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Ken Wilber
in Theory of Everything book, 2000
based on Spiral Dynamics |
José Arguelles
in The Mayan Factor book, 1987
based on mayan calendar |
Jacques Derrida
in Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences essay, 1970 |
Jacques Lacan
in The Mirror Stage essay, 1936 |
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cinema |
western arts |
western music |
science |
western philosophy |
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beige / animality / instinctive self / archaic-instinctual
survival sense: sharpen instincts & innate senses,
food + water + warmth + sex + safety, uses habits + instincts to survive
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first human societies, newborn infants, senile elderly,
late-stage alzheimer's victims, mentally ill street people, starving masses,
shell shock
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unity
unify, attracting, magnetic, purpose |
All comes from one source
This source moves through all
One Source, One Force
In this way, we Initiate
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origin |
real
union, baby blob, state of nature
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rene clair, wajda, fellini, bunuel, kurosawa, lynch
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pollock, klimt, duchamp, marden, albers, moholy-nagy, de kooning, smithson
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messiaen, debussy, berlioz, shostakovich, eno, page, nono
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mccarthy, von neumann, minsky, de saussure
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mumford, wittgenstein, kant
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purple / ritualism / egocentric self / magical-animistic
kin spirits: seek harmony & safety in a mysterious world,
animistic thinking, magical spirits, blessings & curses & spells
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belief in voodoo-like curses, blood oaths, ancient grudges, good-luck charms,
family rituals, strong in third world settings, gangs, athletic teams,
corporate "tribes"
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polarity
polarize, stabilizing,
lunar, challenge |
One and not one
Two and not two
The basic polarity
In this way, we Generate
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binary opposites (A/B)
construction |
mirror stage
lack, other, absence, loss, demand for recognition/love from another,
demand for reunion, insufficiency, fragmented body, still not concept of "self"
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fassbinder
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schwitters, agnes martin, gauguin, kaprow, gary hill
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bizet, keenan, tchaikovsky, puccini, aphex twin, ligeti, ravel, xenakis,
schaeffer, stockhausen, riley
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boulding, heisenberg, edison, voltaire, hjelmslev
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foucault, quine, mckenna
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red / heroism / impulsive self
power gods: express impulsively, break free, be strong, self emerging from tribe,
dragons & beasts & powerful people, world as jungle
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"terrible twos", rebellious youth, frontier mentalities, feudal kingdoms,
epic heroes, James Bond villains, gang leaders, soldiers of fortune,
New Age narcissism, wild rock stars, Attila the Hun, Lord of the Flies
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rhythm
activate, bonding,
electric, service |
Two and one
From two and The one
Becoming two and one
In this way, we Separate
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favoring A over B |
imagery
"I" as identification with external image (as the result of mirror stage),
fiction of stable/whole/unified self, ideal ego, anticipation,
orthopedic vision of totality
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mekas, godard, roy anderson, von trier, hitchcock, epstein
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kupka, leger, vasarely, yves klein, van gogh, bridget riley
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wagner, varese, sugimoto, mccartney, glass, miles davis
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bertalanffy, tarski, popper, bateson
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bergson, gadamer, bataille, debord, leary, canguilhem, habermas, merleau-ponty
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blue / patriotism / conformist self / mythic order
truth force: find purpose, bring order, insure future,
life has meaning - allpowerful other ~ Order => conduct, only one "right" way
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Puritan America, Confucian China, Dickensian England, Singapore discipline,
totalitarianism, codes of chivalry and honor, charitable good deeds,
religious fundamentalism (christian, islamic), boy and girl scouts, "moral majority"
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measure
define, measuring,
self-existing, form |
Two groups of two
Reflected in a square
Referencing each other
In this way, we Create
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play
absence, impermanence, flux,
destruction |
oedipus complex
Other, absence, structuring principle of Lack, desire to be the center,
desire to rule the system, desire to merge with Other, entering the structure
of language, structuring principle of Otherness, concept of gender
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melies, duras, tati, vigo, rossellini, truffaut, kragh-jacobsen, chaplin
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nauman, christo, gris, yoko ono, nolde, wols, degas
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patton, bob marley, laswell, kchachaturian, prokofiev, schumann
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darwin, freud, braudel, turing
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deleuze, putnam, marx, davidson, de beauvoir
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orange / materialism / conscientious self / scientific achievement
strive drive: analyze & strategise to prosper,
self escaping from "herd mentality", world as machine
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Enlightement, Ayan Rand's Atlas Shrugged, Wall Street, emerging middle class
around the world, cosmetics industry, trophy hunting, colonialism, Cold War,
fashion industry, materialism, secular humanism, liberal self-interest
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center
empower, commanding, overtone, radiance |
Four and one
Self-reflecting, Self-correcting
Awareness of awareness
In this way, we Elevate
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center
presence, stability, fixation,
deconstruction |
symbolic
whole/complete/full/united, phalles, speaking subject, stable meanings,
Phallus/Name-of-the-Father/Law as the center of the language/symbolic
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renoir, robbe-grillet, len lye, jean-marc barr
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kandinskij, ernst, ellsworth kelly, oldenburg, dali
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zappa, toop
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bohr, chomsky, william james, moravec, heylighen
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dewey, derrida, lévy, levinas, mcluhan, husserl, engels, hume, hegel
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green / pluralistic relativism / individualistic self / sensitive self
human bond: explore inner self, equalize others, ecological sensitivity,
networking, anti dogmas and hierarchy, multiculturalism
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deep ecology, postmodernism, Netherlands idealism, Rogerian counseling,
Canadian health care, humanistic psychology, liberation theology,
cooperative inquiry, World Council of Churches, Greenpeace, animal rights,
ecofeminism, postcolonialism, Foucault, Derrida, politically correct,
diversity movements, human rights issues
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organic balance
organize, balancing, rhythmic, equality |
Two groups of three
Connected yet separated
Depending on dependence
In this way, we Imitate
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maya deren, almodovar, hans richter, cocteau, woody allen
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piene, toulouse-lautrec, klee, chagall, picasso, appel, marc, tatlin
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keiji haino, akchoté, pierre henry, coltrane, schubert, arto lindsay,
frith, boulez
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fuller, planck, feynman, shannon, bertrand russell, berners-lee, schopenhauer,
barthes, mcculloch
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huxley, leibniz
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yellow / natural hierarchism / autonomous self / integrative
flex flow: integrate & align systems,
life as holarchies & systems & forms, flexibility & spontaneity & functionality
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Teilhard de Chardin's noosphere, growth of transpersonal psychology,
chaos and complexity theories, Gandhi's and Mandela's pluralistic integration
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mystic power
channel, inspiring, resonant, attunement |
At the center of the cycle
Balancing all balances
The Lock and the Key
In this way, we Resonate
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greenaway, resnais, mika kaurismäki, haneke
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manet, dine, serra, balla, marinetti, kokoschka
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ratkje, noriko tujiko, derek bailey, gershwin, stravinskij, mozart, plant, tudor
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gödel, cantor, bohm, newton
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guattari, mill
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turquoise / holism
whole view: synergize & macromanage,
unites feeling with knowledge, universal order, sees entire spiral of development
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harmonic resonance
harmonize, modeling, galactic, integrity |
Two groups of four
A balance of systems
Seeking commonality
In this way, we Integrate
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aronofsky, cassavetes, fischinger, aki kaurismäki, brakhage, svankmajer,
pasolini, eisenstein
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rauschenberg, hofmann, matt barney, barnett newmann, modigliani, kiefer, man ray
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stan getz, bernstein, asano, bach, oswald, moog, webern, brahms
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bacon, da vinci, vannevar bush
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spinoza, kristeva, althusser, sartre, maslow, comte
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psychic/coral / nature mysticism
integral-holonic
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cyclic periodicity
pulse, realizing,
solar, intention |
Three groups of three
Connected-separated-recombined
Into something greater
In this way, we Concentrate
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tarkovskij, bresson, varda, e coen
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artaud, delaunay, malevich, jasper johns, seurat, matisse
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schonberg, nyman, strauss, hendrix, saint-saens, chopin
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dawkins
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baudrillard, bourdieu, sellars, dumezil, rorty
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subtle / deity mysticism
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manifestation
perfect, producing, planetary, manifestation |
Two groups of five
Awareness' join
Acting as one
In this way, we Cocreate
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jarmusch, j coen, rohmer
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kepes, munch, escher, beuys, tobey, halley, franz kline, schiele, obrist, mangold
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lennon, la monte young, thom yorke, diamanda galas, ostertag, joplin,
david holmes, monteverdi
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peirce, mandelbrot, prigogine
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krishnamurti, virilio, adorno
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casual / formless mysticism
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dissonant structure
dissolve, releasing, spectral, liberation |
Not part of any cycle
An isolated system
A changing constant
Existing to not. Dissonant
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kieslowski, vertov, welles, antonioni, wenders
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giacometti, baumeister, lohse, monet, rothko, braque, bill viola, ryman,
lichtenstein, magritte, arp
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beethoven, liszt
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hawking, bernoulli, mauss
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nietzsche, eco, heidegger
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nondual / nondual mysticism
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complex stability
dedicate, universalizing, crystal, cooperation |
A common interface
A divine pattern revealed
Sharing - the Golden Mean
In this way, we Cooperate
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akerman, kubelka
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gabo, mondrian, paik, warhol, miro, eduardo kac, stella
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yoshihide, satie, berg, hancock, feldman, rachmaninov, zorn
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levi-strauss, wiener, dennett, carnap
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zizek, lyotard, kierkegaard
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movement
endure, transcending, cosmic, presence |
Twelve and the One
The One which moves through All
Microcosm, Macrocosm
In this way, we Illuminate
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tykwer, vinterberg, cronenberg
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motherwell, basquiat, maciunas, haring, judd, still, brancusi
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john cage, cantrell, verdi, reich, sun ra, björk, bartók
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einstein, lacan, tart, kurzweil, jung, boole, frege, hofstadter
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illich, david lewis, conant
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