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A Broadcast Consciousness
By Herb Bowie
Let me take you on a little journey of thought exploring some hitherto unconsidered aspects of our common cultural evolution.
Developmental Levels as an Evolution in Consciousness
I’ve written before about cultural evolution that occurs through the achievement of successive developmental levels.
These developmental stages can be viewed through an objective lens, or through a subjective, or an intersubjective lens. That is, we can look at each stage from an exterior perspective, or from a singular interior perspective, or from a collective interior perspective. (For more on these various perspectives, see The Four Quadrants of Human Knowledge.)
From a subjective, or inter-subjective perspective, it is tempting to view these stages of development as having some ethical direction. For example, Ken Wilber has said that:
…moral development tends to move from ‘me’ (egocentric) to ‘us’ (ethnocentric) to ‘all of us’ (worldcentric) — a good example of the unfolding waves of consciousness.
In a similar vein, and in a better known quotation, Martin Luther King once said:
The arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice.
