Rainbow Onions and Turquoise Gardeners - by Tom Morgan

If the purpose of our existence is the evolution of our consciousness, then maps of human development are pretty important. Whether you like it or not, these models probably apply to you. So it’s best to know where you might be and what might be coming next. There are lots of amazing articles1 describing developmental maps and the specific stages themselves, so this one will be more about why the maps themselves are important. I believe the most valuable commonality is that they don’t just imply a direction to the evolution of consciousness, they try to describe what that process looks like on the societal and individual level. That probably sounds obvious, but how many people in your daily life do you feel are deliberately working on the evolution of their own consciousness? And how many have an accurate sense of their own relative trajectory? The most influential and credible maps share a broad agreement of what that process looks like. One of the more robust models is Spiral Dynamic

If the purpose of our existence is the evolution of our consciousness, then maps of human development are pretty important. Whether you like it or not, these models probably apply to you. So it’s best to know where you might be and what might be coming next. There are lots of amazing articles1 describing developmental maps and the specific stages themselves, so this one will be more about why the maps themselves are important. I believe the most valuable commonality is that they don’t just imply a direction to the evolution of consciousness, they try to describe what that process looks like on