Does this Crisis echo the Glorious Revolutuon?

[Eric the Green]

But with the advent of the Revolution, which in a sense is now the permanent state of humanity, we have discovered the invisible and have gained access to the powers they reveal. We have learned to challenge authority and build new societies from the ground up, as well as rediscovered the wonders of nature beyond our human-constructed walls. But in a sense, though these planets, and the invisible energies and ideals they represent, are known to us now, they are still invisible. That means that many people, perhaps the great majority, still live within the traditional horizons, and powerful elites can still rule over them. In a way, we have fulfilled Nietzsche's recommendation that humans should become greater and more evil. The more we have progressed toward freedom and equality, with many more opportunities and prosperity for all, the more we have descended into the worst holocausts and terrors in history. Maybe the Reign of Terror was an early symbol and cautionary tale of what our liberation would unleash. Our best and our worst have come forth, and these worst manifestations seem to be our prods to bring out our best, in order to defeat the beasts and bring out our angels.

So the Orange Uranus meme brought the industrial revolution that transformed civilization into a workshop, with attendant benefits and horrors. Liberated business enterprise (the third estate) flourished, and democracy and human rights were instituted, but only after many setbacks which continue today. We discovered the invisible, as in the powers of electricity and the invisible radiation spectrum, in hypnotism and magnetic healing, and in transcendental and idealistic thought; and yet we continued to be slaves to limiting ideas of oligarchy, materialism and technology. So, being an invisible planet, the Orange meme is forever unfolding, it seems. Liberty requires ongoing vigilance, and is itself often corrupted into ideologies like neo-liberalism-- the worship of free enterprise over all other values despite its ruthless exploitation of the people.

The Lemon Neptune meme brought awareness of humanitarian concern into society for the first time in the mid-19th century. From then through the 20th century, socialist ideas expanded, giving the industrial working class more freedom from the bosses and providing more economic protection for the masses of people. With the value of society and its needs placed above the individual, a myriad of compassionate altruistic social causes multiplied, but the Lemon meme also often degenerated into collectivist societies that submerged people as cogs in the machine and members of warring groups, and thus enabled the worst tyrannies that have ever existed, and allowed the environment to be plundered without mercy. The full potential of invisible Neptune as a key to expanded consciousness of mystical oneness remains the preoccupation of a minority.

The Green Pluto meme has come to us since the 1960s, bringing awareness of interdependence. Ecology is its great symbol, as environmental awareness has made us more sensitive to the threats our industry and materialist lifestyle and philosophy poses to our survival. As the Pluto-Charon interdependency meme unfolds, we need to liberate ourselves from group-think, yet also respect the needs and diversity of the people together on one restored, living planet. As with Orange/Uranus and Lemon/Neptune, it takes time for our invisible Pluto energies and ideals to unfold. We are regressing as fully as we are advancing today, as we question both socialism and classic liberalism, seek a greater future but also want to restore or bring back the past. We unleash irrepressible nano-scale high tech and AI, and yet seek for a natural way of life that restores wonder and liberates us from all our stultifying traditions and fears so that we can live free and be creative and fulfilled and unfold human potential for perhaps the first time, powered by new age and counter-cultural, culture-creative trends.

Over these, the philosophers of spiral dynamics have identified the Yellow Integral and Turquoise Holistic "higher tier" memes. They say they have started to come into society since the 1990s. As a second tier, I think of them as having always existed, expressing through each of the earlier memes, but not very clearly, rather than as a new phase of rulership and dominant values they bring. They are too over-arching and general, and too evident throughout history, to be separate memes. Both are highly spiritual, but the Yellow accents the individual soul as a holon within the whole. Yellow sees all the memes flowing together up and down the spiral, and as we regress through them in reactionary modern trends, we can restore them and update them too. Yellow respects the hierarchy of excellence, and to some extent is an answer to the post-modern Green Pluto meme which tended to put everything on the same level. I can see Yellow reflected "below" in the bright-colored memes like the individualist Orange liberty and achievement meme and the Red warrior imperial meme, and to some extent is reflected in the animist beliefs and language development of Purple/Mercury. Turquoise is often said to represent the higher consciousness of mysticism and respect for wholeness, without submerging the individual in it. We can see it emerging in the memes of similar colors, like Green and Lemon, in which new age and new thought ideas emerged, as if Turquoise was speaking through them. In traditional times, the divine consciousness was expressed through the Blue meme of authoritarian religion and rule by the church, and yet all the religions of the world were founded by great mystics and have transmitted their esoteric teachings to us through the ages.

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