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1. INTRODUCTION TO INTEGRAL POLITICS
Eric Allodi
eallodi@integralvision.fr
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www.integralvision.fr 16/11/2011 1

2. THE CULTURAL MEMES OF THE
SPIRAL DYNAMICS
LIVED INTEGRAL – starting 30years ago
COGNITIVE INTEGRAL – starting 50 yearsago
POST-MODERNISM – starting 150 years ago
Seek peace within the inner self and explore, with others,
the caring dimensions of community
Pluralism, egalitarism, relativism, narcissism
MODERNISM – starting 300 years ago
Act in your own self-interest by playing the game to win
Reason, science, success, materialism
TRADITIONAL – starting 5000 years ago
Life has meaning, direction, and purpose with
predetermined outcomes
Rules, discipline, morality, dogmatism, rigidity
WARRIOR/IMPULSIVE – starting 10000 years ago
Be what you are and do what you want, regardless
Individualism, passion, courage, aggressivity
MAGICAL/TRIBAL– starting 50000 years ago
Keep the spirits happy and the tribe’s nest warm and safe
Intuition of sacred, identification to the tribe, no autonomy
ARCHAIC– starting 100000 years ago
Do what you must just to stay alive
Survival instinct, intuitive sensitivity of danger
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Source : Clare Graves & Don Beck

3. Source : EnlightenNext Magazine
25%
60%
% of weath and political 55%
power
5%
20% <1%
<1% 15% 10% <1%
5% <5%
Chief Seattle Attila Churchill Bill Gates Nicolas Hulot Albert Einstein
Gengis Khan The pope Nicolas Sarkozy Martin L. King Teilhard de Chardin
% of world population Ken Wilber

4. CORRESPONDANCE BETWEEN LEVELS OF
CONSCIOUSNESS AND ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURES

5. HOLACRACY™ ORGANIZATIONAL
STRUCTURE
Cercle Conseil
d’Administration GENERAL
COMPANY CEO
DG
CIRCLE
DEVELOPMENT VP. DEVELOPMENT
Dir. Commerciale VP.Dir. Achats
OPERATIONS Dir. Financière
VP. SALES
DEPARTMENT
CIRCLE
Resp. Commercial Resp. Commercial
TEAM LAEDER TEAM LEADER Acheteur
ADMIN SALESPERSON
Comptable
Secteur 1 Secteur 2
OPERATIONS SALES
CIRCLE CIRCLE
DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS
TEAM TEAM
CIRCLE CIRCLE REP LINK
LEAD LINK

6. This video is an excerpt from a dialogue between John Bunzel and Steve Mcintosh organized by EnlightenNext in London the 30th of July 2011
WHY IS POLITICS SCREWED UP?
 Leaders can only
lead so far as the
center of gravity
of the population
 Evolution of
Consciousness
is the key of
global
governance
 Even a small
movement can
make a huge
difference
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm3EFb95cVQ

7. This video is an excerpt from a dialogue between John Bunzel and Steve Mcintosh organized by EnlightenNext in London the 30th of July 2011
IS GLOBAL GOVERNANCE OUR FUTURE?
 Each level of
consciousness
has its own
natural political
organization that
goes with it
 Better to bring
people in an
evolutionary
world view
through
attractive things
(beauty, truth, go
odness) rather
than global
governance
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhF6iKjdHMg

8. This video is an excerpt from a dialogue between John Bunzel and Steve Mcintosh organized by EnlightenNext in London the 30th of July 2011
IS MODERNISM THE PROBLEM AND POST-
MODERNISM THE SOLUTION?
 Through
competition,
modernism has
produce more
evolution than
any other level
 Eliminating the
successes to
solve the
problems is de-
evolutionary
 We need to move
the postmodern
view into an
evolutionary
perspective
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0csT5DkXyno

9. This video is an excerpt from a dialogue between John Bunzel and Steve Mcintosh organized by EnlightenNext in London the 30th of July 2011
WHAT POLITICALLY CAN WE DO?
 The best way to make
modernism more
cooperative is to make
post-modernism more
effective to moderate
it
 We need to participate
in the evolutionary
world view by:
 Communicating new
values and new forms
of
beauty, goodness, …
 Raising
consciousness
 Building an
evolutionary world
view has become a
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlexkqUh3qU
political act and
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