awareness.

The new, ninth meme will bring exploration of the
spiritually-inspired use of the power of the mind to
transform reality for the better. It will create strong
demand for spiritual and creative freedom on a global basis.

This far-ranging, inspiring meme has the power, quite
simply, to transform the entire world as we know it.

The keywords of the ninth meme will be ‘Powerful creativity.’

Powerful Creativity:

How powerful will it become? How much will this meme
transform the world as it gains in popularity?

When a spiritually-oriented person uses their creativity,
they use the same formula that Infinite Being originally
used to create the entire universe. That’s how powerful
spiritual creativity is. In its fundamental form, it
consists of three essential components:

(1) Intent is used to define the goal, or the desired outcome.
When defining a goal, it is better to leave the specifics
undefined and deal in generalities. This allows the universe
to find the easiest pathway through which to manifest the
desired goal. Even better than specific objects are general
principles. For example, the general principle of natural
prosperity can find thousands of ways to materialize, whereas
a goal involving one specific objective along the path to
prosperity limits the options considerably.

(2) Feeling is added to give the goal the life energy with
which to grow from an idea into a pre-physical reality that
becomes ready to manifest in the physical world. Ideally, an
equal balance between the amount of intent and feeling makes
for the most powerful act of creativity. For the sake of
clarity, feeling is defined as a separate component from
intent. In practice, however, the act of creativity expresses
intent and feeling intertwined together as one creative act.
This is in keeping with the way nature functions. Light, for
example, is a form of electromagnetic radiation – electric
and magnetic energies intertwined in perfect balance and
set into motion.

(3) Action. As the energy of your environment reorganizes
itself around your empowered intent, you need to provide the
third and final component, action. However, before the action,
there first has to be a pause lasting several days. This is a
hands-off period where you allow the growth of the project to
occur at its own pace within the pre-physical ethers of space.
Then, after several days have passed and the objective is
ready to manifest, it will cause synchronistic flow to appear
in your life. ‘Coincidences’ will occur which cause events
around you to move towards the fulfillment of your desired
goal. When this flow of supportive coincidences begins to
occur, your job is to provide the action which each
synchronistic event calls for, until the goal has become
fully manifested.

If, for example, a desired career opening occurs, then you
would follow that opportunity to see if this is the main
event, or if it is just something that you will learn from
along the journey towards your goal.

If a key contact occurs which can help your project, then you
follow through on that contact to see where it will lead.
Whatever mini-opportunities arise along the path to the
realization of your goal, you provide the physical action
to materialize those opportunities out of the realm of
possibilities and bring them into the physical realm. Most
often, goals materialize through a daisy chain of events and
opportunities, each of which builds up to the final
realization of the entire, original goal.

People today are finding their way through the spiritual
awakenings that come with second-tier memes number seven and
eight. As they activate number nine, the meme of powerful
creativity, they discover a power which, unleashed, can
transform not only their own lives but the world around
them for the better.

The New Reality is yours to explore. It already exists as a
frequency of consciousness. In a world where thoughtlessness
and heartlessness are common, people of the New Reality
bring thoughtfulness and heartfulness. Where there is strife,
people of the New Reality bring peace. Where there is pain,
people of the New Reality bring love and healing.

This is the New Reality, the spiritual revolution in human
consciousness.

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